Sunday, April 27, 2008

Collapse of Quebec's World's Greatest Bridge

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1916 Quebec, Que., Sept. 11. — The span of the world's greatest bridge collapsed into the St. Lawrence river today with a loss of life v...

MacMillan Party Intact

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1916 Battle Harbor, Labrador, Sept. 8. — The Grenfell Mission schooner George B. Cluett, which went to the relief of the Donald B. MacMillan...

Keating & Shaw

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Maine, 1916 Within a year's time, Keating and Shaw of Exchange street, Portland, have become one of the leading automobile accessory dea...

Bangor Strike Declared Off

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Maine, 1916 Bangor, Sept. 9. — Bangor's street car strike, which has been on since Saturday, August 26, was declared off at 5 o'cloc...

Enforcement in Bangor

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Maine, 1916 Bangor, Sept. 6. — Following what is said to have been a stormy discussion with Mayor John F. Woodman, Chief of Police, Lindley ...

Bakers Would Abolish 5-Cent Loaf

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1916 Chicago, Sept. 9. — Recommendations to all bakers of the United States that the five-cent loaf of bread be abandoned and the ten-cent l...

U. S. Crop Report

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1916 Maine Corn — September 1 forecast, 477,000 bushels; production last year, final estimate, 656,000 bushels. Oats — September 1 forecast,...
Saturday, April 26, 2008

American Bar Association

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1916 Senator George Sutherland of Utah was elected president of the American Bar Association for 1917, defeating by four votes Walter George...

New Courthouse

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New Hampshire, 1916 Ossipee, N. H., Sept. 9. — Carroll County's new courthouse, of Colonial design, recently erected to take the place o...

Passages From The Early History of Brownfield

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Maine/New Hampshire, 1916 By Hon. Eli B. Bean. Schools. After the settlement of a portion of the sixty families Brown had obligated himself ...

New Hampshire Neighbors — East Sweden

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New Hampshire/Maine, 1916 Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Bisbee and Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Marr went to Lewiston to the State fair September 6. D. T. Adams ...

New Hampshire Neighbors — Sweden

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New Hampshire/Maine, 1916 Leslie Chandler, who got so badly burned by the bursting of a gasolene torch while soldering some milk cans recent...

New Hampshire Neighbors — South Sweden

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New Hampshire/Maine, 1916 Henry Emerson and Joe Willard made a business trip to Norway last week. Hazel Plummer of Haverhill, Mass., is visi...

New Hampshire Neighbors — West Denmark

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New Hampshire/Maine, 1916 Mrs. Viola M. Walker has returned to her home in this neighborhood. Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Warren, Mrs. Robert Ingalls...