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Damage settlement letter
No full textThis the letter that accompanied a Treasury check to cover the damage to the Dakin Sporting Goods shop caused by the shooting on October 12, 1937.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_brady_img/1010/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Hydro Electric News: September 1938: Volume 7, No.9, Harrington Issue
Get PDFFeatures 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.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1022/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Hydro Electric News: December 1938: Volume 8, No.12 -- Christmas Issue
Get PDFThe 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.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1021/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Hydro Electric News: November 1938: Volume 8, No.11, Bangor Meter Department Issue
Get PDFThere 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\u27t mean that we have to think in opposite directions. It may be that we just don\u27t 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.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1023/thumbnail.jp
Castalia Tetragona in Salmon Brook Lake Bog
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For the past three or four years, I have had the privilege of accompanying Mr. Nylander on many of his field trips of exploration, and during the past summer I was with him on several trips to the locality known to the natives hereabout, as the Salmon Brook Bog. The purpose of these trips was to determine whether a small unknown pond lily still grew in the marshy inlet of Salmon Brook Lake. This lily, Castalia Tetragona, was discovered there many years ago by Mr. Nylander , who wished to check this previous discovery before printing the following article.
I am neither a botanist nor a geologist, but I have gathered some very definite facts from these trips with Mr. Nylander regarding the natural resources of Maine, and also about the man who really knows the plant life and mineral deposits of this section of the state. The work of publicizing and advertising the vast array of plants, fossils, and minerals collected by Mr. Nylander has begun, and a museum is soon to be built in the town of Caribou to house this collection. When this wealth of material is publicly displayed in proper surroundings, scientific minds will acclaim the discoveries and congratulated the discoverer, and you and i as laymen, will at least realize the industry and knowledge possessed by the man who made the collection.
Aroostook County will be better known and longer remembered because of the life and work of Olof O. Nylander.
A resident of Caribou, Maine, Walter Dale Currier
January 18, 1938https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1040/thumbnail.jp
Maine Invites You: 5th Edition [1937]
Get PDFWelcome Summer Visitor:
We are greatly pleased that you are considering Maine for your vacation -- a state that offers every opportunity for enjoyment at a cost surprisingly reasonable. You will find much information in this booklet.
Perhaps we can be of greatest assistance by finding the place to spend your vacation here in Maine at the price you want to pay. Is it a luxurious hotel, a moderate priced hotel, a camp in the big woods, a cottage by the sea or inland lake, A quiet farmhouse, an overnight camp or private house that is your preference -- tell us which it is that we may make further suggestions of interest.
Our tourist visitors constantly express surprise that so satisfactory a vacation can be enjoyed in Maine at such a moderate cost. It costs very little more than to stay at home-you can make it cost what you wish -- depending on whether you want to keep on the go or just laze around and enjoy doing so.
Harrie B. Coehttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1093/thumbnail.jp
Official annual, 1937, Civilian Conservation Corps, First CCC District, First Corps Area
Get PDFExcerpt from a message from the President of the United States to members of the CCC read over NBC network at 7:30 PM, Friday, April 17, 1936:
To the million and a half young men and war veterans who have been, or are today, enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps Camps, I extend greeting on this third anniversary of the establishment of the first CCC Camp.
Idle through no fault of your own, you were enrolled from city and rural homes and offered an opportunity to engage in healthful, outdoor work on forest, park and soil conservation projects of definite practical value to all the people of the nation. The promptness with which you seized the opportunity to engage in honest work, the willingness with which you have performed your daily tasks and the fine spirit you have shown in winning the respect of the communities in which your camps have been located, merits the admiration of the entire country. You, and the men who have guided and supervised your efforts, have cause to be proud of the record the CCC has made in the development of sturdy manhood and in the initiation and prosecution of a conservation program of unprecedented proportions.
Since the Corps began some 1,150,000 of you have been graduated, improved in health, self-disciplined, alert and eager for the opportunity to make good in any kind of honest employment. Our records show that the results achieved in the protection and improvement of our timbered domain, in the arrest of soil wastage, in the development of needed recreational areas, in wild life conservation and in flood control have been as impressive as the results achieved in the rehabilitation of youth. Through your spirit and industry it has been demonstrated that young men can be put to work in our forests, parks, and fields on projects which benefit both the nation\u27s youth and conservation generally.
Franklin D. Roosevelthttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1213/thumbnail.jp
Maine the Land of Remembered Vacations 1937
Get PDFFrom shimmering white sea sand of gently sloping beach to the rugged crest of inland mountain ; from placid lake waters to restless waves beating some off shore reef on the Atlantic ; from sturdy outline of pine and spruce to the delicate tracery of birch, poplar or elm; from romantic forest trail fast trod by Indian moccasin to modern concrete paved highways ; from the bustle of hurrying cities to the tranquillity of rural village or fishing hamlet; in fact from one end to the other, Maine is a fascinating combination of enticement for the holiday seeker.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1313/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Hydro Electric News: March 1937: Volume 6, No.3, Commercial Department Issue
Get PDFIncludes 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\u27e own research and engineering departments in their work with a number of the country\u27s leading architects and builders. This home will have efficient, economical equipment for year \u27round 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.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1028/thumbnail.jp