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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Andrew Smith Store

"… Marion Stinson remembers, "You could buy a pork chop for ten cents." Smith owned a team of horses, most likely to transport his products."

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Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources

"The Axe was a tool typically used for chopping wood with usually a steel blade attached at a right angle to a wooden handle."

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Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"When it was winter, the year round loggers chopped down trees. They worked in crews with four or five men."

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Historic Hallowell - Logging

"A final step was to make the tool slip resistant, so it didnʼt slip when hammering or chopping wood."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"… Pine Point factory canned its last batch of chopped clams in 1990 after 68 years in business. Thurston and Bayley Company, Scarborough…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"… provoking after we had shuffled and ditched and chopped and watched for a month and had got all ready to commence to pepper ‘em."

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Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… were oxen pulling, barbeque, canoe races, log chopping contest, magic show, chalk talk, and street dance."

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"So I started cooking huge things like chop suey, or anything that you could stir the frozen vegetables into."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… Hammond Trading Post at the Narrows across from Chops Point on the eastern shore of the Kennebec and the Clarke and Lake Post in Arrowsic."

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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