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Lincoln, Maine - Civil War

"He practiced law in Lincoln from 1858 until the Civil War began. He joined the 11th Maine Regiment on November 2, 1861."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"… medical practice after becoming interested in the law and being appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"In the late 1800s game laws were put into place that regulated how many deer you could tag. Moose hunting and caribou hunting were outlawed."

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Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… homestead passed to her three children under the laws of intestacy. Phebe in Her Old Age Phebe wears a black coat in the only photograph we…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… the Supreme Court of the State of Maine opened a law office before 1905. Henry W. Park came to Mexico from Dixfield."

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

"His son had attended Yale in the Arts and Harvard Law School and had been brought up in a pulp and paper family."

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Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"For example, the state soon passed a law requiring all public schools to offer instruction in personal hygiene and community sanitation."

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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"… to the bar in 1811, he started practicing law in Fryeburg, Maine in 1812, moving his office to Paris in 1819."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"However, the schools found it difficult to enforce the laws, as much as they tried. Truancy, tardiness and absences persisted."

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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"On July 1, 1966, the Medicare Act was signed into law. As a result, hospitals were required to pass stringent inspections in order to receive…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"Jerome and Belle (Smallidge) Knowles opened a law, real estate and insurance office at the head of Main Street in what had formerly been a boarding…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"His son, Major John Crosby, and son-in-law, Elias Dudley, ran his business until 1852. Jacob Curtis owned a blacksmith shop near Crosby’s home."

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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."

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

"… waste water treatment in accordance with federal laws or allow funding for its completion. The Rumford mill fit perfectly into Boise's growing…"

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

"… and prosper and by 1865 there were saw mills, law offices, retail stores, and a woolen factory. The railroad arrived in 1871 creating opportunities…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"Agrarian laws designed to “confiscate land holdings and redistribute them to the landless”, temporarily freed many from traditional societal…"

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… on the other hand obliged to pay obedience to the laws of Massachusetts …. declared to be within the limits of their government.” The petition was…"

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

"Under a Maine law of 1887 children under the age of 12 could not work in manufacturing establishments. Canneries were the exception."

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"Marshall Att'y at Law B. Adams “ “ “ S.A. Bennet Physician & Surgeon W.H. Stevens “ “ “ J.P. Churchell & Son Merchant A."

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… residents, had convinced legislators that this law was necessary. The summer community kept cars off the island from 1913 until 1933."

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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