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The first number of the Bangor Weekly Register is dated Saturday, November 25, 1815. The size of the printed page was 16 1/2 by 10 inches, four columns to the page. The announcement by the editor was:

"The Register gives no predilection to either political party; its columns equally invite the well written productions and creditable statements of both. The object of this paper is to be a faithful chronicle of the passing events and current news and not a receptacle of party obloquy and personal abuse. No pains will be spared to select the most important official publication; the ablest essays or national economy, agricultural enterprise and mechanical ingenuity and the most judicious remarks on political events. Its columns also will be interspersed with specimens of eloquence and of taste, with biographical sketches, occasional memoirs, and such other compositions, moral and literary as may subserve the cause of liberty, virtue and religion."

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1915

City

Bangor, Maine

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Bangor Maine, newspapers, Bangor Weekly Register

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The dinner was held Saturday, November 27, 1915, at the Bangor House.

Contains a listing of Bangor newspapers and periodicals to date.

Speakers at the dinner included Robert Lincoln O'Brien (Boston Herald), Oliver L. Hall (Bangor Commercial), Arthur G. Staples (Lewiston Journal), Frederick G. Fassett (Waterville Sentinel), George W. Norton (Portland Express), and Roland P. Gray (Professor of English, University of Maine).

Newspapermen's Dinner: In Observance of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Publication of the Initial Issue of Bangor's First Newspaper, The Bangor Weekly Register

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