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Historic Hallowell - Earning Our Keep

"… Free Library How do you earn your daily bread? How do you keep the roof over head? Where do you toil the whole day long? How do you manage to get…"

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Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… of pot ashes 1 pair of wheels lamb, potato, fish, bread, butter 15m 73 feet of boards 1/2 loaf of bread 1/2 bushel of potatoes 2 barrels of water 7…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Civil War

"… “Mr Hamor, sir, I want you to send me a little bread if possible, or I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to go to any other town, nor I don’t…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Franklin County Agricultural Fair

"Dairy, sugar and bread products, apples, pears, farming tools, carriages and harnesses. Also, quilts and spreads, carpets, rugs and plants, fancy…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Bonnie and Donnie Staples' house

"You couldn’t go pick up a loaf of bread or do anything like that. But you know, they was good to the kids too."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - "A Little Daisy," Katahdin Iron Works, 1890

"… little girl assumed the house work cooked nice bread, meats, pies, cakes &co & found time to attend school, also washed & done up the family…"

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

"He mentions eating rice soup, bean soup, and bread and makes it clear that there was very little meat."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 4 of 4

"… of the Lions Club, raised funds to convert an old bread truck into an ambulance. All of the equipment was donated and Dr."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"… flour, groceries, clothing, confectioneries, and bread in more than 35 different sizes and more than 20 brands."

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Women Leaders and Temperance

"… Columbia Street in Bangor carrying signs such as "Bread is better than beer". X W.C.T.U. Prohibition Progress ca."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 4 of 4

"Luckily, a short time later, the menu added bread, butter, meat, clam or fish chowder, and donuts. At that point, hot lunch cost from six to twelve…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… fresh seafood to the door, the baker with fresh bread and pastry, the shoe salesman with the latest footwear, the vegetable truck, the dairy wagon…"

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Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"1984Raymond H. Fogler Library Bangor Rye Bread Bakery entrance, ca. 1976Raymond H. Fogler Library Hancock Street buildings, Bangor, ca."

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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