The Millinocket Herald, Vol. 1, No. 5 is the first copy of this paper to become part of the MHS newspaper collection. The issue date was May 7, 1941. A prior similarly titled publication in the museum collection is The Millinocket Herald Tribune, with issues in the collection published between 5/1947-1/8/1948. Paul Maxwell was publisher of The Millinocket Hearld Tribune. (Note: sometimes local newspapers included The in the title and sometimes not)
The newly acquired The Millinocket Herald came to the newsstands on Wednesdays and could be purchased for $2.00 per year or as a single copy for the lofty price of five cents. Lawrence E. Brawn was the managing editor. The paper was printed each week by the Houlton Publishing Company. By the time this number five issue was out, the paper already had a circulation of 2000. Individual copies could be purchased at these businesses: Gonya Drug Store, Fowler’s News Stand, The Millinocket Herald Office (Joslyn Tailor Shop), and at Carbone’s in East Millinocket.
An editorial asks, “Are we serving you? Five weeks ago we gave you The Millinocket Herald. Five weeks ago we were welcomed with open arms and now we would like to ask one question of hundreds of people who have bought this paper each week. Are we Serving you?”
This eight-page newspaper has news from East Millinocket, Lincoln and West Enfield as well as ads from those towns. The only Millinocket ad is for Crowell’s Studio which advertised for Mother’s Day ad with the tagline “Mother will appreciate your photograph.”
Stories in this newspaper issue are mainly social and sports happenings:
1. Upcoming annual May Ball at the high school gym (Hillcrest Golf Club members in charge of arrangements) and featuring a fifteen-minute jitterbug contest;
2. Stearns HS baseball lost the season opener to Caribou HS despite home runs by Mascetta and Scott (a very detailed article);
3. Harry Carroll won the sweepstakes bowling tourney by throwing “a mean ball to roll up a pinfall of 344 at the Bowling Center;
4. Bangor Hydro Cooking School at the Armory will show the “many advantages of modern cookery by electric”;
5. Donald V. Henry Post, American Legion elected officers;
6. A birthday party, a pre-nuptial shower & Stearns Grammar School Honor List;
7. At the Opera House, you could see a double feature with Ingrid Bergman titled Rage in Heaven and The Case of the Black Parrot (no star listed). Friday’s showing was “They Dare Not Love” and for movie-goers it was “encyclopedia night with volume five being given to attendees.
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