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Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1915-08-12
Cousins Island
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Mr.. Frank w. Holbrook OF Hol-
brook, Mass, has joined his family at
Pyne Klyff cottage for a vacation,
Mrs. Harrington has returned to Bos-
ton after most delightful visit here
Mrs. Nancy H. Hamilton of Var
mouth in her will bequeaths her
property in equal parts to her chill
dren, Lizzie M. Glover, Edwin j.
Hamilton, Gilbert Fl. Hamilton, Den
mis- B. Hamilton, Harriet F. Drink
water and Nellie G. Drinkwater. Mrs.
Glover is named as executrix. The
property consists of $4,000 in real es-
tate and $3.50 in personal estate.
Mr. Octavus G.. Hamilton OF Aurora,
ILL.,, who has been spending the past
month with his father, Captain Lor-
EMO Hamilton, returned home Thurs
day. While at the island, Mr. Ham
ilton heartily entered into the spir-
1t Of the occasion and enjoyed many
pleasant sails and fishing trips. It
has been sixteen years since he last
visited here, and his return Is regret
ted by many.
Mrs. Edwin j. Hamilton of Winch
ester. Mass, spent Wednesday with
Mrs. L. M. Glover.
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Mrs. J. r. Boomer and daughter
Miss Helen MacCuish of Maiden, and
MISS Grace Wood of Melrose arrived
on the island to occupy the Sweet
Brlar cottage. Mr.. j. Rankin, Mr..
Robert Boomer and Mr.. Oliver Boom
er recently joined them for a visit on
the island. Mr.. Thomas Bathrick. of
Medford, Mass, is a guest at the
cottage.
Many people have arrived at the
island to spend the month of August
at Wannelaki Lodge Those who
have arrived are Miss Alice Stormes.
Brooklyn, New York; Mrs. F. G..
Stryker, Skillman, N. j.. Mrs. E. G.
Beare and Miss Ethel Gordon, both
from Patchogne, Long Island, N. Y;
Miss Anna Cook, Miss Carrie J.
blackwell, Miss Marion Van Nestle.
Miss Maude H. Titus, all of Hope
well. n. j.; Miss Jessie Edmondson.
Belvidere, \. J. and Miss Florence
Carly, Phillipsbury, n. J. While
here they will be the guests of the
Misses Learson and Miss Godshalk.
MI c. F. Green of Maiden, spent
the weekend at Ramp Mysczery
with his family. Mr. Green will come
late in August to spend his vacation
here. Mrs. Green is entertaining her
friend, Mrs. A. E. Houghton, of Bos-
ton.
Miss Eleanor SculI entertained at
Bridge last Thursday evening. Most
delicious refreshments were served
The guests present were the inmates
of Camp Comfort" the Misses Fran
els and Mary Killburn and Miss
Louise Schuessler.
week ago Wednesday night.
Madam Jensen gave FIRE place
party for her guests, Miss Louise
Jenkins and Miss Margaret Drew
sen. Those present were the Misses
Frances and Mary Killburn and Miss
Louise Schussler of Camp Comfort,
This same group enjoyed motor
boat trip to JEWELS Island, where
they spent last Sunday. The inmates
of Camp Comfort left Tuesday for
their homes in Philadelphia.
The many friends of Miss Leila
Williamson sorrow with her in her
bereavement of her grandmother
Two weeks ago Miss Williamson was
suddenly called to the bedside Of
her grandmother, whose sickness and
death was very sudden.
Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1915-08-12
Popular Concerts.

The third season of the summer
concerts given by Mr.. Will c. Mac
farlane, Municipal Organist OF Port
land, is proving daily more and more
popular with summer visitors. as well
as with Portland residents. Mr..
Macfarlane's playing, coupled with
the wonderful resources OF the mag
nificent Kotzschmar Memorial Or
gan, give the visitor an hour of the
best in the line of music. The
Music Commissions wisdom in plan
ming the concerts is to be com
mended, and the response made by
tourists has proved the appreciation
of these visitors for whom the con-
certs are chiefly given. The daily
registration Of tourists at the audi
forum includes names OF people
from all over the United States and
even from foreign countries, and
without exception the hearers 20 away
to spread the fame of the organ and
It's capable musician.
Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1915-08-12

The Astor Cafe, Is Temple street,
is the place where many of the sum-
mer tourists dine while in Portland.
Patrons can always get the best in
deep sea food of any variety and
Holsters are served in any style. The
full course dinner served here daily
for twenty-five cents meets the pop
ular demand. Remember when in
Portland to dine at the Aston Cafe
only q few minutes walk from steam
boat wharf.
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oioest wr,Y,no.

According to the claims Of the uni.
versity of Pennsylvania museum, the
Oldest pieces of writing known to us
are from the Babylonian tablets re-
Gently deciphered by Professor Barton
of the University OF Pennsylvania.
They deal with events as far back as
5000 b. g.
Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1915-08-12
CARD OF THANKS

CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to warmly thank all our
friends who so kindly extended their
sympathy and assistance in our re-
cent bereavement
Mr.. and Mrs. E. NJ. Gushing & family
Long Island, Aug. 10, 1915.
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Friends of Mr.. c. w. LeGrow, who
owns cottage at the East end, will
be sorry to hear Of the accident oc-
curing at Portland which will deprive
MIN o. the use of his right arm for
some weeks. He was cranking his
machine at Portland last week, and
having trouble with the battery con-
nection, transferred it to the mag
neto. On the next turn over the
motor backfired, breaking Mr. Lee
Grows right wrist so badly that he
was taken to private hospital in the
city. where he will be obliged to
spend three weeks or more. The
family had only recently opened their
cottage for the season.
Miss Eva Clark is improving from
en- attack OF typhoid fever. The
disease developed so slowly that it
was diagnosed as malaria at first, but
afterward showed the typhoid symp-
toms. There is no indication that the
germ was contracted on the island
as Miss Clark was at Portland for
several weeks before her illness.
Mrs. Ella Miles, wife of Frank H.
Miles of Cambridge. Mass, a summer
resident at the East end, passed away
suddenly on Sunday night at her cot
tage on Island avenue. The cause of
death was heart failure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-29
MUST COME BACK
AS REPUBLICANS
WARNS Mr.. TAFT
Former President Gives Views
to State Journal While Here.
PrOgressives Cannot Expect
FavOrs in ''IsmS and NOStrums.o
TARIFF WILL Be GREAT ISSUE
Matters of Foreign Policy, Too,
viii be of Vital Concern.
Democrats Have Found Their
Salvation in the War.
LITTLE ABOUT OWN CANDIDACY
Taft Says He Doesn't Know
What He'll Do Next Year.
Interesting Trip Through Kan
SaS for Well Known Man.
Matters of Foreign Policy, Too,
viii be of Vital Concern.
Democrats Have Found Their
Salvation in the War.
LITTLE ABOUT OWN CANDIDACY
Taft Says He Doesn't Know
What He'll Do Next Year.
Trip Through Kan
sas for Well Known Man.

If the Progressives come back 70
the Republican fold in 1916, they must
come back as Republicans, preaching
sound Republican gospel and singing
Republican hallelujah songs. They
cannot expect their "isms and nos
trums" incorporated in the national
platform, they cannot dictate nominal
tions and should not expect to sssume
leadership. That is the rather severe,
but frank, flat, candid basis of com
promise laid down by William Howard
Taft, former president, during his trip
through Kansas.
Never a word, though. about candi-
dates.
Taft does not presume to so much
as guess what Colonel Roosevelt will
do or where he will stand in the next
national battle. In fact, the former
president is not certain that the colo
mel himself knows his plans. That with
a characteristic Taft laugh.
AS for national issues, Taft is firm
ly convinced that the tariff will be the
one, big, dominant dividing point
Matters of foreign policy may also be
of vital concern. In that President
Wilson may rally support under his
peace policies-but it will e on the
issue of not changing horses in the
middle of the stream Taft stands
with Wilson on his European policy.
lContinued on Page Twelve1
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GIGANTIC LOAN
TO FOREIGNERS
IS AGREED UPON
Morgan Firm Draws Contract
for Half a Billion.
Affiliated Firms Extend From
Atlantic to Pacific.
GREAT ISSUE IS SOLD AT 96
Ratification in England and
France Expected Soon.
Allies Pay $2O,OOO,OOO for Pri-
vilege of Buying Here.
Affiliated Firms Extend From
Atlantic to Pacific.
GREAT ISSUE is SOLD AT 96
Ratification in England and
France Expected Soon.

New York, Sept. 29.-Definite for
nation of the big syndicate Of bank
ers who will float the half billion dol
lars credit loan to Great Britain and
France was begun today by J. P. Nor
gan & Co, and other financiers who
have been associated with them in the
negotiations here with the Anglo
French financial commission
1t IS proposed to make the syndi-
cate the largest of it's kind ever seen
IN this country and to include in its
membership banks, trust companies
and individuals from the Atlantic to
the Pacific.
In every large city or financial cen
ter in the United States there is to
be, under the present plan, a group
of bankers who will act as syndicate
managers in their section cf the coun-
try. III the south and west these
groups will operate over somewhat
enlarged areas. In the middle west,
CONTINUED on Page
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-29
STORM STRIKES SOUTH
Wind Blowing IS Miles an our at
Morgan City. La.

Washington, Sept. 29.-The tropical
storm was central this morning near
the mouth of the Mississippi and was
moving cIowIy northward, according
to weather bureau reports. Shifting
gales We're predicted this afternoon
and tonight on the Louisian coast and
east to south gales on the Mississippi,
Alabama and extreme northwes Flor
ida coasts.
Louisiana Is Whipped.
Morgan City, La, Sept. 29.-The
wind blowing at seventy-five miles
here at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Wire
connection is badly crippled.
New Orleans in Gale.
New Orleans, Sept. 29.-At IL
o'clock this morning the weather bu
reau reported the winds velocity here
had increased to fifty miles an hour.
The barometer at that timestood at
1928.
Galveston Not Hit.
Galveston, Sept. 29.-This city is
feeling no effects whatever of the
tropical storm which has gone inland
over Louisiana. All wires out of the
ely are working. The Wesern Union
repored ha is wires near New Orleans,
are down, but no WIRE trouble in
Texas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-29
TROOP SHIP SUNK
British Transport Down With
Indian Soldiers.
All But Few Members of Crew
Reported Lost.

Berlin, Sept. 29.-The sinking of a
British transport, with the loss of all
but a few members of the crew is re-
ported in a dispatch from Constan-
tinople to the Overseas News agency.
"A special dispatch from Constan-
tinop1e gives reports about Moham-
medan troubles in India says the
news agency. 1T says that a British
transport was sunk by a Mohammedan
engineer who died with the troops.
Only a few members of the crew es-
capped"
Italian BattIer Down.
London, Sept ga dispatch from
the Stefani News agency of Rome says
the Italian battleship Benedetto Brin
sank following an explosion which re-
suited from the fire on board the ves-
sci. The cause of the disaster has
not been ascertained.
The announcement last night of the
explosion on the BendettO Brin did
not make it clear whether the vessel
had gone down. 1t was said eight
officers and 379 marines had been
saved Something over 800 men are
still unaccounted for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-29
MARCH OF HEROES
Wilson Reviews Battered Blue
BattaliOns of G. A. II.
Boys of '61 and '65 Symbolic
Spirit of United Nation.
SHADES OF GREAT IN LINE
Spirits of Sherman, Meade,
Sheridan Still Lead.
Nelson Antilles Praises Patriots
Dead and Living.
SHADES OF GREAT IN LINE
BY GEN. NELSON A. MILES.

Washington. Sept. 20 Washington
looked today through the eyes of
fifty years ago.
Its populace and visitors Joined
with the nations executive in review
ing the battered blue battalions of the
Grand Army of the Republican, that
is left of the stalwart legions, 100000
strong. who marched with youths
firm steps before the White House in
review with Sherman, Meade, Sheri-
dan and Hancock at the close of the
war that called the army into being.
Celebrated in the most beautiful
capital, among the people of the
strongest, most prosperous republic in
the world, the fiftieth annual grand
review of the Grand Army of the Re-
public epitomized and symbclized the
spirit of the nation-unity; and
mighty influence on all humanity
through unborn ages.
There in the vanguard of this body,
unique and filled with the essence of
tragedy and romance, marched the
remnants of Logan's men-the troops
from Illinois John A. Logan is dead,
but can it be 1 saw his shadow strid-
ing on beside them2
Few of the handful of old leaders
who are left from the days of g. and
nn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-29
PROBE DISASTER
Three Separate Inquiries Under
Way at ArdmOre.
Railroad Company Is Accused
of Negligence.

Ardmore, Okla, Sept. 29.-Three
separate Investigations were under
way today in an attempt to fix the
blame for Mondays explosion disaster
which cost Al lives.
The first investigation was set
in motion yesterday by Russell Brown,
city attorney, when he petitioned the
state corporation commission, whose
commissioner, George A. Henshaw,
was in this city. Brown alleges negli-
gence on the part of the Gulf Colo-
radO & Santa Fe in the alleged viola
ton of several provisions of the inter
state commerce commissions regula-
tOnS with regard to the handling of
gasoline and other explosives.
Seek Cause of Fire.
The second investigation was start
ed this morning, also by the city at
torney, Russell Brown. By this inves-
tigation the state fire marshaHs de-
partment is expected to investigate the
cause of the fire, following the disas-
ter.
City officials today were engaged
principally in taking testimony of wit
neSSeS.
Deputies McKeehan and Williams
of the state fire marshaFs office ar
rived here this morning to commence
the work of the first investigation.
The death list at noon remained at
y-seven-twenty-si whites and
tWenty-one negroes.
More Dead Identified.
Two unidentified bodies which had
remained in the morgue since the dis
aster were identified this morning. The
unidentified woman who was seen
alive in the freight depot, billing
household goods, has been recognized
as a. Mrs. Bonds a widow. Her resi-
dence is not know. One unidentified
man was recognized as Henry Carpen-
ter, a farmer living near this city.
There remains but one unidentified
Victin1-a man. His body is burned
beyond recognition. a telegram was
received from Mena, Ark, that H. A.
King, attorney, was missing in
Ardmore and it is believed that the
one remaining unidentified man is he
Physicians say there are still three
injured persons in sanitariumS who
probably will die. At 10 o'clock this
a coroner's jury for this Gear
ter) county went into session, to in
vestigate the deaths resulting from the
explosion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-29
Police VIII Make Every Effort
to Find Bankers Fleecers.
Meriden Farmer Tells Story of
Sunday Afternoon in Topeka.
HAS FOUND VALUABLE NOTES
Discovered $4,000 Papers In
Inside Vest Pocket.
Only Out $40 in Friendly Game
of Matching Dollars.

Adam Becker, SO years old, wealthy
and absent-minded, has found the
$4,000 in personal notes which ne
claimed were lifted" from his per-
son in Topeka last Sunday and unless
he forgets which pocket he put them
in he probably will get them safely
back to h; home in Meriden today.
Warrant Is Issued.
A Richard Roe and John Doe war
rant was issued this afternoon from
the county attorneys office.
No trace of the two men has been
found
Becker returned to Topeka today
and in a measure cleared up some of
the facts concerning the lost and
found notes. According to Chief of
Police Parsons, Becker admitted that
he lost the money while in the
matching game.
1.-The man told me to hold the
money heads-up every time, and
did" said Becker, according to Chief
Parsons. Il must have put the notes
in my inside vest pocket instead of my
coat pocket, for that is where ( found
them when l got to Oklahoma"
Becker, his brother, Henry Becker.
and Guy Swallow, former sheriff of
Jefferson county, were at the police
station this noon comforting with
Chief Parsons the possible course to
be pursued in the matter.
The game for which Becker fell is
almost the oldest confidence game
known, the police say. 1t has been a
number of years since such a scheme
has been worked on a man in Topeka
Old Confidence Game.
why, the game is even older than
the gold brick game said eX-Sheriff
Swallow this noon. "Becker Just sim
ply let the men get into his confidence
and they worked him for his money,
that's all. Becker has been on a
farm most of his life"
Becker is planning to return to
Meriden this afternoon on ) o'clock
train.
A postal card from Becker mailed
at McAlester, Okla, telling that the
missing notes had been found, was re-
ceived late Tuesday afternoon by w.
w. Newman, proprietor of the Ohio
House. Mr.. Newman said this morn
ing that he did not see the card from
Becker until o'clock Tuesday nigh9.
Chief of Police Harvey Parsons and
his force were greatly relieved Tues
day night when Newman read to them
the writing on the card from Becker.
The local authorities were planning to
follow up their work of Tuesday in an
effort to locate the confidence men
when the following was read to them:
by searching my pockets thor
oughly l found the notes, so / no
longer accuse those Slickers of tax
ing them. Tell the lice.'-Adam
Becker.
As for the $40 Becker lost while en-
(COQtinued on Page
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-29
WAR ODDITIES.

MancheSter-OVer 100000 men
of this city have enlisted since war
began, 2,151 in one day being the
recruiting record.
LOndon-Because of the diScOv-
monds were being imported from
Germany, the government has pro-
hibited the "eViF' except by special
permit.
PetroGrad-Dmitry TroufanOff,
n Russian peasant soldier. who
won fame for gallantry in the
RuSSo-JapaneSe war, won more
fame and the cross of ST George
in the present war and then was
killed.
Zurich-It is reported from To-
camO that DIR. Rulsca, an Austrian
surgeon on duty at CracON, has
performed 5000 operations since
November, 1914.
LOndOn-DurinG the wedding of
young lieutenant at Harlesden
parish church, an official telegram
came ordering him to return to the
front at once and the ceremony
was Speeded up.
tinglaam were. saved from aban-
doning the industry 10y a great
government order for mosquito
netting to be used at the DarCla-
neIleS.
LondOn-DuriRg July and Au-
gust the decrease in imports of
eggs to England alone amounted
to 5e,000,O ,O6O eggs a week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-29
FRANCE SHAKEN
UNDER WORLDS
GREATEST FIGHT
British Drive Ahead in New
Great Offensive.
French, Too, Keep Up Their
Smashing Blows.
KAISER LOSES 100000 men
Tri-COIOr Continues Progress
i'm ArtOis Region.
No Let Up in Champagne; 2o'-
600 TeutOns Prisoners.
DRIVE IS NOT TO Be RELAXED
Germans Cease Infantry At
tackS in ArgOnne.
Hardest Pressure on TeutOnS at
Weakened Points.
No Let Up in Champagne; 2o'-
600 TeutOns Prisoners.
DRIVE IS NOT TO Be RELAXED
Germans Cease Infantry AT
tacks in ArgOnne.
Hardest Pressure on TeutOnS at
Weakened Points.

Paris. Sept. 29-German casualties
in the recent offensive of the French
and British, including killed, wounded
and prisoners, were given officially by
the French war office today as In eX-
cess of the strength of three army
corps Cmore than 10000 men).
There is no interruption of the fight
ing in Champagne. Progress OF the
French in the ArtoiS region, NORTH
western France, continues. North OF
Massiges the war office says 1000 Ger
mans surrendered.
The text of the communication roll
lows:
THE reports which are coming to
hand make it possible to record each
day more fully the importance OF the
success obtained by our recent Of
fensive movement in the Champagne
district, combined with that of the al
lied troops in the ArtOis district.
German Loss Appalling.
1.-The Germans have not only been
compelled to abandon along an ex-
tended front certain positions strongly
entrenched, in the defense of which
they had been ordered to resist to the
very end, but they have suffered losses
the total of which in killed, wounded
and prisoners amounts to more than
the effective strength of three army
corps-12O,OOO men.
1.-The total number of prisoners is
900 men; the number of cannon
brought to our rear is 20. Seventeen
thousand and fifty-five private SOL
diers and 316 officers taken prisoner
by us already have gone through the
town of Chalons on the way to the
points where they are to be interned.
Organized efforts are at present un-
der way to clear up the field of battle
and TO take definite count of the arms
of all kinds and of the war material
belonging to the artillery and infantry
branches which the enemy has been
compelled to abandon to us.
Continued Progress Reported.
I'm the Artois district the progress
reported yesterday to the east of Sou
chez continued yesterday evening and
in the course of last night after
stubborn engagement we reached Hill
No. 40, the eliminating points of the
crests of Nimy and the orchards to the
south of this point. The number of
unwounded prisoners made by us to
the course of this fighting is more
than 500 and the men belong mostly
to the two divisions of the guard.
I'm the Champagne district the
fighting is going on without respite
along the entire front. In the region
to the north of Massiges further
groups of Germans have surrendered.
In this sector alone the total of pris-
Oners last evening reached 1000.
There has been no other important ac-
tion on the remainde- of the front.
1.-The enemy has bombarded violent
1y our trenches to the north and to the
south of the Aisne, in the regions of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-29
MILADY IN PANTS
"Henry, You Come With Me-"
Says Amazon to Hubby.
Men and Women in Mad Rush
to See Living Models.

New York, Sept 29.-Out of war
torn France has come-not the usual
things that come out of battle stricken
countries-but pants. or pantalettes,
for women (the epithet depending on
your degree of culture)s Some people
call them bifurcated neither garm ents.
Be that as it may, they're here. They
blew in like a rush of gale and left
New York gasping.
Today persons of both sexes literal
1y fought to get into downtown de-
partment store where six willowy
creatures paraded up and down silk
carpeted aisles. displaying them-and
several other things not listed in the
category of clothing, Pantalettes be
it known, are long; fastened at the
waist and extending to the shoe tops
with a small glaring edge of fur
peeping shyly from beneath the street
skirt Blue and green, and yellow
and crimson, they are.
An enterprising reporter strolled
into the show and with a sudden burst
of genius tabulated the first six ex-
carnations that greeted the first model
as she floated down the gauntlet of
eyes.
Here they are:
awful" commented the lady who
weighed 800 pounds.
"Divine," murmured a young thing
with a shape.
Henry, you come with me!'' said
florid one to a small statured husband.
'Del1ghtfully pfactlcdi- rnurm ure0
a MISUNDERSTANDING woman.
"Finer" commented a sleek looking
dame who parted her hair in the
middle.
"Oh.'' lisped a demure young crea-
ture
Coming out. the reporter asked
Mary. the newspaper woman, what
she thought about them.
''Pantalettes blankly queried
Mary. ooh, 1 don't know nothing
about it. I don't read half these
things I sell"
Officials at the show, however, are
confident they have come to stay.
"Of course, they will be laughed at
for aWhile-until the American Wom-
en- find out how comfortable they are
said the head of the department. 80
was the hobble skirt"