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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1946
Page
6
Readers share camp activities and performances led by Miss Seavey and Miss Bowker. Mrs. Nellie Vaughn visits, river traffic hums with coal ships and destroyers. Local histories note church roots, Lincolnshire ties, and family notes from Diane Seavey to Julia Wallace.
Fragmentary text describes a local scene with names such as Miss Stella, Aubesy, Parker, and Mr Pollteocs, plus references to Mr and Mrs EM Wilbur and a Mrs Pollteocs. The readable passage hints at a social event or notice but provides few clear actions or outcomes.
The readable text mentions Mrs Shirley Pratt of Winne Ses or merastro and individuals John Burgess and the lotion. A melvin award is noted and documents or iments were served, but the fragment lacks coherent context or a clear event.
The clipped notice lists multiple residents leaving recent locations for homes in Brookline Vermont and South OYdes with details of a US Navy captain and Mrs Hitchcock among the named individuals. A summer at Small Point Beach and a hospital patient’s discharge are noted in terse fragments.
Mrs Sewall Williams plans winter in New York City after a summer stay. Albert E Whitney Jr son of Center street returns to the University of Maine after a month with his parents. Andrew Bremmer of North street extension returns home from Dedham Mass where he attended the funeral of her brother in law Charles Woodman. Mr and Mrs William Bicker staff Deene Dasene fe J have no days at Nepenne to ney or her staff a cottage at Booth their cousin Mrs Jengill of South Portland
The piece records card games at homes, social visits by residents including the Blaisdells and Lowells, and a PTA meeting with committees named. It notes the district officers traveling to a state convention, decorations at the schoolhouse, fundraisers by the Girl Beautify committee, and various local personal items and weekend visits across Bath and neighboring towns.
The Winter Street church announces World Communion and an October sermon series titled Values of the Ages. Sunday School resumes with detailed class schedules for primary through high school, plus multiple choir, youth, and community groups meeting weekly.
Real estate transfer records Frank Jones of Bath selling his south shore cottage to John McCarty of Bath. The purchase enables the McCartys to spend every summer at the property while many neighbors repair bulkheads after winter storms. Numerous local residents visit or stay in cottages along the river shore as Army engineers work nearby and Moose sightings continue at night.
Miss Joyce Sinclair daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Sinclair of Meadowway has entered Berker Junior College Worces ass Mrs and Mrs Thomas Bird 10 Pearl Street have been visiting their son and family in Boston where Mr Bird was called to receive medical advice Mrs Edward Rogers and son Roy of Long Island NY left Tuesday for home after two week visit with Mrs Rogers daughter Mrs Herman Coombs and family Meadowway
A note mentions Reynolds Scott publishing a treatise on bog culture in England in 1574. It also cites a crude tip about kerosene to remove finger smudges from woodwork. The fragmentary text connects old Hog Culture, Finger Smudge, and a 16th century publication.
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