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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1902
Page
3
Readable fragments describe social events, church gatherings, and local visits across towns. Mentions of graveside dances, concerts, school board actions, and traveling guests appear alongside brief notes on residents improving, moving, or traveling to Bangor Portland Bar Harbor and Philadelphia.
In a witty tale from a Philadelphia desk, Frampton battles a spoof biographer over Knoophuysen, a fictitious Dutch painter, whose supposed life and works spark a transatlantic media furor. The hoax climaxes with Frampton’s vindication and a thriving Knoophuysen cult.
Cumberland county's Rev F Pearson is seriously ill with heart trouble. Canoe capsizing on the St Croix near Calais killed Kugeene Cole and endangered Neil Cole. J Henry Mahiman of Lubec, 60, drowned in an apparent suicide. John B Cotter, Bangor laborer, crushed by a Maine Central train, died after amputation. Rev E P Woodward of Portland resumes sermons on Shiloh Holy Ghost and Us. James Madden of Lewiston, passenger on Gov Dingley, believed to have jumped to his death near Boston. Merton Fuller, 8, of Winslow, died after being thrown from a horse. The Norombega steamship exceeded speed expectations on trial, ready for delivery in ten days. Montreal’s Joseph McCarthy drowned after falling from the Maine Central bridge. Governor Hill to attend Eastern Maine State Fair on Governor's Day with Roosevelt visiting. New Maine patents granted to inventors in Dover, Bear, Norway Lake, Rumford Falls, Rockland, Kittery, Dover, Millinocket.
The article contrasts French family life with strong brotherly bonds and mutual support among famous pairs, noting close living arrangements and joint literary efforts. It also shares Arab wedding counsel urging a wife to be submissive, attentive, and discreet to ensure happiness and harmony in marriage.
The passage promotes DeWitt's Little Early Risers as a remedy for constipation and cleansing the body. It claims constipation traps poisons in the system and that these pills stimulate the liver and promote easy bowel action without griping.
The article lists standard weights for bushels of many produce items and notes prices and market conditions. It cites Liverpool alt and Turks Island salt, potatoes beans corn onions and carrots with specific pound measures and mentions country produce markets with demand and prices for poultry and eggs.
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