Anne and Joel Wolak, from Haddam, Connecticut, bought “The Cedars” in 2010 and embarked on a major restoration of the property, to bring it back from the wreck it had become to what it looked like in George Neal’s photograph. While stripping the interior walls down to the laths they found, hidden in one of the walls, these items: “Annual Report of the Selectmen of the Town of Tremont for the Municipal Year ending February 22, A.D. 1895” “Cyclists’ Dictionary – illustrated – Compliments of Morgan & Wright, 1894” – humorous illustrations about cycling. - “Morgan & Wright was founded in 1891 by Fred Morgan and Rufus Wright, while the pneumatic safety bicycle was still fairly young, and the bicycle boom was just coming into flower. besides tires, they also produced other tire-related items (pumps, patch kits, tire repair accessories...) and other bicycle products (pedal rubbers, rubber toe clips, chain lubricant), and distributed a variety of other bicycle-related sundries through their catalogue. With the advent of the 20th century, the company gradually turned to the early automobile rubber market, moved to Detroit around 1906, and was bought by the U.S.Rubber Company around 1911 (a 1912 supply catalogue I have refers to M & W tires now being marked as U.S. tire), and later became Uniroyal.” - “Morgan & Wright” by Joel Mezt, Blackbird site, 01/07/2005, Accessed online 10/20/11; http://www.blackbirdsf.org/m-w/ “The Herald” brochure for “The Very Cycle Co., Wholesale Dealers in Bicycles, Sundries, and Fittings,” 245 Columbus Ave., Boston, Mass., featuring 2 models, the Gentlemen’s Herald and the Ladies’ Herald. A Penny Postcard addressed to “S.B. Brown % J.T.R. Freeman, Southwest Harbor, Me., from Morrison Joy. – “Mr. S.B. Brown – Dear Sir, We have the axles you ordered. We also have ½ Set 2¼ that are not welded if you should want them please advise us how to ship them. Ellsworth Mch 8, Morrison Joy” - Morrison, Joy Co. were dealers in Hardware, Cutlery, Iron and Steel in Ellsworth, Maine. They also sold Agricultural Implements, Paints, Oils, Carriage Stock, Mill and Quarry Supplies and advertised as a Ship Chandlery. One of the owners was John Whitney. Their shop on State Street in Ellsworth burned in the 1907 fire, but they were in business as late as 1919. “Life and Light for Woman,” Vol. XXII, May 1892, published monthly by the Woman’s Board of Missions. - “The Woman’s Board of Missions of the Pacific Islands began in 1871 to meet the specific needs of missionaries who set out for the distant shores of the Pacific Islands. It is the purpose of the Woman’s Board of Missions “to awaken in its members a deepening understanding of the Christian faith; to nurture the spirit of Christ in all areas of human life,
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Anne and Joel Wolak, from Haddam, Connecticut, bought “The Cedars” in 2010 and embarked on a major restoration of the property, to bring it back from the wreck it had become to what it looked like in George Neal’s photograph. While stripping the interior walls down to the laths they found, hidden in one of the walls, these items: “Annual Report of the Selectmen of the Town of Tremont for the Municipal Year ending February 22, A.D. 1895” “Cyclists’ Dictionary – illustrated – Compliments of Morgan & Wright, 1894” – humorous illustrations about cycling. - “Morgan & Wright was founded in 1891 by Fred Morgan and Rufus Wright, while the pneumatic safety bicycle was still fairly young, and the bicycle boom was just coming into flower. besides tires, they also produced other tire-related items (pumps, patch kits, tire repair accessories...) and other bicycle products (pedal rubbers, rubber toe clips, chain lubricant), and distributed a variety of other bicycle-related sundries through their catalogue. With the advent of the 20th century, the company gradually turned to the early automobile rubber market, moved to Detroit around 1906, and was bought by the U.S.Rubber Company around 1911 (a 1912 supply catalogue I have refers to M & W tires now being marked as U.S. tire), and later became Uniroyal.” - “Morgan & Wright” by Joel Mezt, Blackbird site, 01/07/2005, Accessed online 10/20/11; http://www.blackbirdsf.org/m-w/ “The Herald” brochure for “The Very Cycle Co., Wholesale Dealers in Bicycles, Sundries, and Fittings,” 245 Columbus Ave., Boston, Mass., featuring 2 models, the Gentlemen’s Herald and the Ladies’ Herald. A Penny Postcard addressed to “S.B. Brown % J.T.R. Freeman, Southwest Harbor, Me., from Morrison Joy. – “Mr. S.B. Brown – Dear Sir, We have the axles you ordered. We also have ½ Set 2¼ that are not welded if you should want them please advise us how to ship them. Ellsworth Mch 8, Morrison Joy” - Morrison, Joy Co. were dealers in Hardware, Cutlery, Iron and Steel in Ellsworth, Maine. They also sold Agricultural Implements, Paints, Oils, Carriage Stock, Mill and Quarry Supplies and advertised as a Ship Chandlery. One of the owners was John Whitney. Their shop on State Street in Ellsworth burned in the 1907 fire, but they were in business as late as 1919. “Life and Light for Woman,” Vol. XXII, May 1892, published monthly by the Woman’s Board of Missions. - “The Woman’s Board of Missions of the Pacific Islands began in 1871 to meet the specific needs of missionaries who set out for the distant shores of the Pacific Islands. It is the purpose of the Woman’s Board of Missions “to awaken in its members a deepening understanding of the Christian faith; to nurture the spirit of Christ in all areas of human life,
beginning with the individual and reaching into the home, the community and the uttermost parts of the world,” (III.B. Charter of Incorporation). “Ayer’s American Almanac” for 1894 published by Dr. J.C, Ayer & Co., Practical and Analytical Chemists, Lowell, Mass., U.S.A. - The J.C. Ayer Co. was begun in 1841 by Dr. James Cook Ayer (1818-1878) who bought an apothecary shop in that year and began making compound medicines. In 1844 he introduced Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral for “coughs, colds, asthma, croup, laryngitis, bronchitis, whooping cough and consumption.” It was made from syrup of squills, spirits of nitre, and spirits of bitter almonds. It was advertised as “a scientific combination of medicinal principles and curative virtues of the finest drugs, so united chemically, as to insure the greatest possible efficiency and uniformity of results.” Ayer went on from there to produce a famous sarsaparilla and his well-known almanac. – “Goods for sale: products and advertising in the Massachusetts industrial age” by Chaim M. Rosenberg, published by the University of Massachusetts Press, 2007, p. 89-95.
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Plumbing^
Heating^
Fumitwre^
Gasoline^
Engines^
Bicycles arid
Sewing Machines
Repairer of Gasolene Engines
and Bicycles
Phone 85-21
Northeast Harbor^ .•. Maine
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