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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Invitation, Farmington, 1903
"It has a one cent postage stamp and cancellation marks from Farmington. The weather was fine, and over two thousand persons attended."
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Life on a Tidal River - Resources
"… "Bangor High School students buy $2,748.65 in war stamps." Bangor Daily News Dec. 9, 1943, Print. Gilman, Robert;, and John Heide."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Shipbuilding in Biddeford: Lore, Leaders, and Legacy
"1910McArthur Public Library Shipyard stamp, Co. Biddeford, ca. 1917Biddeford Historical Society Maine has a long distinguished history of…"
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"… he had already been run out of the colony by the Stamp Act unrest, and only then as a pointed rebuke to Massachusetts’ increasingly unruly…"
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Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort
"Individuals and families were issued rationing stamps and tokens that represented certain goods. Blue tokens were for canned goods and red tokens…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 4 of 4
"… and a frogging closure features a worn label stamped, "The Coat and Suit Industry" encircled with the words "National Recovery Board," indicating…"
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"In 1825, the price of a stamp was only three cents. Today, it’s 44 cents. I’ve heard a lot of people complaining about the shooting price of stamps…"
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Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911
"… Historical Society Or the least expensive, this stamped lithographed steel button with the safety pin on the rear, like those still manufactured a…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace
"They would stamp each pair. How’d you get heating? We had woodstoves but it only kept one room warm. My wife had it harder than I did."
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Guilford, Maine - Special Events
"… was the special commemorative cancellation stamp that was developed by Postmaster E.E. Ross and Mrs. Ada Knowles of the post office."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden
"Braden Memorabilia - a pencil and a tobacco label stamp. Presque Isle Historical Society The pencil says, “You will make no mistake if you…"
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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