“HANCOCK ST. SCRAP — Race Feeling Ran High in the Municipal Court Monday,” said the headline in the Bangor Daily Commercial a century ago. A 9-year-old boy named Courtney had been accused of …
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his headline in the Bangor Daily Commercial on Nov. 28, 1908, a century ago this week, marked the conclusion of one of the most heinous crimes in Bangor history.
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Bangor was swarming with hobos a century ago this fall. Some had made money digging potatoes in Aroostook County. They came south on the train to the Queen City, reported the Bangor Daily Commercial …
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Editor's Note: This is the second of two columns on the logging industry and its impact on Bangor a century ago as reported in the newspapers.
RIOT ON HANCOCK STREET (March 27, 1908)
FINNS, …
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This is the first of two columns about the annual cycle of events in the logging industry and its impact on Bangor a century ago as described in the city’s two daily newspapers.
“THE LUMBER …
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Bangor’s first vaudeville theater opened with a glittering social affair a century ago this week. Union Hall, located on Union Street facing the Bangor House, had been transformed into the Union Theater, “a tasteful little vaudeville house,” according to the Bangor Daily News.
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DEPUTIES SEIZED CIGAR MACHINES, Dec. 2, 1907.
BOWEN AFTER THE GAMBLING ROOMS, Jan. 24, 1908.
Vice was serious business a century ago, and gambling was a serious vice as attested to by the two …
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Was Bangor experiencing a “drouth” a century ago this summer — a liquor drought that is? A Bangor Daily News reporter, who doubtlessly had visited more than a few of the seamy watering places …
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If you were an up-and-coming young man in Bangor a century ago, chances are you were looking for an exclusive club to boost your social standing. The Conduskeag Canoe and Country Club was a good bet. …
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FOREST FIRES RAGING ALL AROUND BANGOR, announced the lead headline in the Bangor Daily News on the morning of July 13, 1908. CINDERS FALL OVER CITY.
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Five years after the Wright brothers took off at Kitty Hawk, Bangoreans watched the practical prospects for flight develop with great excitement as well as skepticism and trepidation. It seemed that for every report of a successful flight in an aeroplane or a dirigible, there was a report of a disaster at a county fair or some other exhibition.
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Except for the boozing and brawling that routinely occurred downtown, Bangor was relatively free of crime a century ago — that is, until the Eastern Maine State Fair set up each August.
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Riverside Park was the Bangor area's Coney Island and its Tanglewood, its Disneyland and its Lakewood. After the Bangor Opera House closed its doors for the season and hot summer days arrived, you …
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What may have been the first police chase through Bangor in an automobile occurred a century ago. Belfast officers chugged through the Queen City of the East in hot pursuit of horse thieves.
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A signal event in the transportation history of eastern Maine occurred a century ago this spring. A locally built gasoline-powered motorboat tore out of Belfast Harbor and glided up beside the City of Bangor, one of the giant steamboats that carried passengers between Boston and the Queen City.
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The new movie theaters in Bangor and other cities across the nation became one of the great democratic institutions a century ago. Almost anyone could afford the nickel admission.
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