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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1900
Page
4
The Clisworth American is a local ASL political journal published in Ellsworth Maine. It lists W Ovains Balter and Manager with subscription rates set at 1 year for $1.00 six months for 50 cents and a three month option. arrears are expected and payment methods include money orders payable to The Balances Company Ellsworth Maine.
Maine political notices report that electors must be chosen at a state convention under the Australian Ballot law. J A Manley chairs a call for nominees, detailing convention representation and party candidate placement across the state. California Senator Thomas R Bard is noted as elected, and Goebel’s Kentucky governor race ends with his death, affecting party dynamics. The Maine piece mentions council hopefuls from Hancock County and local political futures amid national shifts.
The Senate Puerto Rican committee orders a bill reported to the Senate. It holds that Puerto Rico is not part of the United States constitutionally and may be governed as a colony. The Philippine commission report volume one, 264 pages, is finished. second volume due in three weeks, promising full answers on the Philippines. President McKinley plans a new civil commission for the Philippines with Taft chosen as head. He watches the Kentucky situation. he believes Taylor was elected governor but federal intervention requires a state authority request. Goebel’s death leaves Washington unchanged.
Maine honors ex Chief Justice John A. Peters at Bangor banquet last Thursday. Notable legal figures gathered with toast master Franklin A. Wilson and speakers including Chief Justice Wiswell Governor Powers and Senator Hale. Attendees included Hancock county bar members and judges from Augusta Machias Bar Harbor and Deer Isle. A letter of regret arrived from Judge L A Emery in Lilworth who was touring the Mediterranean.
A mix of humorous verse laced with social commentary and a formal 1898 affidavit for Hall's Catarrh Cure. The piece includes a Toledo Ohio oath by Frank J. Cheney asserting his firm will pay for cured cases and promotion of Hall's Catarrh Cure with testimonials and distribution claims.
Southwest Harbor discusses a possible national bank as town meeting nears while Hancock County shows many boys in the Philippines. An Ellsworth man teaches his son to fish through ice. the boy catches eight pounds of salmon. Bar Harbor plans free mail delivery next summer with multiple carriers and boxes. A Maine subscriber funds a yearlong renewal. a Salem Gazette 1805 copy is found. Stonington clam shell road idea gains traction for safer night driving. Bucksport eyes a ship-building revival as McKay & Dix plan to lease the Beazley yard and build several vessels, including a four-masted schooner.
At Augusta meeting, Secretary Byron Boyd read a letter from Calvin Graves, serving a life term for two murders, asking to visit his Hancock mother. The executive council referred the request. granting it would set a dangerous precedent. The article also includes unrelated health claims about stomach care and a patent medicine advertisement.
Correspondence letters debate Maine senatorial seniority. Hale seated March 4, 1881, Frye seated March 13, 1881 after Hamlin’s term ended. Epilogue confirms Hale as senior senator despite Frye’s youth, with notes on related events and a brief weather and anecdote section.
Fragmentary ledger text lists admitted assets liabilities and premiums from multiple insurers including The G M Grant Co Ellsworth Maine and United States Branch of Western Assurance Company Toronto with entries for assets mortgages stocks uncollected premiums net unpaid losses and total liabilities and surplus.
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