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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1902
Page
8
The store announces enlarged departments CARPET DRAPERY and HOUSE FURNISHING READY-MADE and more. A new sales room displays carpetings curtains draperies shades rugs and house furnishings. Spring stock includes costumes suits waists and underwear with free alterations and new wash fabrics. Hosiery and underwear offer reliable choices with low prices.
Mrs C H Peasete visits Bucksport for two weeks. Mrs Fred Havey recently visited parents in Columbia. Misses Edith Mooper and Hain Havey visiting friends in South Gouldsboro and Winter Harbor. Winfield Workman of Chicago, formerly Sullivan Harbor, on three days home leave. Behoodie lodge K of P officers installed at Prospect Harbor. Puritan assembly Halcyon invited. July 1 fast Franks F E Bimsdell returns to baying. sermon at Free Baptist Church. revival and lectures announced. A large crowd attended weekly dance at Super's grove. typhoid survivor George Farnham convalescent. Valvereanst church reopens. Rev Mr Polk to preach. Sunday services schedule. Mrs Temple evangelist from Boston to preach. next Sunday services. July 14. Oriana notes and social items including Bar Harbor trip and neighbors paying respects for Mrs Suse Stubbs eightieth birthday. Captain Ivory Grant attends. A dollar saved is a dollar earned via hard work.
Joy visits Hancock Point while pension news links Mary B. Kincaid. Families travel to Contention Cove and Bar Harbor for summer. Local visits include Mrs A G Jehlson at Waltham and Mrs Warren Jordan in Brewer. A strawberry festival and church vestry sale occur tonight. A summer wedding unites Henrietta Davis and Harry C. Austin at the Davis home.
West Ellsworth reports Frank Meader and family from Trenton visiting relatives Sunday. Mrs Emma Bodge and son Wallace of Bangor visited her brother George M Barron last week. Miss Hattie Hooper of Melrose Maine stayed with her uncle L A Dollard for a few days. Mr and Mrs John C hosted a party Saturday evening with ice cream.
In a New York Chemical Bank office Hetty Green, famed as The Richest Woman in America, sits at her desk behind a human screen of bookkeepers. She rarely opens doors, moves through the bank with a veil and plain dress, and conducts calls as if from a prison behind golden bars, departing after dark.
A fragmented reflection on the power of a kind word to inspire love and appreciation. It suggests that embracing faith, bravery, and personal growth strengthens character, even when others fail to recognize value. The text emphasizes gentleness as a catalyst for mutual understanding.
Testimony focused on cries heard near Miles house and the disappearances of Sarah Ware. Names Edward Miles family, Treworgy, Viola McGinnis, Frank Ducott, Wesley Webster, and others appear among witnesses and investigators as the trial proceeds with adjournment planned.
The passage discusses tact as quick perception of others feelings and sincerity as transparency. It praises saying pleasant things and cultivating praise while warning against needless harshness. It urges looking for the best in friends and practicing agreeable conduct in social life as described in Ladies' Home Journal.
A poetic fragment speaks of happiness and distant shores. It references longing, dreams, and devotion, with a vision of home and roses, expressing faith and farewell in a stylized with archaic spellings.
A man, troubled by nervous illness, encounters a doppelganger in a opposite building window. After fear and flight, he learns via a lawyer that he and the stranger are twin brothers, separated by their parents. The brothers, Max and Mark, discover each other in New York and seal their bond.
Mrs Kate Taylor a graduated nurse of prominence testifies Peruna is the finest tonic for convalescent strength vitality and health renewal. She notes quick relief after use and urges women with female diseases to seek Dr Hartmans free summer case guidance via The Peruna Medicine Co Columbus Ohio.
Pullerton hosts local visitors as George Day recovers at home. Lewis Remick of Somerville visits relatives. Maggie Matthews returns from Northeast Harbor. An ice cream sociable is planned at the schoolhouse on Saturday evening July 19. York family visitors from Brookeville and Mrs Contelia Reick in Boston. Mrs Minnie Murb and her daughter Ors return home. Bangor ladies stay at the Curtis home, recently purchased by Mr Pheror of Elworth.
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