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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1911
Page
5
A Chicago reader touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for female ailments. She recalls a clerks resistance, insists on the product, and urges others to seek it, noting decades of use and widespread testimonials.
Description of travel routes from Grand Central and Penn Station to hotels and theatres via Broadway and 6th Avenue routes. Includes details on options for buses and subways to reach Empire and related buildings. Pricing notes mention rooms with bath at various daily rates and a free city guide offer.
An endorsement shows L F Atwood Medicine or Bitters as a trusted cure for worms in children. Testimonials from Mrs C A Treadwell of Maine and Mrs Ida M Nason of Clinton Maine praise the remedy for stopping worm-related sickness in kids. A bottle costs thirty five cents and free samples are available from The L F Medicine Co Portland Maine.
Readers are urged to send farm and grange news to the Independent Office Bath. The Bath Market reports steady supplies of garden produce with prices near last week. Eggs reach 35 40 cents a dozen. butter around 30 cents. cows still in pastures with good feed. Sagadahoc Pomona Grange meets at Bowdoin Center with a program on apples and varieties, plus demonstrations on packing, spraying, and soil. Produce prices include apples 75 cents a bushel, potatoes scarce, squash five cents per pound, cucumbers rare, tomatoes two cents per pound, cranberries two dollars per bushel, beef eight and a half cents per pound, veal eleven, lamb ten, chickens twenty cents a pound, fowl eighteen, hay eighteen to nineteen dollars a ton.
James H. Castner harvested what is claimed as Lincoln county’s largest potato yield this year from 72 rods of moist land, with 190 bushels of merchantable potatoes and 1 bushel of small potatoes.
Merrymeeting Grange held no meeting last week due to the Topsham fair. Last evening the program included Music by Flora Newton Reading October by Eva Rideout discussion on cultivation of orchards its profitability and members debated taxation without representation for property owning women.
A quiet October wedding united Svelyn Augusta Small and Charles H. Noyes at the Bowdoin home of the groom’s relatives. Rev. M. G. Powers of Topsham officiated. Relatives and out of town guests from Malden and Swampscott attended.
In Baltimore the Archbishop James Cardinal Gibbons, once a priest in the Cathedral, was feted by prelates and laymen from across the nation and abroad as he received the red biretta of a Cardinal.
A regional convention of Sun day schools from Woolwich Arrowsic and Georgetown met at the Congregational church with large attendance and speeches from Rev McNevens Rev Brooks and others. Officers were elected including Joseph Stinson as president and Miss Harriet Hathorne as district primary superintendent.
Miss Minerva Reminger of Upper Bern Pennsylvania writes she suffered nerv ous prostration for years and survived on bread and beef tea until Hood's Sarsaparilla restored her strength. The testimonial claims cure and links pure blood to strong nerves, urging pickup of Hood's Sarsaparilla in liquid or tablet form.
An advertisement extols Dr Williams Pink Pills as a blood builder and nerve tonic healing nervous disorders tied to anemia. It cites a testimonial from Mrs George Finkle and notes the pills are available from druggists with a two dollar six box price and a free Nervous Disorders booklet offer. It also mentions social visits and local events in Troy and Litchfield.
A North Carolina bulletin reveals dairymen struggle with cleanliness and cooling as milk is delivered twice daily without refrigeration. Studies show milk retains sweetness at low acidity and cool storage slows souring, highlighting the infancy of dairying and reliance on distant markets.
A cordial promotion of a laxative mix using Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. The ad claims it strengthens the body and warms internal organs without weakening them. Promotes use for young and old and warns to buy the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product.
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