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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1915
Page
8
Demonstration notes describe a hog killing kit with knives scrapers and a meat saw. It covers stunning methods and a 145 to 150 degree scalding water, hair removal, and scraping technique, plus safe handling and rest before slaughter for best meat quality.
Article extols Dr Williams Pink Pills as a nerve tonic with blood-building effects and promotes a farm bulletin about dry picking poultry for top prices. It describes hog slaughtering steps, entrails removal, and carcass cooling alongside Navy enlistment pay and benefits for young men.
In Topsham, L B Shaw dressed twelve hens for the Boston market at about sixty-one cents per hour labor. Twelve hens, 54 pounds shipped alive earned 8.10 after commission and express. the dressed lot used ice for packing and shipping the same day.
Paul D. Sargent chief engineer of the Maine State Highway Commission told the Portland Rotary Club the proposed 1300 mile state system would serve 73 percent of Maine residents and cover 73 percent of state valuation. He said about 200 miles of new highway would be finished this season and noted $4 280 000 spent on state aid roads since 1901.
A Navy Publicity Bureau tour through Saco Biddeford Bath Topsham Brunswick and Westbrook corrects public misperceptions about sailor pay. The piece notes Navy earnings exceed typical civilian young men and cites the pay table across ratings and trades with a representative example from the tour.
Associate Justice Spear sustains defense exceptions in the Katherine L. McManus life insurance suit. The 1914 Brunswick case contested a $5000 policy with risk class dispute and revived applications to Prudential Life Insurance Co. that were previously excluded. The verdict of $5100, entered Oct 20, 1914, is affected by the rescript.
Philadelphia woman 52 reports six years of severe change of life pains eased after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She recommends it for women and notes the company offers confidential, woman-to-woman advice from Lynn, Massachusetts.
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