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University of Maine is tucked away 68 mi. up the Penobscot River at rustic Orono (pop.: 3,400), eight miles above Bangor. It started out in 1868 with twelve students and two teachers as a State College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts. By 1897 the school had added a college of arts & sciences and was ready to call itself a university. A College of Law founded in 1898 expired in 1920. A School of Education was launched in 1930. Maine's chief distinction is still in its College of Agriculture & Forestry and a College of Technology which Maine men like...
...South Penobscot, Me., lightning struck a round ball on the steeple of a Baptist Church. When the ball began burning, ten Baptist marksmen shot it off the church with rifles...
Were planting sods and shrubs as easy as replacing divots, Newsgatherer Bath might have been on hand last week-end to see a big amphibian plane sweep down Penobscot Bay, scutter into the Morrow cove and give forth some of the most Hearstworthy people of the hour - Mrs. Morrow and her secretary, her daughters Anne, Elizabeth & Constance, and Pilot Lindbergh...
...need for trained minds and formed characters that exists in all departments of modern life. ... As politics is but one aspect of the social order, its need of men of special educational equipment is ... obvious." ¶ To the White House last week went a 14 ¼-pound Penobscot salmon, carefully packed in ice and moss. What made this salmon different: It was the first caught upon the opening of the Bangor Pool. Presidential salmon-catcher: Horace W. Chapman of Bangor. ¶ Mrs. Hoover sat, last week, for her first First Lady portrait in oils, to Artist David Cleeland of Manhattan...
Senator Hale and Representative Hersey of Maine, to tender a 15-lb. salmon, "first-of-the-season" from the Penobscot River...