Newspapermen's Dinner · Digital Collections

Title: Newspapermen's Dinner
Date: 1915
Description: In Observance of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Publication of the Initial Issue of Bangor's First Newspaper, The Bangor Weekly Register by Peter Edes. Bangor House, Saturday, November Twenty-seventh Nineteen hundred and fifteen.
Contents: Peter Edes and The Bangor Weekly Register--The Menu--The Program--Bangor Newspapers and Periodicals--The Peter Edes Press
Subject: Bangor (Me.)--Newspapers; Bangor House (Bangor, Me.); Bangor Weekly Register; Edes, Peter, 1756-1840; Newspaper editors--Maine--Bangor
Type: Programs (Publications)
Spatial Coverage: Bangor (Me.)
Temporal Coverage: Nineteen tens; Twentieth century
Language: English
Is Part Of: Bangor Public Library Special Collections
Note: The dinner was held Saturday, November 27, 1915, at the Bangor House. Contains a listing of Bangor newspapers and periodicals to date. Speakers at the dinner included Robert Lincoln O'Brien (Boston Herald), Oliver L. Hall (Bangor Commercial), Arthur G. Staples (Lewiston Journal), Frederick G. Fassett (Waterville Sentinel), George W. Norton (Portland Express), and Roland P. Gray (Professor of English, University of Maine).
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