Word: androscoggin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city's biggest wholesale hardware dealer, grandson of Samuel Colt (firearms), related by blood and inheritance to Colonel Oliver H. Payne of Standard Oil. Rich but shy at 59, Mr. Bingham spends most of his time in his home in Bethel on the banks of Maine's Androscoggin River. He first went there to be near his old Cleveland friend. Neurologist John George Gehring, who had bought an old inn in Bethel for a private sanatorium.* When Dr. Gehring died in 1932, aged 75, Mr. Bingham, who had given $200,000 for the John G. Gehring Floor...
Maine's Androscoggin River, some 30 miles before it flows down to the sea, divides the cities of Lewiston and Auburn, built upon a thriving shoe industry. Month ago 19 shoe factories of the twin towns were closed by a strike of the United Shoe Workers of America, a C.I.O. union. In Lewiston, last week, Associate Justice Harry Manser of Maine's Supreme Judicial Court handed down a temporary injunction denying the union's right to call the strike. His grounds: the Wagner Labor Act. Said...
That night State police turned back a crowd of strikers who tried to march across a bridge over the Androscoggin from Lewiston to Auburn. By next day the situation was more serious. Powers Hapgood-a graduate of Harvard (1921) and nephew of Editor Norman Hapgood, former Minister to Denmark; husband of Mary Donovan who was Socialist candidate in 1928 for Governor of Massachusetts; himself Socialist candidate in 1932 for Governor of Indiana-was not so many years ago, as an irregular union organizer in the coal mines of West Virginia, very much at odds with John L. Lewis. Now secretary...
...Brown. Extending nearly three miles along the banks of the Androscoggin River in Berlin, N. H. are the mills of Brown Co., a $74,000,000 family-owned paper & pulp concern that was founded as a lumber company in 1852. It has smaller mills in Quebec, general offices in Portland. Me. and timber lands owned outright that are larger in area than the State of Connecticut. The original company was purchased during the Civil War by a Portland lumber merchant named William Wentworth Brown, who branched into paper & pulp in the 1890's. His four sons inherited the business...
Died. Dr. John George Gehring, 75, neurologist, psychiatrist; of a heart attack; in Bethel, Maine. Many a prominent U. S. businessman, lawyer and physician has consulted Dr. Gehring, taken treatment at his home in the Androscoggin Valley. Setting them to dig potatoes and swim, he relieved their nervous tension. Dr. Gehring and his "inn" were the prototype and scene of Novelist Robert Herrick's The Master...