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Bangor Local Postal Guide v.2 1905
Get PDFBangor\u27s postal history begins with the establishment of an office in 1801, at Treat\u27s Falls, near the present pumping station of the Bangor Water Works, which was at that time, the head of navigation and the original settlement of Bangor. It was not for some years afterward, that the business portion of the future city, far famed for its lumber interests, was removed to its present site farther down the Penobscot. \u27I\u27he first office was a nook in a corner of Buckley Emerson\u27s store, and Mr. Emerson had the honor of being the first guardian of the correspondence of his fellow townspeople.
A rich history of the Bangor Post Office is presented throughout this pamphlet. Highlights include photographs of the postmaster, assistant postmaster, and clerks and carriers.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1293/thumbnail.jp
Marquis Fayette King
Get PDFBiography of Marquis Fayette King, the Vice President of the Maine chapter of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1046/thumbnail.jp
23rd Annual Report of the Temporary Home for Women and Children of Maine
Get PDFThe purpose of our Home, as expressed in an old by-law, is to provide shelter and employment for t he women and children of the State of Maine who may be found on the streets, in bad houses, in stations or public institutions, or are reduced to dependence upon public charity, and who need to be protected from temptation to vice.
The doors of the Home are never shut to a woman in need. But with the experience of years and with the growth and development of the work have come an enlargement of aim and a deepening of purpose. This Home means not only shelter and protection, but it means for the children plenty of pure food, sunshine and fresh air, proper medical attendance when ill, and always loving, tender, motherly care.
For girls and young women our Home has come to mean the abandonment of rough speech, careless dress, bad temper and idle habits for gentleness, neatness, obedience and industry. It means a respect for labor and its wholesome influences and a quickening of the whole moral nature. The stewardship of the managers and the matrons is not merely planning and directing and superintending, it means sympathy and faith and devotion. It means a personal interest in the daily life of the girls and in their efforts to become good women, sympathy in their failures, and inspiration to new endeavor. It means that the magic wand with the transforming power is the wand of Love in the hand of a friend.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1008/thumbnail.jp
1905 Bangor and Brewer City Directory
Get PDFhttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/city_ban_directories/1003/thumbnail.jp
A Souvenir of the Treaty of Portsmouth New Hampshire
Get PDFA souvenir of the Treaty of Portsmouth New Hampshire. Signing of the Russian-Japanese Peace treaty at Portsmouth, N.H. Sept. 5, 1905
Compliments of the Frank Jones Brewing Co.Ltd.
Much of the text is actually advertising for the Frank Jones Brewing Co.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1000/thumbnail.jp
Harvey Loomis: a Historical Discourse
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The small beginnings of great things are always impressive; who does not feel the charm of the spring, or stream, or lake -- in the woods up among the mountains -- which form the sources of the river, upon whose banks is one\u27s birthplace and home, and which bears upon its broad current the commerce of a city, as the river flows majestically to the sea? Is it not with something of the same fascination that we think tonight, of that memorable day in the annal of Bangor, when four men, whose names we gratefully recall, gathered with Harvey Loomis, then a young man of 25, to form a Church of Christ in this community? And it must have been with some sense of the importance of the occasion that this little church of four members was organized, and Mr. Loomis was ordained and installed as its first minister.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1108/thumbnail.jp
Charles J. Webber Office, Bangor Maine 1905
No full textBack of photograph reads: Chas. J. Webber office 1905 Bangor
Charles J. Webber\u27s office was listed at 13 State Street in the 1907 Bangor City Directory. His office location is not listed at all in the 1905 Bangor City Directory. So, best we can tell, this is 13 State Street, Bangor, Maine, though, we know we could be wrong.
Charles J. Webber, born in 1881, was the third generation to manage the legendary Webber family\u27s vast Maine timberlands business, entering the business in 1905 and remaining prominent in the business until his death in 1961.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1195/thumbnail.jp
Reports of the Water Committee of the Citizens\u27 League of Bangor, Maine
Get PDFReport originated due to concerns about typhoid outbreaks Bangor and surrounding communities in 1903 and 1904. Details that one person in about every forty of the people of Bangor has had typhoid fever since the first day of last March [1903].
The report includes a map of street-by-street cases of typhoid. Unfortunately, our copy of is map is not complete. There are suspected other pages missing from this document.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1287/thumbnail.jp
Eastern Steampship Company to Maine: 1903-04 Season Pamphlet
Get PDFLists locations and rates for departures and arrivals for steamships from various points in Maine to Boston for the Eastern Steamship Company circa 1903-04. Also lists agents for the company. Eastern Steamship Company offered service to Bangor, Hampden, Winterport, Searsport, Bucksport, Belfast, Camden, Rockland, Stonington, Southwest Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor, Bar Harbor, Portland, Bath, Popham Beach, Richmond, Gardiner, Hallowell, Augusta, Eastport, Lubec, St. John (New Brunswick), and Boothbay Harbor.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1250/thumbnail.jp