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Adams Dry Goods Co. Bangor Carnival Parade Float, June 18, 1912
No full textFrom the Wednesday, June 19, 1912 Bangor Daily Commercial newspaper:
The biggest carnival parade ever seen in Bangor, probably the longest parade of any sort ever seen here, passed through the city Tuesday. It was a magnificent aggregation of artistic arrangement of decorative material, beautiful women and children and fine rigs.
From where the processions rear rested far down on the Hampden road to the food of Exchange Street, there was almost a continuous line of floats, wagons, carriages, and fire apparatus, the entire horse drawn equipment of the Bangor Fire Department being in parade.
As the procession passed along the music of the two bands, the various floats were loudly applauded as now one, then another, party of friends discovered familiar faces or firm names on the floats.
There was always loud applause when the float of Adams Dry Goods Co. passed by, for it struck deep to the hearts and inclinations of the vast majority of the spectators. The float was drawn by a spanking team and represented a camping scene. Drawn up at the bend of the imaginary stream and turned over was the canoe, with rods leaning against its side. A tent stood ready for occupancy, before it a fire blazed and real water boiled in a kettle (not of birch bark) while scattered about the camping ground were various implements of an outing trip. Variously distributed were the campers, rugged guides and sportsmen a trifle more fastidious perhaps. It was a scene to stir the most sluggish heart into longing for the forest and its waterways.
Adams Dry Goods Co., a wholesale dry goods store, operated at 93 Main Street. Edward R. Adams served as treasurer and general manager. Albert R. Day served as company president. On page 29 of the 1912 Bangor city directory, the company is described as jobbers of dry and fancy goods, furnishing goods, and lumbermen\u27s supplies.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1126/thumbnail.jp
Wood & Bishop Co. Bangor Carnival Parade Float, June 18, 1912
No full textFrom the Wednesday, June 19, 1912 Bangor Daily Commercial newspaper:
The biggest carnival parade ever seen in Bangor, probably the longest parade of any sort ever seen here, passed through the city Tuesday. It was a magnificent aggregation of artistic arrangement of decorative material, beautiful women and children and fine rigs.
From where the processions rear rested far down on the Hampden road to the food of Exchange Street, there was almost a continuous line of floats, wagons, carriages, and fire apparatus, the entire horse drawn equipment of the Bangor Fire Department being in parade.
As the procession passed along the music of the two bands, the various floats were loudly applauded as now one, then another, party of friends discovered familiar faces or firm names on the floats.
Charles H. Wood served as president of the company. Bishop is not identified in the 1912 Bangor city directory. Wood & Bishop operated at 40-42 Broad Street in Bangor.
An insert ad in the city directory reads: Clarion ranges, stoves, and furnaces give results that cannot possibly be obtained with carelessly made goods.
These are economical, because they are accurately fitted to control the draft -- durable, because they are made of the choicest of new iron -- convenient, because of their many special improvements.
Made and sold by Wood & Bishop Co. 40-42 Broad St., Bangor, Maine
Also sold by S.H. Woodbury Co., Brewer / E.A. Blanchard Co., Old Town / E. H. Rowell, Hampden / Parady & Luro, Orono
Photograph reads: Clarion Ranges. We make 107 varieties of ranges, stoves, and furnaces. Also Established 1839 and 100 employees.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1132/thumbnail.jp
Three Bangor Novels
Get PDFThree short novels with Bangor as the setting by Burt L. Standish from Top Notch Magazine from 1912. Burt L. Standish was the pen name of Corinna, Maine, native Gilbert Patten. The novels are: Bainbridge of Bangor, The Portals of Chance, and Crucial Fire.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1266/thumbnail.jp
Catalogue: Noyes & Nutter Manufacturing Company 1912
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In presenting to the trade our catalogue of furnaces, ranges, stoves, sinks, hollow ware, etc., etc., we desire to give you something which will be a help in ordering goods. We wish you to bear in mind the fact that a personal examination of the goods themselves will give you a better idea of the quality and workmanship of all goods of our manufacture, no matter how nearly perfect the illustrator\u27s art is.
Pamphlet contains black and white illustrations of products, including stoves, furnaces, ranges, pots, pans, and more manufactured by the Noyes & Nutter Manufacturing Company of Bangor, Maine, at its foundry on Dutton Street in Bangor.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1188/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Cigar Manufacturing Co. Parade Float June 18, 1912
No full textFrom the Wednesday, June 19, 1912 Bangor Daily Commercial newspaper:
The biggest carnival parade ever seen in Bangor, probably the longest parade of any sort ever seen here, passed through the city Tuesday. It was a magnificent aggregation of artistic arrangement of decorative material, beautiful women and children and fine rigs.
From where the processions rear rested far down on the Hampden road to the food of Exchange Street, there was almost a continuous line of floats, wagons, carriages, and fire apparatus, the entire horse drawn equipment of the Bangor Fire Department being in parade.
As the procession passed along the music of the two bands, the various floats were loudly applauded as now one, then another, party of friends discovered familiar faces or firm names on the floats.
Several floats were awarded prizes. The Bangor Cigar Manufacturing Co. float won best team of two heavy horses in harness. Prize was $7.50. Bangor Cigar Manufacturing Co. was located at 26 State Street. George Rockwell Youngs served as company manager.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1113/thumbnail.jp
Snow & Nealley Co. Bangor Carnival Parade Float, June 18, 1912
No full textFrom the Wednesday, June 19, 1912 Bangor Daily Commercial newspaper:
The biggest carnival parade ever seen in Bangor, probably the longest parade of any sort ever seen here, passed through the city Tuesday. It was a magnificent aggregation of artistic arrangement of decorative material, beautiful women and children and fine rigs.
From where the processions rear rested far down on the Hampden road to the food of Exchange Street, there was almost a continuous line of floats, wagons, carriages, and fire apparatus, the entire horse drawn equipment of the Bangor Fire Department being in parade.
As the procession passed along the music of the two bands, the various floats were loudly applauded as now one, then another, party of friends discovered familiar faces or firm names on the floats.
Snow & Nealley\u27s splendid display of mill and lumbering supplies on an auto truck attracted a great deal of attention and was the largest of the auto floats. It was well arranged and the goods that it was designed to display were shown to the best advantage. A huge hawser, running over two large wooden pulleys was one of the interesting features of this float.
Snow & Nealley Co. sold mill and lumbering supplies at 104 Broad Street. William P. Nealley was secretary of the company (as well as treasurer of the Hincks Coal Co.). Snow is not identified in the 1912 Bangor city directory.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1120/thumbnail.jp
1912 Bangor and Brewer City Directory
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Home Welfare Movements: Bangor Kindergarten Mothers\u27 Meetings, 1912-1913
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We, as teachers, owe Bangor our best efforts to train physically, mentally and morally every child who come under our care. We cannot do it without the cooperation of the parents. It is our purpose First: to help parents to realize the importance of training at home and Second: to help parents realize the importance of their own intellectual life.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1109/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Railway and Electric Company Union Spying in October to December 1912
Get PDFThese documents, found among the collection donated to the Bangor Public Library by Bangor Hydro-Electric Company, consist of reports from a Bangor Railway & Electric Company (BREC) employee who served as a spy, or spotter as described in these pages, who reported to the company the activities of motormen and conductors of the railway who hoped to form a union.
The spotter is identified only as R.B.R. Looking at the 1912 Bangor City Directory, a likely candidate to be R.B.R. is Robert B. Robinson, a patrolman. Police in the early part of the 20th century were known to be union busters. The 1914 Bangor City Directory also lists Robinson as a patrolman. Page 3 of this document confirms that R.B.R. was hired by the company only after presenting suspicion of a union forming within the company. [Further research into this will be made and changes to this description will be made as needed].
R.B.R. reveals the names of many, many men who worked at BREC during 1912, as confirmed by the 1912 city directory. Hereafter is list of these men with a brief explanation of the role each played at BREC and in the union.
J.P.C. (not fully identified and unable to confirm via the city directory): listed as Assistant Superintendent for BREC
Maurice E. McCormack: Assistant Superintendent of BREC; hired R.B.R. into the company, fully knowing why R.B.R. was being employed
Howard Corning: Treasurer of BREC; also knew the purpose of the hiring of R.B.R.
Walter D. Merrow: BREC conductor and union organizer
John McGreal: BREC motorman and union president; fired by company, but remained a key figure in the union forming efforts
Fred A. Merrill: BREC conductor and union organizer
G. Ivan Smith: BREC conductor and union organizer; identified by R.B.R. as instigator of union
John H. Reardon: A union organizing specialist from Worcester, Massachusetts who counseled the men; worked with Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees
LaForest T. Hinton: BREC motorman and union member
Ralph L. Whiting: BREC motorman and union member
Charles S. Bullock: BREC conductor and union member
Louis E. Grant: BREC conductor and union member
Nicholas Driscoll: BREC conductor and union member
Clifford Jellison: BREC conductor and union member
Charles H. Johnson: BREC superintendent; not known to be part of union
Fred S. Emery: BREC motorman: not known to be part of union
Thomas F. Allen: a state detective who investigated the union organizing at the behest of BREC President John R. Graham
John P. Griffin: BREC motorman and union organizer
Carl C. Nason: BREC motorman and union organizer
Christian Billie: BREC inspector; known to be anti-union
Fred B. Avery: BREC mechanic and union vice president
Nathaniel F. Lambert: BREC conductor and union member
Michael Kelley: BREC motorman and union member
John Fred Boyce: BREC motorman and union member
Henry Crowe: BREC motorman; known to be anti-union
David F. Rice: BREC conductor and union member
Willis L. Conners: BREC conductor and union member
Fred S. Feltch: BREC motorman
Leroy M. Boulter: BREC motorman and union member
James Frank Armitage: BREC conductor and union member; fired by company
Gerald E. Richardson: BREC conductor and union member
Elbridge Atherton: BREC conductor
George P. Lawrence: BREC motorman and union member
William F. Silliman: presumed to be lawyer who represented company President John R. Graham in negotiations with John Reardon
Ambrose Eisnor: BREC motorman and union member
William E. Kelley: BREC conductor and union member
J. Thomas Fillier: BREC motorman and union member
William A. Severance: BREC motorman; not a union member
Many other men are mentioned throughout R.B.R.\u27s reports, but their first names could not be determined. A man named DeWitt was of particular amusement to R.B.R., as he thought DeWitt a fool and said so in multiple reports.
This is truly a one-of-a-kind slice of Bangor 1912. It details the safety concerns and pay demands of the conductors and motormen behind their union forming. It also explains at length the steps taken by BREC employees to defraud the company out of fares, fares they pocketed for themselves. Numerous locales like restaurants are referenced. We hope you enjoy.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1066/thumbnail.jp
Getting Acquainted with Bangor, Maine
Get PDFIt is with combined pleasure and pride that we present to the Journal readers this month the story of Bangor, the Queen City of the East; a city coming out of her ashes more queenly than ever before. We say with pleasure and pride because it is a real pleasure to be able to speak well of friends, and Bangor and Portland are becoming closer friends as they become better acquainted, and too, the whole state viewed with pride the sp\u27endid Maine spirit evinced by the citizens of Bangor when they met the calamity of 1911, when some $4,000,000 worth of her best business and residential property melted away in a mighty conflagration.
The writer was on the scene within twentyfour hours of the inciclent and was much impressed by the buoyant spirit evident on all sides. As one man put it: It is a severe loss but in the end is going to prove a mighty good thing for Bangor. lt is going to afford her a much-desired opportunity to develop a city-planning scheme which otherwise would have been impossible, and you are going to see a bigger, better and more beautiful Bangor come of these ashes than would have seemed possible two days ago.\u27\u27 How well the city has lived up to this statement of one of her citizens, you members of the State Board, in session here today , hear personal witness.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1192/thumbnail.jp