St Patrick Honored by Portsmouth Parochial School Show
The Portsmouth Parochial School pupils staged an elaborate St Patrick celebration at Music Hall drawing a packed audience. The program featured The Birth of the Rainbow, Erin, Island of Destiny, Arcadian songs, and a closing Our Triumphant Flag with strong performances by many young participants directed by capable teachers and US Marine Sgt Cassidy.
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Portsmouth
St. Patrick
Music Hall
Agen
Royal Palace
Erin
Island of Destiny
Demosthenes
Gaale
Mentus
Navy Yard News Reflects Busy Port and Travel
At the Navy Yard the gun park appears deserted while a four masted schooner arrives with coal. Augustus N Stevenson spent Sunday in Boston. Naval Constructor Tawresey shows health improvement. Elroy C Cottle moves big guns to the dock from the ordnance park as spring nears and work is expected to surge. Admiral Remey receives well wishers and Rear Admiral Cromwell visits unofficially. A H Bowden returns to duty aboard ferry 192 after illness.
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Tawresey
Elroy C. Cottle
Ordnance Park
Remey
Cromwell
A. H. Bowden
Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills Endorsement Ad
An old advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as purifying the blood to prevent disease and claims better health year round. It asserts impurities are expelled and blood enriched, plus a claim about Hood's Pills curing liver filts and a Portland note mentioning a smallpox case.
Daring surf mishap, runaway horse, and town meeting notes
Fred Pike narrowly escaped drowning at Cod Rocks on Gerrish Island after a massive surf surge bruised him badly and required seven stitches. A navy yard runaway horse frightened by another animal caused vehicle damage at Hadger's Island. The High School staged A Rank Deception in Wentworth hall to a large audience. Local residents visited or returned from trips, while the annual town meeting warrant focuses on culvert repairs at Merry Meeting Bridge, removing a ledge at Foye's Lane, and electing a school superintendent.
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Fred Pike
Kittery Point
Pike
Navy Yard
Hadger’s Island
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Wentworth Hall
Solon Frisbee
Daniel F. Frisbee
Newfields
D. M. Stewart
Kittery High School
Lewiston
Georgie Webster
George Kimball
Massachusetts
Merry Meeting Bride
Foye's Lane
Lecture on Battle of Santiago at South Eliot Church
Boatswain Hill of the U S S Brooklyn will lecture on the Battle of Santiago at the Methodist church Thursday evening March 23. Admission twenty cents, children under 12 ten cents, with a possible postponement to March 24 if stormy. Ice cream cake and coffee sold after. Doors open at 7, lecture at 7 45.
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Boatswain
H. J. Durgill
Effingham
N. Y
Joahua Durgin
Ephraim Arch
A. W. Nowell
John W. Brooks
Dover
Isa B. Remick
Friends
Semeraworth
Edwin Langley
de. Willis
Moses Libbey
Thomas Adlington
Mr. Libbey
William Hill
C.F. Drake
Kittery
M. E. Church
E. J. ‘Fobey
Reverend Wolfe Visits Ogunquit Parishioners in Haverhill Ties
Ogunquit Me reports former pastor Rev Mr Wolfe now serving in Haverhill Mass visited last week, calling on old friends and parishioners. He traveled with his brother from Indiana and other local acquaintances, Mr B J Lituietfeld and Hertert.
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M. J. Wolfe
The
Christian Church
Chiristian Church
Haverhill
Mags
Mr. Wolfe
Indiana
Mesas
Lituietfeld
Hertert
Local Notes From Portand And Nearby Visits
Littlefield were in Portand on Saturday on business. Miss Mabel Thompson went to Lyns, Mass., on Thursday last for a two weeks visit to her sisters, Mrs. M Davis and Mrs. Lina Billen. The hotel being erected to take the place of the Sparhawk hall, is preckase ing rapdly. The frame is up and has been nearly boarded.
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Littlefield
Portand
Mabel ‘Thompson
Lyns
Mass
M Davis
Lina Billen
Sparhawk Hall
First Day of Spring Echoes in Greenland Sports
In Greenland on March 20 the first day of spring. Local practice games between Wapana gos and Seminoles were held. seminoles were weak due to Clough and Chapman absence. The Muckekees name origin is discussed as Spanish based. Frosty roads and frog season hints followed. townsfolk note chilly evening outdoors and sportsmen out exercising.
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Clough
Chapman
Herald
Charles F. Marden
Boston
Notable Madbury Resident Jonathan Jenkins Dies at 72
Jonathan Jenkins a respected Madbury citizen died at his home Monday aged 72 years 5 months 17 days He is survived by two sons Horace of Madbury and Herbert of Portemouth along with other relatives The report includes local legal and medical items from New Hampshire towns and ongoing cases and incidents.
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Madbury
Hide Home
Horace Jenkins
Herbert Jenkins
Portemorth
Robinson Female Seminary
Maron
Phillips, Exeter, Academy
Four Knights Held Overnight In Police News
Four New England road men were housed at the station on Monday night. Peter Masterson and Mickey Norton are to be sent to the county farm this morning for drunkenness. Ollivera Seymour and Gjuinn kept the crowd back from Boardman and Norton during the Cassidy episode. Oliver Robinson was off duty due to a recurring illness. A quartet of drunks were booked, including a deaf and dum stranger and Harry Givens who entered at 1 50 am and was promptly assigned to a cell.
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Knights of the New England Roads
Peter Masterson
Mickey Norton
Ollivera Seymour
Gjuinn
Boardman and Norton
Cassidy
Oliver Robinson
Harry Givens
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets in Refund Claim
A garbled note indicates a claim involving Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a promise of refund if fatal to cure. Grove appears as a signature on oath, though the exact parties and context are unclear from the fragment. Further details are unreadable.
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Dringgista
KW. Grove
Kittery Wins The Series In Pool Championship
The third game of the Portsmouth versus Kittery pool series at Coleman's pool rooms ended with Kittery winning 184 to Portsmouth 182. Afterward the teams dined at the Manhattan cafe with an elaborate supper provided by Caterer Lamb featuring lobster salad escab/escalloped oysters cold ham lettuce salad potato salad cold turkey rolls cake pies orange pudding vanilla and chocolate ice cream and cigars.
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Kittery
Coleman
Tebies
Ryan and Ham
Chickering
Keene
Lord and Frost
Paul and Wilson
Titus and Robbins
Bariug and Trueman
Shew and Goodrich
Lamb
Marks
Manhattan
Police Court Folloesup of Seabrook cider case
In Seabrook Monday afternoon Warren and John Perkins faced continued cider selling charges. Warren was fined $10 plus $7.35 costs, totals $17.35, while John Perkins paid $10 and $24.33 in costs totaling $34.33. Both posted $200 sureties on appeal with local lawyers present. Co-defendants Wade Brown and Joseph Marshall were found guilty for breaking windows but sentence suspended on good behavior.
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John Perkins
Seabrook
John HB. Bartlett
Kelley
Wade Brown
Joseph Marshall
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement Notice
One hundred dollar reward offered for incurable catarrh by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio warranties. Toledo wholesale druggists West and Truay Wannine Kixnas and Marvin testify to Cheney's integrity. Cure taken internally, promises blood and mucous action. Testimonials free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Hall's Family Pills advertised as best.
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F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
O. Wo
F J. Cheney
West & Truay
Wannine
Kixnas & Marvin
O.hall
Audacious Theft and Oddities from a Crumbling Page
A Cheshire country gentleman is sent twenty miles to summon police after a thief steals a check from an envelope inside his letter box. Two tomtits are found inside the box, with the check on the ground nearby. The incident prompts puzzled speculation about tampering and forgery amid a quirkily reported series of odds and ends from various sources.
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Cheshire
Thames Embankment
Longman’s Magazine
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