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Farm Stand in Westfield on U.S. Route 1 (September 2001)

Farm Stand in Westfield on U.S. Route 1 (September 2001)

1816 The Brunswick Statehood Convention convenes, only to dissolve in confusion in two months later.
1918 In Livermore Falls the Androscoggin County Fair is postponed because of the influenza. Public schools, churches, theaters, dance halls, pool rooms, and lodge rooms are closed there as well. Bath is hit hard with many people working at Bath Iron Works.
1950 “The greatest number of U.S. barrels of potatoes picked in a 9 1/2 hour day is 235 by Walter Sirois (b.1917) of Caribou, Maine, on Sept. 30, 1950.” Quote and source from Archive.org.
  https://archive.org/details/guinnessbookofworuss00russ/page/368/mode/2up?q=walter+sirois
 
 

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