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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"… manufacturing of wood fiber tableware which was lost to fire. His next was to establish the Umbagog Pulp Company at Livermore Falls."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"… the ships built at the Dunstan shipyard have been lost. It is known that local mariners Abraham Perkins and Ira Milliken had two boats built at the…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"When his only remaining brother Jacob was lost at sea in 1876, Charles sold the farm to Abbie A. Curtis Dolloff, the wife of Oscar Fitzland Dolloff."

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"As jobs were lost and once thriving businesses closed the town’s population continued to decline. Today Lubec’s population stands at 1,551."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… especially true for North Yarmouth, since it had lost its primary commercial center when the village of Yarmouth seceded from North Yarmouth in…"

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Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… many investors, very few from the Lubec area, lost everything in the swindle there were no prosecutions."

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"More than $3,000,000 in property value was lost. Yet from this fire, a revitalized city rose and endowed the city with beautiful educational…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… out that it was too expensive to mine and he lost that investment as well. Arthur’s brother, Walter, stayed in Bangor and, in 1886, went to work…"

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St. Croix Historical Society

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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