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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1902
Page
4
The House, after passing naval appropriations, handles routine business and faces a tense pension bill session. Representative Sulzer and Hull clash over procedure as Loud criticizes House methods during the debate.
The record notes vandalism at Ellsworths bridge hill soldiers monument and then surveys Senate Philippines debate highlights with Hoar and Beveridge. It also mentions Maine fair dates, hardwood timber lore, a unique Santa Maria caravel crafted from chicken bones, ministerial association events, and a Tennyson anecdote.
Hancock county Republicans meet in Ellsworth to nominate county officers. Dr J H Patten of Amherst to preside, 121 delegates named from towns including Ellsworth Bucksport and Castine, credentials to be received at Hancock Hall and convention to convene at 1 pm.
Portland announces special one fare round trips for Maine residents to the Republican State convention in Portland. Tickets valid to Portland on June 10 and 11 and return from Portland on June 11 and 12. Steamboat and railroad lines offer combined rates to Bar Harbor Rockland or Portland with purchases at participating depots.
Report covers Republican and Democratic state conventions with dates for Ellsworth Waterville Portland Bath and Bangor. Notes Mills named by Stonington Republicans for representative. Hancock prohibitionists active. possible third-party ticket if sheriffs nominees fail. Sheriff Pierson aides campaign. quips on posters, dodgers and winter reading.
George F. Underwood of New York head of International Paper forestry outlines fire protection as key to preservation. He cites fire wardens, scientific forestry, and cautious timber use, predicting continued demand with possible mill growth in Canada rather than Maine.
The fragment teaches grammar with nine parts of speech and examples from articles pronouns adverbs conjunctions prepositions interjections and nouns. It contrasts reading writing and speaking with a note on power from overcoming obstacles. It ends with a blunt social observation about how some avoid effort and waste life.
John Harrison Phillips died suddenly of heart disease at the Lake house Phillips Lake on Saturday. He was seventy five and born at East Dedham near where he died. He lived in Ellsworth Hancock and was in the meat business in Ellsworth about nine years. He owned Ash farm at West Hancock for twenty five years and later sold it. He spent summers with his children in Maine and winters with his daughter in Massachusetts. He leaves four children Harry Phillips Spokane Ezra Phillips Minneapolis James Phillips Town and Annie Graves Hancock two stepchildren B F Phillips Ellsworth and Mary Ames Boston. Funeral services were held at the house Tuesday led by Rev J P Simonton Ellsworth.
William B Hill of East Corinth and new Hotel Bluffs owner at Mt. Desert Ferry died suddenly at Bar Harbor from pneumonia on a Saturday. He was about thirty eight and formerly connected with the Penobscot Exchange in Bangor. The item includes assorted unrelated ads and notices.
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