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Maine has gone. But not as Maine goes go all Mainiacs. In the fishing village of Friendship, Me. (near Rockland), for example, there is considerable animus towards both the Presidential candidates. "That Al Smith" would soon have the Pope of Rome prancing around in the White House, say the Friendship folk. As for Mr. Hoover, he is the man who took all our bread and sugar away during the War and "et" it himself. "Just look how fat he is," say the Friendship housewives. Mrs. Abbie Simmons Fernald won't have even a Hoover vacuum cleaner in her house...
Eight Harvard men, students in Naval Science 2, will leave tomorrow on a five-day cruise on the battleship Utah, which is sailing to Rockland, Maine, for her engineering trials...
...Utah has been in dry-dock for several days in South Boston to undergo final repairs for the engineering g trials over the one mile course at Rockland. Since the Utah has recently been overhauled and modernized, offices are obtaining data as though for a new ship...
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...