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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses

"… department established a mail route and paid the mail carrier In 1894 this old mail route was discontinued and a steamboat company contracted to…"

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Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"… Tribune soon created a patent medicine mail-order business that was unlike anything seen to that time."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Sears and Roebuck Company Building

"This building replaced a mail order office. When it was built, the store was the second largest Sears building in New England."

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… a steamboat company contracted to bring a daily mail run from Rockland, and in 1898 when Dr. Small published his history, the island received…"

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Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"… a sandpaper mill and The Heart Cure Co., a large mail order patent-medicine concern. The largest single employer, established after the Civil War…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"A mail route established between Islesboro and Lincolnville transferred mail every Thursday via boat, with an unofficial post office established on…"

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Maine Maritime Museum

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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Blue Hill, Maine - John Edward Horton, Civil War Soldier

"… money to his family and anxiously awaited return mail from them. John’s family told him there were many “Bluehillers” going west to earn more money…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"Starting in 1822, horseback riders delivered mail to Farmington, Strong, Phillips, Kingfield, New Portland, and Anson."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"Horses brought the mail from the train to the post office. Salesmen, stagecoach passengers, and lumbermen were taken to their destinations on…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… communication occurred by written letter and mail. Travel routes were primarily over the water; there were few and very primitive roads."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… arrangement, our citizens are favored with the mail some half an hour earlier than before. We have made the assertion, and have no fears of making…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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