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Presque Isle: The Star City - Eddie's Market

"Michaud’s store was on the corner of State and Exchange Streets. Eddie started his own store, Eddie’s IGA, which had a line of groceries and meats…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson

"… parents and by that time my mother had become a meat inspector and the one thing I wanted was hot dogs and my dad said shut up- that’s a cargo…"

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

"Clams were delivered in the morning to local homes, and at the end of the day the meat would be picked up."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Beniah Harding

"On the farm I we didn’t have a great variety of meats so we had lots of wheat products. Beniah Harding Interview, clip two  Transcription of Clip 2…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… in refrigerated cars made the export of meat possible as well as improved the condition of eggs and fruit."

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

"There was another meat market and grocery store owned by Merritt Ober. Above the store, Miss Coburn operated a beauty shop that catered to the…"

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Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3

"… tongue depressors, candy and ice cream sticks, meat skewers, wrapped ice cream spoons and many other items."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"They pickled, smoked and dried meat and fish. They tended the livestock. They planted the crops and harvested them."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"Many early farmers raised sheep for meat and wool; some wool was sold to the Shakers in New Gloucester or Mayall Mill in Gray."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"… such as Burnham & Morrill began canning lobster meat. The first tidal lobster pound was introduced in Vinalhaven in 1875 and others quickly…"

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

"… Fish Market in New York City and provided lobster meat to many Old Orchard Beach, Saco and Scarborough restaurants and area take-out establishments."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"Meat stock and other commodities produced by the farmers were used as money at a later date. Ezekiel Porter, whom Porter Hill is named after, is…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"in Boston etc.), meat, fish and produce for the expanding summer colony. During peak season delivery trucks hurried about to the summer cottages and…"

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"They also needed meat when the Anderson Brothers store had none. The answer came when Stockholm residents started hunting."

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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