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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1901
Page
4
The Ellsworth American lists publication schedule and promotional details in Maine. It notes weekly Wednesday issues and states subscription prices, 2.00 per year and 1.00 for six months, with three month terms and various cents rates. Advertising policies and office contact are provided for business communications.
The recent city election re-elected Mayor Greely and four aldermen, with Republicans retaining Ward 3 alderman Jellison and winning Ward 4. The board faces uncollected taxes totaling about 52,000 and must improve tax collection and levy methods while maintaining nonpartisan governance. Ex-Senator William M. Evarts of New York died at 83 after years of public prominence.
Andrew Johnson’s chief counsel at his impeachment trial and Beecher-Tilton defense figure among the era’s notable legal names. McKinley’s second inauguration marks a historic chapter with well-ordered arrangements and a grand parade from start to finish. Roosevelt’s ovation, Senate swearing in, and ward 1 voting nuances add period detail.
A fragmented Maine column reports on an owl attack at Goose Cove, a long-lived local resident age 102, and community reactions to a bub-cat bounty. It blends local curiosities with corrections, winter memories, and river and harbor appropriation items affecting Hancock County.
Maine legislative items move through both chambers with bills to extend the Bluehill water charter repair county roads in Mariaville and incorporate several water power and storage entities. Debates occur on Hanover County rail bills and electric light financing, with votes to enact and engrossment noted.
The semi annual Bagaduce district Sunday school convention met at the Baptist church in South Penobscot on February 27. Rev B K Drew opened with devotion and welcome. Addresses by Rev C S Smith Rev C HB Morse Rev R L Olds and others urged improved Sunday school work and the primacy of saving children. A temperance resolve was adopted. The editorials warned about health and morality, praising Dr Pierce’s remedies and medical advice in the accompanying material.
Correspondence reports the eighth legislative week with heavy committee work on numerous bills and petitions. Memorials for late Senator Hodgdon are read. Hancock county apportionment and seaside resort growth affect plans. Ellsworth matters include electric railroad and Tank Pond Power Co. hearings. taxation of wild lands discussed. Notable figures at hearings include Col. John F. Whitcomb and Arno W. King.
Mrs Smith keeps reminding her husband that every silver possession is hers and bursts into a comic alarm in the night. She wakes him to the sound of burglars below, exclaiming burglars down below. Smith drowsily replies there is nothing of his there.
The article describes exquisite needlework by various peoples including ve micivili and Canadian natives using hair skins and animal fur, with metal thread works by Turkish and Georgian women. It then shifts to moral maxims about generosity and strength, closing with an advertisement for J CHENEY and CO Toledo and a drug catalog featuring Cheney's Family Pills and other remedies.
THIS IS TRIBOU Drop in and look over 5 and 10c Counter You will find them loaded with useful household articles many of them worth double what we ask for them And we are adding more goods every day to these counters Look them over and see for yourselves how far a little money will go.
Our Bargain Table displays a mix of low price items including paper, fall count pins, tea strainers, dot clothespins, steel pens, paper needles, curling irons, coin purses, combs, brooms, cake and doughnut cutters, and agate tea and coffee sets priced around cents and fractions, highlighting a frugal shopping burst.
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