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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1913
Page
5
The article discusses the power of advertising for farmers citing Farm and Fireside. It urges continuous adverts for agricultural products and methods, arguing ads create demand for mutton and other produce and influence consumer perception. It mentions various farmers and shopkeepers and stresses practical, real goods messaging.
Thorpe of Farm and Fireside reports in the Current issue that Maine farmers began organizing cooperatives under the state agriculture department in January. Grange members and others joined, with Embree of the Farmers Union of Maine providing figures on savings from cooperative actions in potatoes, fertilizer, and flour purchases.
A fragmented paragraph discusses a local endorsement scenario and a public statement by a Bath resident. It references Home En and a list of pills or remedies, with scattered phrases about testimony, civic duty, and personal appeals. The garbled text mentions names, places, and unclear actions amid assorted product mentions.
The ad proclaims Dr Williams Pink Pills as a blood building remedy for exhausted nerves neuralgia sleeplessness and nervous headaches. It claims pills strengthen nerves banish backache improve appetite and boost overall health with easy access via any local druggist.
The Maine Department of Agriculture and the Maine State Grange urge civic pride to remove brush and dead trees along roads and private property to curb insect pests. A $40 prize is offered for the best Roadside Improvement essay by a Maine grange member, due mailed to Pay son Smith in Augusta before Nov 17.
Commissioner Roberts reports Maine overall crop prospects fair with one of the best potato crops in roostook and washington counties and across the state, but regional drought heavy losses in Oxford Franklin and Somerset. Hay lags at about 70 percent while corn is very light and the apple crop falls to roughly a quarter of last year.
Greiner, a Mapdenine expert, offers season based guidance on not gathering roots or tools during late season. He stresses avoiding weed seeds and tips to remove tips and stems from plants to prevent spread.
The text reports extensive damage to orchards across southern and central New Hampshire caused by brown tail moths and other pests. State Entomologist O'Kane released parasitic beetles in hopes of relief, while fruit production has fallen sharply over the past decade, with apples down about 44 percent.
Senator Maxwell is appointed a delegate by Governor Haines to attend the Food Roads convention in St Louis in November.
An advertisement promotes Gouraud's Oriental Beauty Leaves a perfumed face powder in leaf form. It claims easy removal, no spill, and a cool bloom for a flushed complexion. Sold for ten cents, mailed from 37 Great Jones Street by F. T. Hopkins.
The ad urges stopping strong purgatives for constipation and promoting Pinklets as a mild laxative. It claims purgatives wear out bowels, promotes gradual bowel and liver function, and says Tinklets suit every family member with directions inside each bottle. Drugstores offer Pinklets at 25 cents per bottle.
The article urges careful barrel storage of potatoes, noting Maine uses barrels while most states use baskets or sacks. It stresses nailing and clinching barrels, preventing tuber damage and disease, and praises farmers who nail barrels before field use. It also describes better handling in cellars and smoothing the unloading path.
The October American Magazine profiles Colonel Goethals saying his reforms strip away elite privileges. It notes officials who enjoyed hospital bread, Taboga sanitarium rates, or private carriages faced equal public work terms.
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a fifty year favorite for teething infants. It claims to soothe the child soften gums allay pain cure wind colic and treat diarrhea. The remedy is described as harmless and priced at twenty five cents.
Federal horticultural board extends indefinitely the quarantine on potato importations from the British Isles, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Newfoundland and the French islands of St Pierre and Miquelon to prevent introduction of potato wart and potato canker of black seab.
Augustus A Perey of Bath Maine petitions for probate of the will of the deceased den nied Perey who died September 11 1918 in Bath. The executor named requests letters testamentary and asks that the will be proved and allowed. The notice orders publication in Bath Independent for three weeks to inform interested parties to appear September 13 at nine o'clock in the forenoon in Bath Probate Court to show cause why the prayer should not be granted.
In Sagadahoe County Bath Probate Court Samuel W Nelson guardian for Abigie Jacques Bowdoin asks to sell ward’s Bowdoin land to cover debts expenses of sale guardianship and ward support. Notice orders publication in Bath Independent for three weeks to allow interested parties to appear and show cause why sale should not proceed.
George King of Bath petitions Sagadahoc County Probate Court to prove and allow Ellen King’s will and grant letters testamentary to George King as sole heir and husband. The filing includes a sworn affidavit dated September 9 and a court order setting October 7 for showing cause why the petition should not be granted.
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