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Dedication Week at Hebron
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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.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1170/thumbnail.jp
Prosperous Bangor, Queen City of the East
Get PDFShowcases thhe attractions, the business enterprises and the schools of Bangor, which is fittingly called the metropolis of Eastern Maine. Long ago Bangor took a front place among the progressive cities of New England, and the disastrous fire of April 30, 1911, which burned over an area of fifty-five acres, destroying about three million dollars\u27 worth of property, proved only a temporary setback. Bangor, to-day, shows many improvements over the city of four years ago. Larger and handsomer buildings, in the majority of cases, have replaced those that were burned, and the spirit, enterprise and indomitable energy of her citizens have continued unabated.
From the v.28, no.5, September 1915 issue of the Chamber of Commerce Journal of Maine.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1308/thumbnail.jp
Why Most of Our Indians are Dependent and Non-Citizen
Get PDFAddress delivered by Brigadier General R.H. Pratt. Date and location of address are not known. Date is presumed to be between 1904 and 1915.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1085/thumbnail.jp
Indian Schools: An Exposure
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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.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1090/thumbnail.jp
Bangor High School: Course of Study
Get PDFThis undated document, most likely published between 1910-1915, lists the course requirements and electives for various courses of study at Bangor High School. These courses are: classical, scientific, technical, industrial, household arts, commercial, and general.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1137/thumbnail.jp
Bangor\u27s City Semi-Centennial Reminiscences
Get PDFA 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\u27s 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.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1349/thumbnail.jp
An Act to Grant a New Charter to the City of Bangor : March 24, 1915
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Newspapermen\u27s Dinner: In Observance of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Publication of the Initial Issue of Bangor\u27s First Newspaper, The Bangor Weekly Register
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The first number of the Bangor Weekly Register is dated Saturday, November 25, 1815. The size of the printed page was 16 1/2 by 10 inches, four columns to the page. The announcement by the editor was:
The Register gives no predilection to either political party; its columns equally invite the well written productions and creditable statements of both. The object of this paper is to be a faithful chronicle of the passing events and current news and not a receptacle of party obloquy and personal abuse. No pains will be spared to select the most important official publication; the ablest essays or national economy, agricultural enterprise and mechanical ingenuity and the most judicious remarks on political events. Its columns also will be interspersed with specimens of eloquence and of taste, with biographical sketches, occasional memoirs, and such other compositions, moral and literary as may subserve the cause of liberty, virtue and religion.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1095/thumbnail.jp
In the Maine Woods: 1915 Edition
Get PDFIn the Maine woods -- the country marvelously endowed by Nature and replete with never-ending delights for men and women for whom there are no joys equal to the allurements of the forest -- the unbroken forest of mystic murmurs, of winding streams and glistening basins, of rushing rapids, of tree-crested hills and mountains, or majestic rivers leading far away through primeval depths -- small wonder that the woods of Maine are the favorite recreation grounds for thousands that yearly make pilgrimage in answer to the magic call and a yearning for rest and relaxation away from the city\u27s stress and strain.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/railroad_pubs/1050/thumbnail.jp
