Railroad Publicity Men Meet Saturday for Annual Session
Delegates from major eastern railways gathered in Bath and Southport for the American Association of Railway Advertising Agents annual meeting. The group, arriving from Chicago Pittsburgh Norfolk Montreal and other points, discussed coordinating publicity and promoting Maine as a September vacation destination aided by the Maine Central and other railroads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vno
American Association of Railway Advertising Agents
Newgenton
Newtgen
Southport
Bath
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Norfolk
Montreal
Americns
Milne Central Railroad
Maine
Hinached
Maine Central
Portland
Dudley Allen
L. Eugene Thebeau
City Landing
Mr. Alleman
Mars Alleman
P. Bo Jovee
Boston @ Maine
N. OL. Weir
Pennsylvania Railroad
C. W. Stokes
Canadian Preiie
Ald. Palmer
New York Central
Palmer
Theo Charlton
Canadian National Railways
Charlton
John T. Cushing
Cen
Live Wire Incident Causes Electric Shock In Workshop
Charles Shepard, a window decorator for Bridge Merrill Inc, received a live electric shock Thursday afternoon while connecting wires. He felt no bare wire in one hand and grabbed an iron pipe for support, trapping himself as current flowed. He could not release until power was cut and was later deemed to face no serious injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Shepard
Bridge-Merrill, Inc
Seth S. Mullin
Mr. Shepard
Thirteen Rivers Water Breaks at New Electric HQ
A bottle containing water from thirteen rivers was broken over the entrance of the Jackson Michigan electric light and power company’s new headquarters. The ceremony drew wide attention and won support from prohibition advocates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Michigan
Electric Light and Power Company
Horatio N Douglas Master Builder Dies in Bath
Horatio N. Douglas 34 a Civil War veteran and renowned Bath master builder died Saturday at 55 Dummer Street from a paralytic stroke. He served in Maine units, was wounded at Winchester, worked as master builder for New England Shipbuilding Co and Percy Small yards, and later for Emergency Fleet Corporation in Newton. He leaves a wife Ariena Warner and three daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horatio N. Douglas
New England
Dummer Street
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Machias
Pall River
Georgetown
Augustus DD
Douglas
Portland
Dee
Edward W. Thompson
Maine Mounted Light Infantry
New Iberia
Albert W. Bradbury
Winchester
Guy C. Goss
New England Shipbuilding Co
Donghis
Bath
Percy & Small
Newington
Mar
Ariena Warner
Winfield F. Rowe
Waltham
Mass
Nellie D. Thompson
Lena DD. Donnell
Albert N. Towne
Willard A. Rowe
Los Angeles
Calif
Arline Rowe
Margaret
Janice Towne
Sedgwick Post
G. A. 10
Solar Lodge of Masons
Three Quarter Century Club
Maine
Bowdoin News and Local Social Notes
Bowdoin and nearby residents are noted visiting friends in Richmond and Essex Massachusetts. Local families travel across the country to Tracy California. school opened with teacher Donald Kellogg of Augusta. Community meetings include East Bowdoin Ladies aid and Bowdoin Center Farm Bureau plans the Sept 71 session on table furnishings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Saunders
Richmond
Lucy Dbuker
Eva
Frances Baker
Donald Kellogg
Augusta
Clifford McNally
Bowdoin
Cook's Corner
Clair Farnum
Litchfield
Tracy
Calif
Northy
BB. Warinton
Thomas's Point
Charles Babb
Traverse Jury
Farm Bureau
Bowdoin Center Grange Hall
Ernest Carr
Vacationing Doctors and Town Life in Bowdoinham
Bowdoinham residents recount summer visitors including Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Curtis of Orange Heights Florida. Local notes cover court activity, school openings, road work, teaching assignments, and social visits at Sewall Orchard, Ridge Meeting House, and with families from Waterville, Brunswick, and Brunswick area towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Curtis
Orange Heights
Fla
Clarence Blackman
Waterville
Selectmen’s
Sheriff Henderson
Bath
Sewall Orchard Farm
Sewall
Carr Watson
Brunswick
Marshal Davis
Goggins
Ridge Meeting House
Satuday
Tver Road
Norman Rowe
Jessie Ames
Siew
R. J. Ferguson
George Weeks
AL Canden
Paris
W. Putnam
Putnam
Massachusetts
Bay Shore
Ernest DB Johnson
Edna Graves
Lieut. Johnson
Ammon
New York Harbor
Johnsen
Litle
Diana
W. J. Groves
Lieut. Johnsen
New York
Gertrude Cornish
Ernest Johnson
Portland
W. 4d
Village farm for sale near Dresden Mills 99 acres
Farm property offering 99 acres with field pasture and woodland includes a 7 room house a carriage house and barn 9 cow ite m and water supply to house and barn. Located as ideal tea room site with care J. 1 Thomas A. J. Couch at 81 Green St Bath contact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dresden Mills
Thomas
A. J. Couch
Green St. Bath
Dinner Committee Aids Fundraising Efforts Aboard
The document lists ex mayor Arthur J. Duntee and Willie C. Perkins among those involved, naming a large committee led by Mrs. Clarence Morse and including numerous members who assisted Monday night with dinners and luncheons during the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur J. Duntee
Willie C. Perkins
Clarence Morse
Aden M. Irish
Edmund J. Briggs
Henry
Wright
Willian
Werkins
Daniel T. Dougherty
Mary
Gibbons
Jane Murphy
Harry W. Tucker
Harry (. Webber
Charles H
Community drives support Bath event and fund drive
Donations pour in from Central Machine Power Co to Bath Rotary as Bath hosts a school parade and a charity drive. A Children's Parade at Morse High School signals kickoff with prizes and judges named. Humanitarian committees organize teams across Men’s and Women’s divisions for the Lath fund campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lath
Forminer Daath
Central Machine Power Co
Samuel SS. Sewall Redlinds
Calif
Scotte Ko Frye
Los Angeles
Camilla Sewall Edge
Ventnor
N. J
Alice Shaw Merryman
George Humphreys
Englewood
Woolwich Entertainment
Elmhurst
Winunegance Community Club
Whippsburg
Colonial Club
Bath Lodge of Elks
Mary Hector
Sabine Improvement Association
Bath Rotary Club
St. Mary's
Morse High School
Bath
North Center
BP. T. AL
South Street
Dell
Charles S. Brown
J. A. Falk
Frank B. Nichols
Morse High
Canadian Boy Scout Visits Bath on Hike
Vernon Maddison of Charlottetown, a Canadian Boy Scout organizer, continues his annual long hike. He arrived from Belfast and slept at St Cranstan's University in Clariattetown before resuming his journey toward Weston. He has hiked from Charlottetown to Chicago and to other large cities in past years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yong
Wexton
Vernon Maddizon
Charlottetown
Welfast
St. Cranstan’s University
Clariattetown
Archie Gillis
Bright
Chicate
Freeman Dow 77 Dies After Long Illness
Freeman Dow of Kath, born Deer Isle February 19 1851, died Wednesday morning at the city home after a long illness. He formerly served on the Rockland police force and later worked as a teamster for W. W. Mason’s trucking service. Survived by his wife Eliza Dow of Woolwich, funeral set for Thursday at two at the city home with burial in Rockland Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeman Dow
Deer Isle
Rockland
Kath
W. W. Mason
Henry K. White
Eliza Dow
Woolwich
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Department Store
Ap Regeular
Sisq
Tral Vermont
T.A. Moulton
BL. Oseen
New York, New Haven & Hartford
The
Railway Age
Harry B. Coe
Maine Publicity Bureau
Bridge- Merrill, Inc
Front Street
Bowdoinham
Charles B. Randall
Col. Randall
John Curtis
Lewiston
Ray Douglass
Nellie Minott
Meredith
Allie Hall
Evansville
Florence Sparks
Montclair
N.o
Hien Sparks
Mary Lilley
Nona Fogg
Dyers Corner
Hackett
Frank Siegars
Tateh
Carrie Merrill
James
F.l Graves
George Brown
Kenneth Almy
B.D. Douglass
Gilpatrick Place
Douglass
Sparks
Dinsmore
Bert Merrill
da Fowle
Boothbay Harbor
Methodist Ladies’ Aid
Paursomige
Ida Millay
Thompsonville
Conn
Grant Close
Frank Rose
Hazardville
Mere
K. A. Newton
Bowdoin Lilly
Malden
Raymond Rendell
K. A. Dickinson
Rendell
France
American Legion
Mell Jenkins
H. E. Corpish
Village Lodge
A. M
Methodist Society
Lena Patten
Etta Nash
Gardiner
Merryworkers
Girls Club
Kenneber River
Hazel Hackett
Ceraine Heenie
Hackett Alee
F. K. Jack
Sirena Thomas
G. K. Cutler
Lizzie Carr
Mary T. Varinten Teft
West Medford
Elisha Webber
FL RK
Jack
Slice Sabie Amd
Lena Skelton
Charles Randall
Eleanor
Marshall Merryman
Center Street
Fremi
Walter Whitney
Mereet
McFacklen
Seth & Mullin
KE. Mentley Folle
Seba
Robbert S. Hatch
T. W. Pease
Wresterick EF. Drake
William FE. Valmer
Lewis Berry
John AL Learo
Charles 8. Farnham
Lewis Gannon
AL Falk
Evangeline Haynes
Leroy F. Colby
North Center Eos
Reveret
Betschy
Sath
Edward W. Doridzham
Ralph W. Brace
Meimood V. Briggs
John A. Leere
Joseph F. Met‘ole
Charles Miller
Eugene SM Desmond
Dexse Wo Asibem Hlarry
Willian AL For
Mark Hennessey
Lewis F. Dunlop
William Perrys
William TV
Vowel
Mra
John A. Morse
William H. Small
William KE. Wateh
John FL Wat
James EF. Lorkery
George W. Morse
Earl Trott
Elle W. Welch
Robert
Hateh
Winefred EK. Johnson
Harriet
Ledyard
Keen J. Ledyard
Beshert
U. Met “Arty
W. Howard Larrabee
Charies KK. Farnham
Martha AL Peete
Morris Voviet
Leroy FL Colby
Eaward
Seadh
William J. Crafts
Mere Milton
Stouxias
Eugene Melirath
Vierence Behinsm
Senter
BOY Scout
Thomas Hates
John Diplock
Mr. Bates
Mr. Diplock
Albert Redlon
Lake
Glenerry
Radcliffe
New Jersey
Jersey
Crete
Bath Department Store
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