Word: portland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Water Power. Mr. Gannett, a cousin of Chain-Publisher Frank Gannett of Rochester, Syracuse, Brooklyn, Hartford, Albany, Utica, Elmira, Newburgh-Beacon (N. Y.), Plainfield (N. J.), Ithaca, Olean (N.Y.), Ogdensburg (N. Y.), is Power of the Press. His monthly Comfort reaches 1,226,330 homes. His dailies in Portland (the Press-Herald and Express} and Waterville (the Sentinel} dominate. Working quietly as always, Mr. Insull intrenched himself early and deep. But his operations eventually awakened such utility companies as the Boston Edison to look around and consolidate, to form the New England Power Association and other companies...
Died. Aurelius B. Hinds, 84, of Portland, Me., inventor and onetime manufacturer of toilet preparations (Hinds Honey & Almond Cream, etc.) now made by Lehn & Fink Products Co. of Manhattan; of pneumonia; aboard the S.S. Samaria, in the Mediterranean. Mr. Hinds was once clerk in a Portland drug store where, later, Cinemactor Lew Cody jerked sodas...
...year for temporary use at Aintree, England, scene of the Grand National Steeplechase (TIME, March 18). Other bars which claimed to be the longest in the world were: the Atlantic Bar of Butte, Mont., where 24 bartenders catered to the miners: and the L-shaped Fritz & Russell bar of Portland, Ore. Seeking elite patronage, Fritz -& Russell used to advertise: "See the largest bar in the world, lined with the working giants of the woods, taking their glasses of beer and telling tales of the forest. See the jolly tar, fresh from his ship, spinning tales of the deep blue...
Today at 1.15 o'clock the University Instrumental Clubs, comprising 55 musicians, singers and specialty performers will embark from the North Station for Portland, Me., where they will present their annual concert. On the return trip, a stop will be made at Exeter, N. H., where the instrumental clubs will entertain the schoolboys with a short performance...
...concert in Portland will be given at the Eastland Hotel. The Harvard Club of Portland is sponsoring the program and providing entertainment for the members of Clubs during their Portland sojourn...