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Site Pages
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Carolyn Stone
"She retired from the position of school nurse in 1928, when a professional nursing graduate was hired at her insistence."
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Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor
"Her branch of nursing in the program was surgical nursing. When she earned her nursing cap she took on a few nursing jobs over a four-year period."
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Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware Store window display, Lincoln, ca. 1943
"… "Willburn Haskell in (illegible)" "Mary Burke (nurse & [illegible] in Africa) on right standard. Billy Burke's girl." "Jerome at bottom" "Clifford…"
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Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals
"… to open a hospital in 1932 while working as a nurse in a nursing home. She witnessed women giving birth in their homes or in “maternity hospitals.”…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 2 of 3
"… dad James would get a taxi from the Van Buren nursing home and stop here (Carroll’s Auto Sales) to get money from Skippy to pay for the taxi."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Historical Society
"nurse, school nurse, editor, sales administrator, event planner and regulatory affairs specialist. Other interests are just as varied: conservation…"
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Kennebec Valley Community College Archive
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Historic Hallowell - In Sickness and in Health
"… Martha Ballard and great-grandfather of civil war nurse and founder of the American Red Cross, Clara Barton) and Benjamin Vaughan."
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Life on a Tidal River - Doughty Students
"… how to correctly shoot three dimensional objects. X A student prepares to shoot a photo of a nurse's uniform from the '40's. X"
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Surry by the Bay - Surry Village School
"1948Surry Historical Society A school nurse, Miss Dunphy, came around periodically during the 1930s and 1940s, checking the general health and…"
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Lincoln, Maine - Workman's Hospital
"Workman was a nurse and the first owner of the Workman’s Hospital that was built in 1932. The first Workman’s hospital was actually in the upstairs…"
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Historic Hallowell - Martha Ballard
"… terms, she was simultaneously a midwife, nurse, physician, mortician, pharmacist, and attentive wife."
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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 1 of 2
"… realized how much of a help the doctors and nurses at the hospital could be to them and their community."
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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Summary Notes
"Some elders where rushed out of nursing homes without power, and moved to shelters where there was power."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson
"But then when the war came along she was a nurse. She became a first maid inspector- do you want to hear a story about that? I was in the service and…"
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Lincoln, Maine - Cars, Model T
"My mom is a nursing student, works, and takes care of my littler sister. At the moment my sister is having very bad medical issues, so she is always…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4
"Doris Clark was Bell’s nurse for 18 years. In 1937, the hospital closed, and Dr. Bell began working at the first Franklin Memorial Hospital building…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell
"… Savage worked as a nurse’s aid and children’s nurse for almost 10 years at North Shore Baby Hospital in Salem, Massachusetts and Massachusetts…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 2 of 2
"Nurse with child patient at St. Joseph Hospital, Bangor, ca. 1960St. Joseph Healthcare The first major project St."
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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians
"Charlotte and her husband moved to Napa California so she could to work as a nurse near her father who was also in California at this time."
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education
"… school system begged the town to hire a School Nurse and Doctor to help keep the school population healthy."