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Lost Children Evade
Searchers
Sanford, Aug. 1.—Berry-picking was the
berries, but getting lost In the process was no fun for four
children of Mr. and Mrs. Adelard Glaude who had 17 local
police and firemen and a 15-member volunteer party searching
for them for more than four hours this afternoon and evening.
The children. Albione. 20; Alice Mae. 15. Edward, 8. and
Albert. 2. had been taken to the berry grounds about four
miles south of here by their brother John. 15 Brooks Street,
earlier today. but failed to appear at a meeting place that
afternoon. When neighbors and friends were unable to locate
the quartet. Glaude appealed for aid to the fire and police
departments. But the searchers' work was in vain for the
children emerged from the woods, hailed a passing car and
returned home early this evening.
Portland Press Herald | Portland, Maine |
Tuesday, August 03, 1948 | Page 22 submitted by Janice
Rice
Kennebunk, Oct.
6
Distressing Accident
Killed at
Newfield, on the 27th ult, by a log’s passing over them, two
children of Mr. Brackford of that place. The
circumstances attending the event were peculiarly
distressing. The father was attempting to remove a log
on the margin of a precipice, at a small distance from his
house. Unexpectedly, it took a direction totally
different from the one expected and intended and rolled with
the greatest velocity down the bank, whilst his three
children, who had left the house, their mother being absent,
were in the act of ascending the hill. At the moment the log
started the father cast his eyes towards the house and saw one
of his children coming towards him. He screamed.
The child probably being frightened did not know how to avoid
the danger and accelerated its pace towards his father.
The sound had scarcely felt his mouth when he saw the other
two children climbing the hill and within two rods of the
rolling log. They perceived it and shrieked. In an
instant it passed over them, and mangled their tender
limbs in a most shocking manner. The sound pierced the
father’s ears, he spring to the spot but only to witness the
horrid spectable. What were his agonizing sensations? Nothing
but parental affection can imagine. In its progress, the
small end of the log was thrown against the fence, which
raised it from the ground so that the surviving child was only
thrown down and the log rolled over it without material
hurt. The oldest of the children was about six years of
age.
(Source: The Centinel, Gettysburg,
PA, November 28 1810. Submitted by Nancy Piper)
The Centinel, Gettysburg, PA, March 6,
1811
The following has been communicated to the
Boston Exchange Coffee-House, by a letter from Portland Maine,
dated February 7th: “A company of counterfeiters, store
breakers, &c. have been detected at Robinstown, who for
some time, had been committing depredations in that
neighborhood; one of the villains, by the name of Ball, being
closely pursued, discharged a musket at Capt. John Downs,
which so severely wounded him, that he survived but a few
hours after. Ball and two others of his confederates
have been taken and confined at the fort at Eastport.
A
letter from Eastport confirms the above facts; and adds, that
the people on both sides the river, are in pursuit of the
desperate gang of villains; that several had been taken up and
committed to jail in St. Andrews, among them a person of the
name Levi Richarson.
(Submitted by Nancy
Piper)
A WOMAN BORN JULY
4,1776.
Miss Lucy Langdon Nowell was
bom in Alfred, Maine, July 4,1776, on the day and very near
the hour of the signing of the declaration of Independence.
When eight years of age she united with the Alfred Shakers,
and has since lived with them. When eighty-four years of age
she wove thirty-four yards of cloth, and at ninety-six knit
ten pairs of mittens. Sho has never been in a railroad car,
and is in excellent health. If she lives until 1876 a Pullman
palace car will be despatched to her native town to transfer
her to Boston. From thence she will be carried direct to the
Quaker City, where her presence will be one of the features of
the grand centennial.
(Source:
Reading Eagle, Reading, Pennsylvania, 10 Oct 1873, Page
2. Submitted by Vicki
Hartman) |
Arthur McArthur, Esq. of
Limington, is the oldest memeber of the York County bar now
living, haveing been admitted in 1815-fifty-six years
ago.
[source: Daily Kennebec Journal, Feb.18, 1871
edition]
Rev. W.A. Newcomb of
South Berwick is prostrated by overwork, and his society has
granted him a three months rest.
[Source: Bath Independent. February 2, 1884
edition]
There are
several cases in the two cities of Biddeford and Saco where
children who were vaccinated a year ago, have not yet
recovered from the effects of the vaccination.
[Source:
Kennebec Daily Journal, Oct. 4, 1882
edition]
Solution of
the Joy-McCarty MysteryThe Saco
Independent contains the following:
“At 1 o’clock
p.m. Sunday last Israel E. Emmons, while walking on the
seashore, found a dead body on Whitney’s Neck, about four
miles southwest of the Pool. The body was
very much decomposed and disfigured, so that the features
could not be indentified. On the way back with
the body they drove a little distance past Mrs. Joy’s house,
got out of their carriage, went back to the house, and the
Coroner asked Mrs. Joy if she could identify the clothing
which her husband had on at the time of his
disappearance.
She said she could describe his under clothes because
she made them.
She was then informed that they had a body supposed to
be that of her husband, and on examination she declared
instantly, “I knit those stockings and drawers.”- They agreed
exactly with the description she had given before she knew the
body was found.
In his pockets were found a three blade knife, a briar
wood pipe and a bunch of matches. The scalp was worn off
to the skull and the flesh was worn on the hands, showing that
the body had been in the water some time. Coroner Goodwin held
an inquest Monday, and on removing the sleeves from the right
arm, the name Henry L. Joy, was found printed with India ink
in large capital letters, in a semicircle, with the image of a
woman underneath, in accordance with the previous statements
of his wife. Thus
the identity of the body was completely developed, and the
mystery is solved as fully probably, as it will ever be on
earth. The
chemical analysis of the stomach of Mary McCarty disclosed no
trace of any poison, either mineral or vegetable, so that will
always remain in doubt whether it was a double suicide. The Coroner’s jury in
her case found that Mary McCarty came to her death at
Biddeford on the following the 21st day of March
last past at the hands of Henry L. Joy. Whether she came to
her death by actual violence or not, there’s no doubt that “in
fero conscintias”, Henry L. Joy was the guilty cause of her
death.
[source:
Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, May 11, 1871
edition]
A gold ring
bearing the name of Sir William Pepperell has been unearthed
at Lancaster, N.H.
It bears the date of Sir Williams death which occurred
at Kittery in 1759 and was probably a mourning ring. It was no doubt lost
in the field a hundred years or more
ago.
[source:
Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, June 9, 1886
edition]
CLAIMS
OLE BULL'S ISLAND
Estate was bequeathed to a Swiss
child by the famous violinist's daughter:
Ralph s.
Bartlett, who was counsel for Mrs. Olea Bull Vaughan, only
child of the late Ole Bull, the famous violinist, successfully
contested the will of Mrs. Bull in the probate court of York
County Maine, last summer, recently left on board the
steamship Franconia for Liverpool on his way to file Mrs.
Vaughn's will at Bergen, Norway, the New York Herald's Boston
correspondent says.
Mr. Bartlett is executor for the
will of Mrs. Vaughan, and he and Miss Amelia Shapleigh of West
Lebanon, ME., are co-trustees for Sylvia Vaughan, the adopted
daughter of Mrs. Vaughan and the principal beneficiary under
Mrs. Vaughan's will.
The reason that the will of Mrs.
Vaughan is to be offered for record in Bergen is that the only
foregn real estate which she possessed is the Island of
Lysoen, near Bergen. Ole Bull owned this island, which
is said to be one of the most beautiful in the world. It
is in a fjord about twenty-two miles from Bergen, and consists
of about seven hundred acres of land, largely forest. Ole Bull
in his lifetime developed two fresh water lakes and a cave and
laid out twenty miles of paths on the island.
Lysoen
was left by Mrs. Vaughan to the little Swiss girl, Sylvia,
whom she adopted a couple of years ago, but on Sylvia's death
Lysoen is to be preserved by the Norwegian government as a
memorial to Ole Bull.
The exact procedure which will be
followed in Norway with respect to the case is a matter of
uncertainty, because under the Norwegian law no foreigner can
own real estate in that country without the written consent of
the king,.
[source: The Bemidji Daily Pioneer,
February 7, 1912 edition]
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