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Maine Invites You
Get PDFMaine invites you to enjoy the glories of her forests, the beauty of her thousands of lakes and hills, the music of her brooks, the clamor of her streams, the sweep of her great rivers, and the majesty of her rock-bound coast and sea-girt islands.
Nowhere is scenery more varied and charming. Nowhere is summer more congenial. Nowhere dwells a more hospitable people.
Maine extends a cordial invitation and assures you a friendly welcome whether you come for a week, for the summer or as a year around resident. Come by train, by boat, by motor. If by motor, you\u27ll find well-marked motor-trails and highways on which sixty millions of dollars have been expended during the last ten years, and for whose upkeep and improvement the last legislature made available funds amounting to eighteen millions.
You\u27ll find Maine a state of great natural resources for the development of industry, a state with great areas of land of high fertility yielding potatoes, apples, peas and corn that set the world\u27s standards, a state which after the roll of three centuries is still a land of promise and progress.
The latch-string is out. Come this year and every year to Maine, land of happy, remembered vacations and smiling skies.
Maine Development Commission, 1928https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1058/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Hydro Electric News: April 1928, Volume 1, No.5
Get PDFProvides an extensive description of the Park Street Substation for the Bangor Hydro Electric Company. At the time, the substation controlled all the lighting power and railway service in the cities of Bangor and Brewer and the towns of Hampden, Orrington, Newburg, Dixmont, Hermon, Levant, Etna, Carmel, Kenduskeag, Glenburn, Corinth, and Charleston. These services were to be in the near future extended to Garland, Exeter, and Bradford. The substation was also the headquarters for the Line Crew of the Bangor district, the Meter Department, and the Electrician\u27s Crew.
Also includes profiles of employees Arthur L. Davis and Charles H. Johnson, a legendary figure in the history of the company.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1050/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Hydro Electric News: March 1928, Volume 1, No.4 -- Veazie Station Issue
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The story of the Veazie Plant is almost the history of the whole development of hydro-electric plants in this country, for it is said to be the third to be put in commercial operation.
Many years ago the vicinity of the present Veazie Plant was noted for its salmon fishing, the pool at the foot of the rapids which existed before the first dam was constructed being alive with the gamey fish during the season.
Some of the old fishing rights which had been granted to the original settlers were still in existence when the present dam was constructed and proved a source of much trouble to our lawyers, too, in obtaining a perfect title to the necessary water rights.
The exact date of the first development of the rapids at what is now called Veazie is not known, but a portion of the old timber dam which was displaced by the present dam was said to he over eighty years old.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1051/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Hydro Electric News: September 1928, Volume 1, No.10
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In the Maine Woods: 1927 Edition
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Getting to the Maine Woods in the old days meant travel by team and stagecoach, by slow steamboats and canoes, a journey calling for time and patience, while today, an overnight trip from Boston or New York with all the comforts of modern travel makes possible arrival in the woods the next morning. Despite their long-time popularity the Maine Woods show yearly increases in visitors. All the original vacation spots continue to attract and almost each season sees new places coming into favor, noteworthy among these being the marvelous country in the Mt. Katahdin region, which offers in great abundance many forms of vacation pleasures, anc climbing Mt. Katahdin, long one of the special attractions of the Maine Woods, has become a foremost vacation program.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/railroad_pubs/1012/thumbnail.jp
Dedicatory address of Hon. Ralph O. Brewster at the unveiling of the memorial to Hannibal Hamlin, Bangor, Maine
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Hannibal Hamlin, An Apostle of Freedom,
Mr. Chairman and Friends:
The rugged, homespun State of Maine was never more aptly personified than in the one whose service we commemorate today. In the most tumultuous half-century in the history of America this man stood like a rock. Party, friends, traditions, all faded into insignificance before the principle for which he stood. In his early career when he was first a candidate for the Senate of the United States he failed of election by a single vote because he refused even to lift an eyebrow to indicate any weakening of his stand against the enslavement of his fellowmen.
At the pinnacle of his power, as second in command of the ship of state in the worst storm of its career, with utter selflessness, he used all his influence and powers of persuasion to emancipate the slave and was probably the first to hear the immortal document of Lincoln read to human ears.
Missing the Presidency of the United States by a scant six weeks, he could yet praise the man who had succeeded him and whose limitations he did not then understand. Here was a man who could quietly and calmly return to his Hampden home and accept a comparatively minor though lucrative position from the man who took his place.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1071/thumbnail.jp
200 Block of Main Street, Bangor Maine, 1926
No full textThe 200 block of Main Street, Bangor Maine, in 1926. Bangor Motor Company at 225 is on the left. The corner of Davenport Park, the site of the USS Maine Monument, is on the far left. The Bangor House located just right of the center of the photograph. Several two story homes populate the right side of the street. In the distance, cars and street cars share the road.
This photograph is part of a collection donated by the Bangor Hydro Electric Company. We continue to process this collection. The back of photograph lists 1926 as the date. We opt to trust this date as accurate.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1155/thumbnail.jp
Main and Cedar Street, Bangor Maine, 1926 #2
No full textThe corner of Main Street and Cedar Street, Bangor Maine, 1926. Shown are the Davenport Park, home of the U.S.S. Maine Battleship Monument and the Bangor Motor Company at 225 Main Street. Sign on the Bangor Motor Company advertises Cadillac service.
This photograph is part of a donation given to the library by the Bangor Hydro Electric Company. The back of the photograph says 1926. We opt to trust this date as being accurate.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1153/thumbnail.jp