Forty Years in Bath as Great American Traveler Recalled
A Bath Times card recall from October 5 1915 details Kenneth Edgecomb the returned Great American Traveler meeting the Tall Stove Club. It notes his gold prospecting in California and wildlife sighting in the Siskiyous along with other local notes from Bath on sports social events and town improvements.
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Kenneth Edgecomb
Tall Stove Club
Kenneth
Siskiyou Mts
California
Pacific
Auction Likely Prize Friday Next Week On North Street Property
A sale of the Rideout homestead on North street is expected to yield a prize at auction next Tuesday. The Mus senden homestead auction on North street Thursday drew Bath residents and auctioneer Fitzgerald secured good prices for items sold, with strong buying overall.
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H. M. Jewett
Eureka
Washington Street
Rideout
North Street
Mussenden Homestead
Bath
Fitzgerald
Senor de Gogorza Illness Delays Portland Music Festival
Oct 10 1915 Senor Emilio de Gogorza confined to home on North street with appendicitis and unable to appear as soloist at the Music Festival in Portland Tue night and Wed matinee. He was ill after Bangor concert Sat and returned from Brunswick by limousine. He is under Dr Lincoln care with wife and maid as nurses.
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Emilio de Gogorza
North Street
Portland
Bangor
Miss Moses
Brunswick
de Gogorza
Outing News and Local Travel Highlights
Ormand W Watson’s sister oranded by Watso n family reports, Llewellyn Rogers and son return from Intervale New Hampshire outing. F H Kimball family posts from across the country, Canadian Pacific Saskatchewan trip noted. Miss Miriam Kimball and friends visit Brunswick for golf as spring interest grows. Nellie Conley returns from two week Boston Amesbury Nashua vacation and starts at Bailey Evening School sewing department.
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Nellie Conley
Boston
Amesbury
Mass
Nashua
N. H
Bailey Evening School
Fish With Memories Tokyo Bay Nets and Compensation Claim
Tokyo fishermen claim fish remember the anti submarine nets lowered at Tokyo bay during the Korean War and stayed away after nets were reviewed. They accuse the Japan Procurement Agency, handling U S forces' dealings, of causing losses and seek compensation.
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Tokyo
Tokyo Bay
U. S
United States
Japan Procurement Agency
Probate Court Wills Filed and Estates Listed in Bath Area
Probate court entries show wills filed for Berniece D Staples Edward Brown Walter E Taylor Mary White Taylor Maude E Blodgett Kate M Baxter Elizabeth D M Stevens and others. Administrators appointed guardianship inventories and accounts filed for Bath Topsham Bowdoinham Phippsburg and Richmond estates with executors and guardians named.
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Mary White Taylor
Richmond
Philip W. Odiorne
Maude E. Blodgett
Bowdeinham
Charles N. Blodgett
Kate M. Baxter
Bath
Rupert H. Baxter
Mary Baxter White
Lydia Baxter Gillette
Elizabeth D. M. Stevens
Phippsburg
Charles L. Stevens
On-Duty Officer Crouse Intercepts Burglary Trio
Charleston patrolman R L Crouse spotted three youths fixing a flat near home and found a car containing cigarettes candy and chewing gum plus an admission of a break in yielding 50 in cash and 100 in merchandise. He had arrested a speeder on U S 35 just four days earlier on his way home.
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Charleston
W. Va
R. L. Crouse
Crouse
U. S. 35
Perfect Attendance Maintained In Hospital Visit
Mrs. P. R. Thompson of Woodruff keeps a 28 year record of perfect attendance at the First Presbyterian church Sunday school. Her class traveled 17 miles to meet in her Spartanburg hospital room after she broke an arm sweeping her front walk. In San Antonio a young boy says he wears glasses to keep girls from kissing and boys from fighting.
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Woodruff
S. C
P. R. Thompson
First Presbyterian Church
Spartanburg
Sings Different Tune Rockford Bartender Turns Historian
Buddy Morris once billed as the singing bartender in Rockford Illinois writes his show business career from 1921. Now 48 he recalls singing with Wayne King and being popular in the 1930s and 40s. He quit show business because it is too rugged and not what it used to be.
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Rockford, Ill
Buddy Morris
Rockford
Morris
Wayne King
Norfolk man fined for fleeing officers and resisting arrest
The defendant said he fled from officers at high speed due to lacking a driver’s license and resisted arrest to avoid jail. He admitted disorderly conduct at the precinct station. Judge Vernon D. Hitchings, Jr. imposed 130 dollars in fines and 60 days in jail.
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Norfolk
Vernon D. Hitchings, Jr
Railroads Post 1954 Net Income At 673 Million
U S railroads earned 673.6 million dollars in 1954, the smallest annual net income since 1949, signaling a downturn in the industry after postwar gains.
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U.S
Mississippi Georgia duel ends with scoreless first quarter
In games from 1940 and 1942 between Mississippi and Georgia a total of 131 points were scored, yet neither team managed a point in the opening period, leaving the first quarter scoreless.
Probate Notices from Bath Sagadahoc October 1955
Court issues multiple probate orders for estates in Bath Maine. Executors named include Rupert H Baxter Mary Baxter White Lydia Baxter Gillette for Kate M Baxter. Walter Brown named for Edward Brown. Frances D Young named executrix for Berniece D Staples. Also notices for Agnes Wo Viantphres Margaret Nelson Rowe W S Newell estate trustees and appointments of administratrix Dorothy D Stetson and Annie L Taylor.
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Berniece D. Staples
Bath
Frances D. Young
Edward Brown
Walter Brown
Walter E. Taylor
Annie L. Taylor
Sagadahoc
Lydia Baxter Gillette
Walter Crown
Agnes Wo Viantphres
John R Ballard
Margaret Nelson
Mabel Nelson Rowe
Wiliam S Newell
John R Newell
First Portland National Bank
Witan S Newall
Berniece D Staples
Frances D Young
Ralph Goss Stetson
Dorothy D. Stetson
Walter F Taylor
Annie L Taylor
Maine Hunting Season Opens Amid Landowner Tensions
Maine Fish and Game roundup notes Oct 1 opening under Indian Summer skies with fair hunter success. It highlights two campaigns by the department: accident prevention and improving landowner-sportsman relations. Signs banning hunting rise due to hunter carelessness, prompting call for responsible behavior to preserve Maine hunting traditions.
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Maine
Pine Tree
Maine Fish and Game Department
Fish and Game Department
Foreclosure Notice on West Bath Property Mortgage
David A Nason and Mabel E Nason face foreclosure by First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Bath for breach of condition on a 1955 mortgage. The parcel lies along US Highway 1 West Bath Sagadahoc with bounds described to Roy Hinckley and Edward A Cummings, and references prior deeds, lots, and conveyances. Public action dated October 3, 1955, signed by J Frank Hunt as treasurer.
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David A. Nason
Mabel E Nason
West Bath
Sagadahoc
State of Maine
Feveral Savings and Loan Association of Bath
Bath
County of Sagadahoc
Roy Hinckley
Hinckley
Edward A Cummings
al Sant Highway
Fa Lowing
Norman W Higwsard
A. Cummings
A S Bosworth
Edward A. Cummings
Fred H Stilphen
Cummings
Edward A. Cummines
Sagadahoe
Federal Savings and Loan Association of
Ty Jo Frank Hunt
Bath Maine
Sayines and Loan Association of
J. Frank Hunt
Probate appointees listed for Sagadahoc estates
Lillian H Heal, Register of Probate, certifies appointive roles for estate cases in Sagadahoc County. Maurice W Burns of Georgetown named administrator Cleveland A Pave on October 4 1955. Susan G Mitchell of Bath named administrator Donald Ho Hopkin on October 4 1955. Elizabeth D M Stevens of Phippsboro named executor Charles I Stevens on October 4 1955. Arthur J Dunton attests copy of original order.
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Lillian H. Heal
Sagadahoc
Maurice W. Burns
Georgetown
Cleveland
Susan G Mitchell
Bath
Donald Ho Hopkin
Elizabeth D M. Stevens
Phippsboro
Charles I
Stevens
Arthur J. Dunton
Dog at BIW Trucks Prompts Owner Warning
A medium sized black and white dog at Bath Iron Works has been riding BIW trucks, prompting workers to urge the owner to keep the dog home or risk police action. The dog previously boarded a large trailer cab on Front street, then was removed by Patrolman Earl Haines after refusing to depart. He later returned to the iron works, continuing the chase.
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Bath Iron Works
Front Street
Earl Haines
Carlton Bridge
Iron Works
Landowner’s Support Drives the Sport’s Foundation
The landowner, central to the sport’s ecosystem, remains vital as stakeholders stress his role in sustaining events and facilities. His backing shapes access, safety, and growth, with organizers urging respectful collaboration.
Rain Brings New Snake to Pennsylvania Discoveries
Rainy weeks reveal a first new Pennsylvania snake in 62 years. The Pennsylvania Herpetological Survey, funded by Carnegie Museum, reports Mountain Ground Snake Halda Valeriae Purchra. The short reddish brown reptile, 12 inches max, emerges in heavy rain and inhabits mountainous regions.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Herpetological Survey
Carnegie Museum
Pennsylvania
Neil D. Richmond
Reeveses Attend Daughter's Wedding in Bowling Green
In Bowling Green Virginia Rev L M Ritter united Shirley Reeves and Paul L Dissinger as man and wife. The couple wed at the same place where the Reeves family tied the knot in 1919. The couple was observed by Mr and Mrs Melvin V Reeves of High Spire Pennsylvania.
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Bowling Green
Melvin V. Reeves
High Spire
L. M. Ritter
Shirley Reeves
Paul L. Dissinger
Shirley
Mortgage Foreclosure Notice for Tops ham Property Parcels
This is a foreclosure notice from First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Bath regarding a mortgage with Arthur Wilson of Topsham Sagadahoc Maine. The document details five parcels in Topsham and Bowdoinham and Bowdoinham properties, originally mortgaged May 20 1954 and recorded in Deeds Book 234 Page 11, including references to the Cracker Jo t and Wa Cracker deeds, and notes the return of the mortgage as foreclosed with authority granted to the association's treasurer Frank Hunt to proceed in Bath Maine on October 3, 1958.
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Maine Central
Hercules
Boston
Joseph Kingsbury
Bath
Arthur Wilson
Topsham
Sagadahoc
State of Maine
Federal Savings and Run Association of Bath
Sagadahoe
Sagadahoe County
Maine
George R. Powers
Bowdoinham
Anson D. Crocker
Joseph Whitney
John O Meserve
Maine Central Railroad
J F Whitney
Cat- Nance
H J Whitney
Joseph Whitees
Marcel
Bowdoin
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Herennine
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Sud Merryman
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Tonsham Town
Tonsham
Georsre BH
Riadeett Henge Rerth Hs Cord Lane
Riadeett
Mewnine
Said Curtis
Wilson
Swiney
Seid Toosham
Maine Centre
Percel
Cothases
Rowdeamham
Sursdahoe
Hiram Henry
Winchell
Cothenee
Créenens
Athos
Pew Henry
Beth Maine
J Frank Hunt
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