Forty Years Ago in Bath A Fire and Inventions
Bath Daily Times items from 1889 describe a fire incident, a novel water nozzle demonstration by inventor Mr. Robinson, and civic reactions. Chief Engineer Scott and Mayor Moulton praised the device, with shows of a two inch stream reaching lofty heights. Corliss pursues law, Bath wharves are improved, and merchants plan a Monday excursion. A coal venture in progress draws local interest with stock ado and dock work advancing along the river.
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Bath
Bath Daily Times
Robinson
Scott
Moulton
Lewiston
Sagadahock House
Bath notices and excursions from the 1889 era
Silas Morse visits Bath on a long journey to Boston and westward. The depot readiness, new waiting rooms, gas fixtures, dock work near Maine Central yard, and round house plans are described along with fair preparations by the Grangers. A Bath merchant excursion to the White Mountains, local events, a snowflake sighting, shipyard holidays, and civic updates fill the day’s column.
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Maine Central
Bath Dispatches and Harbor Work in Busy Month
Sept 30 1889 reports social events at Uni versalist church guest Mrs Nathan Stiles on Washington street. Morse barge riggers fitted to carry a full sail on four masts. Dain Wiggin received long spruce sticks for spars for Bath vessels. Nahanada repairs complete ready for Bath Booth bay line next week. Depot baggage shed torn away. new track soon. Will Downing drives 25 loads of rock for best day this year. Harris Swett leave Hallets for Boston to study Pharmacy. Portland steamer to have 35 ft 10 in paddle wheels powered by 1600 hp engine. Kennebec freight record set. seven car trip Seguin to Boston. Miss Mary Lincoln has recovered from illness. Francis King marked 40th anniversary.
Big Indian Torso Found Hereditary
Cambridge Massachusetts reports a Harvard Peabody Museum study by A R Kelly on over 300 Mexican subjects showing higher torso weight linked to greater Indian blood. Europeans lessen weight. Indian types have larger barrel shaped chests and broader shoulders. No new racial type found from Spanish Indian union.
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Cambridge
Mass
Peabody Museum
Harvard University
A. R. Kelly
Division of Anthropology
Harvard
Massachusetts State Department of Mental Diseases
Mexico
Kelly
Memorial honors last of two gun sheriffs Tilman Taylor
Pendleton Oregon honors Tilman D Taylor a famed old west peace officer who died in 1920 in a jail-breaker confrontation. A bronze statue by A Phimister Proctor was cast in Vienna and dedicated during the annual roundup with 250 peace officers from the west in attendance.
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Pendleton, Ore
Old West
Tilman D. Taylor
Til” Taylor
West
Pendleton
A. Phimister Proctor
Boston
Rome
Vienna
Patient farmer finds big profit in ginseng
Cape Girardeau Missouri report notes 22 year old Clement Brockmeyer expects to harvest about 800 pounds of ginseng roots from two acres at $12 a pound, totaling $9,600 this year. He says a prior year’s dried roots in a cracker box financed a cheap automobile.
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Cape Girardeau
Jeb
Clement Brockmeyer
Brockmeyer
Shifting Sands Tied Down By New Desert Highways
Oscar Leiding reports California’s desert highways now span four routes after engineers tame shifting sands. Desert roads are raised above dunes, slopes oiled to stop sand, flood channels dug, and bridges built to withstand rare but intense rainstorms. Project led by E. Q. Sullivan, district highway engineer. Old plank road remains as a reminder of past limited access and mule teams. Imperial Valley sections cost about 49000 dollars per mile for grading culverts and a 20 foot pavement.
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Oscar Leiding
Associated Press
Sacramento
Cal
California
E. Q. Sullivan
Division of Highways
Imperial Valley
SUCCESSFUL MILL GIRL BUILDS A LIFE IN AMERICA
Cambridge Massachusetts details Claudia Le Blanc Cushman once penniless after a Quebec fire, she moved to the United States. At 19 she sought a $20,000 loan to finance a block of homes, then built a profitable career, paid taxes in Lowell and Fall River, aided textile workers, later finished seminary education and helped design apartment houses with her husband Lewis Cushman.
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Cambridge
Mass
Claudia le Blanc Cushman
Quebec
Claudia le Blanc
le Blancs
United States
Cos's
Lowell
Fall River
Cushman
Lewis Cushman
Women of Sweden Use Skis To Trim Weight
Mrs. Alice Jeansson assistant editor of Sunt Fornuft magazine in Stockholm studies U S home economics schools. She believes Swedish women reduce overweight better with skating and skiing, slipping on skates to melt about a half pound weekly without harsh dieting as Americans attempt.
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Washington
Alice Jeansson
Sweden
Jeansson
Sunt Fornuft
Common Sense
Stockholm
Mrs. Jeansson
Boss of Texas Lands Gets Less Than Clerk
Austin Texas a long road to the top in the Texas land office and men lose on it. W J H Walker lost 800 a year. His salary fixed by the constitution now is 2 500 a year as chief clerk he received 3 300.
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Austin
Tex
Texas Land Office
W. J. H. Walker
Jobless Englishmen envy working girls in peacetime Britain
London reports a growing sense among ex servicemen that more women in industry correlates with higher unemployment for men. Domestic service remains crowded, with maids scarce while men increasingly take roles as houseboys and cooks. Agencies say male domestics are cheaper, steadier, tidier, and equally efficient, often using the post as a step toward becoming a butler or saving for emigration.
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London
Britain
Canada
South Africa
Australia
Obituary Joseph Bombard 67 Shoe maker native of Vermont
Joseph Bombard 67 retired shoemaker died Sunday morning at his daughter Mrs William H Hudson 15 summer street court after a three months illness from a shock Born in Vermont he moved to Westboro Mass as a boy He came to Bath to live with his daughter Survived by Mrs Hudson another daughter Mrs George Benoit of Holyoke Mass two sons Henry Bombard and Harold Bombard also four brothers Anthony William Moses all of Westboro Mass and Charles of Upton Mass
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Vermont
William H. Hudson
Summer Street Court
Westboro
Mass
Bath
Worcester
Hudson
George Benoit
Holyoke
Henry Bombard
Harold Bombard
Fort Adams
R. I
Anthony
William
Moses
Charles
Upton
Joseph B. Tierney Dies in Boston at 62
Joseph B. Tierney died Tuesday in his 63rd year at his home on Milford Street Boston. Funeral held Friday afternoon at Watson chapel Cambridge. Body moved to Bath for burial in Riggs ground Maple Grove.
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Joseph B. Tierney
Milford Street
Boston
Watson Chapel
Pearl Street
Cambridge
Mass
Bath
Riggs Ground
Maple Grove
Gauvin Edges Buck Potvin In Big Welter Bout
Gauvin and Potvin staged a tight welterweight duel with Gauvin using a sharper left to outlast Potvin who faded after a prior bout. The arena roared as Clark Gillo’s attack yielded a technical KO for the Cowboy and Lewiston’s Clakey impressed. About 495 fans attended.
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Gauvin
Buck Potvin
Potvin
Lewiston
Joe MacDonald
Eddie Gauvin
Eddie
Bucky
Bath
Buck
Cowboy Clark
Clark Gillo
Daredevil
Joe
Niagara Falls
Kennebec Bridge
Clark
Gillo
Ned Ferris
Clakey
Young Boussett
Mechanic Falls
K.O. Dube
Maine
Soucie
Dube
Zina Sutherland
Local Jottings and Harbor Trade Notes Across Maine
A Maine survey notes lumbers, deeds, and taxes tied to Turney property transferred to Sewell Parcher. Saco’s first lumber shipment by water may surge to several million feet if successful, with seasonal routes to New York. Community events include a T W Hyde auxiliary fair in Auburn Central church parish house and plays by Bath and Portland youth. Traffic study finds under 1 percent of 140000 shoppers park in front of stores.
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Turney
Ieroce Weirster Bridge
James Starbird
Sewel Parcher
Turner
Register of Deeds Office
Auburn
Saco
New York
T. W. Hyde
Central Church Parish House
Joseph Crosby Ayer
Bath
Auburn Young Women
Portland Young Women
New York City
October Weather Outlook From Lewiston Prophet
Sam Morrell predicts October will be comfortable overall with above to near normal temperatures and below to near normal rainfall. The warmest spells occur in weeks two and three. Three storm periods are forecast: the 3rd to 9th, 15th to 21st, and 26th to month end, with early month temperature swings and a stormy to cool transition.
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Sam Morrell
Lewiston
No Quakes at New Orleans Say Seismograph Expert
Loyola university seismograph chief J. E. Pasque reports New Orleans lies on mud but has not felt an earthquake tremor. The city’s foundations and subsidence concerns are noted, yet major quakes remain absent in local records.
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New Orleans
J. E. Pasque
Loyola University
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