Showcases the history of Cole's Express through photographs, a timeline, maps, and more. Includes photographs of over 200 employees circa 1977. "We would like to share with you a brief history of our company, Coles Express. It all began here... 1917... A.J. 'Allie' Cole started a freight and mail route from Enfield Station to Lowell and Burlington. With hard work and pioneering people a Maine company was born. We started small, and it wasn't always easy going. Horses and wagons soon gave way to trucks, and new ideas filled local needs. In 1925 the company moved its base of operations to Bangor."

Welcome to the Bangor Daily News ... Before we look at activities taking place at the NEWS today, let's first take a glimpse back at events, places and people responsible for bringing Maine's largest daily newspaper to its present position.

Bangor's first newspaper, the Bangor Weekly Register, was established in 1815 and from this emerged the Bangor Daily Whig, in 1834. There was nothing in the docile and precise beginning of that publication, on July 1 of that year, to indicate that some day it would become the largest daily newspaper in Maine. The Whig claimed a daily circulation of 2,000 in 1834, while Bangor's population was estimated at about 4,500. Today, the Bangor Daily News average daily circulation is 78,428 and the City of Bangor population is estimated at over 40,000. The story of how a newspaper outdistanced its local population is a fascinating one. Publication date not listed on booklet. Last date referenced inside is 1966. We estimate publication to be between 1967 to 1970.

Declaration of Principles: At this time it seems fitting to reassert and reaffirm the policies and principles that over the years have made the NEWS Maine's favorite daily newspaper. Sixty-six years ago the Bangor Daily News, a brash newcomer to the Maine journalistic scene, announced: "We intend to pay especial attention to all events in Bangor and Eastern Maine; trusting that by the aid of journalistic enterprise... to greatly forward all interests in this magnificent section just now awakening from its dormant condition and realizing that resources of a great country are here in the confines of half a state."

Pilots Grill in Bangor, Maine, is one of New England's finest, most widely known and most highly recommended restaurants. Its attractive brick facade with imposing porte-cochère, wide green terraced lawn and acres of paved parking area is a familiar local landmark, as well as an unfailing tourist attraction. Resplendent within--light, cheerful and spacious, Pilots Grill combines the warmth of congenial hospitality with the gracious serving of New England's finest foods. You'll love dining at Pilots Grill.

The purpose of this booklet is to acquaint you with the scope of modern banking services available to you at Merchants National Bank. With this presentation we extend to you a cordial invitation to call on Merchants for your banking needs.

Forty years of service: On August 1, 1917, Cole's Express started its high-way service to the public, a horse-drawn pickup and delivery freight and passenger service between the Enfield railroad station and the towns of Lowell and Burlington, some 15 miles distant. A year later the first truck was purchased and service expanded from Enfield to Bangor, picking up goods and passengers in both directions. Soon afterward, other trucks were added to carry the run through to Lincoln and eventually Houlton. For many years, it was necessary to abandon the north run to Houlton during the Winter, because snow on the roads was packed by horse-drawn rollers for the con-venience of sleighs, making truck traffic impossible.

Take a background of Whig conservatism and combine it with the impetuous "be first at any cost" philosophy of a brash young newcomer to the field, and you have a picture of Maine's largest daily newspaper, The Bangor Daily News. There was nothing in the docile and precise beginning of the Bangor Daily Whig on July 1, 1834 that gave any hint it was destined some day to become the greatest newspaper in its state and attract national journalistic attention.

You may be interested in knowing the story of the telephone in Bangor--how the first switchboard grew into the busy exchange of today. We hope that this booklet will answer some of your questions and provide you with background information about the Bangor Exchange and our plans for its future. Early Exchange: On June 1, 1880, telephone exchange service was introduced in Bangor. The National Bell Telephone Company of the State of Maine with Charles S. Pearl as Manager established its offices in the old library building on State Street on the site where the Bangor Savings Bank is now located. Although 46 subscribers had been furnished with telephone service prior to this, such service only provided a single connection with one of the other subscribers. Telephone poles were not considered necessary to this type service--instead, connections were made to customer's premises by means of wires strung from house to house with the consent of the respective owners.

One hundred successful years have gone by since that day in 1852 when eleven public-spirited Bangor citizens met together to incorporate the Bangor Savings Bank; 100 years of peace and war; of good times and bad. And down through these years the bank has followed the same slogan with which it began service to the community--always keeping faith with the community as its needs grew.

More than a mill, more than machines ... more than mortar, bricks, wood, steel and science ... the art of making better paper lies so much in people ... people, whose experience and rare instinctive skill add that part of paper for which no substitute can be found. It is to these people those men and women here at Eastern whose lives have been devoted to up-holding their code of quality that this book is respectfully dedicated.

We have recently fitted up a Show-room for Mantels, Stair-work, etc., and shall, as the season advances, add many new styles to our stock. We have Mantels, Posts, Newels and Balusters at any price desired, and can make to order any style in any kind of wood.We would be pleased at all times to show you our goods, which comprise everything in the Lumber and Building Trimming line, and if you will examine our stock, we will let you decide if we have not the largest assortment and most reasonable prices of any firm in the State. Hoping to merit a continuance of your favors, we are, Yours respectfully, Dole & Fogg.

Noyes & Nutter Mfg. Co. Manufacturers of furnaces, ranges, stoves and hollow ware. Office and Salesrooms 112 Broad Street Foundry on Dutton Street. List of prices Jan. 3, 1913. Less 50 per cent Discount.

Foreword: In presenting to the trade our catalogue of furnaces, ranges, stoves, sinks, hollow ware, etc., etc., we desire to give you something which will be a help in ordering goods. We wish you to bear in mind the fact that a personal examination of the goods themselves will give you a better idea of the quality and workmanship of all goods of our manufacture, no matter how nearly perfect the illustrator's art is.

The Penobscot Exchange Hotel on Exchange Street in Bangor, built in 1827 and remodeled a number of times, was a popular hotel in Bangor's history. Its proximity to Eastern Railway Station on the Bangor waterfront appealed to travelers. Fred G. Moon and James W. Cratty were the proprietors beginning in 1897. This pamphlet describes the accommodations offered and includes several pictures of the rooms.

A special section of the Bangor Daily News marketed to attendees of the 1964 Maine Teachers Association Convention in Bangor, Maine. "On behalf of the Bangor Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Bangor-Brewer Convention Bureau, ws extend a sincere welcome to all of our Maine Teachers to your 1964 State Convention. It is an honored privilege to serve as your hosts for this most important conference. We want you to enjoy your convention and to know that during your stay with us, any service we can render will be available to you. We extend our best wishes for a successful and fruitful convention."

Metropolis of Eastern Maine: As will be noticed, the present number of the Chamber of Commerce Journal of Maine gives considerable space to setting forth the attractions, the business enterprises and the schools of Bangor, which is fittingly called the metropolis of Eastern Maine. Long ago Bangor took a front place among the progressive cities of New England, and the disastrous fire of April 30, 1911, which burned over an area of fifty-five acres, destroying about three million dollars' worth of property, proved only a temporary setback. Bangor, to-day, shows many improvements over the city of four years ago. Larger and handsomer buildings, in the majority of cases, have replaced those that were burned, and the spirit, enterprise and indomitable energy of her citizens have continued unabated.

Special issue focusing on the construction of new buildings in Bangor following the fire of April 1911. "The building record in Bangor for 1913 is particularly notable because of the completion of the magnificent Public Library and the splendid High School, these two superb edifices representing an investment considerably in exress of a half million dollars, while in beauty of design, splendor of execution and richness of furnishings they are worthy of a city nuch larger than Bangor and their equal cannot be found in Maine today."

Sample paragraph: Bangor is recognized as one of the busiest and most progressive cities in New England. In no other eastern city does the so-called "western spirit" prevail to such an extent as in Bangor. The conflagration of 1911 which did damage to the amount of $4,000,000 has served to cement the common interests and Bangor is building and booming in a manner which has evoked wide commendation. The new Bangor will be even better and busier city than the old.

Pamphlet functions primarily as a schedule for the Bangor Railway and Electric Company, providing locations and times for arrivals and departures. Also includes schedules for Maine Central Railroad, Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, and the Eastern Steamship Company; as well as advertisements for Bangor businesses, locations of doctors' offices, churches, civic organizations, schools, and much more.

Contains a brief history of Bangor and description of the city in the early 20th century, but functions primarily as a directory of Bangor businesses circa 1906. Contains many portrait photographs of businesspeople. Opening: As a commercial centre, there is no city in Maine that rivals Bangor. To thousands of people, north, east, west, and even south of it, it is the Mecca of tradesmen, on the one hand coming to town, laden with produce or stock; on the other hand, returning to their household carrying all sorts of necessities or luxuries; or having left an order that demands freight transportation. Commercially then, Bangor ranks first in inportance in the Pine Tree State and has such advantages in location, water power, shipping facilities and abundant profitable surrounding acreage, that should she ever assert herself in these lines, she would become a leader in industrial and manufacturing centres.

A overview of the industrial, recreational, and day-to-day life of Bangor circa early the early 1900s. Contains many sketches or photographs of downtown business buildings and churches.

During the twenty-seven years the Bangor Board of Trade has been in existence there have been brought out under its auspices several publications setting forth the industries and resources of Bangor, a city universally recognized as the business centre of Eastern Maine, and rapidly coming to the front as the metropolis of the Northeast. The first of these pamphlet publications appeared in 1873 and others were issued in 1883 and 1888. More than a decade of years have elapsed since the appearance of the last of these elaborate business reviews, and as these years have been characterized by a notable advancement in the realms of trade, commerce and industry, especially fitting it is that something now be brought out descriptive of the Bangor of to-day and worthy of the proud city at the head of navigation on the noble Penobscot. The object in view is to set forth in attractive and convenient form the industries, resources, attractions and business life of the City of Bangor and its environs. In the present day illustrations play a prominent part in all of the higher class of publications and these pages are embellished with the finest half-tone engravings obtainable.

Bangor is picturesquely located at the head of navigation on the Penobscot, Maine's largest river. The city has had an interesting past; its present is auspicious; and a bright future surely awaits this "Down East" metropolis.