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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1900
Page
3
An observant Bangor man notes a trend he calls pigeon-toed walking. He argues many people toe in while strolling, and links the habit to golf and cycling. He claims about nine in ten regular walkers show this trait during pedestrian actions.
Reads like a rural market sheet listing weights and prices for produce and goods. Includes standard weights for apples, beans, corn, carrots, barley, buckwheat, turnips, rye, and beans. dairy items, crackers, oils, and building materials. Mentions advance in corn price and various commodity prices and quantities in a miscellaneous retail catalog style.
The Indie aid circle at the Congregational church meets this week with Mrs Henry Trundy. Capt Eugene Stanley of Friendship visits. the C B of the Congregational church shifts meetings to Sunday evenings. Schooners Fanny Earl and C B Wood sail or haul stone. local lamps and posts are repainted. Various residents travel, marry, or attend schools as March entries note, including Captain Chatto birthday observances and maritime movements around Ellsworth and Bucksport.
Lindon Falls citizen Jordan Rand, long-time tax collector and selectman, dies at 76. Maine's ice trades surge as 160,000 tons remain in Penobscot river storage. Knickerbocker Ice Co. sold for 10 million in New York. Monson and North Berwick deaths follow quarry and logging accidents. State board of trade to meet at Biddeford with talks on roads and convict labor. Maine’s timber cut totals projected around 550 million feet across multiple rivers.
The following officers were elected: C. B Hobbs born Augusta president, C G Allen Portland vice president, John R Gould Auguste secretary, George A Safford Hallowell treasurer, W D Stessnaes Bath, Charles D Crosby Bangor, J Stetson Camden, A H Pinint ville, A I Templeton on the committee. The banquet was attended by fifty nine representative bankers of Maine.
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