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Site Pages
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4
"… the boards with chunks of chalk and erased with cloth rags. Soon, the slate board was invented and it was then that teachers switched to cylinders…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company
"… Bag Department made bags for flour, groceries, clothing, confectioneries, and bread in more than 35 different sizes and more than 20 brands."
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Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 2 of 3
"… in the residence area, which included: “Washing clothes in the bathtubs is not allowed. The laundry is for such purposes.” “Do not monopolize the…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture
"… overalls, Aunt Lydia’s carpet thread, bolts of cloth, lamp chimneys, medicines and tooth powder. On the other side: cracker barrels, cheese wheels…"
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine
"There were barber shops, clothing stores and many convenient stores and restaurants. All of these great jobs and opportunities went downhill when the…"
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"It was said that the lines of clothing, hardware, shoes, and ship chandlery were the best east of Bangor. Lubec stores seemed primitive by comparison."
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block
"… office in the building until 1891 and a men's clothing store from 1892-1907. Then came the Shelter Institute and Woodbutcher tools from 1991-1999…"
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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 3 of 5
"It contained a post office, a clothing store, and a drug store on the first floor, and the bedrooms and the kitchen on the second floor, with…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2
"… had been bolts of heavy, double-faced woolen cloth, which were salvaged by area residents. Some Scarborough Historical Society members remember…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4
"… so cold students had to wear multiple layers of clothing and sometimes even a hat. The oldest boy was appointed the janitor and had to arrive at…"
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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century
"… By 1870, Surry was producing goods for the clothing, building, and shipping industries, plus it housed a carding mill, tannery, stave mill, shingle…"
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Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company
"… and Japanese folks gathered together in everyday clothes, belting out a moving rendition of a chorus from Aida, accompanied by two or more pianos…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates
"… Harbor once or twice a year, mostly to buy school clothes. Yet, there was one reason nearly everyone wanted to travel between towns."
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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block
"Douglas clothing store, and John O. Shaw who sold stationary supplies, books and other random gifts (see receipt)."
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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s
"In the tunnel were reportedly old clothes and other items which may have been used to disguise the slaves as they made their way to Canada."
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Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present
"… another great downtown fire, one which consumed a clothing store, caused little more than a hiccup, as the store rebuilt immediately."
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
"… established here in 1851 and Dunn's Store sold clothes, hardware and food. There was a gristmill and a blacksmith shop."
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War
"… and worked in various enterprises, managing a clothing store for a time in Boston. In 1869 he married Ellen Maria Marston, daughter of the sea…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle
"… in southern Maine where it was used for sizing cloth. Aroostook County’s first starch factory opened in Caribou in 1870 and the third in Presque…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War
"By 1880 John Bangs was a clothing manufacturer. Mr. Bangs had a wife, Clara, and three sons, and by 1910 he was a widower, living in Nebraska."
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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"… and Bath Department Store), several men’s clothing stores and beauty parlors, many restaurants and a number of jewelry stores added to the…"
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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