Liberty Bell Prize Essays Awarded to Ninth Grade
Henry G Hodgdon awarded two Liberty Bell prizes to Miss Mabel Redlon and Miss Lillian Congdon in a Morsey High School calendar contest. Read about the bell's history from London casting to Independence Hall, its role in declaring independence, and the essays by Redlon and Congdon detailing its journey and significance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State House
London
Assembly of the
Province of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Matilda
Budden
America
Pass & Stow
Pass and Stow
State House Hell
Assembly
Miss Congdon
Jackson Park
Chicago
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Union of the States
Public Works and Public Safety
George Lippard
Congress
Richard Tent Lee
Virginia
United Colonies
John Adams
Massachusetts
Thomas Jefferson
Chestnut Street
Delaware
Atlantic
Europe
England
Assal Fields
France
John Hancock
Allentown
Independence Hall
New Orleans
Pennsylvania State Building
White City
Phippsburg Notes On Local Life And Transfers
The schooner George Smith loads coal in Philadelphia for Manzanillo. Residents report a mix of health updates and housing concerns with nine vacant homes in town. Mrs. Haskell returns to Deer Isle. Mrs. Victoria Butler recovers from bronchitis. Families visit, convalescences occur, and town meetings dinners are noted along with a teacher's return from Vermont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Smith
Philadelphia
Manzanillo
Haskell
Deer Isle
Victoria Butler
George C. Beals
Samuel Beals
Charles Morrison
Henry York
York
Timothy Perry
Chester Wallace
John D. Eastman
Hermitage
Angela Bartlett
Sebasco
Vermont
Bowker
Frank Beals
Bath
Spring Opening at Popham Cottage Noted
R. E. Brown plans to rebuild his Popham cottage at one of the area’s best locations. The piece reports on local residents including Abbie Minott, Mrs. Charles Stevens, and families enjoying recent visits, stage activity, and community events. It also mentions planned repairs, local church notes, school board nominations, and maritime plans for Popham Beach Steamboat Co and Boothbay Harbor fisheries programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. E. Brown
Popham
Abbie Minott
Camsden
Charles L. Stevens
S. C. Campbell
C. W. Locke
William Oliver
Portland
Florence Matthews-Austin
Harry Smith
Roxbury Hospital
Bowker
Bath
Alice Cahill
Willard Daley
George Cahill
Slade
Parker Head
Richard Mann
M. L. Oliver
Ethel Gurney
Carrie Cushing
Winneganee
Jennie Blaisdell
Charles Blaisdell
Everett Harrington
Ww. R. Bowker
George L. Harris
Fred Curtis
Ashdale
James C. Perry
Well Street
Mother Earth
Frank Frisbee
A. C. Johnson
M. F. Slade
E. A. Williams
Wendell P. Baker
George West
John Edwards
Fort Popham
Popham Beach
H. J. Berry
Coast Guard
J.C. Stevens
J. EB. Perkins
L. J. Oliver
T. F. Moore
Boston Globe
Bureau of Fisheries
Boothbay Harbor
Townsend Marine Railway
Boothbay
Burtsen and Peterson Engineering Co
East Boston
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mabel Redson
Lillian Congdon
Henry G. Hodgdon
Boston
Lexington
Andrew McNair
State House Bell
Liberty Bell
Cornwallis
Washington
Lafayette
Jefferson
Adams
Carroll
John Marshall
New Orleans Fair
Atlanta
Charleston
St. Louis
Pacific
The
Republic
Golden Gate
Panama Canal
United States
Independent
Bath, Maine
Yours Truly
Phippsburg
Sanford Axminster
Hartford Axminster
Carlton Axminster
Sanford
Firth, Oxford
Hartford
Whittall
Anglo Persian
Anglo Indian
Royal Worcester
Chiidema Brussels
Peerless
Brussels
James F. Will Co
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