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  • Author: Poulain, Jean-Paul

Date: 1991 August 30

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Guest article written by Franco-American performer, Jean-Paul Poulain, on the need to preserve Le Club Calumet as a private organization. This piece comes amidst the controversy surrounding a county court ruling that the Augusta, Maine, Club was…

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  • Author: Cartwright, Steve

Date: 1992 May 21

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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John McAuley recalls his experience of racism while growing up in Augusta, Maine, in the 1930s.

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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: 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: Cartwright, Steve

Date: 1989 December 2-3

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Article on Davilla and Yvonne Croteau, husband and wife, who together spent more than 100 years working at the Edwards Mill in Augusta, Maine. Their reminiscing here comes in the aftermath of the mill burning to the ground in the winter of 1989.…

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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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  • Author: Manlove, George

Date: 1990

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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After its abandonment and destruction by fire, the Edwards Mill on the west side of Augusta, Maine, is finally demolished. Article features picture of mill neighbor and former mill worker Edgard Violette.

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  • Author: Edwards, Keith

Date: 2009 April 28

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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The City of Augusta, Maine seizes the eastside paper mill, formerly known as "Statler Tissue," with the stated purpose of demolition for potential development. According to the Kennebec Journal, the mill closed in 2001.

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  • Author: Hale, John

Date: 2009 August 20

Publication: Capital Weekly

Language: English

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The demolition of the Augusta, Maine, east-side paper mill, which began June 2010, continues in plain view on the bank of the Kennebec River.

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  • Author: LaFlamme, Mark

Date: 2009 July 16

Publication: Sun Journal

Language: English

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The Cowan Mill, on the shore of the Androscoggin River between Lewiston and Auburn, Maine, goes up in flames. The Cowan building is one of many in the vast Bates Mill complex.

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  • Author: Hartill, Daniel

Date: 2009 July 16

Publication: Sun Journal

Language: English

The fire at the Cowan Mill in Lewiston, Maine, as a spectacle: the crowds watching it blaze, the memories of its workers from long ago, the impact of its burning on the city's daily routine.

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  • Author: LaFlamme, Mark

Date: 2009 July 16

Publication: Sun Journal

Language: English

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Effect of the Cowan Mill fire on traffic in the cities of Lewiston and Auburn, Maine.

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  • Author: Sun Journal Staff

Date: 2009 July 16

Publication: Sun Journal

Language: English

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A time line of the history of the Cowan Mill in Lewiston, Maine, published on the day following the great fire that burned the defunct mill to the ground.

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  • Author: Slover, Daryn
  • Author: Pelletier, Justin

Date: 2009 July 16

Publication: Sun Journal

Language: English

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Captioned photos of the Cowan Mill in Lewiston, Maine, after it was destroyed by fire in the summer of 2009.

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  • Author: Slover, Daryn

Date: 2009 July 16

Publication: Sun Journal

Language: English

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A series of captioned photos chronicling the crumbling, tumbling, and ruin of the Cowan Mill in Lewiston, Maine, as it burned in a spontaneous fire.

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  • Author: LaFlamme, Mark

Date: 2009 July 16

Language: English

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Kennebec Journal printing of article on Lewiston, Maine's Cowan Mill fire by Lewiston Sun Journal writer, Mark LaFlamme.

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  • Author: Herter, Sara

Date: 1975 July 12

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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An article on the mills of the Kennebec River in central Maine, the immigration wave at the turn of the century, and the Franco-American workforce. Featured in the 150th Anniversary edition of the Kennebec Journal.

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  • Author: Violette, Maurice

Date: 1975 July 12

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Excerpt from the forthcoming book, "The Franco-Americans," by Augusta, Maine resident, Maurice Violette. Discusses the purported logics behind French-Canadian immigration to New England in the 19th century.

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