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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1901
Page
8
A fragmented verse piece appears in Harper's Magazine with vivid coastal imagery. The text references a fading golden day and nightfall as birds quiet and the sea holds a calm, reflective mood.
Local notes list residents and visitors including Guy Hooper of Sedgwick and H W Powers of Houston. Courtyard events feature a Children’s Day concert at the Baptist church and a Minnehaha excursion from Stonington. Elwood Archer moves to McGown cottage. Mrs Thurlow to preach through summer. district church services and a sermon by student Kirkpatrick noted.
The 1895 to 1909 jump to 6,000,000 boxes marks Cascarets Candy Ca thartic s spike in popularity with druggists promoting the 10c size. June 18 notes various local social items including travels, visits, and community events. Names include A Crabtree, Carrie Oakes, O W Foss, E G Abbott, N B Coolidge, Oscar Crabtree, Nina Springer, George H Salley, W H Sargent, Mary Milliken, F J Sargent. A residence fire at Seth Hutchings caused by Monday morning blaze, with $1,500 loss and $900 insurance.
Miss Mary Lowe of Unionville works at B K Merritt’s. Miss Beatrice Blaisdell visited town last week. Miss Helen Adair, recently ill, shows gains. G G Wood and daughter Grace spent weekend at Cherryfeld. Mrs G G Wood now wheeled out daily and visiting neighbors. June 18.
In Lakewood on Sunday Elder Fogg of Bucksport led services in the chapel. Visitors included Mrs E Billington of Surry Miss Estelle Ray and Granville Tate of Bayside Fred Wiggin of West Eden Freeman Grant and Alvin Moon of Hancock. The item also mentions Lulu M Robins returning from Farmington with her brother Fred W and Miss Lottie M Bean.
A female reporter narrates a heat drenched city day, a chilling gaze on a train, and a panic aboard. After a perilous pursuit through a dark station, she sustains a near fatal wound from a mad hypnotist posing as a husband. Rescued, she learns the attacker, Professor Joseph, was captured and confined in a asylum.
Mrs Lilian G Mitchell visits Bangor this week guest of Mrs John Finn. Mrs LC Hastings went to Bar Harbor Tuesday to visit daughter Mrs Frank Holden. Rev George H Hefflen back from New Hampshire. William P Dorr and wife move into Lynch house. Mrs Martha Laffe returns from Auburn to keep house for her father. Fred and Forest Maddocks return from Bucksport. Lynch's band plans Fourth of July celebration in L J Maddocks grove with a 30 by 80 foot dancing pavilion, fantastics and miner sports, dancing in afternoon and evening.
The Weat Lilaworth school closed Friday noon with final exercises led by Arthur Alley. Mrs Hattie Barron visited Bangor daughter Emma Bodge and met Agnes Alley of Chicago. Martha and Asa Barron summoned to Lowell Mass by dispatch about brother-in-law Samuel Meanster. Del-Ardtown school held graduation with two graduates and 26 visitors. Miss Minnie H Moore gave a large framed Washington portrait.
The Ladies Aid Society meets with Mrs Henry Ray on Thursday afternoon. School closes Friday after a ten week term taught by Miss Elle Jude. Program includes declamations by Vina Eleanor Ray Hazel Holt and Freeman Closson Vera Pratt Edna Yorke Alma Wilson Irving Closson Eva Closson Alice Wilson May Wilson and more. Those not absent half day include Vera Pratt Vina Ray Alice Wilson Alma Wilson May Wilson Freeman Closson Irving Closson Eva Closson Mina Ray and Clarence Alley.
An unsigned fragment touts cough and cold relief with quinine tablets claiming to cure cold symptoms. The brief mentions free trials and a fast acting effect but provides no verifiable details or proper sourcing.
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