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An Act to Grant a New Charter to the City of Bangor : March 24, 1915

Maine Legislature, House of Representatives
Indian Schools: An Exposure

Richard Henry Pratt

Opening lines:

I am asked to talk to you for thirty minutes about Indian Schools.

I speak from wide, long, and varied experience with the Indians.

R.H. Pratt, Brigadier General, U.S.A.
Why Most of Our Indians are Dependent and Non-Citizen

Richard Henry Pratt

Address delivered by Brigadier General R.H. Pratt. Date and location of address are not known. Date is presumed to be between 1904 and 1915.
Bangor's City Semi-Centennial Reminiscences

Charles P. Roberts

A collection of short articles originally published in the Bangor Daily Whig and Courier May 2, 1885, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the incorporation of Bangor as a city. These articles covering an assortment of social, political, and cultural highlights in Bangor's first half-century.

Charles P. Roberts served as editor of the Bangor Evening Times during the Civil War and as superintendent of Bangor schools in the late 1860s to 1877.

Bangor Public Library Director Mary H. Curran transcribed these articles from the newspaper articles in July 1915 and added them to collection of the Bangor Public Library.

Several obituaries for Mr. Roberts from Bangor and Boston (where he resided upon death) are included. Mr. Roberts died in December 1914.
Dedication Week at Hebron

W. E. Sargent

Opening paragraph:

The country is the ideal location for a Christian academy. More especially is this true in the present day, when the unhealthy tendency is so irrestibly toward the pilin up of the population in the great cities. Hebron Academy, three miles from the railway station in West Minot, on one of the high hill summits of Oxford County, Maine, with the White Mountain range and Mt. Washington in full view forty-five miles away, could not be more beautifully situated.
Maine as a Winter Resort

Arthur G. Staples

Closing paragraph:

Our sun is as bright as theirs; our skies as blue, our snow as clean and pure, our hills as steep, our air as rich in ozone and in life. Yes, our winter in Maine is as wondrous in beauty as that of the Alps or of Norway. We have the winter; we have always had it; we always will have it. The day will never come to Maine when, from Christmas almost to Easter, there will not be the crisp frosty dawns, so familiar to all of us, when the sled runners cry aloud as they pass down the road. There is nothing else in all the world so beautiful as a mid-winter day in Maine, with its dawn full of protest, its noon blazing in the sunlight, its sunset golden on the gleaming western hills, and its nights, with the snows glistening to the moon, and the pathway of the old country road stretching from your feet away into glory. This is the land of all the best of the white gods of winter. It is for us to appreciate it; to foster it; to spread about the truth concerning its health-giving properties; to convert its ancient liability and loss not only into a present asset but an increasing gain; to help it build up and invigorate new races of men and women, who shall stir and energize mankind. We must learn to love winter, talk of its beauties when we are at home or abroad, to describe truthfully its poetry and its loveliness. Then, with big and beautiful hotels, with civic sports and other increasing devotion to outdoor life, we shall see winter do its proper share towards enriching us commercially, as well as physically and spiritually .
Resolutions adopted by the Ancient and accepted Scottish Rite of freemasonry at Denver, Colorado, Monday, May 18th, 1914

Scottish Rite (Masonic order)

Opening:

WHEREAS: During the past several months, there has existed in the coal mining districts of our State, a condition of insurrection against the lawful authority of our State Government, wherein several thousand misguided, and largely unnaturalized men, speaking more than twenty different languages, unacquainted with the true principles of constitutional government, consisting in part of veteran soldiers of the recent foreign wars, armed with high-power rifles; incited, led-on and financially sustained by agitators and professional trouble makers, mostly nonresidents of our State, possessing no property or other interests in our Commonwealth; have bid opendefiance to authority of our State, murdered many men and created a reign of terror in the said mining districts and have destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property.
Bangor Automobile Club Bulletin

Bangor Automobile Club

This bulletin is the compilation of notes, reports on bad stretches of roads, and general news for autoists submitted from 1913 to 1918 from drivers around Bangor and the Bangor area. These bulletins would inform drivers about potential road problems, alternate routes, and recommendations for good places to drive for views and leisure. W. A. Hennessy served as editor for the bulletin.
An Amendment to the Present Bangor City Charter: 1913

City of Bangor, Maine

Sample:

Section 1: That the inhabitants of the Town of Bangor shall continue to be a body politic and corporate by the name of the City of Bangor, and, as such, shall have, exercise and enjoy all the rights, immunities, powers, privileges and franchises, and shall be subject to all the duties and obligations now appertaining to, or incumbent on said town, as a municipal corporation, or appertaining to or incumbent upon the inhabitants or officers thereof.
A Revision of the Present Charter of the City of Bangor: 1913

City of Bangor, Maine

The important features of the revision of the present charter of the City of Bangor are, in the main, as follows: The elimination of the comrnon council. Full appointive powers to the mayor. Provision for an auditor and purchasing agent. Initiative and Referendum. Recall. Provision for municipal ownership and control of public utilities. The Police Department. Tlie Water Board. The Public Library and Hersey Fund.
Andersonville

John W. Elarton

"Recently touring the southern states, 1912-1913 having visited viz: Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana. After studying the sentiment of an organization, the "United Daughters of the Confederacy," numbering about 40,000 women who have organized an aggressive country-wide society, one object has been to erect a monument at Andersonville to the memory of Captain Henri Wirz to eulogize and vindicate his conduct at that notorious prison, with its false inscriptions, terming him a martyr, has prompted us to publish this album of views, taken by the author, a professional photographer, having made a special trip for the purpose of publishing this notorious stockade prison."

J.W. Elarton, 1913
Farm and Mill in Maine Suffer in the Democratic Tariff: Discrimination Against New England -- Speech of Hon. Frank E. Guernsey of Maine in the House of Representatives, April 24, 1913

Frank Edward Guernsey

Speech presented in opposition to H.R. 3321, a tariff duty and revenue bill, which Guernsey felt would unjustly affect Maine agricultural industries.
Sing Sing Must Go [Bulletin Number Four, Prison Association of New York]

O. F. Lewis

If our courts, by their defective or unjust procedure, send anti-social, sullen men and women to prison, so much the worse for the State. If our prisons make their inmates inveigh justly against the iniquity of the State in housing or guarding or feeding them, so much the worse for the State. The great problem facing the administration of criminal law and of correctional institutions today is exactly the question of meeting out justice to all; not the justice that is necessarily found in the penal code, for that may prove most unjust at times, but the great justice based on the best conceptions of human brotherhood, which in prison develops often to a surprising extent, and which perhaps may be largely the key to the solution of the problem of the reduction of crime.
Bangor Building Review (The Industrial Journal, December 1913)

The Industrial Journal

An issue of the Industrial Journal focusing on the construction of new buildings in Bangor following the fire of April 1911. Most of the buildings are still standing today (late 2017) including the Bangor Public Library, the old Bangor High School, Bangor Savings Bank (on State Street), many churches, and many business buildings.
Home Welfare Movements: Bangor Kindergarten Mothers' Meetings, 1912-1913

Bangor Maine School Department

The Teacher's Purpose

We, as teachers, owe Bangor our best efforts to train physically, mentally and morally every child who come under our care. We cannot do it without the cooperation of the parents. It is our purpose First: to help parents to realize the importance of training at home and Second: to help parents realize the importance of their own intellectual life.
Getting Acquainted with Bangor, Maine

Board of Trade Journal

It is with combined pleasure and pride that we present to the Journal readers this month the story of Bangor, the Queen City of the East; a city coming out of her ashes more queenly than ever before. We say with pleasure and pride because it is a real pleasure to be able to speak well of friends, and Bangor and Portland are becoming closer friends as they become better acquainted, and too, the whole state viewed with pride the sp'endid "Maine spirit" evinced by the citizens of Bangor when they met the calamity of 1911, when some $4,000,000 worth of her best business and residential property melted away in a mighty conflagration.

The writer was on the scene within twentyfour hours of the inciclent and was much impressed by the buoyant spirit evident on all sides. As one man put it: "It is a severe loss but in the end is going to prove a mighty good thing for Bangor. lt is going to afford her a much-desired opportunity to develop a city-planning scheme which otherwise would have been impossible, and you are going to see a bigger, better and more beautiful Bangor come of these ashes than would have seemed possible two days ago.'' How well the city has lived up to this statement of one of her citizens, you members of the State Board, in session here today , hear personal witness.
Bangor, Maine: A City of Progress

C.H. Glass & Co.

Sample paragraph:

Bangor is recognized as one of the busiest and most progressive cities in New England. In no other eastern city does the so-called "western spirit" prevail to such an extent as in Bangor. The conflagration of 1911 which did damage to the amount of $4,000,000 has served to cement the common interests and Bangor is building and booming in a manner which has evoked wide commendation. The new Bangor will be even better and busier city than the old.
Souvenir of Trinidad

Mary Freeman Crabbe

Sample text:

Who shall tell the tale of the manifold attractions of Trinidad, after Kingsley's wonderful pen-pictures of the Island in "At Last"? No man had a keener eye for the picturesque and the beautiful than Charles Kingsley, poet, parson, author and naturalist. Perhaps no scenery in the world has been accorded more unstinted, and yet just, praise than that Trinidad received from the magic pen of the author of " Westward, Ho! " lf, therefore, you would read of the charms of Trinidad -- and they are legion -- read ''At Last.''
The liberty pole: a tale of Machias

Charles P. Illsley

Opening Paragraphs of Chapter 1:

On an evening in the latter part of April, 1775, a number of persons were collected in a small tavern in the town of Machias. A day or two previous the inhabitants had received the proclamation of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, authorizing and requiring preparations and efforts to be made incident to a state of hostility. The people of Machias had, from the first, been strenuously opposed to the usurpation of the British government; and the sole topic of conversation, whenever a few met together, was this exciting subject. On the evening in question a much larger number than usual had assembled to talk over the stirring news recently received from Boston.

Conspicuous among the rest were two young men, brothers, by the name of O'Brien, sons of Morris O'Brien, who came to this country from Cork, in Ireland. Seated around the ample fireplace, enjoying their pipes and cans, the all-engrossing topic of the hour was canvassed by one and all.

At last the elder of the brothers, Jeremiah O'Brien, spoke out: "Well, neighbors, what do you think of this rumor that is flying about?"

"What rumor do you allude to?" asked a man by the name of Foster, who sat near by, and who held the dignified office of colonel in the militia.

"Why, that the first blow has been struck, colonel, and American blood spilt at Lexington and Concord."
Catalogue: Noyes & Nutter Manufacturing Company 1912

Noyes & Nutter Manufacturing Company

Description

"In presenting to the trade our catalogue of furnaces, ranges, stoves, sinks, hollow ware, etc., etc., we desire to give you something which will be a help in ordering goods. We wish you to bear in mind the fact that a personal examination of the goods themselves will give you a better idea of the quality and workmanship of all goods of our manufacture, no matter how nearly perfect the illustrator's art is."

Pamphlet contains black and white illustrations of products, including stoves, furnaces, ranges, pots, pans, and more manufactured by the Noyes & Nutter Manufacturing Company of Bangor, Maine, at its foundry on Dutton Street in Bangor.
Forest tavern: a State of Maine story

James Perrigo

Opening Paragraphs:

A long reach of dusty road shut in by "the forest primeval," rising abruptly over the steep crest of some great hill, and anon sinking into the depths of a shadowy valley or skirting the base of a wooded mountain.

On this hot, dusty July day, with not enough of a breeze to stir the branches of the solemn pines, Jake Brown, the driver of the Fort Kent stage, finding his load of freight unusually heavy, felt obliged to give his two sorry looking horses a "breather" now and then. At last as he paused at the foot of a long steep hill, one of his passengers, a young man of about twenty-four years, sprang to the ground expressing his determination to walk up the hill and thus ease the horses.

Slowly the tired horses ascended the hill, the two men walking alongside, while a garrulous old Frenchwoman, the only passenger remaining inside, kept scolding about the heat in unintelligible Madawaska patois.
Three Bangor Novels

Burt L. Standish and Gilbert Patten

Three short novels with Bangor as the setting by Burt L. Standish from Top Notch Magazine from 1912. Burt L. Standish was the pen name of Corinna, Maine, native Gilbert Patten. The novels are: Bainbridge of Bangor, The Portals of Chance, and Crucial Fire.
Bridge Across Penobscot River Between Bangor and Brewer, Maine: 1912

United States Congress, 62nd Congress

Report No. 947 by the 62nd Congress, 2nd Session, of the United States Senate, and Report No. 1046 by the 62nd Congress, 2nd Session, of the United States House of Representatives from July 1912 discussing the need for construction by the federal government of a bridge over the Penobscot River between Bangor and Brewer.
Bangor Post Office Greetings to the 5th United National Association of Post Office Craftsmen in Bangor, April 19, 1911

Bangor Maine Post Office

Lists Postmasters of Bangor dating from 1803 to 1911 and a timeline of mail milestones in Bangor and surrounding communities.
The Bangor Fire, April 30, 1911: A True Story of the Fire

Michael J. Callinan

"April Thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Eleven, dawned clear and bright on the historic old city of Bangor. It was the first Sunday of the year to show signs of the joyousness of Spring and throughout the day hundreds of pleasure seekers thronged the streets. No sign of the coming catastrophe marred the happiness of the young or the contentment of the old. It was a day of beauty and the horror of its aftermath was beyond conjecture.

Shortly after four o'clock in the afternoon an alarm of fire was nmg from Box 24, the origin of which will remain unaccountable, calling the fire department to the burning hay shed of ]. Frank Green on Broad street. Hundreds thronged to view the spectacle of the blazing building, little dreaming that from this small beginning a conflagration, covering an area of over sixty acres, would result. Chief Mason soon realized the danger of the situation on account of the high wind and sent in a call for the remainder of the fire apparatus. Several small fires in the immediate vicinity of the hay shed were quickly extinguished and it appeared to the casual observer that the fire was under control. Some of the people were leaving the scene of the Broad street blaze, when the sight of fire on Exchange street, in the building occupied by the Telephone Exchange, arrested their movements for a time."