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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1902
Page
7
A jumble of notes from Charleston Boston Lawrence and other towns covers visits vacations arrivals and departures. People include John Dornty Mary Gott Fannie Davis Grenville PDUMps and many more with church events concerts and a Brookline library fair raising funds for books and building repairs.
The sixth Cole family reunion met Tuesday at a Mes. spot near nature's heart. President Melville Cole and officers were elected for the coming year. Readings, poetry, and greetings followed remarks by many relatives and friends. Attendees included relatives from West Sumner Boston Portland Green and Sullivan. An invitation to meet next year was extended.
E W Mayo travels to Bangor by busl new Monday. Mrs Nellie Betchelor of Lowell visits friends here while Rev E A Mason preaches at the Bap tist church. Mrs Augusta Mirick of Cambridge Mayes visits her sister Mrs J P Stover. Mrs J S Horton of Lowell with her child spends a week with relatives. A J Long dies suddenly after poor health. Baptist ladies hold sale of articles at the chapel on Thursday August 35. Capt Pearl Tenney and Mrs Florence Gardiner of Portland, and Paris Tenney of Boston return home. Republicans plan mass meeting at town hall next Tuesday Sept 2 with speakers W B Dolliver and Waiter Emerson. Garfield post and W R will hold annual picnic at Bluebill mineral springs on Sept A Presbyterian minister from Chicago preaches at the Congregational church. Arlington quartette and Arlington male quartet perform in town hall with encores. County Grange field day at mineral springs features programs, speeches by Col Gardine and others, with music and votive to America to close the day.
West Sullivan and nearby towns report visitors and greetings. Max Belle McLeod returns from Albeton with Corr Gordon visiting Boston. Schools reopen Sept 1 with named teachers for West Sullivan and surrounding districts. Various locals attend visits, parties, and hospitality events, with numerous names and places across Ellsworth, Gouldsboro, and Blue Hill, and quotes about Maine woods recreation and travel.
A city resident near a music conservatory notes readers seek voices to cultivate across poetry philosophy history and biography. The piece urges memorizing inspiring passages during leisure as a path to self improvement, citing Philadelphia Press readings. Later a joke about two Irish workers on a pole painting, one asking the other if he had a hemorrhage.
An ad boasting one minute relief from coughs colds and throat and lung troubles. Claims the cure is absolutely safe and acts immediately offering a bare cure for respiratory ailments in any season.
Beautiful and celebrated Merrimack Valley itinerary traces the Merrimack River from Lowell through Chelmsford Tyngsboro Nashua Manchester Lake Massabesat Hooksett to Concord and beyond. Describes verdant farms forests waterfalls and vacation appeal of North Chelmsford Tyngsboro Nashua Manchester Lake Massabesett Hooksett Concord and surrounding towns with emphasis on camping fishing and scenic views.
An Ellsworth resident Nahum Young of Birch Tree farm describes years of kidney trouble and severe back pain. After using Doan's Kidney Pills from Wiggin's drug store, relief followed and kidney function strengthened, with his son Ralph also endorsing the remedy. Sold for 50 cents a box by Foster Milling Co., Buffalo, NY, sole U.S. agents. Remember the name Doan's.
The text promotes an extended scenic view of the Merrimack Valley from Mascoma Lake to the White Mountains and White River Junction. It mentions Concord, Lake Winnipesaukee, and a Boston and Maine descriptive book, with a strange aside about Dean’s Olnk and an instant cure.
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