Maine Retail Store Tax Scrutiny Calls for Amendment
State Tax Assessor Frank H. Holley criticizes the Maine retail store tax act for high collection costs and limited revenue. He notes 25,000 miles of highway and 517 municipalities hinder enforcement, with costs consuming a large share of revenue. In 1933-34 licenses issued 15,075, revenue 45,094.50, expense 11,530.72. By September 1 of the following year revenue rose to 40,357 with expense 5,166. current year shows 41,078 revenue and 2,324 expense, projecting further savings to exceed 36 percent.
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Frank H. Holley
Maine officials press for more highway patrols after fatal toll
Adjutant General James W. Hanson requests forty six more officers for the Highway Police claiming current patrol strength is inadequate after twenty seven highway fatalities in Maine last month. Secretary Robinson C Tobey and Chief Justice William R Pattan discussed the high death rate at the Maine Safety Conference urging compulsory automobile insurance and elimination of grade crossings amid concerns about liquor legalization and drunk driving.
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James W. Hanson
Maine
Robinson C. Tobey
William R. Pattangall
Maine Safety Conference
Fall shopping season boosts employment across retailers
The onset of fall and Christmas buying is under way and expected to swell jobs. Reportedly 187000 more workers already employed in stores, with 354000 additional hires projected for December, totaling at least 540000 extra jobs during the holiday season to ease the employment outlook for a period.
Schoolboy traffic patrols aided by Legion and AAA
Schoolboy patrols are on duty again at street intersections near schools backed by the American Legion the police department and the American Automobile Association They direct traffic as students go to and from school wearing white belts and the AAA insignia Motors are urged to heed their signals as they would those of a full traffic officer.
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Police Department
American Automobile Association
Tuesday voting reshapes several states in early returns
Pennsylvania shows a GOP fragmentation as Guffey leads Reed while Earle edges Schnader for governor. California and New Jersey mirror shifts with Merriam and Moore triumphing. other states tilt toward Democrats or third parties in Senate and governorship races amid a broad national realignment.
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Thanksgiving Dinners Tag Day On Nov 24
The Salvation Army sponsors its annual tag day on Saturday November 24 to raise funds for Thanksgiving dinners for needy families and to serve a dinner at the hall for homeless men. A rummage sale Friday November 16 proceeds aid the cause with clothing donations welcome and pickup offered by Adjutant Edward J. Tripp. The Bath branch sponsors no trucks, only a trailer, and Portland trucks may call for articles but are not for the local branch.
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Bath
Bay State Opinion on Auto Insurance Sparks Debate
The Boston Herald notes Maine Chief Justice Pattangall favors compulsory liability insurance, but argues Massachusetts experience shows it fails to curb reckless driving. The piece suggests redress for injuries supports the idea, while Maine police say real reduction requires stricter enforcement of existing rules.
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Two Bath Gunners Score Deer Saturday in Sagadahoc County
Bath gunner Wilbur Crocker of 18 Park Street and Frank Sylvester Jr. of 191 High Street harvested deer on opening weekend in Sagadahoc County. Crocker posted a big 200 pound nine point buck at Woolwich Hockomock Bay area, while Sylvester dropped a 125 pound buck near the Dresden Woolwich line. Reports say deer were mostly on the east side of the Kennebec River with earlier and later outings by Miles Hagan in Arrowsic and Arthur Rideout in Woolwich. Unofficial word mentions peers shot in Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, and Sebasco areas.
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Wilbur H. Crooker
Park Street
Frank P. Sylvester, Jr
High Street
Sagadahoc
Crocker
Woolwich
Hockomock Bay
Sylvester
Dresden
Kennebec River
Miles Hagan
Arthur Rideout
Luck
Arrowsic
Bowdoin
Bowdoinham
Sebasco
Phippsburg
Water District Votes to Omit Saturday Office Hours
Bath Water District trustees voted to close Saturday evening offices citing little business from local industrial plants. They will review the New Meadows river pipe line and plan repairs and improvements at Thompson's Brook station to boost efficiency and ensure constant readiness for emergencies.
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New Meadows
Thompson's Brook
Wise Owlet Reading Club Halloween Program at Central Grammar
The Wise Owlet Reading club of sixth grade at Central Grammar school presented a Halloween program replacing the day’s reading session. A sketch titled The Three Jolly Pumpkins featured Little Pumpkin Bernandine Dall Larger Pumpkin Quentin Quinn Largest ballet Albert W. Whiting Jr. Witch Lee area Shirley Warner North Wind Edith Burns Micharavc Lawrence Boardman Charles Martin Lesier BUSt Elaine Collins Miss Eleanor Danforth teacher. Gardiner Municipal court October activity rose one third from last year with 175 cases. drunkenness led with nine warrants and convictions, plus four wood duck killings, three drunken driving, and other charges.
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Little Pumpkin
Bernandine Dall
Quentin Quinn
Albert W. Whiting
Witch Lee
Shirley Warner
North Wind
Gardiner Municipal Court
Gardiner Court
Byrd Camp Cottage Burglary Reported At Tremont
With Admiral Byrd away at the South Pole, thieves broke a small window pane at his Tremont camp cottage and stole pint-sized items. The caretaker found the burglary on Saturday and notified authorities.
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Tremont
Thespians Open Season With Tom Cushings Thank You Play
The Thespians open their 1934-35 season at Columbia theatre on Nov 14 with Tom Cushings Thank You a New England comedy drawn from Bath life. Rev Joseph Purdue leads a strong cast including Brenda Hill Miriam Kimball Margery Haskell and Margot Merrill with a village vestry and a Parisian niece driving the plot while a millionaire backs the cleric to become a national figure.
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Tom' Cushing
Frances Simpson
Gladys Jones
Solid South
Christopher Bean
New England
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Purdue
Brenda Hill
Prances Young
Miriam Kimball
Margery Haskell
Marie Merrill
Freeman Trott
Harold Cutting
Franklin Wright
Hayden Conant
Kenneth Trask
Henry Owen
Charles Bartlett
Charles Avery
Sylvester Rowland
Wyman Holmes
Augustus Huse
Robert Gordon
Deer Tosses 200 Pound Buck Near Woolwich
Arthur Rideout, 20, of 15 Tallman Street, bagged a buck over 200 pounds near the Ed Moisin place in Woolwich on Friday at about nine. He plays for Elm Street church basketball at the Y M C A. Do not resist, as Deer reports had circulated in Woolwich ahead of the season.
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Real Estate Transfers Dominant in Sagadahoc Registry
Bath and Bowdoin tie for transfers with five listings each in the Sagadahoc Registry of Deeds over the past two weeks. Readable entries include Bath-Stewart H Day to Frances Day and Bowdoin-Maynard transactions such as F Anderson et al to Florence Sherman et al, James Footman to Bertrand Dulac, and L H Sherman to Lenora Coskery, among others.
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Bowdoin
Sagadahoc
Stewart H. Day
Frances V. Day
Nellie M. Merry
Eleanor MacDonald
Annis M. Ward
Alice Ward Bettis
Maud Lonergan
Mae Morse
Jennie Solovich
Arthur D. Brown
Maynard F. Anderson
Als
Florence H. Sherman
Laura C. White
James Footman
Bertrand Dulac
Ralph H. Sherman
Lenora Coskery
Mary E. Rogers
Erlon C. Rogers
Bowdoinham
Caroline L. Perry
Robert P. Blanchard
Nathaniel G. Alterton
Benjamin B. Douglass
Rochester Trust Co
Clara Hawkins Mellen
Georgetown
J. Henry McLellan
Donald M. Walker
Redonnett Appeals to Youth At Grace Church Club
Bradford C. Redonnett Jr of Wiscasset urged younger men to seize apprenticeships and grow responsibility as unemployment hits graduates. He warned that without training the current youth cannot be good citizens of tomorrow. The Grace Church Men's club voted to hold a young men's night. refreshments were provided by committee members.
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Bradford C. Redonnett, Jr
Wiscasset
Grace Church
Bedennett
Stanley Brown
John Freeman
William Adams
John H. Freeman
Daniels Williams
Harry W. Smith
Harold L. Adams
YMCA Grammar League to Award Prizes in Memory of Mrs Moses
Four boys will receive YMCA memberships and the championship team will gain a loving cup trophy in memory of Mrs Galen C Moses. Funds for the awards were contributed by a friend in her memory. Mrs Moses supported the YMCA and left a substantial bequest. Mr Moses helped found the YMCA and built its current building.
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Randolph
Gardiner
William Peacock
William Bradstreet
River Avenue
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Erskine’s Hill
Sam Morrill Forecast Shapes Thanksgiving Weather
Lewiston weather prophet Sam Morrill predicts a snowy Thanksgiving with normal to below November temperatures and normal to above precipitation. He foresees two storm periods from the 9th to the 15th and 22nd to 28th, a warmest latter half, and dull, cloudy final week with a fair cold month end. An earthquake period is noted from the 19th to the 14th.
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Sam Morrill
Lewiston
Sam
Mr. Morrill
Jumbled Word Puzzle From 12 Humor To 44 An International Language
A fragmented list of crossword style clues spans numbers 12 through 44 covering terms for hints like distress signal mire apostasy calf mollusk growth lawyer possessive form has been crib sailor habitual drunkard atomic abbreviation vulgarism male person small explosion seventh Greek letter eternity coinages suggestively mixed with stray letters and phrases from a puzzle page.
Large Congregation Welcomes New Choir at Winter Street
A large congregation welcomed a new choir at Winter Street canyon on Sunday morning. The quartet leads the ensemble with Allan Ramsay as tenor and director, Mrs. Fred D. Hill soprano, Mrs. Fred H. Cary contralto, and Clifford Smith bass. Additional singers include Jeanette Shackford Ruth Dale Mrs H Kirkpatrick Shirley Minott Roberta Erwin Indian Atwood Betty Rice Blair Hodge Newell Hodge Ivan Kirkpatrick and Fred Higgins. Flowers for the service were donated by Mrs Reginald Lombard of South Portland in memory of her mother Mrs J Edward Drake. About half of the parish pledge cards have been returned and canvassers will follow up with those not signed.
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Winter Street Canyon
Allan Ramsay
Fred D. Hill
Fred H. Cary
Clifford Smith
Jeanette Shackford
Ruth Dale
H. Kirkpatrick
Shirley Minott
Roberta Erwin
Bydian Atwood
Betty Rice
Blair Hodge
Newell Hodge
Ivan Kirkpatrick
Fred Higgins
Reginald Lombard
South Portland
J. Edward Drake
Schoolboy Patrol On Duty This Week
The American Legion post sponsors a School Boy Patrol to protect children at school crosswalks. The volunteers, backed by State Highway Police and AAA, operate city wide from Monday, with white belts badges and arm bands for identification. Donald Sterling chairs the Patrol Committee.
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State Highway Police
American Automobile Association
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Donald Sterling
Needlework Guild Donations Aid Bath Relief Effort
Bath Needlework Guild items will be distributed through the local American Red Cross chapter to those in need in the city. Miss Mabel Boardman, Red Cross secretary, praised the guild for loyalty and help during a stressful year and urged continued united effort.
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Harvard Captain Charlie Hubbard Visits Bath on Yacht
Harvard football captain Charlie Hubbard, once a Crimson standout, visited Bath with his wife for a brief stay. He traveled from Boothbay aboard a 60 foot schooner yacht to enjoy a day or two on the river and participate in local duck hunting.
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Bath
Sagadahoc Reading Club Friday Program Highlights
The Sagadahoc Reading club at Weeks Street School presented a Friday program led by Miss Bessie Greenblatt. The lineup included poems, songs, news items, and piano pieces performed by a long list of students and peers, plus garden notes on blooming flowers and two children in Lewiston City park carrying a large ice chunk.
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Weeks Street
Bessie Greenblatt
Everett ‘Oliver
Theresa Small
Beecher
David Cressey
Elizabeth Trainer
Avis Brown
Myrtle Soule
Elizabeth Munsey
Barbara McMann
Virginia Farley
Edith Crocker
Merritt Scott
Hungary
Beatrice Tibbetts
Edward Murphy
Walrus
Helen
Howard Tobey Byrd
Cence
Scott Cressey
Cecilia Nickerson
Searspor
Nickerson
Moose Hill
Gertrude Palmer
Mary Jones
Lewiston City Park
Thieves Loot West Lebanon Bungalow Belonging to Slack
Sheriff Charles H. Goodwin and York county deputies suspect youths or men seeking revenge burglarized the Northeast pond bungalow of George Slack at 113 Pearl street Boston. They stole more than $300 in household goods and maliciously damaged a portable electric lighting system in the basement worth about $400.
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Charles H. Goodwin
York County
Northeast Pond
Lebanon
George Slack
Pearl Street
Boston
Bailey Evening School to Open November 13
The Bailey Evening School opening was moved from November 5 to November 13. Principal Mrs. Margaret Fisherty expects many classes and large memberships with courses in commercial subjects, elementary topics, reading, spelling, English, drawing, dressmaking, cooking, and home nursing. A Spanish class may start if enough students enroll.
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Bailey Evening School
Margaret Fisherty
Flaherty
Augusta Lawyers Plan Carleton and Donovan Firm
J Elliottte and Bernard A Donovan, two of Augusta's attorneys, will open the law firm of Carleton and Donovan. Carleton has a wide acquaintanceship in Bath.
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Bernard A. Donovan
Augusta
Carleton
Donovan
Bath
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