Keywords: prize speaking
Item 79313
Seventh Annual Prize Speaking Contest Program, Dixfield, 1917
Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: 1917-02-16 Location: Dixfield Media: Ink on paper
Item 52413
Samuel Deering Wyman, Fairfield, 1914
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1914 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print
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Graduations -- and schools -- in the 19th through the first decade of the 20th century often were small affairs and sometimes featured student presentations that demonstrated what they had learned. They were not necessarily held in May or June, what later became the standard "end of the school year."
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In 1921, Guy Gannett purchased two competing Portland newspapers, merging them under the Portland Press Herald title. He followed in 1925 with the purchase the Portland Evening Express, which allowed him to combine two passions: photography and aviation.
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4
"One of the first few was a prize declamation which offered students a chance to compete and win prizes by singing, reading, or reciting poems or…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House
"… no auditorium before 1970, graduations, plays, prize speaking, proms and all manner of school productions were held at the Opera House."
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Sister Therese Bouthot:Life of service as a Good Shepherd sister
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
From humble beginnings to playing a leadership role in the service of others
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An Asian American Account
by Zabrina
An account from a Chinese American teen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
