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The sheriff: a modern Maine story in which pride and politics, romance and rum are curiously intermingled
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For over half a century the State of Maine has drawn the attention of the world because of its prohibitory law. Both advocates and opponents of license, local option, prohibition and every phase of the temperance question cease not to write and lecture about the situation in Maine. One would suppose from the volume of public address and printed page on both sides of the question that has appealed to the patient public, that, at least, those who are interested, would by this date have understood the prohibition situation in Maine. Yet, how could they, when from one source it is proclaimed that liquor is as easily obtained in Bangor as in Boston, from another it is as loudly announced that Maine is absolutely dry?
There is no man better qualified to present the real facts than the writer of this volume. In observation and experience, in business and politics, in consecration to a cause and participation in local and State contests, and in personal knowledge of the manipulations of wily politicians, he is conceded to be, by those who know him, an authority on this political prohibition puzzle that has baffled so many. He is capable of drawing a true picture of the facts and presenting the real political situation.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1028/thumbnail.jp
An Emergency Report for Bangor, Maine (article from Landscape Architecture)
Get PDFArticle focuses on the damage and planned recovery from the April 30, 1911, fire in Downtown Bangor. Article written by Fletcher Steele, one of the architects tasked with the post-fire recovery.
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Among the interesting reports that have been prepared on the subject of Civic Improvements during the last few years, the recommendations that were made for Bangor, Maine, are unique. On April 30, 1911, fifty-five acres, extending from the heart of the business district nearly to the outskirts of the city through a good residence district, was devastated by fire. One hundred business blocks, two hundred and eighty-five dwellings, the Library, High School, seven churches, and many magnificent trees, were swept away.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1240/thumbnail.jp
The advantages of Maine for electrochemical industries
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Maine\u27s invitation to both capital and labor is hearty, and should be attractive. Nowhere on Earth can be found a more intelligent, more enterprising or more thrifty people than constitute her citizenry, and their hospitality to both the transient sojourner and the permanent settler is unfeigned and unstinted.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1045/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Post Office Greetings to the 5th United National Association of Post Office Craftsmen in Bangor, April 19, 1911
Get PDFLists Postmasters of Bangor dating from 1803 to 1911 and a timeline of mail milestones in Bangor and surrounding communities.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1294/thumbnail.jp
An Act to Provide for the Nomination of Candidates of Political Parties by Primary Elections
Get PDFSubtitle: Adopted by the qualified voters of the State of Maine at a special election held on the eleventh day of September, A.D. 1911, and on the twenty-eighth day of September, A.D. 1911 proclaimed by the Governor and to take effect thirty days after said proclamation.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1157/thumbnail.jp
The Bangor Fire: Dedicated to the People who Lost Their Homes on Sunday, April 30th, 1911
Get PDFA twelve stanza poem about the fire of April 30, 1911, in Bangor, Maine. Publication date is not noted; presumed to be 1911 or 1912.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1272/thumbnail.jp
The Bangor Fire, April 30, 1911: A True Story of the Fire
Get PDFApril Thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Eleven, dawned clear and bright on the historic old city of Bangor. It was the first Sunday of the year to show signs of the joyousness of Spring and throughout the day hundreds of pleasure seekers thronged the streets. No sign of the coming catastrophe marred the happiness of the young or the contentment of the old. It was a day of beauty and the horror of its aftermath was beyond conjecture.
Shortly after four o\u27clock in the afternoon an alarm of fire was nmg from Box 24, the origin of which will remain unaccountable, calling the fire department to the burning hay shed of ]. Frank Green on Broad street. Hundreds thronged to view the spectacle of the blazing building, little dreaming that from this small beginning a conflagration, covering an area of over sixty acres, would result. Chief Mason soon realized the danger of the situation on account of the high wind and sent in a call for the remainder of the fire apparatus. Several small fires in the immediate vicinity of the hay shed were quickly extinguished and it appeared to the casual observer that the fire was under control. Some of the people were leaving the scene of the Broad street blaze, when the sight of fire on Exchange street, in the building occupied by the Telephone Exchange, arrested their movements for a time.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1281/thumbnail.jp
Fire, Bangor, 1911
No full textHand-colored lantern slide showing J. Frank Green\u27s hay shed as the walls collapsed at the start of the Bangor Fire. Fire fighters and citizens are helping with the fire hoses.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1104/thumbnail.jp
Broad Street fire, Bangor, 1911
No full textThis is the area where the Bangor Fire started on April 30, 1911, in a hay shed belonging to J. Frank Green on lower Broad Street. It is theorized that participants in an impromptu poker game dropped a cigarette and started the blaze in the afternoon. The fire quickly leapt over the Kenduskeag Stream and wreaked havoc downtown throughout the evening. View from Railroad Bridge is written on the image.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1102/thumbnail.jp
Public Library catches fire, Bangor, 1911
No full textThis hand-colored lantern slide shows the Bangor Public Library catching fire in 1911. The library\u27s collection, valued at $300,000, as well as that of the Bangor Historical Society, was entirely lost. Also pictured are the Bangor Savings Bank and Fred T. Hall & Co, grocers. Many of the spectators are still dressed in their Sunday best.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1106/thumbnail.jp