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Historical Items

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Item 80362

Moxie bottle, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Friendship Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: Friendship Media: Green glass bottle with red paper label

Item 80361

Moxie glasses, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Friendship Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: Friendship Media: Glass Negative

Item 80360

Moxie Nerve Food Shipping Box, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Friendship Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Friendship Media: Wooden box

Tax Records

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Item 37399

469-471 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Mary Watts Use: Dwelling & Store

Item 36149

25 Cedar Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: George A Etter Use: Dwelling & Store

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Prohibition in Maine in the 1920s

Federal Prohibition took hold of America in 1920 with the passing of the Volstead Act that banned the sale and consumption of all alcohol in the US. However, Maine had the Temperance movement long before anyone was prohibited from taking part in one of America's most popular past times. Starting in 1851, the struggles between the "drys" and the "wets" of Maine lasted for 82 years, a period of time that was everything but dry and rife with nothing but illegal activity.

Exhibit

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Bootleggers vs. Police

"… Media Green River whiskey bottles hidden in Moxie cases, 1927 Seized at a Yarmouth Inn Collections of Maine Historical Society/Maine Today Media…"

Exhibit

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Neal Dow

"The sign for "Moxie" shows the development and rising demand for soft drinks and their evolution from cure-all tonics."

My Maine Stories

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Story

A Florida Flatlander Finds Adventure in Maine (An Excerpt)
by Steve Hood

Humorous reminisces of former adventures in Maine from a Florida retiree

Story

The Wall
by Michael Uhl

What it means to have beaten the odds