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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1900
Page
3
Gumption fades without a fair shake yet some use Ivory Soap as a trusted aid. The ad speaks to women trusting AI and economy, promoting a vegetable oil based soap priced for the poorest families while insisting on high quality ingredients for gentle cleaning.
Grace Maddox of Augusta visits relatives here while Burrill and others travel to Charleston and Boston. Old Home week events include a Congregational church history address by P. P. Gilmore and performances. Death of Joseph Werder aged eighty follows a long life at Brooksfield and Deduau, with funeral held July 31. Various town individuals are noted visiting, returning, or traveling, plus a brief, non-graphic incident of a fire and a missing sailer forecast for the Boston line. A church fund-raiser yields $500, and minor community activities fill the week.
Ellsworth market reports discuss standard bushel weights for produce, dairy pricing advances, eggs at 20 cents, and vegetables with green corn at 24 cents a dozen. It notes large pineapples at 75 cents each, oranges and lemons at 20 and 30 cents per dozen, and a steady grocer quota with tea and coffee firm in wholesale markets.
A Maine newspaper item summarizes a week of novelty and tragedy including three deaths from a gas works explosion in Portland, a fatal toy revolver incident in Brewer, and a postponed Orrington agricultural fair to Sept. 19–21. It notes patents granted to Maine inventors and rail freight growth. It also reports the launch of the six masted schooner George W Wells, missionary Rev. Dr. Curus Hamlin’s death, and a moral tale about Willie Wille’s excuse for not hearing his mother.
Local items report a Covenant picnic on Saturday enjoyed by residents from here. H Abbott returns from a business trip to New York. Fran A Havey and A M Mattocks spent time in Backsport. Mattocks touring county music briefly. American correspondent disputes a prior Commercial West Sullivan claim about supplying a co operative granite company. Co operative granite firm dissolved due to quarry lease limits. George Rolfe ill. Mrs Millie Gaptill ill. George Perry and son Winslow in Portland. Vera Foss died aged about sixteen months. Mrs Sarah Norton of Boston visiting relatives here. Date August 13.
A vintage health ad promises cures for diverse ailments by cleansing the bowels. It advertises Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a genuine laxative in metal boxes stamped with CC and urges readers to start for 10 cents. It warns against mutations.
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