On this date in Maine history: Aug. 29
Aug. 29, 1786: Protesters in Northampton, Massachusetts, angry about tax collections and property confiscations by the government, prevent the court
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On this date in Maine history: Sept. 2
Sept. 2, 1816: In a second referendum on Maine’s proposed separation from Massachusetts to become a new state, the pro-separation
Read more60 years ago, John F. Kennedy spoke in Orono a month before he was killed
It was a sparkling autumn morning in Maine in 1963, and something momentous was about to happen: the University of
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100 Years Ago: 1923 Mrs. Evelyn B. Levine of Waterville, a member of the Massachusetts Bar, was admitted to the
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100 Years Ago: 1923 Mrs. Florence Kling Harding, widow of the late president, plans to spend a portion of the
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100 Years Ago: 1923 Scores today joined in the search for the body of a California man, believed to have
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100 Years Ago: 1923 The first lesson in the millinery course will begin tonight at the Blue Triangle at 7:30. Members
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100 Years Ago: 1923 Lucretia Bore, noted opera singer, has arrived in this country from abroad and will be heard
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100 Years Ago: 1923 The Saturday Club of Brunswick began its 29th year with a short business meeting followed by
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100 Years Ago: 1923 A huge electric sign claiming to be the largest “this side of New York City” was attached
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100 Years Ago: 1923 A for-get-me-not sale conducted on Saturday and Monday by the ladies of the American Legion Auxiliary
Read moreTurner’s Century Box Jubilee reveals treasures from 1923, 1973 boxes
Around 150 Turner residents got to see up close, for the first time in 50 years, relics from Turner in
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100 Years Ago: 1923 President and Mrs. Coolidge attended the theater for the first time since going to the White
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100 Years Ago: 1923 The ladies of the west Minot Union Circle will hold their usual fair at the grange hall.
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