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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1902
Page
8
The store promotes enlarged departments including carpet, drapery, house furnishings, ready made wear for women and children, and new stock for spring and summer. A larger showroom features carpets, curtains, rugs, and window treatments while alterations are offered free. Hosiery and underwear lines emphasize reliable goods with low prices and large selection.
The schooner A. M. Nicholson, Capt. John Meinnis, arrived with about 2 000 quintals of cod after a three and a half month voyage. Several locals visit Bar Harbor. townsfolk relocate for the season as a Sabbath school forms and league members plan a Wednesday meeting. Family travels, illnesses, and summer visits fill the community notes with multiple named residents and nearby towns.
Local items note Ernest Dix's brief return home and Miss Mary Lunt's Sunday visit to Brooklin. Mrs. Holmes of Plymouth visits Mrs. W H Robbins as Helen and Lars Murphy travel to Rockland. Various residents travel for visits, work shifts shift due to sardine plant downtime, and Captain Ned Murphy waits for favorable winds. A church benefit concert raised 22 dollars. several locals head to Stonington for a husband’s work assignment. Typhoid fever hits Chester Gray. J E Gray’s Mine Mattie Austin stays at Buck's Harbor. Laxative Bromo Quinine advertised for cold relief.
Barrels of samples and over two hundred thousand trial bottles mailed free by arrangement with the Dr David Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy makers. Readers can obtain a trial bottle and medical pamphlet by sending full name and post office address to the Dr David Kennedy Corporation Rondout New York and mentioning The Etworth American. The offer cites benefits for kidney liver bladder and blood issues and notes many readers later bought larger bottles.
Bangor notices report two dances set for Saturday evening at Columbian Hall and Gerry's Pavilion. Other items mention Mrs Sadie Mooney and Mrs Mary J Haney visiting relatives, several travel notes, and the death of Julius W Hamilton in California after a rock fall.
North Ellsworth notices list Mabel Clement traveling to Ocean Grove New Jersey and Rev John Vidberg visiting summer residents Anvia Maddocks. Also named are Mrs Lizzie Higgins and Mrs Llewellyn Higgins from Gleewere Lynn SMuss visiting friends, with other mixed references to George Starkey and Bere and Alexander McGown and family.
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