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Historic Hallowell - Child Labor

"Many attempts were made to pass more child labor laws. In 1918 and again in 1922 the Congress passed child labor laws, but the Supreme Court denied…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"The National Child Labor Committee believed that regular employment of children in industry was wrong."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Until child labor laws were instituted in the 1930s children, using sharp knives, removed the heads, tails and entrails from the fish."

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"… from Bowdoin College he attended Harvard Law school, then practiced Admiralty Law with the U.S. Navy."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 1 of 2

"… was part of that state until 1820) signed into law the Legislative Act on June 19th, 1811, which separated the new Town from Eastport."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"As the Revenue Cutter Service, the maritime law enforcement arm of the Treasury Department, morphed into the U."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… went down to his house where with my wife and child and I took supper After supper I took the boy in my arms and started for the pinnacle."

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"Robert Herring Jr. gave birth to the first child born in the settlement, a baby girl which she names Esther. Then in December Mrs. Robert Low Jr."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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