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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… to bring the Star back as a B-movie house in 1936 after which the space was reinvented as a nightclub, bowling alley, and a retail furniture store…"

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Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"Another bridge was built higher this time but in 1936, that bridge was washed out by a flood as well."

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Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"Another flood in March 1936 caused more extensive damage to Guilford’s industries, and residences. Guilford Community Theatre, 1939Guilford…"

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Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"… are shown partially under water during the 1936 flood. The tea house was mostly destroyed and is not here today."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"In 1936, she financed the tomb at Black Point Cemetery and established a trust fund to provide perpetual care for the entire cemetery."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"… North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, A History: 1636-1936, William Rowe observed that “In early New England the history of the church is the history of the…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"acquired the mill properties in December of 1936, as well as water rights of the Continental Paper Bag Company."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"The most notorious flood happened in March, 1936, when the Business Island was flooded; the Morse bridge, the steel Rumford Falls Bridge, the…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"… coupled with the major flooding of the rivers in 1936, left the Oxford Paper Co. with little profit."

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Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 2 of 3

"A Comprehensive Nursing Education As a June 1936 article by Mary Osborne of Portland in the professional journal of the Maine State Nurse’s…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"He had a son named Albert S., born June 3, 1936. He also had a son named Cyrus V., born September 9, 1937. Cyrus died when he was nineteen years old."

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Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"In 1936, Willard Cummings assumed leadership at the trustees request and accomplished what many said could not be done."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 3 of 4

"… of the nineteenth century was first introduced in 1936 and it was entitled The McGuffey Reader. The Reader sold tens of millions of copies only in…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine, 1636-1936. Yarmouth, Maine: The Author, 1937. Sweetser, Phyllis Sturdivant."

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… (1870-1923) and Edwin Seymour Pendleton (1877-1936). From 1900 to 1910 the Pendleton Brothers F.S."

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Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"Gordon went bankrupt in 1936, never to be open again under the Gordon name.   Jeannette King Interview on Fox Farms Scott Sibley “Create a ‘why’…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"…   Dottie Harding Interview on Doctors In 1936, Dr. Albert J. Gulesian arrived in the small town of Lincoln where he first helped operate two…"

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St. Croix Historical Society

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… to make room for the new Post Office prior to 1936, Harold obtained some of the timbers from the old house and kept them in his barn on Orchard…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine, 1636-1936.[b] Yarmouth, Maine, 1937. A Walking Tour of Walnut Hill Village."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"Grant department store in 1936, and major changes on Front Street between Elm and Summer Streets where another fire seriously damaged the Columbia…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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