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• Knock down at Jackson school, competition from western ...

  Jan 22
  Jan. 27, 1870 A homeopathic physician of this city is afflicted with a boil of allopathic proportions, which interferes with locomotion. They are ...
  

• Lively fishing at Goose Pond, real estate boom in Belfast, ...

  Jan 09
  Jan. 14, 1869 Our job office, which has been for some weeks suspended in its operations, for want of a workman, is now again in running order. ...
  

• Sheriff indicted; boys banned from sliding; a speaking tube ...

  Dec 19
  Dec. 22, 1830 The Heavens were brilliantly illuminated by the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, on Saturday evening the 11th instant.—The ...
  

• A small boy's small swindle; 100 years since settlement of ...

  Dec 04
  Dec. 10, 1868 A small boy has been perpetrating a small swindle by calling on business men with the information that he has left clams at their ...
  

• Clothesline robberies, sirloin-strewn highway, too muchness of ...

  Nov 21
  Nov. 23, 1860 We hear of recent clothes line robberies in this city. Careful housekeepers will see that the wash is not left out over night. Nov. ...
  

• Binding at 2 or 3 shillings; no murder to report this week; ...

  Nov 08
  Nov. 10, 1831 The Book-Bindery, directly under the office of the Republican Journal, recently owned by Mr. Cook Kimball, has been purchased by the ...
  

• Dumpish frog, scarcity of labor for harvesting, abundant ...

  Oct 18
  Oct. 22, 1841 How came it there? – Jacob H. Bagley, of Montville, in Sept. last, dug out a live frog, 28 feet below the surface of the ground. It ...
  

• Blocks leave Belfast for Isthmus Canal Co.

  Oct 04
  Oct. 5, 1871 The town of Searsport, which was named for the late Hon. David Sears, of Boston, has received a large collection of valuable books, ...
  

• Belfast welcomes new industry proposed to manufacture 2,000 ...

  Sep 20
  Sept. 25, 1879 Belfast ship masters will have to study up the new “rules of the road” which are to go into effect next year. An amendment of the ...
  

• Decks full of slapping fish; bids for abandoned light houses

  Sep 06
  Sept. 11, 1879 Forty-three vessels engaged in catching mackerel were off the Camp Ground one day last week — all slatting in their lines, and ...
  

• Dull business along the wharves; urgent need for a local ...

  Jan 15
  Jan. 22, 1874 The working force of the shoe factory now numbers one hundred and twenty-five. Business along the wharves is the dullest we have ...
  

• Kind-hearted men and women of the shoe factory

  Dec 25
  Dec. 26, 1839 We have occupied a large portion of our paper, this week, in a manner we hope never again to be called upon to do, as we certainly ...
  

• Boots vanish; 8 o'clock curfew begins; an ideal cat picture

  Dec 11
  Dec. 16, 1880 The sleighing of Saturday brought crowds to market, the stores were crowded, and dealers made glad. People who do shopping in the ...
  

• A city of incendiaries; an efficient steam fire engine can be ...

  Nov 28
  Nov. 28, 1878 The fire on Monday morning started in the exact locality at which the great fire of 1873 began, and had the wind been strong from a ...
  

• Champagne baptizes not only stern, but several workmen on ...

  Nov 15
  Nov. 18, 1859 J. Y. McClintock, Esq., has introduced gas into City Hall, and hung a new and splendid chandelier, which lights up the hall brilliant...
  

• Mammoth milk-fed squashes, baneful midnight errands, leather ...

  Oct 25
  Oct. 27, 1881 A Belfast boarding house keeper has coined a new word. A sign on the door reads – “Mealers accommodated here.” The largest squash ...
  

• Bridge dedicated to the county's boys who lost their lives in ...

  Oct 11
  Oct. 15, 1874 A prolific canary: A gentleman in this city has a canary bird which he thinks is remarkable. She was one-year-old last July, and has ...
  

• Exultant locomotive's whistling frightens horses, wrecks a ...

  Sep 27
  Sept. 27, 1832 BELFAST EAST BRIDGE. The public are informed that this Bridge is re-built, and is now passable for travelers — thus opening again a ...
  

• Hurrah for old Maine!

  Sep 13
  Sept. 16, 1842 The Post Office at East Northport, in the County of Waldo, State of Maine, is discontinued, by order of the Post Master General, on ...
  

• Illegal whiskey shipped to citizen dead for several years

  Aug 30
  Sept. 1, 1881 Prof. Whitten's afternoon dancing school for masters and misses, at Hayford Hall, Belfast, closed on Saturday last, with a grand ...