Word: rockland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Farrington was born in Orono, Me., in 1871. After having been a reporter on various Maine newspapers, he became one of the founders and managing editor of the Rockland (Me.) Daily Star. In 1894 he went to Hawaii as managing editor of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu. He served on the Territorial Board of Education and in the Republican Territorial Commission (1906-07). While Pacific Institute delegates met at Honolulu, Kilauea (largest active volcano in the world) erupted, flooded its eight-mile-around crater with molten lava. Visitors from Hilo (30 miles away) were driven back from the crater...
...student with her, took his A.M. in geology at Harvard. A few months later, on the day after New Year's, 1894, they were married. He had a job as assistant to the state geologist of New Jersey. The next fall he was made principal of the Rockland (Me.) High School and a year later was appointed professor of geology at the University of Washington. There he has remained ever since and is now Dean of the College of Science. They had a son and a daughter, who grew up and got married...
...last year's midyear examination schedule is followed this year, it will be impossible to hold examinations in the following subjects: German A, French A, Music 3; Physics B. At least there will be no examinations if the prediction of Mr. C. F. Woertz of Rockland, Me., comes true...
Died. Langdon Gibson, naturalist, scientist, explorer, brother of Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, suddenly, at Crieshaven, near Rockland...
...anecdotes of temperament displayed. She was notably successful, then, however, with her verses, and her prize-winning poem, Renascence, was heralded by the critics as an extraordinary performance for one so young. From college she migrated to Greenwich Village. The contrast between Washington Square and her home town of Rockland, Me., was great; but it did not disconcert her. She soon became a legend. Her poetry was widely read, her charms widely heralded. She was a poet of renown and even more brilliant as a personality. Tiring soon, however, of the Bohemian life of the Village she went to Europe...