County News Briefs From Blue Hill and Nearby Towns
County News items report arrivals and visits in town including George Monroe, Commodore Allen Henderson and family, Mrs Eunice M Carter visiting South Bluehill, and C H Venner and wife from Brooklin. Social events include a Congregational YPBC ice cream social, a Children’s Way concert at the Congregational church, and a township YBC rally at Beechland. Farm notes mention hay crop uncertainty, a July 1 sale prep, and summer gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commodore Allen Henderson
Famly
Eunice M. Carter
South Bluehill
C. H. Venner
Brooklin
Clifton
Otis Littlefield
Kansas City
Ane Bowls With Cascarets Cathartic Cure Constipation Forever
An old ad claims Cascarets Cathartic will cure constipation forever with a single bowl. It promises relief and offers a refund through druggists if not satisfied.
The Klondike Philosophy in Ragged Dialect
A satirical, dialect filled meditation on vice virtue and society. The speaker laments vanity, hypocrisy and the lure of wealth, contrasts Brains and Heart, urges truth and fear of God, and ends with a plug for Hood’s Sarsaparilla and Hood’s Pills as cures. The piece blends rustic humor with social critique in broad, old timey voice.
The Green Light of the Doctor and the Lost Sailor
In a Sydney voyage tale, Dr Smithville and his daughter Louisa aboard North Light clash with Harry Melton, a 21 year old sailor. The doctor schemes with his pills to silence Melton, who sleeps walks to the yard and falls overboard. Melton survives by climbing a rope, is saved by the doctor, and Louisa’s devotion grows while they settle at Greenpoint. The story closes with the couple content after recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Smithville
Loven
Vessel
North Light
New York
Harry Melton
Tarry Melton
Melton
Harry
Inter
Papa
Louisa
Apollo
Greenpoint
New York News
Washing Colored Fabrics With Thick Starch Recipe
A newspaper note extols starch as best for washing colored fabrics both light and dark. It instructs making thick starch from half a cup of rice or cornstarch and four quarts water, diluting and using two additional gallons tepid water, then washing garments in successive starch waters followed by rinsing and shade drying before ironing.
Dean's Ointment at Any Drug Store 50 Cents Ad
A fragment touts a universal cure for a plague like sickness titled Hickiness of the ata. The ad asserts most are afflicted in various ways and promises a single safe cure. The remedy is Dean's Ointment offered at any drug store for 50 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Atany Drug Store
Ellsworth Markets Prices and Produce Notes from Waoweapar
Reports from Waoweapar dated July 18 1900 list standard bushel weights for potatoes apples and other produce and quote low prices from Kilnworth. Market items include fresh eggs dairy poultry and vegetables with notes on hay crops and field variability. A political cartoon style quip appears about public motive and early rising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Kilnworth
Care Caret Candy Promises Health By Purging Bowels
The ad asserts beauty comes from a healthy body and claims CASCARETS cure all ailments from headache to indigestion. It promises natural movements with no griping, costs ten cents to start, and warns of imitation products while noting genuine tablets bear the C C C stamp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cascarets
C. C.C
Reunion of 14th Maine at Camp Bolan Aug Week
The 14th Maine regiment will hold its annual reunion at Camp Bolan on Long Island the week starting in August. In Fairfield a boat upset on the Kennebec river drowned Lora Fournier aged fourteen and Florida Latrippe aged nineteen. Daniel Day and Miss Nellie Burgess aged twenty two survived Day saving Burgess. The Norway corn canning plant owned by H F Webb Co of Portland burned Sunday night, loss about $15,000 with insurance partial. Bangor brick-layer John McGrath aged thirty five drowned in Penobscot river Old Town while swimming. Howland mill worker Frank E Blake aged forty two was caught in a rope and drawn into the water wheel, leg mangled and amputated. recovery chance noted as good.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
14Th
Maine Regiment
Camp Bolan
Long Island
Kennebec River
Feirfield
Lora Fournier
Florida
Latrippe
Daniel Day
Nellie Burgene
Tvo
Day
Miss Burgess
Norway
H. F. Webb Co
Portland
John McGrath
Bangor
Penobscot
Old Town
McGrath
Milford
Old Townshore
Frank E. Blake
Howland
Howland Falls
Mr. Blake
Manhattan Steamship Co Proposes New York Lines to Eastern Ports
A new company named the Manhattan Steamship Co plans six steamships with 50 to 150 passenger capacity and 1,000 to 1,800 tons each. It will operate routes from New York to Portland Bangor Rockland Belfast Bucksport Halifax Yarmouth Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island Cottage City St John and Bar Harbor Eastport Calais. Operations expected by Sept. 15. Capital stock listed at 1,200,000 with ties to New York and eastern ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bangor
Bar Harbor
Manhattan Steamship Co
Thoughty
Port
Portland
Rockland
Bel
Bucksport
Halifax
Yarmouth
Hali
Cape Breton
Prince Ed
Ward Island
Cottage City
Mans
St. John
Eastport
Calais
Ead
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Kober
Suen Eugene Stapless
George Monroe
George Asbury
Ye Children’s Way
Congregational
KR. L. Olds
E. Bean
Minnie Chase
Abbie Gross
Margaret Hinckley
Carl Hinckley
Edith
Marion Dodge
Jamie Abram
Elsie Philip
Beatrice Abram
Henry Dodge
Carl Gray
Everett Chase
Alice Mayo
Ethel Baker
Boulal Burnham
Myrtie Pillsbury
Re L. Olds
Carol Hooper
T. M. Blaisdell
Marcela
W. H. Gordon
Annie Hardison
Minnie Hardison
Ellsworth
Grace Donnell
Emeline
Loren Wentworth
Lula Wentworth
Tunk
Judson Gordon
Aville
Bean
Bluehill
Harnor
L. E. Kimball
Atwood & Burr
C.H. Frazier
Joseph Corson
God
John
Whitmore
Samuel Lowin
W. le Pratt
Cracker-Box
Philosopher
The
Klondike
Rocky Mountains
Hood
Henry W. Grady
Atlanta
General Collins
Grady
England
U.S. A
Mr. Grady
London
New York Tribune
Ellsworth Markets
Waoweapar
Neufchatel Rane
Heguenro
Thien
Hancock County
Teleter
Java
Japan
Graham Sry
A. Eas
Maan
Perth
St. Louleroller
Kittery
Caribou
NEW Steamship Line
Edward Bok
Ladies’ Home Journal
Hobba
Ads Sterling Memody
Abbertise
Maine
ConHoohers Sons
C. G. Conn CO
Union Square
White House
Boston
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