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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1911
Page
5
A Graniteville Vermont reader shares how Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helped her during the change of life restoring health and strength. The letter promotes the remedy as a trusted treatment for common women's illnesses including irregularities period pains and nervous prostration. Mrs Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts offers free advice to sick women.
Historic hotel near 63rd Street in New York offers 530 rooms with detached bath and varying rates. Guests can reach Grand Central, Penn Station, and Central Park via direct car routes, subway, or local buses with convenient access from Broadway and Columbus Ave. Contact W Johnson Quinn for pre guide details.
Don t hurry meals and rest before eating. Attend to illness early and avoid constipation. If needed, take one or two teaspoonfuls of L. F. Atwood s Medicine or Bitters at night, trusted for sixty years. Available from dealers in large bottles for thirty five cents. Sample mailed free on request by LPF Medicine Co Portland Me.
The Bath market, hampered by weather, expects a rush of produce next week ahead of Thanksgiving. Turkeys will be scarce due to local farms failing to raise them, while chickens and ducks may drop in price. Eggs are scarce, potatoes few, and onions, cabbage, squash, and beans show varied prices as farmers await stronger demand.
Ten Rhode Island Reds owned by Harry W. Dunton of Bath were mixed breed and kept in a straw floor house. Park and Pollard dry mash plus scratch feed cost 15.71, yielding eggs at about eleven cents per dozen. Ten pullets and two roosters cost 4.80. roosters were killed in Jan and Apr with hens dying or slaughtered through November. Dressed poultry totaled 424 pounds, costing just over four dollars.
Miss Florence Bates will spend Thanksgiving with her father Samuel Bates in Topsham. J. M. Lemont earned second prize in Maine Corn and Fruit show in Portland and later prizes at Lewiston fair, netting about $35. apples donated to Portland Children's Hospital. West Bath grange hosted a successful chicken supper and dance. Several residents moved, businesses shifted, and roads improve with stone bridges replacing planks. Some residents travel for weddings and visits to Boston Bermuda.
Town readers report many households keeping chickens with market prices dipping to 16 cents a pound for top birds. Barn frame work progresses for Henry Rose and sons while Fred Bubier raises six ducks from wild stock. The Conant couple enjoy their new home on Foster's Point road. A Port William doctor's testimonial praises Hood's Sarsaparilla for catarrh with a long cure after six bottles. Also noted are arrivals from Portland to care for a patient, a yacht Kanawha at New Meadows, and Hazel Holden’s wedding to John Whorff in Bath.
A Cincinnati woman credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with rebuilding her thin blood and curing consumption symptoms. She reports improved sleep nerves appetite and weight after use and neighbors notice her health. The ad notes pills sold by Dr Williams Medicine Co and offers a pamphlet on Diseases of the Blood.
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