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Notices of the Bangor Railway and Electric Company: 1920-1932
Get PDFThe internal notices and memos of the Bangor Railway and Electric Company (which later evolved into Bangor Hydro-Electric Company). These notices and memos were addressed to the company\u27s trolley car motormen and operators. Purposes of notices include instructions for collecting fares, operating cars safely, reminding operators of danger areas in Bangor, procedures and rules of the company, and more.
Sample from October 27, 1920:
As most of you are aware, during the past week and ten days, I have had numerous interviews with Conductors and have made a careful study of the methods of fare collection, and I discovered that many of our Conductors were in collusion with passengers to defraud. I sincerely trust that all Conductors are now collecting fares as they know it ought to be done, but it seems fitting that your attention should be called to the true situation as forcibly as I am able.
[There appears to be a volume 1 to this collection. Bangor Public Library was donated a sizable amount of documents from the Bangor Hydro-Electric Company archives. As yet, we have not archived each piece. If we find this volume 1, we will add it to our online collection].https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1063/thumbnail.jp
Outline for Address on Moosehead Lake Park and Camping Reserve Project
Get PDFIt is proposed to develop for recreational and health about 100,000 acres of forest land extending eastward from the shore of Moosehead Lake to Katahdin Iron Works and Lake Onawa, in the following manner:
1. Purchase of about 70,000 acres of land.
2. A scenic toll road of about 35 miles extending from Moosehead Lake over Lily Bay and Katahdin Iron Works Mountains to Katahdin Iron Works and the public highway in Brownville, supplemented by a branch road of 13 miles from Katahdin Iron Works along the slope of Chairback Mountain Range to the public highway at Lake Onawa and by additional roads or trails to principal lakes of the tract and other points of recreational interest, totalling about 70 miles.
3. A modern recreational hotel on the shore of Moosehead Lake supplemented by a series of camps and camp grounds along the route of the proposed toll road or its branches.
4. The sale of developed and undeveloped land for private camps around hotel or camp centers and elsewhere.
5. A health organization for persons in ill health who are not contagious or hospital cases, based on supervision of a physician, supplemented by a host who shall carry out physicians\u27 prescriptions for exercise as recreational activity.
Frank C. Hinckley / 39 Hammon Street / Bangor, Maine
January 14, 1932 / Amended March 19, 1932 / Amended April 20, 1932https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1047/thumbnail.jp
Historic Trails and Waterways of Maine
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The call of the Sea, for countless ages, has been answered by men of daring. Just how many centuries ago the prows of European ships ploughed the waters of the Gulf of Maine no one can say. As the trade of the world grew in magnitude, there were many mariners who sought an ocean route to the East. There were very good reasons for maritime activities. The desire of Riches in some, as Samuel Purchase wrote over three centuries ago, of Knowledge in others hath long whetted men\u27s industries to find out a more compendious way to the East Indies by a shorter route than the usual passage.\u27\u27https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1174/thumbnail.jp
In the Maine Woods: 1931 Edition
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There is a constant growth in thenumber of vacationists coming to the Maine woods but despite this and the fact there is an increasing number of hotels and modernly equipped camps the early charm and unique features of a woods outing are still to be enjoyed. TheMaine woods camp continues to hold it unique place and while the Aroostook country takes pride in thefine hotels like the new Mt. Kineo House and Squaw Mountain Inn al Moosehead, it is the Maine woods camps that make this vacationland so distinctive. Camps generally are located on the shore of or close by lakes or rivers, some distance from settlements and are in themselves little communities. Supplies are kept stocked and many camps have gardens for vegetables and provide their own dairy products, eggs, and poultry. The central cabin is used for a common dining-room and assembly, and then apart are a series of smaller cabins.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/railroad_pubs/1008/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Hydro Electric News: December 1930, Volume 3, No.9 -- Sales Department Issue
Get PDFLists dozens of sales employees who competed in the annual lamp sales campaign. Colby Foss of Ellsworth sold 4,394 lamps to win the competition. George White of Bangor finished second with 4,089 lamps sold. Others in the competition sold as few as 6, so one wonders at the sales secrets of Foss and White.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1038/thumbnail.jp
Maine: Places and People : a Second Booklet of Avocational Verse
Get PDFA collection of poems about Maine, including many referencing specific towns and geographical features of Maine such as Waterville, Augusta, Portland, Camden, Sebec, Skowhegan, Dover-Foxcroft, Monson, Springvale, North Haven, Pulpit Harbor, Katahdin, Garland Pond, Moosehead, and Kineo.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1136/thumbnail.jp
In the Maine Woods: 1930 Edition
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Regardless of the choice of your vacation spot in the Aroostook Country -- whether you come for fishing, canoeing, climbing Mt. Katahdin, hunting, or whether it is the desire just to loaf and loll you\u27ll find a woods vacation the best of all vacations which will be equally enjoyable and zestful in the realization and in thr retrospection, indeed, as any old-timer will tell you, looking back on a wood vacation is perhaps even more than half of the benefits which it give . For health and happiness and for longlasting, joyful recollections, decide that this year\u27s time-off will he spent In the Maine Woods.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/railroad_pubs/1009/thumbnail.jp