Keywords: Curses
Item 105113
Babe Ruth signing autographs, Portland, 1926
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1926 Location: Portland Media: Glass Plate Negative
Item 13731
Stone with image similar to Jonathan Buck's gravestone, Bucksport, ca. 1800
Contributed by: Bucksport Historical Society Date: circa 1800 Location: Bucksport Media: Stone
Exhibit
Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1865 to 1919: The Drys Gain New Adherents and Leaders
"… from this home-destroying, heart-breaking curse of the liquor traffic." If it was the Ohio-based Anti-Saloon League, founded in 1893, that…"
Exhibit
Rum, Riot, and Reform - Women Leaders and Temperance
"… redeemed from the home-destroying, heart-breaking curse o the liquor traffic." - L.M.N. Stevens, 1913. Home of Mrs. Lillian M.W."
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Joseph Mitchell and Mutual Store wagon, Bangor, 1865
"… wrote of the Mutual Store, "This store has been a curse to me ever since the day it was established it has made no difference what article I have…"
Site Page
Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford
"… was the origin of the legend of the Saco River Curse. Lieut. General William Pepperrell, ca."
Story
A Lifelong Romance with Retail
by George A Smith
Maine's once plentiful small retail stores.
