Keywords: Service workers
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Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community
"This included skilled nurses, social workers, home health aides, and physical, occupational, and speech therapists."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Wood Products of Strong
"… they provide employment for the residents, but workers came from all the surrounding towns. Lumbermen from miles around worked to provide the raw…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4
"That first year, workers produced about 15,000 pounds of cheese, which was sold mostly to Lewiston and Portland businesses for 15¢ a pound."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3
"… During the war years layoffs were common for mill workers, many of which were forced to rely on the city's Poor Farm for assistance."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Working in Maine
"Del retired in March 2005. He was a skilled worker and loved his job. He stills likes forestry and has twelve acres of land that he cuts for firewood."
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm
"In 1902 the company had 150 workers working with a daily output of fifty thousand shingles and fifteen thousand different types of lumber a day."
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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 2
"1,000 utility and tree service workers worked 20 hour days to fix lines and clean up trees. 2. CMP had to restore power to over 250,000 customers 3."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1850 to 1870
"… in great numbers, employing large numbers of workers and tradesmen. Business was so good the two men were known as two of only seven millionaires…"
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries
"… to rely on islanders as cooks, interior home workers and nursemaids for children. F.S. Pendleton and Company Store, interior, Islesboro, ca."
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII
"Over sixty years of steam service, two captains and three ships: the Vinalhaven, Governor Bodwell, and the North Haven, served the needs of Swan’s…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4
"… the units to housing for South Portland shipyard workers. Dunstan Observation Post, Scarborough, ca."
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry
"… a store, twelve houses on Red Row for their workers’ families, a stable and two barns. By 1902 they had 150 men working with a daily output of…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4
"He was a very hard worker, demanding of himself and others, yet was concerned for the welfare of others, such as in adequate housing and education."
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Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3
"Note how the workers appear, casually working and walking atop the I-beam. Higher tides than normal come during new moons, as occurred on a cold…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce
"The work was demanding, with no set hours. Workers rushed to the factory whenever the whistle blew. The conditions were dismal."
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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World
"The workers were the lumberjacks who would work for months clearing acres of heavily forested land to finally send the logs down the Penobscot River…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4
"… Rumford Area Historical Society The many workers from Europe and Canada brought with them their Catholic heritages."
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Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax
"Hundreds of workers, many of them Italian immigrants who had been working on the railroad in Machias, were drawn to the project with promises of high…"
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"During the season workers came from Campobello, Grand Manan, Deer Island, and towns throughout Washington County, many living in rows of company…"
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"She employed several workers to wash and iron the rusticators' clothing. Erlrie Holmes operated a clothing store and lived in the back with his…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4
"… rain caused the soil to give way and the exposed workers abandoned their effort under fire from the men in the garrison."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru
"Knight returned to his land with some workers, or two of his sons, burned some of the felled trees in preparation of a garden, and used others to…"
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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit
"The closing of the mills would cost 561 workers their jobs and impact nearly half of the town’s tax income. Building of tissue mill, Lincoln, ca."