Brave Firemen Learn City Hazards From Swift Street Cars
A historical profile of New York firemen describing danger zones on Centre Street from City Hall to Grand Street and how rapid streetcars threaten engines and crews. It details past accidents, on the spot repairs, and the life history records kept by the Fire Department repair shops tracking engines from downto wn to uptown life cycles.
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Centre Street
City Hall
Grand Street
White
Lexington Avenue
West Third Street
New York
First Water Race for Fire Engines in New York Thirtys
A New York Sun account describes firefighters racing to fires with engines pounding through crowded streets. It notes the danger to horses and men, the skill of drivers, and the pressure of speed as urban growth makes firefighting harder and more accident prone.
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Ludlow Street
New York
New York Sun
Farming in Aroostook County: from lumber to potatoes
G. F. Whidden notes Aroostook early farming began around 1840 in Presque Isle with lumber and oats as key crops. Clover seed and hops brought early money, then sugar beets, starch plants, and rail improvement followed by a potato boom. Potatoes became the main money crop, with rotation keeping fertility, while hay, grain, sheep, hogs, and horses supplemented farms in northern Maine.
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Aroostook County
Presque Isle
Aroostook
St. Johns
Bangor
Portland
Caume
Greally
Southdown
Cotswold
Berkshire
Chester
G. F. Whidden
New England
Rules of the Contest for a Free Scholarship
The Independent announces an annual voting contest offering a free International Correspondence Schools course in Scranton. Open to Sagadahoc county youths, with coupons for three votes per issue and one vote per dollar paid on subscriptions. The leader at noon June 30 wins. votes allocated on specified dates and counted biweekly.
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International
Scranton
Sagadahoc
Bath
Bath Tron Works
Mrs Margaret M Tobin Passes After Long Illness
Mrs Margaret M Tobin widow of James H Tobin formerly of Portland died Sunday morning at her brother John Lundrigan’s Pearl Street home after a long illness due to a paralytic shock. Born here she was daughter of the late William and Margaret Lundrigan and leaves one sister Miss Ellen A Lundrigan and four brothers Thomas J Edward John and Richard P Lundrigan all of Portland.
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Margaret M. Tobin
James H. Tobin
Portland
John Lundrigan
Pearl Street
City
William and
Margaret Lundrigan
Ellen A. Lundrigan
Thomas J
Edward
John
Richard P. Lundrigan
Elderly man crawls after fall shattering hip in Falmouth
John Coolidge, 70, of Falmouth Foreside, suffered a left hip fracture from a tree fall and crawled over a half mile in the roadway Tuesday afternoon before reaching neighbors or his family for help.
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John Coolidge
Falmouth
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J._A. WINSLOW & SON
O.m.redson
Isteam
Front St. Bath
Stabie
Vine Street
Washington St
Geo. A. Tenney
HH Pratt
DEWEY
JO Malo
THE
BON Ton
M E Reid
Boston
FacSumile Signature of
Bears
Gastoria
the Centaur Soupany
CIY
M. H. Loach
John Mood
Boot Blacking Parlor
Cyrus W. Longley
Front St
Bath, ME
John R. Knowlton
Center St
Teleshore
Cals F. S. Curtis
Lda B. Carlson
Centre ST
Upper
Bronx
the International Correspondence Schools of
Scranton, Pa
the School
Ters
Granite State
Crosby
Bath, Maine
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