Bath Deity page notes 1899 deaths and local items
Forty years ago in Bath items from The Bath Deity column note Miss Florence M. McDonald death at 33 after long illness, and a life as Bath High School graduate and longtime teacher. Also summaries of the 21st Maine Regiment reunion, arrests for selling clothing without a license, a drug store burglary, weddings, river shipping, launches, the Perry accident, and local civic notes with names, dates, and places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence M. McDonald
Miss McDonald
Peter McDonald
Bath High School
Old Academy
Maple Street
Mary
G. 8. Pray
Seward
Salt Lake University
Brattleboro
Temporary hospital agitation grows after Perry death
The Sept 2 1899 report notes Andrew Perrys death sparks calls for a temporary city hospital to serve a floating population and workers injured on site. A physician cited a real need, as civic leaders push for establishing and maintaining such a facility amid ongoing public health concerns.
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Andrew Perry
Gome
Locomobile visits Bath amid foggy voyage and yacht tragedy
September 5 1899 Bath hosts F E Stanley with a Locomobile from Newton Mass. The run Portland Bath took 39 minutes over foggy roads using five gallons of gas. Five drowned aboard Dr Steadmans yacht Ahadia near MacMahon Island. Other notes include shipyard work, a birth, and local travel plans.
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Bath
F. E. Stanley
Stanley Brothers
Newton
Mass
Mr. Stanley
Stanley
W. H. Page
Dummer Street
Commercial Street
Portland
Freeport
Brunswick
Hallowell Fishermen Keep River Trade Alive
George LeMar and James Crawford in Hallowell operate a summer eel fishing business on the Kennebec. They are among the few locals pursuing river fishing this season, shipping eels weekly to Boston and New York while planning to add suckers in fall. The article notes past huts and profits along the river and mentions salmon sightings as evidence of potential abundance in an unpolluted river.
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Kennebec
Hallowell
George LeMar
James Crawford
Boston
New York
Maine Trail Ride Plans Announced For 80 Mile Event
Plans for the third annual Maine Trail Ride were announced by Secretary Ralph B. Skinner of the Maine Horse Association. The endurance ride covers 80 miles over two days at the Barta Camps in Casco on September 8 and 9. Ring, a western range horse owned by Lloyd B. Batchelder, will defend the Gov. Lewis O. Barrows trophy as he vies for a title. Batchelder won last year’s ride. Miss Ethel Dolan of Springvale, famed as "the girl who took in washINGS to buy herself a horse," will participate in a mile long ride with Hershel, a part thoroughbred, as her mount.
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Maine
Ethel Dolan
Springvale
Will
Juhes
Hershel
Romantic origins of Dartmouth College chronicled
A Dartmouth College history recounts its Roman tic beginnings with Eleazar Wheelock’s Indian school in New Hampshire. It notes the 1769 royal charter, relocation to Hanover, heroic motto Vox Clamantis in Deserto, and early graduates including ministers, a lawyer, and John Wheelock. It covers Daniel Webster’s 1818 defense of private status, the 1869 centennial, and Chiyesa Eastman as a renowned Indian leader and Dartmouth alumnus.
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0. W. Folsom
Dartmouth College
Eleazar Wheelock
New Hampshire
Wheelock
George III
England
Sampson Occom
Hanover Plain
White Mountains
Revolutionary Army
John Wheelock
United States Supreme Court
Daniel Webster
Dartmouth
Webster
Salmon P. Chase
Nathan Lord
Abraham Lincoln
Lord
Asa Dodge Smith
Pres. Lord
Chiyesa
Charles A. Eastman
Samson Occom
Detroit
Eastman
Indian Service
The
Boy Scouts
Brooks-Bryce Foundation For the Promotion
Hanover
Matthew Arnold
Dr. Eastman
Katsieff
Wilson Hall
Sitting Bull
Boston University
Columbia
London
Theodore Roosevelt
Pine Ridge Agency
Rugby
Bear Invasion Alarm Strikes Northern Aroostook
Augusta authorities focus on a rising black bear presence in Northern Aroostook as two bear cubs chased a family's dog on the Edward Gahagan farm near a village. Neighbors helped capture the cubs and chased away the mother bear guarding her offspring.
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Augusta
Aroostook
Edward Gahagan
Arthur Ayotte
Leftover recipes spark thrifty menus for four diners
A vintage guide presents three complete menus built from leftovers and offers numerous recipes. Beef with spaghetti, corn souffle, frozen vegetable salad, apple sauce bread pudding and Spanish rice feature meats, fruit, and vegetables repurposed into new dishes.
Sculpture of William Zorach Volume Described
The book The Sculpture of William Zorach by Paul S. Wingert from Columbia University profiles the sculptor Zorach as a direct stone carver with a rugged humane quality. It traces his development from youth in Ohio to Paris studies and marriage to Marguerite Thompson, noting his shift from oil painting to sculpture and his lasting, essential forms.
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William Zorach
Paul S. Wingert
Department of Fine Arts and Archeology
Columbia University
Zorach
Egypt
Greece
China
Zerach
Wingert
Morgan Lithograph Co
Cleveland
Sculptor William Zorach Turns From Oils To Sculpture
The article notes Zorach began with butternut wood reliefs becoming a new field for him in 1922 when he left oils for sculpture. It mentions his watercolors, four landscapes chosen for the Contemporary American Art exhibit in Paris last summer. The Bath readership in Robinhood will find the book The Sculpture of William Zorach informative.
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Zorach
Paris
Robinhood
Bath
William Zorach
Madeira Milk Chowder Recipe From 1832 Cook Book
The piece notes early American fish chowder used Madeira rather than milk. It cites Andrew S. Seiler finding in Worcester Antiquarian Society a Boston Harbor fishing party method from Cook's Own Book (1832) with layered pork cod biscuit and Madeira poured hot, plus pepper mushrooms and oysters. A second 12 portion version is planned. question raised about milk's later substitution.
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United States
Andrew S. Seiler
Worcester Antiquarian Society
Boston Harbor
Mr. Seiler
Boston
Monroe & Francis
Beacon Street
New England Skeet Championship Set for Auburn
Bath sportsmen learn the Northern New England Skeet Championship will be staged at the Auburn Skeet Club on Sunday September 10 starting at 9 a m rain or shine. The event, registered with the National Skeet Shooting Association, offers four divisions including individual, two man team, and classification events with trophies and modest entry fees. The Auburn facility near Durham houses a double field and opens for practice Saturday at 1 p m.
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Bath
Auburn
Durham
South River Road
New England
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
N. E
Country Club May Extend Men's Night
The Country Club may extend the season’s final Men's Night by one or two weeks at members’ request. This Thursday will be guest night with each member allowed a non-member guest. After a nine-hole handicap round, a supper follows in the clubhouse dining room, then entertainment by a club member orchestra led by Dr. C A Berry, Dave Henderson, John Grindell, and Ned Andrews.
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Dr. C. A. Berry
Dave Henderson
John Grindell
Ned Andrews
Stench From Androscoggin River Baffles Auburn Resident
Mrs. George Dill of River Road Auburn complains of a foul river odor altering her house color. She describes the grey scum drifting on breezes from the river, leaving the white house with a grey stain. Neighbors share concern and urge action to curb the nuisance.
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George Dill
River Road
Auburn
Androscoggin River
White House
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