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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1900
Page
3
A promotional appeal urges the man who thinks to inspect his household for Ivory Soap missing from his home and his wife’s. The ad touts its “great potency” and notes it floats, claiming it is cheaper for general housework than yellow soap.
The Pauline steamer runs two daily trips as Wilson Sargent returns from Southwest Harbor. Several locals visit relatives in West Gouldsboro and Bar Harbor, while summer guests from Gloucester and Boston arrive. July events include Fourth of July festivities, dances, boat and field games, and multiple cottages opened by visitors and residents. Lights along the coast are being installed to aid travelers, with safety signals planned around the bluffs.
County notes from Prospect Harbor list visits by Mrs. Della Noonan and Mina Belle Wight, summer stays at J. Perry’s and E. W. Cleaves, and several families in residence. The Jessie Harcourt Co. played last week, fireworks on the Fourth, and a Winter Harbor Prospect game won by Prospect Harbor. Mentions of visits by Capt. Frank Noonan and Mrs. Foss, local building work, a birthday event, and a funeral for Mrs. Lewis Murch. Community activities include picnics, church services, and a League gathering with ice cream. The Hector ferry noted as a daily presence.
Ellsworth MA market prices for produce and groceries are listed, including potatoes butter cheese eggs poultry and fruits with notes on trade values. Local residents such as Ralph Hardy Miss Dora Perkins Grace Nichols and others visit or stay with relatives and a social event at Bagaduce ball is reported.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a natural bowel remedy to restore health and ease pain from headaches to “cancer.” It claims easy movement, no gripe, and a 10 cent start. It warns to beware of imitations and notes Cascarets’ genuine metal‑box packaging with a C stamped on each tablet.
A Maine item page recaps the twenty ninth annual reunion of the ith Maine regiment set for Madison on Aug 15 and 16. It notes patents granted to Chalney Lewiston and Mitchell Rand for inventions, a Bangor woman aged 4100 celebrated her birthday with family dinner and a drive, a Brewer infant drowned in a rain barrel, a lightning bolt hit a Smithfield barn, a North Warren house fire killed two boarders, and local industry hopes for Shaw Bros tannery in Grand Lake Stream revival. It also reports the Hamilton murder theory in Augusta, a centenarian Norridgewock birthday with DAR visitors, and a Salem farmer swindled by two mail order marriages, plus a quip on superstition and fishing veracity.
The Swamp Root medicine plant of Kilmer & Co suffered a major fire on July 1 in Binghamton. The Kilmer family resumed operations the next morning at a temporary South Street site, producing about 60,000 bottles daily and planning a free-proof six story building at the old site. Nearby residents and firms offered help, preserving production and continuity for the Swamp Root enterprise.
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