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Bangor Hydro Electric News: December 1938: Volume 8, No.12 -- Christmas Issue
Bangor Hydro Electric Company
"The good old Christmas spirit burst upon the Company in full force as the excited voices of 170 children echoed though offices and halls. Christmas carols, the hum of mechanical toys, and gay notes from many harmonicas seemed to blend into one happy Yuletide song as the management of Hydro entertained the children, from 2 to 12 years of age, of all divisions in the Bangor division."
Many photographs from the party are included, as is the original invitation to the staff party.
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Bangor Hydro Electric News: January 1938, v.7, No.1 -- Veazie Station Number Issue
Bangor Hydro Electric Company
A detailed history of the Veazie plant and dam is presented, are profiles and photographs of employees of the station.
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Bangor Hydro Electric News: June 1938: Volume 7, No.7, Eastport Issue
Bangor Hydro Electric Company
Provides a history of Eastport and profiles the employees of the Eastport office of Bangor Hydro Electric Company
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Bangor Hydro Electric News: November 1938: Volume 8, No.11, Bangor Meter Department Issue
Bangor Hydro Electric Company
"There is something more than just training and education and environment that makes one man a good engineer and another man a clever merchant; one woman an accomplished seamstress and the next a cook with a reputation. Same are "born" engineers, "born" merchants or "born" cooks.
Probably we all start thinking from the same point, the same zero hour or call it what you will. You think along one angle and I think along another, and, remember, there are 360 degrees on the compass. That doesn't mean that we have to think in opposite directions. It may be that we just don't quite see eye to eye.
All of which leads to the statement that without doubt 99.9 per cent of our customers think that the meters we install in their homes or places of business are such complicated pieces of mechanism that a man must have six or eight University or Technical Institution diplomas before he can look a meter in the face without going dizzy."
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Bangor Hydro Electric News: October 1938: Volume 8, No.10: Bangor Meter Readers Issue
Bangor Hydro Electric Company
Articles about and photographs of the meter readers of Bangor Hydro Electric Company.
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Bangor Hydro Electric News: September 1938: Volume 7, No.9, Harrington Issue
Bangor Hydro Electric Company
Features a history of Harrington, many photographs of the Harrington sites and buildings of the time, and the announcement of Reddy Kilowatt joining the Bangor Hydro team.
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Edward M. Graham: February 23, 1913 - February 23, 1938
Bangor Hydro-Electric Company
A book of photographs of employees circa 1938 of Bangor Hydro-Electric Company presented to company president Edward M. Graham on the occasion of Mr. Graham's twenty-five years of service to the company.
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Bangor Hydro Electric News: April 1937: Volume 6, No.4, Quarter Century Club Issue
Bangor Hydro Electric Company
Profiles dozens of long-time employees of the Bangor Hydro Electric Company.
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Bangor Hydro Electric News: December 1937: Volume 6, No.12 -- Christmas Issue
Bangor Hydro Electric Company
Sample paragraph:
"Such a panaramic picture brings to mind the inevitable comparison of today and yesterday. Of the advances made by civilization, from the time of that first Xmas illuminated by that brilliant star. From then until a comparatively few years ago, illuminated decoration was accomplished with wax candles. Hundreds of lives every year was the price exacted by sudden fires. Then the color scheme was a pale yellow shingin on green wreaths or glass ornaments. Now we get any effect that we desire by proper choice of colored light bulbs. The flexibility and safeness of electricity not only for Christmas lighting but as a household servant cannot be over-emphasized. And as yet we know comparitively little of what electricity can be made to do."
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Bangor Hydro Electric News: March 1937: Volume 6, No.3, Commercial Department Issue
Bangor Hydro Electric Company
Includes the announcement of new home construction projects by Bangor Hydro in Bangor, including on Royal Road -- a picture of a home at 114 Royal Road is featured on the December 1937 cover of Bangor Hydro Electric News.
"Early this week construction is being started on the first Kelvin Home in Maine. It is being erected by the Bangor Hydro-Electric Company, end as announced by President Edward M. Graham, its completion will help to point the way toward moderate cost homes that will offer the latest and most modern facilities for cutting the cost of better living. This first Kelvin Home will be located on Royal Road in the Fairmount section of Bangor. Charles R. Gordon is the real estate agent and William H. McPherson is the contractor-builder.
Mr. Graham and other officials have inspected several of the Kelvin Homes erected in other sections of the country and at Detroit they have seen the results of study by Kelvinator'e own research and engineering departments in their work with a number of the country's leading architects and builders. This home will have efficient, economical equipment for year 'round air-conditioning, electric cooking, refrigeration, and water heating and is so designed and constructed that it should cost the family living in this new home no more that it would cost the same family to live in an ordinary house."
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Bangor Hydro Electric News: May 1937: Volume 6, No.5: Electricians, Meter Department, and Warehouse Issue
Bangor Hydro Electric Company
Includes the words to the Bangor Hydro Song:
Bangor Hydro Song (To tune "Among My Souvenirs") This Bangor Hydro crowd / Will raise their voices loud / With Joy and glee to be here on thls glorlous day / Our friendships stand the test / Our men are of the beat / Our girls will alwayes be within our memorles / We all work with a will / Wishes we try to fill / And we all do our best / For perfect satisfaction / This happy company / In many years to be / Will live in memory among our souvenirs
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Bangor Hydro Electric News: October 1937: Volume 6, No.10: Carbarn Number
Bangor Hydro Electric Company
Covers the history of the carbarn [the garage for the street cars of the Bangor Street Railway] as well as featuring several pictures of the workers responsible for every aspect of the street cars, from the stockkeeper to the iron workers to the blacksmith to the electricians and the carpenters and the mechanics.
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Bangor Hydro Electric News: August 1936, Volume 5, No.8 -- Annual Employee Outing Issue
Bangor Hydro Electric Company
Describes the festivities of the annual employee outing/retreat at Lucerne-In-Maine.
Also includes reprints of an August 27, 1936, Bangor Daily News article detailing Bangor Hydro forming the first mobile relief unit in the state and the second in the entire United States.
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Bangor Hydro Electric News: July 1936, Volume 5, No.7
Bangor Hydro Electric Company
"The S S Iroquis caused quite a bit of excitement last Sunday morning when it ran aground on Bald Porcupine Island right outside of Bar Harbor The Shore Path and Water front were crowded all day with people from everywhere who had rushed here to see the huge liner run aground. Many thought it would be a matter of days before the ship could possibly be floated again, but at five p.m., with the help of full tide and the U.S.S. Owl, which was stationed here as mail base for President Roosevelt who is vacationing in Maine, the huge liner was pulled off the island very little damaged.
As this paper goes to press, Bar Harbor is all agog trying to locate President Roosevelt who is reported to be dining at various places on the Island. The town is crowded with reporters, camera men, and secret service men but to date nothing definite has been found out."
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Bangor Hydro Electric News: June 1936, Volume 5, No.6
Bangor Hydro Electric Company
Pages 15-16 are damaged. Page 2 is either missing or mislabeled. Page 8 offers a reciped for spinach pancakes. We have not tried this recipe; cannot vouch for its quality.
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Bangor Hydro Electric News: March 1936: Volume 5, No.3
Bangor Hydro Electric Company
Includes many photographs of electric lines in Bangor damaged by rising water and ice along the Penobscot River.
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Bangor Hydro Electric News: October 1936: Volume 5, No.10 -- Street Railway Issue
Bangor Hydro Electric Company
Sample paragraphs:
"The picture on the cover of this month's magazine shows the type of cars used when the Bangor Street Railway first started, back in the '90's.
Mr. Johnson, Superintendent of Transporteaion, states that the motorman shown on the front platform of the car was Capt. Joe Wentworth who was the first motorman to operate on electric car in the city of Bangor, and as Bangor was the second city in the United States to have an electric street railway, Capt. Wentworth was, no doubt, the second man to operate an electric car in the United States. Capt. Joe also helped to erect the trolley wire for the Bangor Street Railway before the cars were put in operation."
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Bangor Hydro Electric News: January 1935, Volume 4, No.1
Bangor Hydro Electric Company
Details the operations undertaken by Bangor Hydro to supply power to the Great Northern Paper Company in East Millinocket.
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Edward M. Graham: February 23, 1913 - February 23, 1933: Special Party Number
Bangor Hydro-Electric Company
A brief pamphlet commemorating the 20th anniversary of Edward M. Graham's role as President of the Bangor Hydro-Electric Company. A drawing list all the invitees to a party in Graham's honor. The hire date at Bangor Hydro-Electric Company for each invitee is listed.
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Notices of the Bangor Railway and Electric Company: 1920-1932
Bangor Hydro-Electric Company
The internal notices and memos of the Bangor Railway and Electric Company (which later evolved into Bangor Hydro-Electric Company). These notices and memos were addressed to the company's trolley car motormen and operators. Purposes of notices include instructions for collecting fares, operating cars safely, reminding operators of danger areas in Bangor, procedures and rules of the company, and more.
Sample from October 27, 1920:
"As most of you are aware, during the past week and ten days, I have had numerous interviews with Conductors and have made a careful study of the methods of fare collection, and I discovered that many of our Conductors were in collusion with passengers to defraud. I sincerely trust that all Conductors are now collecting fares as they know it ought to be done, but it seems fitting that your attention should be called to the true situation as forcibly as I am able."
[There appears to be a volume 1 to this collection. Bangor Public Library was donated a sizable amount of documents from the Bangor Hydro-Electric Company archives. As yet, we have not archived each piece. If we find this volume 1, we will add it to our online collection].
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Bangor Hydro Electric News: December 1930, Volume 3, No.9 -- Sales Department Issue
Bangor Hydro Electric Company
Lists dozens of sales employees who competed in the annual lamp sales campaign. Colby Foss of Ellsworth sold 4,394 lamps to win the competition. George White of Bangor finished second with 4,089 lamps sold. Others in the competition sold as few as 6, so one wonders at the sales secrets of Foss and White.
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Bangor Hydro Electric News: January 1929: Volume 2, No.2 -- New Headquarters Issue
Bangor Hydro Electric Company
Photographs and narration detailing the new headquarters for Bangor Hydro Electric Company at the corner of State and Exchange Streets in Bangor, Maine.
Bangor Hydro-Electric News was a monthly publication of Bangor Hydro Electric Company, which began in 1928 and ran to at least 1940. BH-E News should be of particular interest to those who have relatives who worked for Bangor Hydro during this time period, as many photographs are included in each issue and company personnel are named throughout these monthly reports. BH-E News covers not only the internal history of the Bangor office, but also regularly includes updates from offices in Harrington, Eastport, Ellsworth, Milford, Old Town, Lincoln, Machias, Bar Harbor, and elsewhere Bangor Hydro had offices. Individual issues of BH-E News often focus on projects of the company, offering photographs which reveal the history of electricity and railway systems in Bangor and in rural and seaside communities of Maine. [We intend to include all issues we own -- we do knowingly lack some issues as of April 2018].
Also found here are other papers relating to the Bangor Street Railway, also known as the Bangor Railway and Electric Company, which merged with Bangor Hydro Electric Company in 1924.
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