The Chester Burglar Adams A Town Official
Chester farmer Adams, long trusted town official and library selector, becomes focal in a wave of burglaries. Residents recall安心 terror by thefts, post office and railway station robberies, and repeated breaks. Adams faces arrest after a spring gun incident and admits only to two major break-ins while denying ongoing crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sevenson
Dr. Jekyl
Herenes
Adams
MtChester
Vin
France
Montpelier
Worazy
Mamsachunett
Chester
Popr
Waterman Mill
Adaene
Io Adama
Waterman Pice
Water
Marcel
Somme
Otters
Adame
Waterman
Adama
Firet Eafled
George C. Allen
Maase
Ollie
Chester's Arch
Pollard
Mrs. Pollard
Adamen
Ino
Poe
Abraham Lincoln
Shakespeare
Kipling
Napoleon
Dickens
Thackeray
DR. Jekyel
MR. Hyde
Dr. Jeyki
Startling
Han
Goborian
Conan Doyle
Montpelter
Secret Service Department
Washington
A Maine Town Honors Its Eighty-Nine Plus Residents
The article highlights elderly residents across Maine including Capt. Amos Noyes of Norway who turns ninety in December and William W. Flake aged ninety-two, noting their age and daily labor. It cites John Gratton of Waldoboro nearly ninety-one and Jeremiah Durgin in Newfield who tends his farm alone, with detailed crops and self-reliant routines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Amos Noyes
Norway
William W. Flake
Capt. Noyes
Portland
Waldoboro
John Gratton
Gratton
Als
Bath
Andrew Tibbetts
Mary Dain
Amos Allen
Newfield
Jeremiah Durgin
Boeing
Eliza Newbigin
Limerick
Joanna Shattuck
Lowell, Muass
Durgin
Neventylx
Poisoning the System by DeWitts Little Early Rivers
An old medical advert describes constipation as trapping poisons in the body and claims DeWitt's Little Early Rivers stimulate the liver and promote easy bowel action. It promotes safe pills and asserts they never fail to cleanse impurities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWitt
A Cipher of Signals and a Measles Tale
A narrator on a sunlit block observes a couple through windows using handkerchiefs lighted signals and coded notes to plan an elopement. The tale reveals the signals meaning encouragement sickness and family care with a twist ending: the observer confesses to catching measles.
Worth Markets Prices and Market Notes
Market report from Worth mentions weights for several commodities, with potatoes beans and other farm produce priced for shipping and retail. It notes limited dairy and creamery supply, and lists price ranges for fish, beef, pork, poultry, fruit, and vegetables along with general market conditions and a fishermen anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
God Oater
Seufenatel Mae
Tomo Hamlock Voande
Maine and Northport News Weave Maine Tales and Trials
A rounded pane of Maine news features a Maine iron works fire loss near 100000 dollars, the Maine battleship Maine’s speed on a Cape Ann run with Gov Mill aboard, Northport post office move from Methodist grounds, patents to Maine inventors, a Cornish murder, a Waterville cavein fatality, centennial plans for nine Maine towns in 1904 and more. The piece also notes forthcoming schooner projects by Washburn Bros and a dialogue about editor wars and copy in journalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frye
Portland Iron & Steel Co
Maine
Cape Ann
Gov. Mill
Northport
Wesleyan Grove
W. H. Chapman
Portland
G. E. Shorey
W. W. Threltall
Biddeford
Mins Olive Broad
Cornish
Fred Grenier
Waterville
Maine Central
Green
Grenier
Godkin and Journalistic Rows Sparked by Contemporaries
J B Bishop recounts Edwin L Godkin longtime editor of the New York Evening Post relishing journalistic rows. He observed that upon any clash he felt compelled to comment and often wrote something to stir the dispute, driven by Irish temper and a desire to engage.
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Clarenof A
Iistore
Bob
Ark
Tarkington
Hage
Hazel
O. K
Elise Brisson
Worth Markets
Lackberrien
Doe
Tas Lemusa
Don
Aypley Pe
Grace
Bucksport
Ellsworth
Bangor
Maine Woods
Ellaworth
Dr. Fowler
Nature
Bishop CO
Avit
Willow
Caribou
Raymond
Industry
Temple
Weston
Surry
St. George
Albany
Dixfield
Harmony
Madison
Mercer
Unity
Rome
Palermo
Hebron
Hope
Andover
Gilead
Athens
Embdan
Kennebunkport
Wells
Harry T. Hayward
Washburn Bros
Thomaston
A. C. Colcord
Stockton Springs
Deptty
Larry” Godkin
Ren bin
E. C. Dewitt
ACO
Chicago
Emmons
Nga
Emmons CO
Mas
J. W. Heigham
Roston
Mass
U.S. Patent Office
Boston
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