Curator Will Speak At Brick Store Museum
John Kent Tilton director of the Scalamandra Museum of Textiles New York City will lecture to Brick Store Museum members and friends on Tuesday evening August 1 at 8 in the Lord gallery. The lecture titled An Historic Tour of the National Shrines of America features colored slides of historic houses using Neo-classic Louis XVI textiles including Mount Vernon Monticello Gunston Hall and the Jeremiah Lee House Marblehead. The summer exhibit showcases Scalamaccia textiles and loaned period items such as Royal Crown Derby tea set Sheraton tables chairs glass and a Harpsichord with a Hepplewhite sideboard from the museum collection.
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John Kent Tilton
Scalamandra Museum of Textiles
New York City
Brick Store Museum
Lord
America
Tilton
Mt. Vernon
Monticello
Gunston Hall
George Mason
Sheraton
Scholar Dies In Roof Fall At MIT Professor William Maclaurin
Boston police identified 52 year old William Rupert Maclaurin a MIT economics professor formerly with the Office of Scientific Research and Development as the man who fell from a roof near the Sheraton Plaza Copley Square. He authored Economic Planning in Australia and other works on factory movement radio inventions and innovations. He leaves four children and was educated at Harvard Cambridge and a Sheldon Traveling Fellow to Australia in 1934 35. His father long served as MIT president.
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Boston
William Rupert Maclaurin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wellington
New Zealand
Maclaurin
MIT
Office of Scientific Research and Development
Washington
Australia
Sheraton Plaza
Copley Square
Dartmouth Street
Lincoln
Harvard University
Cambridge University
England
Sheldon
Harvard
Harvard School of Business Administration
River Carnival Draws 20000 to Kennebunkport Festivities
An estimated 20,000 witnessed the 74th River Carnival in Kennebunkport with awards in float categories awarded to Frank and Althea Beard, Charlton Chick, and Kenneth Hutchins. The event featured a king lobster reign, a lobster pot display, a mermaid float, and a skin diver effigy. Additional acts included a Kittery water club spectacle, a St. Marys Cardinals drum and bugle concert, and a cultural dance troupe from Ceylon. Semifinalists in the beauty contest were listed, with finals planned for Labor Day weekend at the Colony Hotel pool. Special guests were the Erwin Dexters, Maine’s Millionth visitors of 1959.
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Kennebunkport
Frank
Althea Beard
Charlton Chick
Kenneth Hutchins
King Lobster
Beard
Chick
Hutchin
Kittery Water Club
Waldoboro
Carol Bond
Winchester
Mass
Julie Anders
Fort Pierce
Fla
Colony Hotel Pool
Erwin Dexters
Hempstead
N. Y
Maine
Local Baptist Church Group Outing at Kennebunk Pond
The Adult Fellowship of Biddeford United Baptist Church hosted a monthly meeting with 23 members at Dr May’s camps Kellied at Kennebunk pond. Activities included swimming and a barbecue. The next meeting is September 12 at the McDonald cottage Hills Beach led by Mr and Mrs James Harmon.
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Biddeford
Science Shrinks Piles New Way Without Surgery
New York report announces a non surgical healing substance Bio-Dyne now sold as Preparation H. Suppository and ointment forms claim to shrink hemorrhoids relieve itching and pain with many patients reporting complete relief. The product carries a money back guarantee and U.S. patent registration.
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New York, N. Y
Beach Church Plans Tape Recorder Purchase
Mrs. Esther Gilbert leads a tag day at Washington Avenue Methodist Church to buy a tape recorder for Sunday sermons. Volunteers include Douglas Gilbert Amy Cleveland Glenna Cleveland Frank Mullen Billy Mullen Joan Beaulieu Bobby Boisvert. Prize winners were Beaulieu and Boisvert. bean supper and flower donations supported the fund.
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Esther Gilbert
Washington Avenue
Barbara Gilbert
Gertrude Leonard
Florence Benson
Frances Murphy
Everett Pettengill
Lesley Eastman, Jr
Walter Freeman
Leigh Leonard
Kay Mewer
Helen Buzzell
Gertrude Thompson
Georgie Tibbetts
Gertrude Milliken
Merrill Thompson
John Stahl
Mrs Shirley Doe Honored At Surprise Birthday Party
A surprise party at Ruth Gilbert's home in Old Orchard Beach honored Mrs. Shirley Doe. Guests included Ruth Gilbert, Bert Allen, Edith Phelan of New Bedford, Clifton Harmon, Florence Doe, Stilman Gilbert, Richard Doe, and Marion Berry of Saco, who sent a gift.
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Shirley Doe
Ruth Gilbert
Wesley Avenue
Old Orchard Beach
Bert Allen
Edith Phelan
New Bedford
Mass
Clifton Harmon
Florence Doe
Stilman Gilbert
Richard Doe
Marion Berry
Saco
Space Traveling Monkey Is Too Young To Marry
Pensacola Navy facility story about Miss Baker the space monkey being too young to wed. A male monkey shared her cage to ease housing issues at Pensacola Naval Air Station until solved. Scientists seek a bridegroom for her as she nears maturity. she survived a 1700 mile nose cone ride with Able, a rhesus monkey who later died in surgery.
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Pensacola
Fla
Friend
Miss Baker
Able
Community News From Kennebunk and Nearby
Social notices and local updates from Kennebunk including dinners in honor of Mr and Mrs Ronald Irons and Mr and Mrs Russell Brown, visits by Ruth Barra to Biddeford, A2c David L Wells returning from Okinawa, families traveling to and from Winter Street, second officer nominations for Olive Rebekah lodge, a cookout for Gordon Hancocks tenth birthday, and various callers at the Cashen residence.
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Donald Jackson
Pine Street
Kenegebunk
Ronald Irons
Russell Brown
Florida
Ronald Rose
Ronald Irons, Jr
Robert Thurston
Mildred Jackson
Ruth Barra
Robert Barra
Landing
Biddeford
Edmond Millette
David L Wells
Wilma L. Wells
Depot Street
Okinawa
Naha Air Force Base
Keith Brown
Gregory
Kevin
Winter Street
Hutchins
Square Nd
Edmund Cashen
Alfred Beaulieu
Richard Washburn
Doris Laney
Skowhegan
Florence Corio
Boston
Old Orchard Beach Visitors and Local Gatherings
Old Orchard Beach residents and guests are listed: Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Brown and son Scott of Tucson are visiting Mrs. Alice Brown. The Browns traveled from Northampton, Mass. Charles Tanner and family from Kennebunk spent time with Violet Mewer and Kay Mewer. Mrs. Clement Wight and son attended the Dale club reunion at Independence Grange hall in Fal mouth. Mrs. Wight, a former teacher, was guest of honor for the class of 1909 on their 50th anniversary. The Miniwaneca Star club plans a baked beans and ham supper at Robinson Memorial Masonic Hall on West Grand Avenue Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m. Public event.
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Clifford Brown
Scott
Tucson
Ariz
Alice Brown
Glenwood Lane
Northampton
Mass
Charles Tanner
Kennebunk
Violet Mewer
Kay Mewer
Old Orchard’ Avenue
Clement Wight
C. Paul Wight
Dale Club
North Yarmouth Academy
Independence Grange Hall
Falmouth
Navy task force reaches inland seas by Seaway
The final of 28 ships in the Navy task force for Operation Inland Seas has moved through the St. Lawrence Seaway. The submarine Torsk cleared the U S locks Saturday and continued toward the inland seas operation.
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Massena
N. Y
Navy
St. Lawrence Seaway
Torsk
U. S
Custodians Enjoy Two Week Vacation From Cousens School
Michael, Charlotte and Nicole Barra and Gordon Han cock with his brother Richard and parents Mr and Mrs William Hancock along with Howard Taute and Forest Brown are on a two weeks vacation from their duties as custodians at Cousens School.
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Ichael
Charlotte
Nicole Barra
Gordon
Richard
William Hancock
Howard Taute
Forest Brown
Cousens School
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Brick Store
Kennebunkport River Carnival
U.S
Donald L. Nicknair
St. Francis College
Lewis B. Mayhew
Stephens College
Columbia
Council For the Advancement of Small Colleges
King’s College
Briarcliff Manor
Clifford L. Swan Co., Inc
NEW & Used
Len’s Furniture
Scarboro Route 1
S.T
International
Studebaker
National Cash Register
Cory Coffee
Warren
Main Street
Dial YU
Carolyn Komant
Ing
Warner Bros
Eda Byrnes
Clement P. Wight
Dial
NEW England Telephone and Telegraph Company
Atlantic
J.C. Penney
Public Finance
Vicia
Cap'n John
the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
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