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Queen City of the East
C.S. Woolworth & Co.
Introduction
Bangor, Maine, the "Queen City of the East," a city of surpassing natural beauty and advantages, enhanced by many magnificent buildings, artistic homes, and handsome lawns, is universally recognized as the business center of Eastern Maine, and is rapidly coming to the front as the Metropolis of the Northeast.
Bangor had its birth in 1769, when John Buswell, a sturdy Massachusetts farmer, brought his wife and nine children into the Maine forests and located at the junction of the Kenduskeag and Penobscot Rivers, near the present site of St.John's Catholic Church. Each succeeding year saw new families added to the little flock in the wilderness, until at the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, Kenduskeag Plantation, as it was then called, numbered 75 souls. On February 25, 1791, the Rev. Seth Noble had the town incorporated under the name of Bangor, from the title of an old, familiar hymn, and in 1834 the town became a city with a population of about 8000.
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Three able addresses delivered before the State Board of Trade at Bangor, Maine, March 25th, 1902
Maine State Board of Trade
Contents
Maine canning industry / B.M. Fernald
Maine as a vacation state / Leroy T. Carleton
Maine primitive and modern industry / J.W. Penney
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20th Annual Report of the Temporary Home for Women and Children of Maine
Temporary Home for Women and Children of Maine
The twentieth year of the Temporary Home for Women and Children has passed, and the institution, planted in weakness, nurtured under reproach, and kept alive only by untiring effort, has become firmly established as one of the well-organized charities of the State, with a record entitling it not only to respect and honor from the people, but to an annual appropriation from the State treasury to carry on its work.
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Boston and Bangor Steamship: Season of 1900
Boston and Bangor Steamship Company
Pamphlet for the Boston and Bangor Steamship Company for 1900. Contains daily schedules, rates for transport, diagrams of the ship, a map of routes for the steamship, and more.
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The Penobscots
Charles A. Dillingham
Sample text:
There were estimated to have been 37,000 native Indians in Maine in 1615. The Tarratines were a numerous, powerful and warlike people, more hardy and brave than their western enemies.
They lived on friendly intercourse with the Abenaques tribes until about 1615-16, when the great war of violence, revenge and extermination broke out between them, continuing for two years. The consequences of this war were famine, distress, and a pestilence, or plague, which was wide-spread and exceedingly fatal. It was considered by some to have been small pox; by others, yellow fever.
For six or seven years prior to 1669, a bloody and exterminating war raged between the New England Indians and the Mohawks. The latter were victorious and pursued the Tarratines to the Penobscot, burned their villages and did other damage.
The Tarratines have probably at different times changed the situation of their principal village. At the mouth of the Kenduskeag, they had a common resting place to which they were from habit strongly attached. A league above the mouth of Kenduskeag stream. and near the westerly bank of the Penobscot were undoubted appearances of an old Indian village.
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The Worst Atheism: An Address Delivered in the Unitarian Church, Houlton, Maine, October 14, 1900, by G.E. MacIlwaine, Minister in the Church
G. E. MacIlwaine
"To say of a man that. he is or was an atheist is the worst thing that organized religion can say about a man. Perhaps the man was a good man. Perhaps he was, so far as usefulness goes, the most useful man in the community. Perhaps he filled all the functions of a man in home, in society, everywhere. But he was an atheist."
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Bangor Local Postal Guide v.1 1899
Bangor Maine Post Office
"Way back in the days of 1790 there was a post office established in Wiscasset; that was, at that time, the most easterly office in this section, and Wiscasset was the market-town for all the surrounding country. The courts were held there and about all the business was done in Wiscasset. It was the recognized metropolis of the east. All mail for the eastern district of Maine was sent to Wiscasset. Persons living in Oldtown or Bangor, Hampden, Bucksport or Castine had to go there for their mail. From 1790 to 1797 George Russell was hired by private subscription to carry the mail between Wiscasset and Castine, stopping at Thomaston and Warren. These journeys were made on foot. The mail was carried in an old carpet bag. It generally took about ten days to make the trip."
This publication outlines with precise details and timelines other milestones in the history of a post office in Bangor and surrounding areas. A roster of clerks and carriers, locations of street collection boxes in Bangor, rules for mailing, advertisements for Bangor business, and more round out this insightful pamphlet.
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The City of Bangor: The Industries, Resources, Attractions and Business Life of Bangor and Its Environs
Edward Mitchell Blanding
Introduction
During the twenty-seven years the Bangor Board of Trade has been in existence there have been brought out under its auspices several publications setting forth industries and resources of Bangor, a city universally recognized as the business centre of Eastern Maine, and rapidly becoming to the front as a metropolis of the Northeast.
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Forest management in Maine
Austin Cary
Sample passage:
We must next observe that a large part of the State of Maine is destined to remain permanently wooded. The bulk of our population is now and will continue to be located in the lower southern part, where milder climate, abundant water power and areas-of fertile soil offer advantages. Again, there is a strip of land with easy topography and very fertile soil along the New Brunswick line in Aroostook County. Out of these areas indeed a large proportion is wooded, and some bodies of land included within them are of such a character that they never will be inhabited or cultivated. For the great district remaining, about half the area of the State, the same thing is true. It is high in the first place, and the season of growth is short. As a rule the topography is rough. and the soil poor. Considerable of it, indeed, is little more than ledges and piled up rocks.
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Libraries of Bangor
Mary H. Curran
Provides a detailed history of libraries in Bangor, Maine, dating from the Bangor Athenaeum in 1816 to the founding in 1883 of the Bangor Public Library. Includes the by-laws and rules of the Bangor Public Library as of 1898.
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A Great Need
Georgiana Webb Owen
Sample paragraph:
The great need of the Indian situation is the opening of doors by means of which the individual Indian can step out of reservation dependence into United States citizenship and legal existence wheneyer he desires to so.
Mrs. Georgiana Webb Owen
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Bangor, Maine (article from New England Magazine, April 1897)
Edward Mitchell Blanding
Bangor is picturesquely located at the head of navigation on the Penobscot, Maine's largest river. The city has had an interesting past; its present is auspicious; and a bright future surely awaits this "Down East" metropolis.
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The Penobscot Exchange
Fred G. Moon and James W. Cratty
The Penobscot Exchange Hotel on Exchange Street in Bangor, built in 1827 and remodeled a number of times, was a popular hotel in Bangor's history. Its proximity to Eastern Railway Station on the Bangor waterfront appealed to travelers. Fred G. Moon and James W. Cratty were the proprietors beginning in 1897 (according to the 1897-98 Bangor City Directory). This pamphlet is not dated, but date is estimated to be between 1897-1910 (Bangor city directories for this period indicate Moon & Cratty as proprietors). The pamphlet describes the accommodations offered and has several pictures of the rooms.
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15th Annual Report of the Temporary Home for Women and Children of Maine
Temporary Home for Women and Children of Maine
As we review the year since last we met in annual meeting, we see much that encourages, little that casts a shadow over our work. With those who have come under our care the life in the Home has been pleasant and happy. Trials, like April showers have passed over, leaving a bright sunshine behind with the bow of promise in some hearts which means a stronger effort to improve and make the best of the privileges given to them, possibly, for the first time in their lives. As we trace the lives of some of our girls, we see neglect, and temptation from early childhood; no tender mother-love to teach and guide; no father's strong arm to protect them; they have drifted along to young womanhood, when through the love which they have longed for, which should be the crown of woman's life, they have been betrayed, thrown aside, ruined. To us then comes the privilege of lifting them up, helping them outlive the past; to look upward, weaving in new threads of hope, courage, and steadfast purpose.
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A Partial History of the Woman's Christian Temperance Crusade of Bangor, Maine
Woman's Christian Temperance Crusade and L. B. Wheelden
Preface
When first asked to write a record of the work of the Crusade during the twenty-two years of its existence, it seemed almost an impossibility, as I had only been connected with the organization for a few years and felt myself utterly incompetent to attempt it; but throught the kindness of older members, especially the officers who had been connected with it from its first meeting, and the very excellent annual reports of former secretaries, I trust that I have been enabled to give to my readers a partial idea of the work accomplished by the temperance workers of our city and also of some of the obstacles encountered during that work. May the time speedily come when temperance will hold its proper place in the minds of all citizens having the good of the common wealth at heart, and when our fair city shall no longer be disgraced by over two hundred open rum shops, a stumbling block indeed to our fathers, husbands, and sons.
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New England Tourist, Volume 2, No.2, August 1896
New England Summer Resort Association
"In devoting this number of the TOURIST to scenes that appeal to the yachtsman, we are sure we shall receive the thanks of all who love the pleasures of boating.
These pleasures largely depend upon the course, and where is there a more ideal sailing course than the forty miles in Penobscot Bay between Owl's Head and Fort Point? The channel is from four to ten miles wide, very deep, and free from shallows or rocks. There are fine harbors every few miles, where the anchor can be dropped, and hotels are so frequent that every night can be spent on shore enjoying the social amenities which are always extended to yachtsmen. No class of visitors are so welcome as they, or more cordially entertained. This whole region is a paradise for boating men, and during August its waters are alive with the white sails of the yachts. The cruise usually ends at Bar Harbor, but the favorite anchorages are at Rockland and Camden. The view on the outside cover of this number of the TOURIST shows the fleet of the Eastern yacht club anchored in Camden Harbor in the lee of Sherman's Point."
A fantastic source of information and photographs about sailing and vacationing in the Penobscot Bay area from Bangor to Belfast to Camden to Rockland and many more points along the way.
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The Hussey Plow Co., North Berwick, Maine
Hussey Plow Company
An undated (but believed to be from 1895) catalog for the Hussey Plow Company of North Berwick, Maine.
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The Church Directory of Bangor and Brewer 1895
Arthur Jordan
Lists churches in Bangor and Brewer, Maine, circa 1895. Photographs of several churches and pastors are included, as are membership rosters for many churches. Advertisments for local business provide added historical context.
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A Course of Study for the High Schools of Maine
Maine Department of Education
Opening Paragraphs:
Teachers and school officers who use this Course of Study will find many valuable suggestions on the work in English in the papers read before the Cumberland County Teachers' Association at its annual meeting in 1895, several of which papers are reproduced in the succeeding pages of this Course.
Able discussions of this and other subjects taught in high schools will be found in the report of the Committee of Ten of the National Educational Association. The volume for 1895 of the Association of Colleges in the Middle States and Maryland also contains valualile reports in civics, history and English. Every high school teacher should make a thorough study of these documents.
The most of the children in the public schools do not expect to enter college. This large majority should receive the best fitting for life's work that the public schools can give them. They need the training and information that can be gained from history, Ianguage, sciene and mathematics. The English course in our Free High schools should have the ripest scholarship, the ablest teaching talent and the strongest personality in the teaching force of the school. Our institutions are not only based on the principle that majorities shall rule, but that they shall be served. English, rnathematics, history and the sciences must be so broadly and inspiringly taught that the boys and girls studying them in our high schools will be made strong to make the good things in life better.
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Art Work of Bangor, Maine
W.H. Parish Publishing Co
The title of "Art Work" is a bit of a misnomer. The work actually is primarily photographs from the late 1890s of Bangor, Hampden, Orono, Brewer, and Veazie. The text of the work is spaced throughout twelve volumes, which are presented here as a continuous 101 page work.
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Boston and Bangor Steamship Program of Concert Music in the Grand Saloon: June 16, 1894
Boston and Bangor Steamship Company
Concert given on the trial trip of the City of Bangor Steamer to Boston. George C. Gott conductor of the orchestra.
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