Smoke Talk and Bath Life in a Maine Town
Smoky law fines for selling akins set at 1 to 5 dollars per lid while U S officials seize consignments in Bangor Baltimore and Boston. Bath markets source most smelts from the river mouth. Maine contributes apples and export barrels. Reports cover gardens weather theater ghost girl Harcourt Co. bath depts and local notes with deer ducks moose and tales of locals.
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U. S
Bangor
Baltimore
Boston
Bath
Black and White Woodpecker Destroys Cherry Tree in Yard
A Bath boy and Hallowell Register editor W F Marston describe a woodpecker that damaged an old cherry tree in the editor's yard on Monday. The bird began at 10 80 and worked until early afternoon, cutting a clean hole about an inch and a half wide and two inches deep, the wood reportedly well preserved and not easily cut.
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Bath
W. F. Marston
Hallowell Register
Rural Brethren Urged to Preserve Prohibitory Law
A reader urges the prohibition for rural safety though enforcement is unlikely in urban centers. The Independent counsels the cor respondent that prohibition may not be resubmitted and if it is defeated a local option law would let rural districts choose no license. A Bath physician anecdote contrasts rural restraint with city temptation to illustrate the issue.
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Independent
Bath
Brunswick
Tan Péte
Topsham News: Local Residents and Visitors Highlight Week
Dr. Harry Ladd, son of Rev F S Ladd, has settled in town as a physician after graduating with honors from Portland Medical School Class 1900. A parade of visitors and locals follows, including Bowdoin figures, Topsham Fair attendance, convention delegates, and townsfolk like Mr. and Mrs. Patten of Portland, Miss Beulah Curtiss, and John Frost entering Bowdoin College.
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Harry Ladd
Ladd
Brunswick
Medical School
Portland
Geo. Baker
O. Smith
Bowdoinham
Topsham Fair Grounds
Charles Patten
Mr. Patten
Charlie Dennett
Winter Street
George Benson
Bowdoin
Yarmouth
E. A. Dumaton
George Mallett
E. R. Starbird
Hattie
Beasie Barron
Delia White
Barrell
Lisbon Falls
Bernice Snow
Lydia Bartholomew
Massachusetts
Ann Pendleton
Mallettville
Charles Bradley
Phipsburg
Emma Sylvester
Bradley
Henry Duning
Owl
John Frost
Topsham High School
Bowdoin College
Grain-O endorsed by Nebraska family in 1920 letter
A Genesee Pure Food Co letter from Lokoy Nebraska dated April 1 2000 touts GRAIN O as a healthier coffee substitute. The writer Lillie Soochor claims a brother fell ill from coffee but improved after switching to Grain-O, expressing strong satisfaction and long term use.
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Genesee Pure Food Co
Lokoy
Lillie Soochor
The Stimulus of Pure Blood
The advertisement claims Hood s Sarsaparilla purifies blood and improves all body functions. It lists ailments prevented and cured, and quotes W P Keeton of Woodstock Alabama stating he felt tired before use and felt markedly better after taking one and then two bottles.
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W. P. Keeton
Woodstock
Ala
Hood
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Cure and Delivers
Hood's Sarsaparilla claims to cure with its remedy and follows through. The advertisement asserts no substitute is needed and urges readers to purchase Hood's today.
Personal Prohibition Urged by Judge Strout’s Court
A passage extols personal prohibition as the only true form of temperance, urging self-control and abstinence except for medical needs. Judge Strout of Knox County set a record by granting 30 divorces at September court, advising women to investigate their husbands’ character before marriage.
Tempest Test For Stoic Sailors In Old Ballad
A verse about braving storms with steadiness and nerve. It urges sailors to keep a ship close to wind, stay steady and ready, or risk misfortune from the King of Storms. Strong hands and resolve are praised as keys to passage through danger.
Whistler’s Early Map Etching Prank Ends Apprenticeship
A Boston Transcript recounts a boyhood tale of James McNeill Whistler. As a novice engraver he etched copper plates with maps and included humorous caricatures of his firm, including the chief. When the plate was printed with the unedited sketches the enraged boss fired him upon Whistler’s return from holiday.
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Whistler
Boston Transcript
Salt Water Gunning Near Bath Captures Flock of Coots
Lon Fisher and Bert Bubier return from Bald Head with sixteen coots shot from a row boat using decoys and a new eight gauge gun. Coast coots are larger than average and decoying works with a whistle. Boston Gun Club members and Animrod of Winnegance also report successful near Bath as coot season runs into November. Mayor Hyde maintains his Green Island camp, a two story retreat with cupola and pebble fireplace, offering a fifty five minute ferry to his Bath home via the flyer Never Again.
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Lon Fisher
Bert Bubier
Bald Head
Lem Wallace
Mr. Fisher
Bath
Mayor Hyde
Green Island
Hyde
Fireman finds ill watchman after stroke on torpedo boat
Monday morning Fireman Marte found night watchman James Hennessey unconscious in the galley of the Barney at Bath Iron Works. Hennessey, later said to be stricken by a slight apoplexy, was moved home on Middle street and was reported in his usual health before. He could not say when the stroke occurred.
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Marte
Bath Iron Works
James Hennessey
Barney
Hennessey
Middle Street
Lundrigan
Martel
The Gold Brick Swindle In Western Banks
A New Orleans Times-Democrat quotation describes a clever gold brick swindle once common in western banks. It recounts banks quietly buying real gold bricks tied to mine news, allowing swindlers to exploit land deals and bullion sales, with an estimated one third of western banks victimized at some time.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Chance For Him at Home Pslugger Offer Stirring Contention
A Chicago Tribune excerpt shows Pslugger, described as an eminent pupilist in a high state of indignation, offering $5,000 to coax submission in the aft round. He declares, if shown, he is a gentleman, while Mia challenges him to prove gentlemanly conduct.
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Pslugger
George
Mia
Chicago Tribune
The Street Life Of A Song, Then Its Quick Decline
Clifton Bingham notes that once a song hits the streets and becomes widely hummed it gains sudden popularity but signals the start of its fading fame. He warns publishers that such street boom ends in fatigue as audiences tire of hearing the same tune everywhere.
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Clifton Bingham
Old
Madrid
Morphy Attends Church in New Orleans Bishop Remains Engaged
Paul Morphy, the famed chess master, visited a New Orleans church where the bishop of a foreign diocese attended. The rector delivered a long sermon that tired the crowd, but the bishop listened intently as part of the congregation left. Morphy quipped that the preacher was the first man he ever met who hadn’t sense enough to stop when he had nothing left but a bishop.
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Paul Morphy
New Orlleans
Murphy
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Hathaway Bakery
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Kennebec Steamboat Co
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Gardiner
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