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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1959
Page
8
Classified rate card for one day cash ad placement in the Biddeford Saco Journal outlines pricing and options for small ads. The notice lists standard rates, discount thresholds, deadline times, and contact details for submitting advertisements.
Felix T Sheltra & Sons Realtors advertise multiple properties: a 12 story house with 9 rooms and 4 acres priced at 9450. a 3 apartment building at 9500 with furnished units and steam heat. a duplex 6 rooms 2 baths with sheds on 60x80 lot priced 2850. a 1.5 story beach house 4 rooms on two lots priced 2900. and a 2 family house near church and stores at 4500 with terms, all in Saco and City listings with contact numbers.
York Antique Shop on Portland Rd Saco seeks antiques beaver traps and old pieces. Al Junkins East Waterboro wants 44 40 Winchester guns muskets in any condition. W J Fortier Insurance Agency seeks office desk chairs. Trading Post offers cash for furniture tools and other items. Dial numbers 2 1161 3 3439.
Municipal Officers of Biddeford will meet December 22 1959 at 7 PM in the Mayor's Office City Building to consider malt liquor license applications for Julienne's Cafe 26 Franklin Street and Dan's Restaurant 106 Elm Street. Attest Raoul Binette City Clerk.
General Services Administration invites sealed bids for screenline alterations interior painting and a new ground flagpole at the U S Post Office in Saco Maine. Bids in triplicate due by 3 00 P M EST January 6 1960 at 600 Post Office and Courthouse Boston MA, publicly opened. Specifications available from the office or building custodian.
Abbott-Verville AMVETS auxiliary held a meeting at the Post home in Old Orchard Beach. A Christmas party followed with Civil Defense kits given out and plans for a children’s party and gift exchange. CARE donation approved and cards to ill members ordered. New committees formed for a card party and future events.
Only approval of federal and state banking agencies is needed for the sale of First Auburn Trust Co to Casco Bank and Trust Co of Portland. Stockholders of both banks approved the purchase in special meetings yesterday.
Biddeford Boy Scout Troop 295 held a charter presentation at Scout hall on Mason street. Kenneth Hunnewell York District Scouting executive Pine Tree council presented the charter to Theodore Caouette institutional representative of Troop One Building association. Tenderfoot pins went to Lewis Lavigne Michael Sylvester and Joseph Zook while Richard Charest earned his first class badge. Merit badges for foremanship cooking and first aid went to Richard Martel Leo Dumouchel and Cary Sneider received a first class badge earned earlier. The entertainment included three original plays by scouts. A Christmas party followed with refreshments supervised by the troop committee and Scoutmaster John Hill.
Kathryn Guptill recalls Warren’s grocery circular from 1937 listing lower prices at Warren’s 25 Spring Street Saco for March 16 17 and 18. Items include graham crackers 10 cents per pound tomatoes two for 25 cents pineapple juice two for 19 cents tomato juice two for 19 cents ketchup two bottles for 25 cents peaches No 2% tin 17 cents tomatoes No 2% tin 3 for 25 cents assorted cookies two pounds for 25 cents coffee 17 cents per pound raspberries No 2 tin 15 cents baked beans 10 cents peas two for 25 cents soda crackers 10 cents seedless grapefruit eight for 25 cents Florida oranges two dozen for 25 cents sliced bacon 29 cents per pound spaghetti 10 cents No 2 tin grapefruit 10 cents mustard 10 cents. Warren’s also advertised fresh fish Tuesdays and Thursdays and free home deliveries.
Officers elected at Camp Ellis Volunteer Fire Auxiliary meeting include Florence Fitch as president Ruth Stackpole as vice president Leona Allen as secretary and Mary Pendleton as treasurer The retiring president Lillian Gagnon led the session and hospitality committee gifts were exchanged at the Christmas party and a community children’s event is set for Sunday at 3 p m with firemen assisting.
The Thursday club in Biddeford raised funds for the Christmas welfare effort of the Biddeford Public Nursing agency by a Chinese auction and gift exchange at the First Universalist church vestry. Members collected over 55 pairs of children's stockings. two films were shown, and new member Mrs Allen Sneider was welcomed as the next meeting planned for December 31 on Youth Conservation.
The Sub-Debs held their annual Christmas gathering at Patricia Turner’s Ferry Road home in Saco. Guests posed for photos from left to right across three rows, and two upcoming charity projects include toy repairs for hospitals and a December 23 carol tour to local hospitals, with a social hour to follow. Jackets will be changed to blazers this year and a rum mage sale is planned with date pending.
Touhy, jailed for the Factor kidnapping, repeatedly claimed a frameup. His case saw a 1954 judge order freedom, short lived after the Court of Appeals overruled. Gov Stratton later reduced a 99 year term to 72 years and cut a 199 year escape sentence to three years, while Schaefer remains imprisoned at Stateville.
Russell E. Morse, 28, of 34 Union Avenue, Old Orchard Beach, was fined $20 by Associate Judge William F. Wilson Jr. for speeding. State police charged Morse with driving 65 mph in a 45 mph zone.
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