RPPC of Dauntless, 3 masted Schooner, Boothbay Harbor, Maine

Real Photo Postcard of the "Dauntless", a three masted schooner shown at Boothbay Harbor, Maine.  The postcard was probably made around the 1920s to 1930s era, when the owners would spend their summers in Boothbay Harbor.


The caption at the bottom of the postcard looks handwritten rather than printed, even when I put it under my little microscope.


By the way, the weather during the Maine summer of 2010 has been sensational.  What a summer to be out on the water!


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1937 Blotter Touting Harry Longwell, Republican Candidate for Councilman, Ward Seven

Campaign blotter:


Proven Friend of the People
Vote for Harry Longwell
Republican Candidate for
Councilman, Ward Seven
Experienced - Honest
Primaries, October 5, 1937
Election, Tues., Nov. 2, 1937


Since there are quite a few Harry Longwells across the country, I'm hoping that a reader will recognize this particular Harry Longwell and send along some identifying information.   


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1919 Postcard of Eagle Island estate of Robert E. Peary; to Angie M. Pulsifer, teacher in Auburn, Maine, area

Postcard dated July 15, 1919: 


EAGLE ISLAND, ME.  Near Harpswell.  Summer home of Admiral R. E. Peary, discoverer of the North Pole.  Seen from steamers from Portland to Harpswell, Gurnet and New Meadows.


The postcard was sent from friend A. A. D. to Miss Angie Pulsifer, Auburn, Maine.  


From online research:   [Note: your corrections and comments are greatly encouraged - scroll down to the comments section at bottom of page] 


Angie Lulu Pulsifer was born 3 January 1872 in Maine, the daughter of Charles Henry and Annie Moulton (Gowell) Pulsifer.  According to the 1910-1930 Censuses, she was a teacher.  She died in 1943.


Charles Henry Gowell was born either in July 1846 or 13 August 1844, at Danville, Maine, the son of William and Olive (Allen) Pulsifer.   He began work as a shoemaker and then was a farmer in Monmouth, Yarmouth and finally at Rumford Junction in Auburn.  In declining health in his final years, he turned to an occupation as salesman for the Lawrence Knitting Co.  mpany of Lawrence, Massachusetts.  He died in 1918.


Annie Moulton (Gowell) Pulsifer was born 16 September 1849 in Maine, the daughter of Reverend William and Prudence (Moulton) Gowell.  She died in 1933.


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Hanover 1817 House, Hanover, Maine, vintage menu; Ezra Smith genealogy

1817 Hanover House, Hanover, Maine, Half Way Between Bethel and Rumford, U.S. Route 2, Telephone Rumford (Maine) 974-M1.

Transcript:

Historical Note


The Hanover 1817 House, originally the Smith Homestead, and remaining in the same Smith family for over 125 years, was built between th years of 1810 and 1817 by Ezra Smith, listed as a merchant in Topsham, Maine; and also a trustee of Bowdoin College previous to 1810, when he moved his family to Hanover.


Most of the woodwork in the house today - from the handhewn, foot-square beams to the handwrought circular staircase, mantels, and christian cross doors are the original, fashioned for the most part from "Pumpkin Pine".  Some of the Pumpkin Pine boards used exceed thirty inches in width.


The 1817 Craft and Gift Shop, housed in an oldtime blacksmith shop, cordially invites you to browse around, and inspect the wide variety of imported Royal Doulton and other china and glassware, potter, copperware, wooden ware, baskets, Maine mineral jewelry, and many novelties and souvenirs.


Another old-time blacksmith shop has been altered and thoroughly modernized into two double-cabin units, one room is pumpkin pine panelled and has a fireplace.  There are also comfortable rooms in the house for overnight or weekly accommodation.  Single cabins are available nearby.




The results of my online research are below.  Note: your corrections, additions and insights would be greatly appreciated - scroll down to the comments section below - thanks!

Ezra Smith was born on 2 November 1763, possibly in New Market, New Hampshire, the son of Winthrop and Mary (Moody) Smith.  He died 10 February 1846 in Hanover, Maine, in Oxford County.   Ezra Smith married Marcia Burley or Burleigh on 17 June 1794.  She was born 21 August 1772, the daughter of John and Mehitable (Sheafe) Burley.  Marcia died on 27 April 1859 in Bethel, Maine.

Ezra and Marcia (Burley) Smith had the following children:

• Lucinda M., b. 19 December 1794; m. Reverend Charles Frost of Bethel; she d. 11 November 1859.
• Saint John or St. John, b. 28 January 1799; he legally changed his name from Ezra Saint John Smith in 1825 (see Special Laws of the State of Maine, January, 1825); m. Susan Hopkins
• Mary S., b. 6 Oct 1801; m. Mark P. Emery of Portland, Maine
• Henry R., b. 28 November 1803; died out West
• Marcia, b. 19 July 1805; m. James Stevens; she d. 21 November 1900
• George E., b. 11 December 1811; m. Julia Ann Bartlett
• Caroline E., b. 16 January 1815; m. Moses T. Cross 

I found a wonderful story in the Bowdoin "Orient" of April 7 1920, of an 1797 ledger that Ezra Smith kept while he was a merchant in Topsham, Maine:

THE GOOD OLD DAYS IN TOPSHAM 

The phrase, "busy as a Topsham grocer," once coined by a Bowdoin graduate, could not have been applied in his sense of the word to the methodical accountant of an interest- ing volume lately received at the library. For this well preserved leather bound folio volume, the library is indebted to Mrs. Clara S. Patten of Brunswick, who received it from her uncle, Dr. Asher Ellis. The book bears on its first page the inscription: "Ezra Smith's Ledger, No. 1 Topsham, Nov. 1, 1797." Mr. Smith was an overseer of this college from 1800 to 1811. He was born in New Hamp- shire about 1764 and died in Hanover, Maine, in 1846. The three or four hundred pages of this ledger are completely filled with the accounts kept by Mr. Smith at his store from November, 1797, to September, 1801, and constitute au- thentic evidence of many of the so- cial and economic habits of our an- cestors in these regions some hun- dred and twenty years ago. Mr. Smith kept a general store and dealt in a great variety of articles from all kinds of groceries, vegetables, meats, and ardent spirits, to shoes, dress goods, stationery, dictionaries, and almanacks, but no other books. Money was evidently scarce in those days. Relatively few accounts were settled with cash, most of them with commodities produced by the custom- ers, such as wood, lumber, farm pro- duce, and labor. Many of them worked off their bills by hard labor for Mr. Smith at long hours and at the rate of 75 cents a day. Miss Martha Fitts is credited with $12.54 for twenty-five weeks' work. An- other customer settled a long stand ing account in part by surrendering "one share in schoolhouse," valued at $4. In fact, his store seems to have resembled a miniature produce ex- change or a mediaeval barter station rather than the thing we know to- day as a store. The first account runs against a man who in nine days, charges gal- lons and gallons of brandy at 38 cents a quart, rum at 25 to 28 cents, besides lamb at 3 and 4 cents a pound, sugar at 14 and 15 cents, also a "yard of pigtail" (whatever that may be) it 4 cents. For these goods he de- livers boards at $5 a thousand. With two or three exceptions Mr. Smith's customers were hearty drink- ers. Most of the accounts deal chiefly with rum and brandy with occasional charges for "syder." This, however, is not so difficult for us to understand when we consider that life hereabouts was then exceedingly monotonous and offered virtually none of the substi- tutes for alcohol that the highly or- ganized society of today presents. Of chief interest to us are the prices then prevalent. We note the follow- ing: Sugar, 14 to 20 cents; molasses, 75 cents a gallon; "bisket," 17 cents a dozen; coffe, 28 to 38 cents; cheese, 13 and 14 cents; butter, 15 to 20 cents; lard, 9 cents; flour, 6 to 8 cents; pork, 14 cents; lamb and beef, 3 to 4 cents. Considerable difference in the prices of the same articles on the same day seem to indicate that this was no one price store. Tobacco, 15 to 35 cents a pound; brandy, 38 cents a quart; ram, 25 to 28 cents. Eggs figure rare- ly in these accounts; possibly every family was expected to keep hens. However, on September 17, 1798, eggs were sold at 13 cents a dozen; apples, 42 cents a bushel; corn, 75 cents a bushel; shoes, 92 cents to $1.25; "knit- ting pins," 2 cents a pair; "chizzels," 17 cents each. There is a detailed record of the cost of building a brig, $5,633.54. One gets the impression that life was not easy in those good old days. Although most articles of food seem cheap, cloth and clothing were high, and labor at seventy-five cents for a long day must be regarded as ex- ceedingly unproductive when compared with present day accomplishments. 

Ezra Smith lived in the part of Hanover that was once called Howard's Gore.  The town of Hanover was formed in 1843 from Howard's Gore and part of Bethel; in one reference I saw that the name Hanover came from German settlers in honor of the House of Hanover, but I'd like to have that corroborated.

This has been a very interesting family to research, to say the least! Here's a link to a family tree that I've made [again, please forward any corrections!]: Smith, Ezra, a mechant of Topsham and Hanover, Maine.

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1889 invoice from American Confectionery Co to T. Wyman & Son, Sebec, Maine

1889 invoice from American Confectionery Company of No. 98 Canal Street, Boston, opposite Boston & Maine Depot, to T. Wyman & Son of Sebec, Maine.

Researching online, I found the following information:  [Note: please scroll down to the comments section if you have any corrections or additions - thanks!]

Theodore Wyman established a general mercantile store at Sebec, Maine, on beautiful Sebec Lake in Piscataquis County, in 1832 or 1833, in partnership with J. W. Jewett.  When that partnership dissolved, he joined with William P. Lamson in a similar enterprise.  For a few years, he operated the business by himself, but in 1874 formed T. Wyman  & Son, with his son Theodore Heywood Wyman.

Theodore Wyman was born 25 January 1810 in Bloomfield, Somerset County, Maine, the son of Abraham and Betsey McLellan (Heywood) Wyman.  He was educated at Bloomfield Academy and moved to Sebec to establish his business about 1832.  In 1842, he married Caroline D. Ford, who was born 10 October 1822 in Sebec, the daughter of Abner and Mehitable (Hatch) Ford.

Theodore and Caroline (Ford) Wyman had the following children:

• Helen Maria Wyman, b. 17 Oct 1842 at Sebec, Maine; m. John Wesley Freese; d. 1920 at Ayer, Massachusetts
• Caroline Frances Wyman, b. 7 Feb 1844; d. 12 Feb 1864 at Sebec
• George Theodore Wyman, b. 10 May 1845 at Sebec, Maine; d. 4 May 1846 at Sebec, Maine
• Lucy Ann Wyman, b. 27 Mar 1847 at Sebec, Maine; m. Eugene Barry 29 September 1870; d. 1917 at Ayer, Massachusetts
• Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie Wyman, b. 4 Jan 1850 at Sebec, Maine, possibly a twin; d. 1915 at Ayer, Massachusetts
• Theodore Heywood Wyman, b. 3 April 1852 at Sebec, Maine; m. Alice Mary Snow 31 May 1877; d. 5 Mar 1918 at Sebec, Maine
• Edward Wyman, b. 6 March 1856 at Sebec, Maine; married Caroline "Carrie" or "Corrie" Bartlett in 1888; d. at Ayer, Massachusetts

For a link to an online family tree for this family, click Wyman, Theodore, a merchant of Sebec, Maine

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Oxford County Teachers Association Convention, Rumford, Maine, 1917

State of Maine Department of Education, Oxford County Teachers' Association, Rumford, Maine, Friday, May 11, 1917.

Program, Morning Session, Municipal Building
10:00-10:30, Registration at Office of Superintendent of Schools
General Session - Municipal Hall
10:30-10:40, Music - "Thanhauser March", High School Orchestra
10:40-10:45, Prayer, Rev. J. S. Warren
10:45-10:50, Business
10:50-11:05, Greetings, Rev. M. O. Baltzer
11:05-11:50, Address - "The Making of a Patriot", by Hon. Walter E. Ranger, Commission of Public Schools for Rhode Island
11:50-12:00 Music - "In America", J. Alsdorf, Orchestra
12:00-1:15, Dinner served by Ladies' Aid at Vestry of Methodist Church - Price 35 cents

Afternoon Session, Stephens High School Building
1:15-1:45, Registration and Inspection of School Exhibit
General Session - Assembly Hall
1:45-1:55, Overture - "Sunny Sicily", F. Gray, High School Orchestra
1:55-2:05, Business
2:05-2:15, Vocal Solo - "L'Ete", C. Cheminade, Miss Florence Cornell, Stephens High School '17
2:15-2:35, Address - "The Air We Breathe", Mr. A. J. Torsleff, Secretary Maine Anti-tuberculosis Association
2:35-3:20, Address - "Growth", Mr. C. W. Bickford, Superintendent of Schools, Lewiston
3:20-3:30, Music - "Irma", A. Morse, Orchestra

Department Sessions
Rural Schools - Room Five
Chairman, Superintendent S. J. Rawson, Mexico
3:35-3:55, "Rural School Supervision". Superintendent True C. Morrill, Norway
3:55-4:15, "Organizing the Rural School and the Community", Miss Ruth Holgate, Norway
4:15-4:35, "The Schoolkeeper", Mr. H. A. Allan, State Agent for Rural Education

Grade Schools - Study Hall
Chairman, Miss Mary F. Dresser, Norway
3:35-3:55, "The New School Law", Superintendent L. E. Williams, Rumford
3:55-4:15, "Penmanship in the Grades", Mr. B. D. Charron, Rumford
4:15-4:35, "The Neglected Subject of the Curriculum", Miss Jessie L. Keene, Waldoboro

Secondary Schools - Room Four
Chairman, Principal M. B. Lambert, Mexico High School
3:35-3:55, "Three Phases of the Recitation", Principal John S. Carver, South Paris High School
3:55-4:35, "Johnny Jones - An Appreciation", Professor Wilmot B. Mitchell, Bowdoin College

4:45-5:15, Further inspection of exhibit work and serving of light refreshments by Domestic Science Department of Stephens High School
5:30-6:30 Supper Served by Ladies of Baptist Church at Baptist Church Vestry

Evening Session, Municipal Hall
7:45-8:45 High School Concert
Orchestra, "Poet and Peasant", Franz von Suppe
Chorus, "Soldiers Chorus", Gounod
Orchestra, "Medley of American Airs", Woban
Chorus, "Italia Beloved", Donizetti
Vocal Solo, "The Song of Shepherd Lehl", N. Rimsky-Korsakow
Chorus, (a) "Two Grenadiers", Schuman
             (b) "Union Jack", Stephen Adam
8:45-9:45, Address - Teaching as One With Authority", Mr. Frank W. Wright, Deputy Commission of Education for Massachusetts
"America", Convention and Orchestra

Oxford County Teachers Association
President, Principal L. G. Paine, Rumford
Vice-President, Superintendent Merlin C. Joy, South Paris
Secretary-Treasurer, Superintendent F. H. Byram, Bethel
Executive Committee, Superintendent E. C. Glover, Turner; Miss Marion Sanborn, Rumford; Principal P. E. Hathaway, Norway

Notices
Membership
All persons interested in education are invited to become members of the Association.  The membership fee is twenty-five cents for women and fifty cents for men.
All teachers should register as soon as possible after arrival at the convention.
Promptness
Teachers will do much to add to the success of the meeting by being promptly in their places at the hours announced for the openings of sessions.
Chairmen will open the sessions over which they preside promptly at the hours indicated in the program.
Speakers will note carefully the time assignments.
Entertainment
Teachers wishing entertainment over night in Rumford should notify Miss Maria Sanborn, Rumford, previous to May 11, if possible.  If not possible to notify her in advance, apply for entertainment at the office of the Superintendent of Schools, Municipal Building, on the forenoon of your arrival.
Plan NOW to attend the State Summer Schools for Teachers.  Additional training thus secured may mean a higher salary.
Summer Schools at Castine, Farmington and Machias - July 16th to August 3rd
Summer Term of State Normal School at Presque Isle, July 16th to August 24th.

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Undated Snippet from the Portland Transcript, Portland, Maine, 1860s or later

Found loose, a snippet cut from the Portland Transcript sometime from the 1860s or later [owing to a clue in the engima below], either by someone who was affiliated in some way with one of the vessels mentioned in the above image or someone interested in the enigma on the reverse side, image below:

First, a transcript of the shipping news:

PORT OF PORTLAND
                                     TUESDAY, April 2.
ARRIVED - Schs H. Prescott, Freeman, Tangier; Bertha Scudder, Wooster, Philadelphia; Susan, Sears, do; Sea Queen, Guptil, New York; Shawmut, Ricker, Boston; Sparta, Hopkins, Salem; Isis, Bullock, do; Splendid, Webber, Portsmouth; Julia Ann, Nickerson, Frankfort; Lady Woodbury, Woodbury, Rockland; J. F. Carver, Rumrill, Tremont; John H. Kennedy, Keene, Bremen; Mary S. Monson, Lewis, Boothbay; William Keene, Keene, do; Annie Harris, Harris, do; Nonpareil, Simmons, Sedgwick for Boston; Ida May, Gray, Bucksport for Boston; Nathan Clifford, Shute, Belfast for Rondout; J. P. Merriam, Clark, Belfast for Boston; Highlander, Turner, Orland for Salem; Idaho, Wescott, Rockland for Boston.
CLEARED - Ship Mount Washington, (new, of Boston, 117? tons,); M. C. Malling, Savannah, with 2118 bdls hay; barque Martin W. Brett, Thurlow, Matanzas; Fannte, Carter, Cardenas; s   ch Tilt, Eastport.
                                          WEDNESDAY, April 3


ARRIVED - Brig C. H. Kennedy, Merryman, Philadelphia; Schs Fantuzai, Wooster, do; Adriane, Eastman, [end of clipping]

The puzzle is fascinating - what a neat project for the students of today!    [Thanks, Jackie, for having a camp at that certain pond...]

ENIGMAS, REBUSES, ETC.
Written for the Portland Transcript.
ENIGMA
I am composed of 32 letters.
My 12 19 13 15 is a river in Maine.
My 17 22 31 13 16 11 27 is a county in Maine.
My 24 8 32 5 23 32 in a town in Maine.
My 28 7 17 10 1 12 5 1 is a pond in Maine.
My 2 26 9 29 14 is a mountain in Maine.
My 15 4 25 5 20 is an island near the coast of Maine.
My 18 3 8 21 30 6 24 is one of the chief industrial pursuits of Maine.
My Whole is an institution of learning and its location.
                                            J. W. K.


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