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Proposed Act for a Reformatory for Women: Maine Prison Association
Get PDFA proposed act for the laws to establish and enforce the imprisonment of women over the age of sixteen in Maine from 1911. Document does not indicate whether laws were enacted as proposed.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1295/thumbnail.jp
Public Building at Bangor, Maine: August 7, 1911
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The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds to which was referred the bill of the Senate (S. 2055) to provide for the erection of a public building at Bangor, Me., respectfully reports the same with the recommendation that the bill do pass. In the disastrous fire of April 30 of this year the Federal building at Bangor was destroyed with many other building of a large section of the city. So widespread was the disaster that adequate quarters can not be found even for the temporary accommodation of the Federal offices located in that city, which include the post office, the United States courts, the custom and internal-revenue service, the steamboat-inspection service, pension examiner, marine surgeon, and recruiting office. The post office is housed at present in the Y. M. C. A. building and the custom offices are located on the third floor of a dry goods store with no vault protection.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1217/thumbnail.jp
Morse Oliver Building Ruins, Bangor Fire, 1911
No full textAfter the Great Fire, the ruined remains of the Morse Oliver Building were dynamited. Although several other buildings incorporated their former structures when they were rebuilt, the city\u27s reorganization and rebuilding plan required broader roads and relocated buildings. After the seven story building was destroyed, no other buildings in the downtown district were built as tall, most confining themselves to four stories.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1097/thumbnail.jp
President Theodore Roosevelt Giving Speech from Bangor House on August 27, 1902
No full textPresident Theodore Roosevelt giving speech from Bangor House balcony on August 27, 1902. Flavius O. Beal, former mayor of Bangor, is belived to be the man standing on the balcony behind Roosevelt. While in Bangor, the President hoped to met up with his long-time friend and mentor, Maine Guide William Wingate Sewall. The President is quoted that day from the balcony as saying, Is Bill Sewall in town? Has anyone seen him? The men, in fact did reconnect in Bangor that day. For much more about Roosevelt\u27s visit to Maine and his relationship to Sewall, give a read to Becoming Teddy Roosevelt by Andrew Vietze.
[Pictured in the foreground is probably not an out-of-focus cat head, though that\u27s what it looks like].https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1141/thumbnail.jp
Man in woodstrip Canoe Georgia, far view
No full textOne young man in the woodstrip canoe Georgia on the Penobscot River, with the steamer either Camden or Belfast at the Eastern Steamship Co in the background.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangorwaterfront_images/1006/thumbnail.jp
Two Men in woodstrip Canoe Georgia
No full textTwo young men in a woodstrip canoe labeled Georgia on the Penobscot River, with St. John\u27s Catholic Church and railroad in the background.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangorwaterfront_images/1004/thumbnail.jp
Some Good Will boys
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The chapters are written to illustrate the methods of dealing with boys, and in response to frequent requests for something in the pages of the Good Will Record which would show a variety of ways of treating erring boyhood.
Good Will, the scene of the simple incidents here related, is located at Hinckley, Maine; the railroad station is Good Will Farm; the property is the possession of the Good Will Home Association, a duly incorporated organization. The work of the Good Will Home Association is helping needy and imperiled boys to make honest, self-supporting and God-fearing men of themselves.
The Good Will schools have all the grades from the fifth, up, through the high school. Instruction is also given in wood working, basket making, iron working, weaving, modeling, mechanical and free hand drawing. Practical instruction is also regularly given to a few in running steam engines and boilers. We realize that in this age of increased educational facilities and of sharp competition in every line of human endeavor, a boy without education is placed at a great disadvantage through life and is almost sure to become merely one of the great army of unskilled toilers.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1053/thumbnail.jp
Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes: A celebrated malpractice suit in Maine
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Forty years ago the Maine Medical Association appointed a committee to investigate the legend, that ten years before, an important post-mortem examination had been performed on the body of a man, who had suffered many years from an alleged dislocation of the hip joint. The idea in trying to obtain a report of the examination was to discover information that might be of value to the profession in the diagnosis and treatment of such dislocation, in general, while additional interest attached to the case owing to the thirty-seven years that had elapsed since I the original injury. The committee failed to report; they could find nothing of the alleged examination, and to every physician in Maine it remained a myth.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1052/thumbnail.jp
City planning: an introductory address delivered by Fredrick Law Olmsted at the second National conference on city planning and congestion of population, at Rochester, New York, May 2, 1910. Department of City Making, Fredrick L. Ford, chairman, Hartford, Conn
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This subject of City Planning, which we come hither to discuss in some of its varied aspects, is no recent development. There is hardly one of its principal phases that has not been represented as a practical art ever since cities themselves began to be; and as a science, as a subject for theoretical discussion, it is probably but little less ancient. Yet such a conference as this is a new sort of thing, and there is something new about the subject today to account for such a conference. This new thing is a growing appreciation -of the close and vitally important interrelations between these varied lines of activity; of the profound influence which activities carried on in one part of the field and with a view to one set of purposes may have upon the conditions in another part of the field.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1006/thumbnail.jp