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  • Author: Huff, Phil

Date: 1992 May 28

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Letter to the editor calling upon "all women of French ancestry" to unite in response to the Maine Supreme Court's decision to allow the Calumet Club of Augusta, Maine, to refuse membership to women.

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  • Author: Stevens, Deane S.

Date: 1992 May 28

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Letter to the editor that claims to be in support of the Maine Supreme Court decision to protect the all-male Le Club Calumet's freedom of association.

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  • Author: Cartwright, Steve

Date: 1992 October 22

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Nancy Albert Ellis' father and uncle, Demetrius and Henry Albert, were suspended by Le Club Calumet after refusing to appear before their executive board to discuss their public support of Ellis' controversial bid for membership in the all-male,…

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  • Author: Hale, Karlene K.

Date: 1992 July 16

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Nancy Albert Ellis, a woman whose membership application to Le Club Calumet in Augusta, Maine, was denied based on her sex, and who lost a legal battle with the Club that was taken all the way to the Maine Supreme Court, does not appeal the decision…

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  • Author: Cline, Claire

Date: 1992 November 5

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Letter to the editor calling for gender equality in cutural organizations. This comes in support of Nancy Albert Ellis, whose bid to join the Calumet Club in Augusta, Maine, was rejected, and ultimately denied in a decision by the Maine Supreme…

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  • Author: Bickerman, Karen L.

Date: 1992 November 5

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Letter to the editor berating Le Club Calumet of Augusta, Maine, for its refusal of Nancy Albert Ellis' membership bid on account of her sex. The author seeks a peaceful resolution to what became a controversial issue surrounding the inclusion of…

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  • Author: Kunitz, Howard

Date: 1992 June 2

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Short letter to the editor written against Maurice Violette's letter of May 28, 1992, coming in the wake of Le Calumet Club's rejection of a woman vying for membership in the Augusta, Maine, all-male organization.

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  • Author: Le Club Calumet

Date: 1986 July 11

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English, with some français

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A supplement to the daily newspaper that includes a history of the Central Maine celebration, statements of prominent club members, advertisements, a song, as well as a 1986 schedule of events, the parade route, and pieces on popular performers to…

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  • Author: Le Club Calumet

Date: 1987 July 10

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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A supplement to the daily newspaper that includes a history of the Augusta, Maine, celebration, statements of prominent club members, advertisements, as well as a 1987 schedule of events, the parade route, and pieces on popular performers to appear.

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  • Author: Hale, Karlene K.

Date: 1991 December 7-8

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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On the fiftieth year following the 1941 Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Lucien Poulin of Augusta, Maine, tells of his experience of the surprise bombing and his subsequent involvement in World War II.

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  • Author: Phelan, Joe

Date: 1989 February 2

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Captioned photo of Adelard Labbe cutting ice on Sand Hill in Augusta, Maine.

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  • Author: Phelan, Joe

Date: 199?

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Photo of Pete Caron shoveling snow from a tenement building on Sand Hill in Augusta, Maine.

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  • Author: Kennebec Journal

Date: 2007 June 26

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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A special supplement to the daily newspaper on the merging of previously separate Roman Catholic parishes in the central Maine region. Includes brief histories of the parishes, letters from clergy, pictures, and a preview of the new unified Catholic…

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  • Author: Cartwright, Steve

Date: 2007 June 15

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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St. Augustine School, the historically Franco Catholic school on Sand Hill in Augusta, Maine, closes at the end of the 2007 school year. It is to be merged with St. Mary's School of Western Avenue, Augusta, and housed at that location, taking the new…

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  • Author: Manlove, George

Date: 1989 December 4

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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As the discontinued Edwards Mill began to burn more strongly at the foot of Sand Hill in Augusta, Maine, in 1991, many firefighters were called back to the site from which they had already left.

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  • Author: Capital Weekly
  • Author: Bates News (1960)

Date: 1996 November 6

Publication: Capital Weekly

Language: English

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1926 photo taken of workers in the Edwards Mill (weave rooms 33 and 53), Augusta, Maine. The featured caption seeks out newspaper readers who might be able to identify the faces in the picture.

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  • Author: Farkas, Tom

Date: 1996 January 18

Publication: Capital Weekly

Language: English

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Augusta, Maine, resident Paul Labbe helps the local Capital Weekly newspaper to identify a 1940s photo of a store and gas station. Article features the picture itself, as well as claims from others who attempted to make an identification of the…

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  • Author: MacDonald, David

Date: 1991 March 6

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Captioned photo of man shoveling snow on Monroe Street, adjacent to the former Labbe's Market on Augusta, Maine's Sand Hill.

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  • Author: Brack, Ken

Date: 1989 December 2-3

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Article recounts burning of Augusta, Maine's Edwards Mill in November and December of 1991. Discusses the melange of firefighting efforts from many parts of Central Maine, as well as the early stages of investigating the fire's cause.

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  • Author: Hale, Karlene K.

Date: 1989 December 2-3

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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In the aftermath of the burning of the Edwards Mill in Augusta, Maine, some former workers look back on their many years spent there during its time of operation. This article focuses on the stories of Edward Doyon, Valmond Rodrigue, Robert Beaudoin,…

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  • Author: Brack, Ken

Date: 1989 December 1

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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A fire consumes the Edwards Mill in Augusta, Maine, beginning in the afternoon of November 30, 1989. Article includes a picture of the smoke and fire at the base of Sand Hill, a neighborhood in the north part of the city.

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  • Author: Kennebec Journal

Date: 1989 December 4

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Selection of pictures and a brief article on the sentiments surrounding the burning of the Edwards (cotton) Mill in Augusta, Maine.

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  • Author: Rooks, Douglas

Date: 1989 December 2-3

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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This editorial reflects on the recent burning of the Edwards Mill in Augusta, Maine, in contrast with the anticipation of a new shopping mall to be built in the same city, not far from the mill site.

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  • Author: Brack, Ken

Date: 1989 December 8

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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After the defunct Edwards Mill of Augusta, Maine, is devastated by fire in 1989, it comes to light that its owner had been trying for nearly a year to sell the property.

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  • Author: Associated Press

Date: 1989 December 7

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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The Maine Fire Marshall's office finds no certain cause of Augusta, Maine's 1989 Edwards Mill fire, and mentions that either "a discarded cigarette or broken elevator" was probably what sparked the blaze.

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  • Author: Brack, Ken

Date: 1989 December 5

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Maine state officials discuss efforts to investigate the cause of the Edwards Mill fire in the winter of 1989, on the shore of the Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine.

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  • Author: Fossett, Jim

Date: 1989 December 5

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Photo of a firefighter and firetruck on the site of the Edwards Mill, Augusta, Maine, as workers tended to the blaze there in the winter of 1989.

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  • Author: Brack, Ken

Date: 1989 December 6

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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State officials determine where - but not yet how - the Edwards Mill fire began in Augusta, Maine, in the winter of 1989. Article also provides an update on the work being done by local firefighters to control the blaze's spread.

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  • Author: Brack, Ken

Date: 1990 January 13

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Article getting feedback from Mark Isaacson, vice president of the Edwards Manufacturing Co. whose Augusta, Maine, mill site was demolished by fire one month ago. Includes a picture of Isaacson in front of the mill ruins.

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  • Author: Manlove, George

Date: 1989 December 1

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Article on the Edwards Mill fire as a spectacle in Augusta, Maine, where neighbors, former mill workers, and descendants of those who moved to Central Maine to work in the mill watch the industrial building complex go up in flames. The blaze could be…

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