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Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 1 of 3

"… a growing demand for nurses as well as hospital beds. Along with the rest of the medical field, nursing underwent rapid transformation and…"

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… later, Blue Hill Memorial Hospital (BHMH) is a 25-bed critical access hospital and the largest employer in the region."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"He followed a creek bed and went under a bridge because if he had been walking on the road, he would be asked why he was traveling on the Sabbath."

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

"… Charles Forster died, his estate funded a 16-bed hospital. Doris Clark was Bell’s nurse for 18 years. In 1937, the hospital closed, and Dr."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"… canal to turbine generators located on river bed basin 80 feet below. This expansion was to utilize the full extent of the Great Falls as it was…"

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Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 2 of 2

"By 1965, Mercy had expanded from 25 beds to 285. Almost 500 full-time and part time Sisters and lay employees staffed the hospital."

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Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"Peter’s Church opened and filled with beds for people quarantining infected relatives at home. Churches in the city held open air masses to prevent…"

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Politics and Enforcement

"Located at 135 Congress Street, it was a hot bed of recurring corruption, with agents often arrested by local police."

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Taverns, People, and Scenes

"1758 John Greenwood (1727-1792) Oil on bed ticking Collections of The Saint Louis Art Museum This vision of Yankee mariners in various states of…"

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Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"Some would even dig in the clam beds with the infants. Newborn babies would be diapered in absorbing spagnum, moss, cattail or milkweed fluff, and…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… with them and he drove a horse-sled filled with beds and other furniture. Betsey, her young son and the baby rode in the sled."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… stolen from the porch, taking the cat into bed to keep warm on a cold winter’s night, facing tax and doctor bills, trying to find credit from the…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… Saco & Portsmouth is long gone and its rail bed is now part of the Eastern Trail. Scarborough Railway Stations Train at Scarborugh Beach…"

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… farms and mowing fields, great piles of mussel-bed, with large barns and hay crops And...there were often three or four vessels on the stocks…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"… for a landsman to get up out of a comfortable bed and struggle up on a cold, wet, cheerless deck to handle cold, wet lines and colder, wetter fish…"

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"I think you went to bed earlier. Because it was just dark and it was cold. There weren’t restaurants to go to, there just weren’t places to go, so…"

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Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… the residents of this town were called from their beds to fight one of the most stubborn fires that had ever been known here and which threatened…"

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Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"My father is too weak to leave his bed, but he told me to send his regards to John MacGregor, his friends and family."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… Crittenden) Today, many of the existing rail beds have been converted into heavily-used recreational trails."

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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"A 50-bed hospital was planned at a cost of $1,250,000—half of which would be funded by a federal Hill-Burton grant to improve hospital technology."

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

"The rocky bed of the river has interfered somewhat with the pile driving, when it has been crossed, as it will be in a few days, and the intervale on…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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