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| 2013.246.2755 | Eulogy for Mrs. Captain Bunker, and Bunker Genealogy |
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| Eulogy for Mrs. Captain Bunker (A); and (B) a two-page Bunker Family genealogy (probably composed by donor Louise Marr). Remarks made at the funeral of Mrs. Captain Bunker, May 23d, 1912 by Pastor Addison W. Hayes. [Mrs. Bunker full name not known, just these clues from the text: “Grandma Bunker” was married for half a century. Mother of six children with her husband, The Captain, often away on the high seas. She was lame for the last 17 years. Converted to Methodism in Portland. Buried in Fairview Cemetery. | 
Description: Eulogy for Mrs. Captain Bunker (A); and (B) a two-page Bunker Family genealogy (probably composed by donor Louise Marr). Remarks made at the funeral of Mrs. Captain Bunker, May 23d, 1912 by Pastor Addison W. Hayes. [Mrs. Bunker full name not known, just these clues from the text: “Grandma Bunker” was married for half a century. Mother of six children with her husband, The Captain, often away on the high seas. She was lame for the last 17 years. Converted to Methodism in Portland. Buried in Fairview Cemetery. [show more] |
| 2013.246.2360 | A Little Bit of Hell, Maine Style |
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| Article: A Little Bit of Hell, Maine Style. (TBD 1/9/18, article not located; see also pending Backlog item 2501 for possible copy.) See reprint in Cranberry Chronicle Spring 2014 edition, page 7, from Bangor Daily News ca. 1919; Sam Spurling was aboard the Cashier during this event. Introductory paragraph: “A Little Bit of Hell—Maine Style That’s What Capt. Spurling Gave a Pirate. State Gets Tokens of His Courage. from the Bangor Daily News, ca. 1919 It was just ninety-six years ago Tuesday (Jan. 21) that an event happened in the harbor of Trinidad, Cuba, which reflected great credit on the leader of a bold enterprise, recollections of which have recently been stirred in Maine, on account of the purchase by the state of a brace of pistols and a sword from Mrs. E. Preble of Framingham, Mass…..” And see Charles Liebow notes on the Cashier: - CASHIER: Masters - Samuel Spurling & William Moore, Built in Eden in 1820, 30 Gross Tons, 49.8/17.8/5.3: Two masts with a square stern. Perhaps the vessel from which Sam Spurling gave the Caribbean pirates a "little bit of Hell, Maine style." | 
Description: Article: A Little Bit of Hell, Maine Style. (TBD 1/9/18, article not located; see also pending Backlog item 2501 for possible copy.) See reprint in Cranberry Chronicle Spring 2014 edition, page 7, from Bangor Daily News ca. 1919; Sam Spurling was aboard the Cashier during this event. Introductory paragraph: “A Little Bit of Hell—Maine Style That’s What Capt. Spurling Gave a Pirate. State Gets Tokens of His Courage. from the Bangor Daily News, ca. 1919 It was just ninety-six years ago Tuesday (Jan. 21) that an event happened in the harbor of Trinidad, Cuba, which reflected great credit on the leader of a bold enterprise, recollections of which have recently been stirred in Maine, on account of the purchase by the state of a brace of pistols and a sword from Mrs. E. Preble of Framingham, Mass…..” And see Charles Liebow notes on the Cashier: - CASHIER: Masters - Samuel Spurling & William Moore, Built in Eden in 1820, 30 Gross Tons, 49.8/17.8/5.3: Two masts with a square stern. Perhaps the vessel from which Sam Spurling gave the Caribbean pirates a "little bit of Hell, Maine style." [show more] |
| 1000.0.948 | Articles describing the 1916 Firebug |
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| Two copies of articles describing the 1916 Firebug on the Cranberry Isles with a summary provided by Bruce Komusin |
Description: Two copies of articles describing the 1916 Firebug on the Cranberry Isles with a summary provided by Bruce Komusin |
| 1000.7.209 | Religious booklet for Gramie |
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| Booklet, religious, from Eleanore Mildred Joy to Gramie, 25 Dec 1914 |
Description: Booklet, religious, from Eleanore Mildred Joy to Gramie, 25 Dec 1914 |
