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The Bangor Fire: Dedicated to the People who Lost Their Homes on Sunday, April 30th, 1911
John C. Friend
A twelve stanza poem about the fire of April 30, 1911, in Bangor, Maine. Publication date is not noted; presumed to be 1911 or 1912.
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The advantages of Maine for electrochemical industries
C. Vey Holman
Sample Passage:
Maine's invitation to both capital and labor is hearty, and should be attractive. Nowhere on Earth can be found a more intelligent, more enterprising or more thrifty people than constitute her citizenry, and their hospitality to both the transient sojourner and the permanent settler is unfeigned and unstinted.
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Courtesy as an Asset
Elbert Hubbard
Extols the virtuous courtesy demonstrated to passengers by the railway employees on the Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh Railway. Serves primarily, however, as a general treatise on manners for society as a whole, advising, among many other suggestions, "do not join the Knockers' Klub; and avoid all fellowship with the folks who are trying to wear the face off a clock," "never conceal unfinished work under blotters, in pigeonholes or drawers, depending on memory to find it," and "to gibe visitors, or to give fresh and flippant answers, even to stupid or impudent people, is a great mistake."
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An Emergency Report for Bangor, Maine (article from Landscape Architecture)
Landscape Architecture
Article focuses on the damage and planned recovery from the April 30, 1911, fire in Downtown Bangor. Article written by Fletcher Steele, one of the architects tasked with the post-fire recovery.
Opening paragraph:
Among the interesting reports that have been prepared on the subject of Civic Improvements during the last few years, the recommendations that were made for Bangor, Maine, are unique. On April 30, 1911, fifty-five acres, extending from the heart of the business district nearly to the outskirts of the city through a good residence district, was devastated by fire. One hundred business blocks, two hundred and eighty-five dwellings, the Library, High School, seven churches, and many magnificent trees, were swept away.
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Railroad Valuation: Report of the State Assessors to the 75th Legislature of Maine
Maine Board of State Assessors
To the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House:
We respectfully submit the following report in compliance with an order of the Legislature dated March 15th, 1909, "That the State Assessors be instructed to ascertain the actual value of all the railroad property in the State of Maine of all kinds, including franchises, real estate, bonds and stock and report to the next Legislature for the purpose of taxation."
We have endeavored to place a reasonable construction upon the direction contained in this order, and from the discussion which preceded its passage in both branches of the Legislature, and the fact that the avowed object of the order was for the purpose of taxation, we are led to believe that the Legislature did not intend to instruct the State Assessors to undertake the impossible task of ascertaining the actual value of this railroad property, but rather that we should, in the light of all the information and facts that we could obtain report what we believed to be a just and reasonable value of the property of each railroad corporation employed in the operation of its business; such a valuation as is defined by the Constitution and laws of the State as the proper basis of taxation.
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Proposed Act for a Reformatory for Women: Maine Prison Association
Maine Prison Association
A proposed act for the laws to establish and enforce the imprisonment of women over the age of sixteen in Maine from 1911. Document does not indicate whether laws were enacted as proposed.
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Bangor City Plan: The Burned District
Warren H. Manning
Sample paragraphs:
Your Committee on Civic Improvement, appointed by the Mayor in accordance with a vote of the citizens of Bangor at a mass meeting held May 2, 1911, begs to submit the following report: This report combines the study which your Committee has made, and that made by Mr. Watren H. Manning, Landscape Designer, of Boston, who was retained by your Committee to advise them in the work.
Realizing the need of haste on account of our short building season, your Committee has confined its study entirely to the burned district, but hopes to be able to make reports on the outlying territory from time to time in the near future.
We have tried in this report to recommend only what we considered absolutely necessary to be done at the present time by the City, looking to the future. While we have suggested plans to beautify the City, we have, at the same time tried to make no recommendations that would not in the near future repay the City many fold for the immediate outlay recommended.
P.H. Coombs / J.P. Frawley / F.C. Bragg (Committee of Civic Improvement)
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The sheriff: a modern Maine story in which pride and politics, romance and rum are curiously intermingled
James Perrigo
Introduction
For over half a century the State of Maine has drawn the attention of the world because of its prohibitory law. Both advocates and opponents of license, local option, prohibition and every phase of the temperance question cease not to write and lecture about the " situation in Maine." One would suppose from the volume of public address and printed page on both sides of the question that has appealed to the patient public, that, at least, those who are interested, would by this date have understood the "prohibition situation in Maine." Yet, how could they, when from one source it is proclaimed that liquor is as easily obtained in Bangor as in Boston, from another it is as loudly announced that Maine is absolutely dry?
There is no man better qualified to present the real facts than the writer of this volume. In observation and experience, in business and politics, in consecration to a cause and participation in local and State contests, and in personal knowledge of the manipulations of wily politicians, he is conceded to be, by those who know him, an authority on this political prohibition puzzle that has baffled so many. He is capable of drawing a true picture of the facts and presenting the real political situation.
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Rumford Mechanics Institute, incorporated 1911, Rumford, Maine : building completed October, 1911 : building dedicated November 9, 1911
Rumford Mechanics Institute
Sample text:
The object for which the Rumford Mechanics Institute has been created is to furnish to the wage earners of Rumford the best quality of physical and mental, social and moral improvement, at the lowest cost, the cultivation of a more intimate acquaintanceship between the employed and the employer.
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Registered Automobiles and Dealers: State of Maine, January 1 - July 1, 1911
State of Maine
Provides a listing of automobiles registrations in the State of Maine. Each listing includes the owner's name and address, the registration number, the automobile manufacturer name, and the horsepower of the vehicle. Also listed are automobile dealers of the time in Maine in these towns: Waterville, Bath, Portland, Saco, South Paris, Ellsworth, Lewiston, Augusta, Farmington, Rumford, Old Orchard, Houlton, Fryeburg, Skowhegan, Bangor, Hartland, Hallowell, West Sullivan, Easton, Machias, Dexter, Rockland, Madison, and Livermore Falls.
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An Act to Provide for the Nomination of Candidates of Political Parties by Primary Elections
State of Maine, Secretary of State
Subtitle: Adopted by the qualified voters of the State of Maine at a special election held on the eleventh day of September, A.D. 1911, and on the twenty-eighth day of September, A.D. 1911 proclaimed by the Governor and to take effect thirty days after said proclamation.
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Public Building at Bangor, Maine: May 23, 1911
United State Senate
Sample:
The present site is on an island m the middle of the Kenduskeag River, running through the city of Bangor, and the Secretary also states in substance, in the same letter, it was necessary to protect the island on which this site is situated by very strong sea walls, as the flow of ice at the time of spring floods is a menace; that to put the present wall in suitable condition will require the entire appropriat of $60,000 made by Congress last year for that purpose, and when done will be useless unless adjoining property owners portect their river front in as substantial a manner. In addition to this amount there will be an expense of $30,000 to carry the foundations of the building down, so that in case of disastrous floods weakening the sea wall there would be no danger in undermining the building footings.
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Hearings Before the Subcommittee No.2 of the Public Buildings and Grounds Committee, House of Representatives, Friday, May 12, 1911 on H.R. 8766 (by Mr. Guernsey) Providing for the Purchase of a Site and the Erection of a Building Thereon at Bangor, Maine
United States House of Representatives
Sample portion:
In accordand with office telegram of May 6, 1911, directing a report of the fire damage to the United State Post Office and customhouse, Bangor, Me., I have to submit that the building and contents, with exception of foundation and heating plant, is a total loss. If reconstruction is contemplated on the present site the alls will have to be taken down to grade level. On the east and north sides, where the fire was most severe, the granite facing is spawled off almost to the backing, and likewise at openings on the south and west sides. The original building, built in 1856, was extended to the south in 1869 and the the north in 1904.
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Public Building at Bangor, Maine: August 7, 1911
United States House of Representatives
Sample portion:
The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds to which was referred the bill of the Senate (S. 2055) to provide for the erection of a public building at Bangor, Me., respectfully reports the same with the recommendation that the bill do pass. In the disastrous fire of April 30 of this year the Federal building at Bangor was destroyed with many other building of a large section of the city. So widespread was the disaster that adequate quarters can not be found even for the temporary accommodation of the Federal offices located in that city, which include the post office, the United States courts, the custom and internal-revenue service, the steamboat-inspection service, pension examiner, marine surgeon, and recruiting office. The post office is housed at present in the Y. M. C. A. building and the custom offices are located on the third floor of a dry goods store with no vault protection.
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Views of Bangor's Big Fire, April 30, 1911
Leyland Whipple
The Bangor Fire started in a hay shed on Broad Street, at 4:10 PM, Sunday, April 30, 1911. High wind carried burning brands diagonally across Kenduskeag Stream and ignited a shed in the rear of The Fairbanks Company, on Exchange Street, and almost at the same time one of the steeples of the Universalist Church on Center Street. In a few minutes the wooden buildings in the rear of Exchange Street were a furnace, the intense heat and flames from which, swept onward by the wind, fairly melted everything before them, leaping from one large block to another with great rapidity.
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The Coast of Picturesque Maine
Eastern Steamship Company and Consolidated Steamship Lines
Geographers tell us "that the coast cf Maine, if measured in a direct line, would be only 225 miles long; yet, such is its irregularity and indentation, that the shore line comprises more than 2,486 miles of seacoast," which is a greater extent than that of any other ocean-bordering state either on the Atlantic, the Pacific, or the Gulf of Mexico.
It is difficult to imagine, much more so to describe, a sea shore region of such vast extent, where the coast line is so rugged and so beautiful, where the islands are almost infinite in their number, size and variety, and where the numerous bays are veritable archipelagos. From Portland to Eastport, there is no spot on the Maine coast that is uninteresting, none that is unimportant from the viewpoint of the summer tourist.
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Some Good Will boys
George Walter Hinckley
Sample Paragraphs from the Introduction:
The chapters are written to illustrate the methods of dealing with boys, and in response to frequent requests for something in the pages of the Good Will Record which would show a variety of ways of treating erring boyhood.
Good Will, the scene of the simple incidents here related, is located at Hinckley, Maine; the railroad station is Good Will Farm; the property is the possession of the Good Will Home Association, a duly incorporated organization. The work of the Good Will Home Association is helping needy and imperiled boys to make honest, self-supporting and God-fearing men of themselves.
The Good Will schools have all the grades from the fifth, up, through the high school. Instruction is also given in wood working, basket making, iron working, weaving, modeling, mechanical and free hand drawing. Practical instruction is also regularly given to a few in running steam engines and boilers. We realize that in this age of increased educational facilities and of sharp competition in every line of human endeavor, a boy without education is placed at a great disadvantage through life and is almost sure to become merely one of the great army of unskilled toilers.
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City planning: an introductory address delivered by Fredrick Law Olmsted at the second National conference on city planning and congestion of population, at Rochester, New York, May 2, 1910. Department of City Making, Fredrick L. Ford, chairman, Hartford, Conn
Fredrick Law Olmstead
Opening lines:
This subject of City Planning, which we come hither to discuss in some of its varied aspects, is no recent development. There is hardly one of its principal phases that has not been represented as a practical art ever since cities themselves began to be; and as a science, as a subject for theoretical discussion, it is probably but little less ancient. Yet such a conference as this is a new sort of thing, and there is something new about the subject today to account for such a conference. This new thing is a growing appreciation -of the close and vitally important interrelations between these varied lines of activity; of the profound influence which activities carried on in one part of the field and with a view to one set of purposes may have upon the conditions in another part of the field.
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Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes: A celebrated malpractice suit in Maine
James Alfred Spalding
Introduction
Forty years ago the Maine Medical Association appointed a committee to investigate the legend, that ten years before, an important post-mortem examination had been performed on the body of a man, who had suffered many years from an alleged dislocation of the hip joint. The idea in trying to obtain a report of the examination was to discover information that might be of value to the profession in the diagnosis and treatment of such dislocation, in general, while additional interest attached to the case owing to the thirty-seven years that had elapsed since I the original injury. The committee failed to report; they could find nothing of the alleged examination, and to every physician in Maine it remained a myth.
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Pocket Guide for Bangor: December 15, 1909
Bangor Railway and Electric Company
Pamphlet functions primarily as a schedule for the Bangor Railway and Electric Company, providing locations and times for arrivals and departures. Included as well are schedules for Maine Central Railroad, Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, and the Eastern Steamship Company, advertisements for Bangor businesses, locations of doctors' offices, churches, civic organizations, schools, and more in Bangor, and much more.
A particularly telling advertisement is this one, for Bangor Railway and Electric Company: "If your office, store or house is not wired you probably found some objection to electricity the last time you looked into the question. Possibly the cost of wiring deterred you, or you thought the monthly bills might be more than you could afford. Electric lighting has recently made great advances, and, if you are not using it, you ought to investigate now. The Tungsten Lamp removes the objections of the most exacting. It gives nearly three times as much light as former (carbon) incandescent lamps for the same current and the quality of the light is greatly superior. Do not put off a matter of so much importance. Have your house wired this month. We will be glad to give you particulars."
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National Soldiers' Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Togus, Maine
Eastern Branch National Home of Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
"The Eastern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was established by act of Congress approved March 21st, 1866, on what was then known as the Togus Springs Estate, and the first member was admitted October 6th, 1866. It is located five miles to the eastward of the cities of Augusta, Hallowell and Gardiner; has an average membership of 2650 men; covers an area of 1894 acres, and is reached by the Lewiston, Augusta and Waterville Electric Railway from Augusta, and the Kennebec Central Railroad from Gardiner. Cost for land, buildings and permanent improvements, $704,596.89."
Booklet is almost exclusively photographs of the grounds circa (presumably) 1909. Photographs by Maine Farmer Publishing Company, Augusta, Maine.
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Handbook of Gasoline Automobiles: 1908
Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers
Opening Paragraph
The Hand Book of Gasoline Automobiles is issued annually by the Association of Licensed Automobile MIanufacturers in the interest of its members who are the leading American manufacturers of gasoline cars, their dealers and those interested in the purchase of a high-grade automobile. It has definitely taken its place as a permanent annual publication, and is the accepted standard authority on the subject with which it deals. In its illustrations and specifications are fully and correctly described the product of the leading American manufacturers of automobiles, as well as representing the leading importers of gasoline cars which are licensed under the Selden patent.
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