Keywords: 1920s
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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Memorial Library
"In the 1920s-1980s there were multiple librarians; some were Mary Buzzell, Sadie Adams, Evelyn Jenkins, and Polly Lyons."
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Surry by the Bay - Surry Village School
"By the 1920s a water cooler with a spigot assured the school remained modern and pupils fashioned water cups out of half sheets of arithmetic paper."
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Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas
"… by men of wealth during the boom years of the 1920s. For John P. Thomas, who planned banks and palatial homes, the Great Depression of the 1930s…"
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Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings
"Several of Campbell’s renderings from the 1920s are owned by the Maine Historical Society, including Elder’s Café in Portland designed by Webster and…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4
"By the 1920s, the schools had formed a school orchestra, agricultural clubs, a senior fair and drama production, public speaking contest, and a…"
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts
"… Club, offering golf in the 1890s, yachting in the 1920s and tennis in the 1940s. First Tarratine Golf Club, Islesboro, ca."
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Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2
"1920Guilford Historical Society In the 1920s on State Route 15 in Guilford, a small lunchroom and filling station was opened for business known as…"
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Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family
"… Stanislaus family chose to live in Lincoln in the 1920s because Stephen was a Penobscot Native American and had lived here for years."
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Lincoln, Maine - Gateway Motors
"However, since the 1920s it has changed its name and its owners many times. In 1922, the business started out as Casino Motors, owned by Mr."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4
"In the 1920s Fred Snow, a clam digger, found a better, more efficient way to can clams and founded Snow’s Canning Company."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4
"By the late 1920s rising costs and declining business caused the phasing out of the trolleys. The last trolley ran through Scarborough in 1932."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4
"Starting in the 1920s, students began to compete in intermural basketball, track, tennis, volleyball, skiing, snowshoeing, cross country, football…"
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Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century
"… Century Daily Living During the Jazz Age of 1920s, Surry had some specialized schools, including a dancing school and a singing school."
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Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay
"… up in vacation locales of New England in the 1920s and '30s, the Surry Theater offered a different play every week during their summer seasons of…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4
"The Chisholm Ski Club, founded in the early 1920s, offered winter Nordic and Cross Country skiing, and hosted an annual winter carnival, first at its…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3
"In the early 1920s Ridlonville played host to a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan; it is believed they built the Goodwill Hall."
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine
"This building was run by the Odd Fellows in the 1920s for ten years. These people then sold it to the Eureka Club. they used it for many things."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4
"It ceased operation in the 1920s and the building moved.(5) It was later burned down as a training exercise for firefighters."
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth
"… Farm on Blanchard Road in 1914, and during the 1920s added 30,000 square feet of glass. Blanchard’s son-in-law, William J."