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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1900
Page
3
An old maxim about economy is cited to argue that health matters more than saving. The ad urges daily removal of bodily secretions through the pores, claiming Ivory Soap is 99.3 percent pure and essential for clean skin.
Mrs Nathan Cole and son Seth return home from Harrington. Primary school opens with Miss Julia Guptila as teacher. Bar Harbor visits and various residents’ movements. New schoolhouse nearing completion. sardine factory crew given a Wednesday holiday to visit Bar Harbor. Village improvement society resumes meetings and plans for a Christmas sale. Local trips aboard the Clarence B Mitchell. several families and individuals mentioned in weekly notes. Promotional ad for Kodol Dyspepsia Cure finishes the column.
A report from Ellsworth lists standard bushel weights for farm staples and a retail price snapshot. It covers salt weights for Liverpool and Turks Island salts, potato and bean baselines, grain and hay pricing, fresh fruit and vegetables, poultry, lumber, and various dry goods with scattered market notes on potato firmness and rust in the Aroostook crop.
County for additional county news from Birch Harbor and surrounding towns. School began Sept 3 with Miss Alice Wilson visiting relatives in Jonesboro. Giles family reunion held at Moses Giles home with about ninety attendees. Albert C Jacobson’s home welcomed a baby daughter. Pot and Kettle club house opened, costing 710,000, featuring marine views and a fourteen-member club. seven directors wore white caps and chef uniforms at opening. Nearby land sales include G I Frazier selling three quarters acre to Rev. Bradley of Philadelphia and J A Murray selling seven acres near the golf grounds to H R Shaw for winter cottages.
Fire destroyed the houses of Dante Par klin F O Leavitt and James A Rich at Bradley on Friday night with losses around 10000. A second Bradley fire in two months is blamed on an incendiary. Hanson G Bird, famed polo manager, died in Rockland from a fall at Hewitt's Island. Ezra Roberts of Belfast, 75, was killed near his home on the railroad. Sept 15 sighted two Penobscot Indians planning a birch bark canoe trip from Old Town to Washington D C. Lieut Roy L Fernald of Winterport drawn in the Dumaugus river, previously serving in the 26th U S volunteers. Maine experiment station выпуска bulletin 65 on fertilizer analyses. Alexander Webb, Bangor tanner, died after a week’s illness. Hon John Coffin Talbot died at East Machias aged 84 after a long illness. He was a Democrat, Bowdoin graduate, and early Shore Line railroad leader. Many brief advts and notices conclude the column.
This ad promotes Cascarets as a health cure for various ailments from headaches to digestive issues. It claims to restore natural bowel movements, costs ten cents to start, and warns to beware of imitations of Cascarets Candy tablets stamped with C. C. C. in metal boxes.
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