Edward T. Stotesbury Schooner Launch Nears Sea
The four masted double deck schooner Edward T. Stotesbury launched after poor weather. Built for heavy general cargo, she is valued around 70000 dollars, with 210 foot length and 1146 gross tons. She features a spike bowsprit, steel standing rigging, and lavish accommodations. Her maiden voyage will carry 7500 barrels of naphtha to Liverpool, earning five shillings per 40 gallons.
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Edward T. Stotesbury
Thallium
Stotesbury
Seattle
Bucksport
Providence
Pennsylvania
Maine
Bay of Cuulour
Nova Scotia
Stotenbury
Ter
Philadelphia
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Hancock County Crops Report From State Bulletin
Hancock County crops data from the State Agricultural bulletin shows corn yield and quality figures, oats and wheat production, barley, fruit, potato prospects, and stock fodder percentages. Also appears an unrelated medicine advertisement for Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets claiming quick cough relief.
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Hancock County
State Agricultural Bulletin
Bowdoin Adds Clubs and Fraternities as Social Fabric Grows
At Bowdoin College a new custom forms clubs each year from course members with professors guiding. Deutscher Verein leads German culture, a government class group studies law, history students form drafting papers, and social contact grows outside classrooms. Beta Theta Pi expands, eight fraternities now, two with chapter houses. Spanish course planned under Reginald Goodell. Bowdoin enrolls 253 students this year across classes and specials.
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McKay & Dix
Brunswick College
Unswick
Bowdoin
Jery
Verein
MacDonald
Beta Sigm
Beta Theta Phi
Alpha Delta Phi
Delta Kappa Epsilon
Reginald Goodell
University of Maine
Johnson
Tide Flood Hits Penobscot Bay and Rivers
West Brooksville special report describes a tremendous tide on Thursday at Penobscot Bay and river. The steamer Marjorie could not land at West Penobscot as its wharf was stormed by waves. Wasson’s wharf at West Brookville saw water intrusion into coal sheds and Wharf damage.
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Penobscot
West Brooksville
Penobsot Bay
West Penobscot
Marjorie
West Brookaville
Wasson
DeWitts Salve Warns Against Counterfeit Dealers
An advertising notice cautions customers about counterfeit Witch Hazel Salve and urges buying DeWitt's original salve for piles and skin diseases. It warns makers and distributors of fakes face legal guilt and stresses that Wicarn & Moore sells the genuine product.
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DeWitt
DeWith
Week's Winnowings of News and Nonsense from Kittery to Caribou
A Maine column recalls a Canadian Pacific railway station burglary at Houston with cash seized, a fatal Rochester New Hampshire football game injury, a cousin shooting in Perham mistaken for a deer, and various local notes. It covers inventors grants, shipbuilding at Machias, a 300 ton three mast schooner, Maine apple crop reports, a Bath built six mastered schooner, a Beaconsfield drowning, a fatal shooting of Annie Woods in South Brewer, and historic wheat bounty payouts in 1838.
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Maine
G. W. Hall
Hermon
N. Cartier
Biddeford
F. A. Chellis
Portland
Machias
Alfred Knowlton
Nova Scotia
Knowlton
New England
Charles H. Dudley
Patten
Old Town
Dudley
Dudley & McLeod
Cametense
New York
Manaos
Ara
Horne
Lincoln W. Jewett
Charles P. Notman
George W. Wells
Camden
Annie Woods
South Brewer
Lester Savage
Savage
Somerset
Thomas Hunter
Farmington
How to Pack Eggs for Long Keeping
Instructions from Ladies Home Journal note yolks spoil faster than whites. Pack eggs with white surrounding the yolk to prevent air contact. Place eggs on the small end to maintain a protective white layer against the shell and avoid odor absorption by using odorless packing materials.
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Home Journal
Medical Adverts Claim Quick Cure For Infants
The ad claims a married woman may neglect prayers early in marriage but returns to faith. then asserts Stening piles can be cured. It promotes Dean's Ointment as an infant relief and permanent cure available at any drug store for 0 cents.
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Dean
Ladies’ Home Journal
Maine Market Prices and Oddities From Ellsworth Note
Ellsworth report lists wholesale and retail prices for farm produce, dairy, meat, and produce items. It includes weights for bushels and barrels, given in pounds, with varying figures for potatoes apples onions carrots cabbage and other goods. The piece also notes fishermen selling directly to Boston dealers and mentions scarce clams and mixed fish catches along with general lumber and building material prices.
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Maine
Argardin
Wriorth and
Liverpool
Ellaworth
Boston
Lourters
Holt
Kilsworth
St. Louis
Banker Routs a Koober
J. R. Garrison, cashier of the Thornville bank, long troubled by lung disease, credits Dr. King’s New Discovery with his recovery. He praises it as the best medicine for severe cold or lung trouble and keeps a bottle on hand. Trial bottles free at WiGary & Moore’s drug store.
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Koober
J. R. Garrison
Bank of
Thornville
Ohio
Dr. King
WiGary & Moore's Drug Store
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Aobert
Conditt
Bowdoin LE
Ana
Kittery
Caribou
Ells
Worth Markets
Tient Factory
Bent Dairy
Neutonatal Ens
Java
Japan
Havana
Rico
Hgil
Perth
Witterend
Waris
de Shivers
Wilkinsburg
Mr. Homewood
CT A
County News
Seooth
James Gray
W. W. Hodgdon
Mets
Odlat
Kittredge
California
North Lamon
Lord
Edlaworth
Archer
Amherst
William Watt
This
Julia Wallace
Christine
Southweath Harbor
Rachel Hodgkins
Grand
Edith Richardson
Town Hall
Monaghan
Elsworth
Ness
Ntancock
Cos
Bangor
Surreys
Concords
Surreys and Concord
Henry E. Davis
Franklin Street
Ellsworth
Portland, Maine
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