Forty Years Ago In Bath Fades Into City News
Forties era notes from Bath Chronicle detail Franklin Lord rewiring Shaw & Sons mill and a valued pointer named Pete sold for age and chloroformed. The piece notes postal worker Percy Little’s new post in Newburyport, rising cigarette prices, cemetery Reed lot purchase, Miss Josephine Mitchell at YMC A, and local church deacons. Also covered are rail surveys, street railway rumors, postmaster health, local travel to Boston and Bath events through Sept 1897.
Universalist society hosts Friday evening gathering
On Friday evening, B Hervey hosts an event with the Universalist ladies inviting all friends to attend.
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B. Hervey
Ladies of the Universalist Society
Parsonses House Improvement Adds Piazza on Dummer Street
On September 20, 1897 Henry D. Parsons undertakes a home improvement project adding a piazza to his residence on Dummer Street, reflecting a popular late 19th century architectural update.
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Henry D. Parsons
Dummer Street
Harvard Bard Johns Hopkins plan Asiatic Primate Expedition
A nine month expedition to study Asiatic apes led by Harvard Bard Johns Hopkins will sail from New York to Singapore on the Kota Trandi Dec 29. The project, funded by Carnegie Columbia Milton Fund Harvard and private donors, includes Harold J Coolidge Jr and Dr Adolph H Schultz among others. The team will study gibbons orangutans and other primates in Siam Borneo Sumatra, examining behavior evolution and brain structure.
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Siam
Borneo
Sumatra
New York
Singapore
Kota Trandi
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Peabody Museum
Harvard University
Bard College
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Harold J. Coolidge Jr
Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology
Indo- China
Asia
Burma
Malaya
Java
Philadelphia
Europe
America
Adolph H. Schultz
C. R. Carpenter
Sherwood L. Washburn
Harvard
Sheldon
J. A. Griswold, Jr
Andrew Wyli
Washington
John T. Coolidge, Jr
Milton
Mass
American Committee For International Wild
Bureau of International Research
Radcliffe College
Netherlands
Miss Jones Named Junior Stenographer in IRS
A Knox County Trust Company staff member for about a year and a half has been informed of her appointment as junior stenographer in the Internal Revenue Department in Washington D.C. She will report for duty September 27 after taking the Civil Service Examination about a year ago.
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Knox County Trust Company
Internal Revenue Department
Washington, D. C
Miss Jones
Well Dressed Gulls Wear Colored Bands
Five thousand sea gulls were banded with gaudy colors in a Linnaean Society of New York study to track migration age and plumage. Stations from Labrador to New York used red blue and yellow bands with metal bands. observers should report band position and exact sight details to Gull Survey at the American Museum of Natural History New York.
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Linnaean Society of
New York
Labrador
New York State
U. S. Biological Survey
American Museum of National History
New York City
Morse line-up unsettled for Saturday opener with Winthrop
Morse high prepares for the opening game at Kelley field with starting spots unsettled. Coach Hank Small weighs veterans against newcomers as Maynard McFadden Eddie Cohen and Dave Alkazin contend for guard and end roles while Clif Nickerson Tony Holbrook and George Perry anchor the line. Medical setback sidelines Clint Child a collision incident narrows the pool and the plan centers on power runs by Harry Thayer and Eddie Hamblett with Georgie Sarkis and Frankie Curran providing blocking.
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Morse High
Winthrop
Kelley Field
Hank” Small
Shipping City
Small
Central Maine
Morse
Westbrook
Iscar Greenblatt
Carl Earlbach
Clif Nickerson
Tony Holbrook
George Perry
Johnny Wakefield
Maynard McFadden
Eddie Cohen
Dave Alkazin
Clint Child
Nickerson
Holbrook
Morsemen
Harry Thayer
Eddie Hamblett
Georgie Sarkis
Frankie Curran
Local Dogs to Show Their Paces Sunday Field Trial
The Sagadahoc Rod, Gun and Skeet Association plans a field trial Sunday at 9 a.m. on the Dave Walsh farm in North Bath with about 20 bird dogs. Entries are limited to Bath area dogs, open to non-members, no professionals, judges Warren E. Kershner and Rodney E. Ross, field at Walsh farm near Whiskeag bridge.
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Sagadahoc Rod, Gun & Skeet’! Association, Inc
Stariing
Dave Walsh
North Bath
Wendall Heal
Bath
Heal
Warren E. Kershner
Rodney E. Ross
Walsh Field
Pentalite Transmits Light Around Curves Demonstrated
EF I du Pont scientists unveiled Pentalite at the New York Electrical Society showing a long rod bent like a pretzel transmitting light from end to end without lighting the sides. A sheet bent at right angles emitted light only at letters and the edge. The plastic caries light with no heat, resists acids, can be cut and molded, and costs about 1.25 dollars per pound.
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New York Electrical Society
Engineering Societies
EF. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co
Dr Hibbs High Gun In Saturday Skeet Shoot
Dr George W Hibbs posted the high gun score with 23 of the day targets in Saturday afternoon skeet at the local range. Sturtevant brothers Bob and Fred tied for runner up with 21 each, Ralph Small had 20, and several others scored below. A rain cancelation omitted a Monday shoot. Former Governor Louis J Brann addressed 123 Randolph Athletic Association members at Perry Block club rooms discussing sports and boxing.
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George W. Hibbs
Sturtevant Brothers
Bob
Fred
Ralph Small
Ted
Sturtevante
SSSR
Louis J. Brann
Lewiston
Randolph Athletic Association
Perry Block
Randolph
Fart Fesseit
Charles Williams
David Kelley
James Morang
Mr. Brawn
Joe Louis
New England
Daggett Valedictorian to Enter Bates College
Malcolm Daggett the valedictorian of Strong high school class of 1937 will enter Bates College Lewiston on Monday. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Holman Daggett. His mother the former Irene Holmes RN of Lewiston.
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Malcolm Daggett
Strong High School
Bates College
Lewiston
Holman Daggett
Irene Holmes
R. N
William R. Donnell
William T. Donnell
High Street
Bath Memorial Hospital
Billy
Probate notices list executors and administrators in Sagadahoc estates
John L. Jack, Register of Probate, lists appointments made September 7 1937 in Bath and West Bath. Olive M Barron, Elmira E Stinson, Albert L Strout, Maria F Strout, George O Curtis estates show appointments of administrators or executors with Bond or agent designations to Bath Malden and Boston based to Arthur J Dunton.
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John L. Jack
Sagadahoc
Olive M. Barron
Iate
Bath
Lawrence B Greenwood
Elmira E. Stinson
Donald B. Hopkins
Albert L. Strout
Sewall P. Strout
Malden
Massachusetts
Arthur J. Dunton
Maria F. Strout
George O. Curtis
West Bath
Charles F Rowley
Boston
Probate Court Proceedings for Sagadahoc Estates
Court at Bath sets September 7 1937 notice for probate actions on estates of McFarland Drake Parker and others. Petitions seek administrators without bond guardianship licenses and letters testamentary with Powers named executors. various hearings scheduled in Bath for October 1937 with multiple named parties and interested heirs.
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Bath
Sagadahoc
Catherine M. McFarland
Eleanor D Drake
J Edward Drake
Katherine H. Parks
Pirst
Harry E Ring
William Wood
Joh Wo
Loretta Riley
Joseph Charles Footer
Arthur F Mayo
Robert J. Cameron
S . Aate
Kippsbure
Walter Powers
R. Weller Powers
Walter S. Glidden
Judee
Money and wealth meanings through the ages
The text traces how wealth shifted from the sense of well being to material property and final riches. It notes money as coin and medium of exchange, cites Adam Smith on wealth and money, and discusses affluence and opulence as symbols of status.
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Adam Smith
Froude
Caesar
Cranberry Crop Projected as Largest Since 1923
The New England Crop Reporting Service of the USDA predicts Massachusetts will yield about 400000 barrels this year, up from 346000 last year, and the largest harvest since the 1933 record of 506000 barrels.
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Massachusetts
New England
Writers and readers and the public reading gap
A Grand Island Independent note laments that while about 60 percent of people write for publication, only 35 percent can read. The remark highlights a literacy gap between writer and reader populations.
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Grand Island Independent
Colonial Club Revisits Sebasco Fair With Events
An attractive program marks the Colonial Club Fair at Shore Acres Sebasco featuring a married men versus single men softball game after a noon lobster stew in the club house, an 18 hole handicap golf tournament split before and after dinner, plus horseshoes quoits and boxing.
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Shore Acres
Sebasco
Elwood Toothaker
Kenneth Brown
Cloub House
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M. G. Shaw & Sons
Pete
James P. Ledyard
Percy C. Little
Newburyport
Charles W. Morse
Josephine Mitchell
Peoples Church
F. M
Charles’ Oliver
Frank Dow
Alfred Dyer
Donald Crawford
Alameda Exposition
Times
W. R. Kimball
George A. Baker
W. A. Furber
R. P. Hamm
Bath Street Railway
Brunswick
Lewiston and Auburn
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Blind Crossing
Peterson Farm
New Meadows
Hardings
Postmaster Kelley
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Nellie
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Weston Bonney
Center Street
Edward McAuliffe
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Hartley Hilton
Alna
H. Percy
Rex
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George Thompson
Charley Potter
Arrowsic
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Iron Works
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Belgrade
Edward Trask
Wiscasset
Quebec
R. R
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Nellie Shaw
Mary Newhall
Wellesley
Miss Donnell
Robert Craig
Portland
William Merrow
Hannah Collins
Bangor
Charles Clifford
Adams House
Chicago
Jake
George Cooper
Aramede Lowell
Mr. Bankson
Blanche Sewall
J. Edward Drake
Louise Bennett
Brooklyn
Thomas Stanton Gibbons
Mollie Gibbons
Fred R. Gibbons
Jennie Whitmore
Frank B. Torrey, Jr
F. W. O Brien
Ellsworth
State Board of Trade
William H. Taylor
George H. Clark
Taylor
Grace Phillips
Queen City
Dr. A
William Rogers
Maine State Board of Trade
A. M. Bagley
Middle Street
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Peoples Safe Deposit and Savings Bank
Jane Moulton
John Williams
M. R. Haley
Dr. Wescott
George McLaughlin
Bath Iron Works
Bath Street Railroad
Edward J. Gibbs
Lynn, Mass
Henry E. Duncan
T. W. Hyde
Gilbert Patten
Augusta
Mary Nolan
Maggie Neagle
Susan Wakefield
Worcesbaw
Cramel L. Preble
Inter-State Casualty Co
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D. O. Foye
John Johnson
George A. McFadden
Donnell’s Yard
Desper Oliver
John C. Wakefield
Round House
Maine Central Yard
Maine General Hospital
Abner Johnson
Ashdale
Capt. Whitmore
Mrs
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Harry Hyde
Popham
Irving Lord
George Thun
Francis FE. Coney
Ralph Covel
Long Pond
Mel Wright
Will Hardy
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Sidney Nason
John Deering
George L. Dillaway
W. P. Leydon
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James Biggins
Walter Russell
Rockland
William Campbell
M. B. Spinney
Small Point
Peter Coughlin
U. S
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John Jordan
Western Avenue
A. C. Sprague
Sabine
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H. M. Sanford
Lower Middle Street
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Wiwurna
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William Adams
Ned Warden
Olive Kennerson
York Harbor
Marie Duncan
William Welch
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Georgetown
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Frank Wetherbee
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Marie Conley
Amesbury, Mass
Martin Conley
Hodgdon and Pike's Grocery Store
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Savannah
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G. H. Nichols
Miss Blake
E. B
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Fred Harrington
M. Hansford
Charles Taylor
Fred Donnell
Miss Williams
Bradshaw
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Delia M. Fisher
Charles A. Fisher, Esq
Mrs. Henry Preble
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Charles Owen
Linda Tarbox
Quincy
Alfred
Clements
Sagadahock Block
Kennebec Yacht Club
Charles E. Hyde
Humpburgin
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Marie
Blue Point Christian Church
Pine Point
Arline Cora Snow
Fred H. Snow
Robert Cullen Leavitt
Irving Leavitt
Thomas J. Coolbroth
Waterville
G. Elmer Mossman
Rod, Gun and Skeet Association
Walsh Farm
A. E. Pitcher
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co
England
Roland Hill
DR. Hibbs
Colonial Club
Percy Steen
Mount Chase
Gertrude Porter Steen
Herschel Steen
Sherman Station
Amos
Howard
Maurice Steen
Jessie Giles
Henry Steen
Los Angeles
GL. Pressey
Patten M. E. Church