Coastwise trade reforms and wartime remarks from Bath
The article argues easing foreign ships into Atlantic and Pacific freight may aid wartime distribution but urges restoring old maritime law postwar. It praises coastwise protections, notes American shipyards and Bath trade, and critiques socialists while commenting on Liberty Bonds and wartime politics. It ends with praise for Captain Owen of Fort Baldwin and a call to embrace a soldier’s life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
Pacific
America
Britain
Gierman
Bath
Congress
Civic Pride Through Clean Streets for Children
The article urges city cleanliness as a civic duty for all children, noting that lessons from schools and civic groups could curb littering. It suggests teachers and heads focus on pride in lawns and thoroughfares, with Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls aiding through work and discussion to foster reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boy Scouts
Russians Rise Again in Struggle and Defeat
A terse report notes Russians are awakening once more and experiencing defeats in ongoing conflict. The brief highlights renewed mobilization and continuing military setbacks without graphic detail.
Vatican Deplores Kuehlmann Speech and War Mood
The Vatican condemns the Kuehlmann note as hypocritical while urging humanity and civilization. Reports claim Germans, including prisoners, seek peace. yet German leaders push war. The piece also touches on milk and sugar in diets, military parades to Camp Devens, and calls for war bonds as subsistence taxes rise amid global conflict.
Sunday Excursion Draws 150 Bath Visitors to Popham
Sunday at Popham drew Bath residents and others. 150 plus passengers rode to the fort area as Army lessons and barracks near completion. Bath boys faced medical tests, waited for pay, and prepared for a parade amid questions on the timing of payment and departure.
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Virginia
Popham
Bath
Mar
Bath Company
Philippines
Ft. Baldwin
National Army
Ayer
Superintendent Flood's 1917 Bath School Report Issued
The 1917 Bath school year report, printed at Independent printshop, outlines five recommendations to raise teacher standards, reorganize schools, update curriculum, improve housing, and boost teaching supplies. It notes Parents' Visitation Day and urges city funding for teacher study, a five week summer program, and a junior high school. The report covers Bath's five to 21 age population, total pupils, staff counts, and a $24,251.67 annual operating cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence N. Flood
Bath
Sle
Supt. Flood
Ile
Bailey
Kitten Prisoners Named Ella and Helen At Naval Station
Sunday afternoon guards at the former Kennebec Yacht Club naval station captured a four month old kitten suspected as a shipboard intruder. A dunk passenger from Woolwich was shot at. the kitten earned names Ella and Helen while discussions continued about their parade participation.
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Naval Station
Kennebec Yacht Club
Fires at Read Nichols brick kiln ignite 400000 bricks
Thursday week Joseph Bellerose started fires at the Read Nichols Co. brick kiln on Western Ave. The kiln holds 400000 bricks and workers estimate nine or ten days to bake them. About 200 cords of hard and soft wood will be consumed in the process.
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Joseph Bellerose
Read Nichols Co
Western Ave
Bath Girl Miss Pauline Hatch Hosts Linen Shower
Friends from the Saturday and Thursday Clubs gathered at Green Street for a linen shower to honor Miss Louise Harriman whose engagement to John Crosby was announced earlier. Miss Hatch revealed the surprise by displaying her new solitaire ring and announced her own engagement to Earl W. Twitchell of Philadelphia who is with the Watervliet training camp ordnance unit.
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Pauline Hatch
Green St
Louise [Harriman
John Crosby
Miss Harriman
Miss Hatch
Helen Twitchell
Miss Twitchell
Earl W. Twitchell
Haddonfield
N. J
Mary W. Twitchell
Auer and Twitchell
Philadelphia
Watervliet
N. Y
Hatch
Bath
Morse High School
Quincy Mansion
Boston
Sailing Days Introduced for Small Freight Shipments
Maine Central Railroad inaugurates a schedule of sailing days for receiving less than carload freight. Effective Monday, the plan aims to improve economy and dispatch in movement and delivery. In Bath the shipping days are Monday, Wednesday and Friday for Portland Rockland and Boston routes.
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Maine Central R. MR
Bath
Portland
Rockland and Way
Boston
Lewiston and Morse clash in chaotic high school game
Lewiston High battled Morse High at the Athletic Field in a 12 to 6 encounter. fouls and disputed officiating sparked a brawl with police and officials restoring order as Lewiston edged ahead with a late rushing drive and a converted try crowding the final score.
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Lewiston Fain
Lewiston Jligh
Morse
Lewiston
Talbot
Cummings
Wiseman
Burns
Penderfast
Mathews
Shields
Lewiston High
Howard
Young
Coss
Stetson
Murphy
Sullivan
Jetson
Scott
McGiullicuddy
Hardy
Crites
Scruton
Flynn
G. Flynn
Hunter
Burke
Pendergast
Breen
Morse High
Perkins
Pickard
Linneken
Call
Bowker
McDonald
Narradan
Cong
Trolbrook
Morse Coss
Harraden
Topsham Captain Promoted to Aide-de-Camp
John W. Frost of Topsham has been promoted to aide-de-camp to Brig. Gen. Eli R. P. Hoyle, commanding general of the Division of the Atlantic. A Bowdoin graduate of 1904, he was commissioned in March and served as battalion adjutant of the 47th New York Infantry and on Gen. Leonard Wood's staff in New York.
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Bath
John W. Frost
Topsham
Eli R P. Hoyle
Department of the Mast
Governor's Island
N. Y
Frost
William FE. Frost
Bowdoin
47Th
New York Infantry
Leonard Wood
New York
Guard Candidates for West Point from Maine National Guard
Governor Milliken is urged by the War Department to nominate Maine Guard enlisted men for the West Point competitive preliminary examinations. Reports due by Nov 1 1917 for exams starting Jan 8 1918. top Maine candidate to take regular entrance exam in March 1918. Eligibility requires one year as guard enlisted and age 19 to 22 at admission June 14 1918. Each report must include full name rank unit birth date and enlistment date. William Forbes of Boothbay Harbor sails as quartermaster on the steamer Meteor between Newport News and Providence.
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Milliken
War Department
National Guard
West Point
Adjutant General
Maine Guard
William Forbes
Boothbay Harbor
Bath
Boston
Meteor
Newport News
Providence
R. I
John A. Thompson
Thomas Brewer
Boothbay
FE. S. Lines
Herbert Decker
Mr. Forbes
U. S. Navigation School
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