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Everett (Shep) Hurd\u27s account of the Brady Incident
Get PDFThis is the official deposition of Everett S. (Shep) Hurd, owner of Dakin\u27s Sporting Goods on Central Street in Bangor, of the events that took place between September 21 and October 12, 1937. These events culminated in the demise of the noted gangster Al Brady and Clarence Lee Shaffer, and the arrest and subsequent trial and execution of James Dalhover. It was taken in evidence by Special Agent W. J. Devereux of the FBI, on October 12, 1937.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_brady_bk/1000/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Hydro Electric News: June 1936, Volume 5, No.6
Get PDFPages 15-16 are damaged. Page 2 is either missing or mislabeled. Page 8 offers a reciped for spinach pancakes. We have not tried this recipe; cannot vouch for its quality.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1057/thumbnail.jp
Annual Report, Bangor, Maine: 1936
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Bangor Hydro Electric News: July 1936, Volume 5, No.7
Get PDFThe S S Iroquis caused quite a bit of excitement last Sunday morning when it ran aground on Bald Porcupine Island right outside of Bar Harbor The Shore Path and Water front were crowded all day with people from everywhere who had rushed here to see the huge liner run aground. Many thought it would be a matter of days before the ship could possibly be floated again, but at five p.m., with the help of full tide and the U.S.S. Owl, which was stationed here as mail base for President Roosevelt who is vacationing in Maine, the huge liner was pulled off the island very little damaged.
As this paper goes to press, Bar Harbor is all agog trying to locate President Roosevelt who is reported to be dining at various places on the Island. The town is crowded with reporters, camera men, and secret service men but to date nothing definite has been found out.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1033/thumbnail.jp
Comrades of All Wars: Bangor --- It\u27s People and History. Memorial Book, Norman N. Dow Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars
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It is the editor\u27s fondest hope, through the presentation of this book, that there may be brought a new point of view upon the cherished memories of the past, and in this broadened perspective find a new inspiration to greater things for Bangor in the future. Not to the great men nor even the students of local history, are these fragments offered; but to those thousands of people here who know their names, but whose angle of vision has been obstructed or even deflected so that they missed the struggle, the hardships, the forebearance, the heroism and the undaunted fortitude of the past that presents to them opportunities for a new and finer vision.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1190/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Hydro Electric News: August 1936, Volume 5, No.8 -- Annual Employee Outing Issue
Get PDFDescribes the festivities of the annual employee outing/retreat at Lucerne-In-Maine.
Also includes reprints of an August 27, 1936, Bangor Daily News article detailing Bangor Hydro forming the first mobile relief unit in the state and the second in the entire United States.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1032/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Hydro Electric News: March 1936: Volume 5, No.3
Get PDFIncludes many photographs of electric lines in Bangor damaged by rising water and ice along the Penobscot River.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1035/thumbnail.jp
In the Maine Woods: 1936 Edition
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Hunting, fishing, canoeing, camping, mountain-climbing -- these are the high-lights in the recreational program offered by the premier vacationland for which Bangor & Aroostook Railroad is the gateway. This annual publication, In the Maine Woods. is not only an information manual for this vast playground but also is an invitation to all its readers to come and enjoy the delights which are found in such variety and abundance in this region which has been the favorite vacationland, for well nigh half a century. Each succeeding year sees many new-comers who add their words of praise to the enthusiastic and long-time chorus of veteran devotees.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/railroad_pubs/1003/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Hydro Electric News: October 1936: Volume 5, No.10 -- Street Railway Issue
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The picture on the cover of this month\u27s magazine shows the type of cars used when the Bangor Street Railway first started, back in the \u2790\u27s.
Mr. Johnson, Superintendent of Transporteaion, states that the motorman shown on the front platform of the car was Capt. Joe Wentworth who was the first motorman to operate on electric car in the city of Bangor, and as Bangor was the second city in the United States to have an electric street railway, Capt. Wentworth was, no doubt, the second man to operate an electric car in the United States. Capt. Joe also helped to erect the trolley wire for the Bangor Street Railway before the cars were put in operation.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1031/thumbnail.jp