Maine Election Shows Republican Victory Across Ticket
Maine's biennial election produced a clear Republican win led by Governor Brewster. Acting with strong support, Republicans swept the ticket and maintained a high voting percentage. State Auditor Hayford was re-elected, and Wallace H. White Jr. won his congressional race amid a bitter contest. A special election will fill the late Dr. Clarence A. Peaslee’s legislative seat after his death. The Maher amendment was decisively defeated, signaling little chance it returns soon.
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Maine
Brewster
Hayford
Wallace H. White, Jr
Congress
James Edward Drake
Bath
J. Horace McClure
James B. Lemont
McClure
Fred H. Thompson
Harry F. Litchfield
Thompson
Mr. Litchfield
Representatives
Clarence A. Peaslee
Maher
Fire protection boosted by new roads in Missouri
An editorial in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat notes better highways improve fire protection for suburbs. A De Soto blaze drew aid from Festus and St. Louis, cutting a 45 mile distance to 90 minutes, showing how smooth concrete roads unite distant communities and temper rural-urban tensions.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Missouri
de Soto
Festus
St. Louis
Cou
Notable Call for Unity and Timely Assistance in Danger
A fragment expresses hope that assistance rendered in danger will replace division with unity and good fellowship, emphasizing the value of prompt support during crises. The wording suggests a plea for collective resolve and mutual aid in challenging times.
Grain Shipments Open Wide to European Ports
Eleven million five hundred thousand bushels of American grain have been shipped in the last two months to European ports including England France Germany and Belgium aboard United States Shipping Board vessels. The move follows a White House request from President Coolidge to mobilize ships to prevent elevated elevator costs and ensure sales abroad. The nine million dollar grain movement aims to raise Western farmers’ returns to about sixteen million dollars as shipments continue indefinitely.
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England
France
Germany
Belgium
United States
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Shipping Board
Coolidge
NAMES A FARMER
John C. Smith of Mandan North Dakota is named to the Federal Land Bank Zone Board amid efforts to recognize farm interests. The American Legion urges uniform flag displays, noting municipal adoption and financial benefits. Roland H. Smith post Bath plans a new clubhouse after a fire, seeking citizen support for fundraising.
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John C. Smith
Mandan
North Dakota
Federal Land Bank
Minnesota
Coolidge
John Smith
Federal Farm Board
Smith
American Legion
Legion
Roland H. Smith
Bath
Bath Brunswick highway needs rebuilding and repair
The nine mile Bath to Brunswick stretch carries heavy traffic and requires extensive repair or rebuilding. The North and Lincoln to Blind Crossing segment and the eastern approach near Brunswick are rough and narrow with broken shoulders. Citizens urge action before next heavy travel season. Dr. Clarence A. Peaslee, respected local citizen and former alderman and state representative, has died after a period of illness. He was active in Masonic orders and widely regarded in the community.
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Bath
Brunswick
Lincoln Streets
Blind Crossing
Clarence A. Peaslee
Dr. Peaslee
Germany Joins League of Nations Amid Franco German Pact
Germanys admission to the League of Nations was completed with a Friday demonstration and French and German representatives pledged friendship for the future and to settle disputes by arbitration rather than war. If realized, the move could ease global tensions long shaped by Franco German enmity.
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Germany
League of Nations
France
Savings Bank Men Elect Low President
Charles C. Low of Bath Savings Institution was elected president of the Mutual Savings Banks of Maine at the annual Belgrade Lakes meeting. more than 100 attendees over two days. Elected officers include Richard K. E. Goodwin, C. A. Wentworth, Prince A. Drummond, and several bank executives with notable outside speakers at the banquet.
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Charles. C. Low
Bath Savings Institution
Mutual Savings Banks of Maine
Belgrade
Belgrade Lakes
Low
Moses
Bath
John O. Shaw
George H. Nichols
Fred H. Low
Front
Center Streets
First National
Legion Launches Drive for Uniform Display of Flags
Roland H. Smith post of the American Legion promotes a uniform flag display by city merchants. Brass standards with a 12 foot collapsible pole and gilded eagle will be set in front of stores for holidays and patriotic observances, creating a continuous line of flags along main streets. Arrangements are ready for immediate rollout to achieve a neat, uniform national color display.
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Roland H. Smith
The
Legion Post
Former Bath Teacher Presents Elijah Reading at Wesley Church
Miss Josephine Johnson, formerly an English teacher at Morse High, delivered a vivid dramatic reading of Elijah the Tishbite at Wesley church Sunday night. Her interpretation of the fiery prophet and key scenes at Cherith, the widow's cruse, and Mount Carmel, conveyed the Bible story with strong religious appeal and left a lasting impression on a large audience.
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Josephine Johnson
Morse High School
Wesley Church
Elijah
Miss Johnson
Israel
Ahab
Mount Carmel
Jehovah
Baal
Deaf children's school to rise in St Louis
St Louis plans a $600,000 building exclusively for the education of deaf children. Lord Darling, famed as England's Epigram Judge, visits the United States as part of his tour.
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St. Louis
Lord Darling
England
Morse High Football Schedule Expands With Nine Games
Morse High completes its football slate after Catholic High of Portland drops the sport. Oct 23 at Westbrook, others include Cony Augusta Sept 25 and Deering Portland Nov 20. Westbrook’s Rube leads a strong lineup as Morse eyes key road tests in 1926 27 season. New radio changes: WEAF nets three programs for WOSH Portland with A & P typies Vikings travelogs and auction bridge instruction plus adjusted light operas beginning Oct 6.
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Morse High
Catholic High of
Portland
Westbrook High School
Warren Field
Westbrook
Paper City
Morse
Husky Rube
Cony
Augusta
Edward Little
Bath
South Portland
South
Gardiner
Rockland
Biddeford
Hallowell
Deering
Cony High
WEAF
WOSH
WSCH
WCSH
Bath Women Bring Honors From Session
Mary Curtis and others attended Government of Maine LL O T O J in the Pythian temple. Curtis elected government treasurer Chaney vice lady governess and installed by Elizabeth Brown and Georgia F Moore. Officers named include Bennett Barton Dunning Wilson Westcott Emerson Dearborn La Rock Shaw Durgin Verrill Pray Charch Vera. The 30th Government anniversary was marked with a Columbia banquet and social time with readings and music.
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Mary Curtis
Gertrude Stewart
Lizzie BR. Chaney
Lugille Tike
Elizabeth Pollard
Lillian Wright
Government of
Maine
LL. O
Pythian Temple
Curtis
Chaney
Elizabeth Brown
Cambridge
Mass
Georgia F. Moore
Jamaica Plain
Fanny Bennett
Portland
Westh Barton
Waterville
Alice Dunning
Brunswick
Georgie Wilson
Susie Wescott
Lillian Emerson
Lewiston
Zella Dearborn
Alice LaRock
Emily Shaw
Mary Durgin
Guardian
Nettie Verrill
Auburn
Ella Pray
Alfaretta Charch
Columbia
Colonial Club Bake Proves Great Success
Seventy five members attended the Colonial club clam bake at Shore Acres Golf Club on Sunday. Rufus Lombard guided the event with a seaweed baked menu including clams lobsters sweet potatoes corn eggs and weenies. Attendees enjoyed baseball golf tennis and a group photo before resuming their chosen sport.
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Colonial Club
Shore Acres Golf Club
Rufus Lombard
Failed to Find Man He Would Thrash
An attempt by a stocky man employed on a new bridge to locate and thrash a driver who crippled him in an accident years earlier triggered a police search Friday night. A Studebaker sedan was spotted on Vine street, the driver missing, with a young man and two girls claiming they were awaiting him. Portland police located the car and passengers. the girl trio was released while the boy, believed local, was returned to Portland. Portland officers traced the car. In a historical note, postwar wheat acreage rose from 45,000,000 to 75,000,000 acres in the United States.
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New Bridge
Studebaker
Rath Tron Works
Vine Street
Water
Front Streets
Portland
Freeport
Rice
Garden Marauders Active in Local Gardens
Garden owners report dawn marauders stealing two squashes and a variety of vegetables including beans and cucumbers. A sharp watch is kept for suspicious collectors of flowers and produce, while owners await further proof before prosecuting.
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Bath
Little Miss Dumas Hostess to Friends
Mr and Mrs W A Dumas entertained a bevy of youngsters Saturday at their Trail's End home to celebrate their eldest daughter's seventh birthday. A peanut hunt and donkey tail game provided fun as Ruth Dale Elizabeth Fuller Frances Shaughnessey Esther Furber Emily Furber Mary Strahan Helen Strahan Elsie Virginia Welton all attended from Palm Beach Fla. Ralph Dale John Shaughnessey and the Dumas girls Hope Julie and Gloria also joined. Mrs Ralph O Dale and Mrs Fred Edney assisted.
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W.A. Dumas
Trail’s End
Mechanic Street
Ruth Dale
Elizabeth Fuller
Frances Shaughnessey
Esther
Emily Furber
Mary
Helen Strahan
Elsie Virginia Welton
Palm Beach, Fla
Ralph Dale
John Shaughnessey
Crop rotation touted as nearly equal to fertilizers in yields
The USDA issued a statement asserting crop rotation is about 95 percent as effective as manure or complete fertilizers for wheat corn and oats yields and around 90 percent for increasing yields. It notes rotation and fertilizer effects are additive and both benefits remain when combined. Details are in Farmer's Bulletin 1475-F available free from the USDA in Washington.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Washington
Col Roosevelt Enjoys Bath Visit and Maine Journey
Col Theodore Roosevelt traveled via Bath with Hon Tudor Gardiner and his wife to their Woolwich summer home for the night. He planned to visit Wiscasset on Saturday with Mr Gardiner, Maine House Speaker, representing Governor Brewster at a welcome for Commander Donald B. MacMillan and party. The Illinois State Grange hosted a week of radio broadcasts from Chicago with daily addresses and entertainment, reaching grange members across twelve Central West states.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Bath
Tudor Gardiner
Wool Wich
Wiscasset
Gardiner
Maine House
Brewster
Donald B. MacMillan
Mlinois State Grange
Chicago
The
Grange
Central West
New Hudson Tunnel Compared to Ferry Traffic
A new car tunnel under the Hudson River from New York to New Jersey moves more cars in a week than all ferries handle in two weeks, highlighting its high capacity and impact on regional transit.
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Hudson
New York
Jersey
Independent's Cross Word Puzzle Clues Across and Down
A compact crossword clue list with Turkish style spellings, including horizontal and vertical entries for entertainment venues filaments and apparel terms, prepositions and pronouns, city and country names, numbers abbreviations, and archaic words. It presents multiple rows of tangled hints for a reader to solve.
Searchlight Company to Be Located in Bath
Bath to house a new searchlight unit renamed Company 1 with heavy guns experience. Battery personnel will stay while some move to Portland for 12 inch guns. Funding needed for garage and buildings estimated around $1000. Capt McClure offers free land for the site and local men to assist in construction. Brunswick unit will become an anti air craft company to operate jointly in case of air attack.
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Bath Ig
Portland Harbor
Portland
Bath
J. Horace McClure
Brunswick Company
New Pastor H L Skillin Takes Post at Brooks Parsonage
Rev H L Skillin and family move from Gardiner to 138 North street parsonage. He begins his pastorate at First Baptist church after a varied ministry in Princeton Buck's Harbor South West Harbor St George Newport Old Town and Patten. He has aided civic affairs during four and a half years at Gardiner church.
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H. L. Skillin
Gardiner
Brooks Memorial Parsonage
North Street
Skillin
First Baptist Church
Raymond
Portland
Deering High School
Westbrook Seminary
E. CC. Andrews
Boston
Gordon Bible School
Princeton
Buck’s Harbor
South West Harbor
St. George
Newport
Old Town
Patten
Gardiner Church
Governor Wears All Maine-Made Attire on Campaign Tour
Governor Ralph O. Brewster highlighted a Maine oriented wardrobe during his re election campaign trip. His blue serge suit from Camden, overcoat from Worumbo Lisbon Falls and shoes from Gardiner reflect local industry. Shits Lewiston made and Paragon Button Waldoboro supplied buttons. A separate note mentions Queen of Roumania potential matches. Yale College self supported students earned 45 percent of all honors last year.
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Ralph O. Brewster
Maine
Camden
Worumbo Manufacturing Co
Lisbon Falls
Gardiner
Lewiston
Paragon
Waldoboro
Yale College
Two Old Bath Ships Featured in Film
Two veteran square rigged clippers, the Bohemia built in 1875 and the Indiana of 1876, lie at Long Beach harborside moorings as Cecil B. De Mille prepares The Yankee Clipper. The ships retain sailing methods with only modern Dodge Brothers motors powering generators for radio, lighting, a projection machine, and a motion picture camera.
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Pacific
Long Beach Harbor
Cal
Bohemia
Indiana
Houghton
Bath
Sewalls
Dodge Brothers Motors
Bath Plant Expands Coal Shipping Across Region
The Kennebec Wharf and Coal Co reports 25 000 to 30 000 tons of bituminous coal received this summer and distributed around the Kennebec valley. A 5000 ton steamship load arrived from Norfolk Saturday morning with the Bylays to supply state needs. About 560 tons were shipped to the Maine State Hospital at Augusta by scow No 1 towed by the tug Seguin.
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Kennebec
Pond Island
Maine State Hospital
Augusta
Fountain Pen Barrels Embrace Pyralin Colors
Fountain pens adopt pyralin plastic for barrels and caps, offering bright hues and snappy styling akin to cars. Tests claim high durability with fire-truck wheel runs and drops from height without cracking, asserting resistance around 500 pounds per square inch. Italy reportedly shifts traffic to the right.
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Pres
Treas
Front Street
Bath, Maine
Teemis
Rooney Close
Bila
Fees Haine
Savings Bank
State Board At
Lakes
Seation
Catholic High
Odd Ladies
the Government of
Sebasco Estates
Miss Dumas
Col. Roosevelt
Independent
India
U.S
Lloyd's Regliater
Searchlight Company
Roumania
Thana
Bohemia and
Italy
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