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Caribou area From our Files – September 28, 2020
115 Years Ago – Oct. 4, 1905
Hunting — On Monday, Oct. 2, the first day of open time on large game, six deer and three bears were harvested in Northern Maine.
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Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of September 21, 2020
75 Years Ago – September 27, 1945
Winslow elected head of bankers in Aroostook — Aroostook county Bankers met at the Aroostook Valley Country Club in Fort Fairfield for their annual meeting on Sept. 12, 1945.
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Houlton area From our Files – Week of September 21, 2020
100 Years Ago – Sept. 29, 1920
Returned to Houlton — Cu Carroll, who for the past year has been employed in the Scates Drug Store at Caribou, has returned to Houlton and entered the employ of Leighton & Feeley.
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Caribou area From our Files – Week of September 21, 2020
115 Years Ago – Sept. 27, 1905
Worker — Cyrus Small is working in H.H. Whitney’s furniture store mornings and afternoons before and after store hours.
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Houlton area From our Files – Week of September 16, 2020
100 Years Ago – Sept. 22, 1920
59th Annual meeting — Every weekly paper in Aroostook County was represented at the 59th annual meeting of the Maine Press Assn. held in Bangor at which time Chas. H. Fogg was reelected president for the ensuing year.
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Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of September 14, 2020
75 Years Ago – Sept. 20, 1945
Air Medal — F. Joseph Crock, aviation radioman, second class, USNR, of Presque Isle, received the Air Medal for “distinguishing himself by meritorious acts in serial flight.” The award, made by Vice Admiral D. E. Barbery, USN, was presented by Rear Admiral Frank D. Wagner, Commander, Aircraft, 7th Fleet.
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Caribou area From our Files – Week of September 14, 2020
115 Years Ago – July , 1905
Railroad worker – – Archie Campbell, who has been working at Stockton Springs on the new railroad, is spending a few days at his home in Caribou.
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Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of September 7, 2020
75 Years Ago – Sept. 13, 1945
Prize winner — Mrs. James Huber, program director of the Presque Isle USO club, was awarded third prize in a nationwide contest for successful program ideas in Salvation Army USO clubs.
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Houlton area From our Files – Week of September 7, 2020
115 Years Ago – Sept. 13, 1905
New Cattle — Geo. H. Benn has purchased from E.L. Cleveland Company a beautiful herd of Hereford cattle.
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Caribou area From our Files – Week of September 7, 2020
115 Years Ago – Sept. 13, 1905
Gold – – W.C. Leavitt from Caribou has returned from Alaska where he has been for several months. He has told some interesting accounts of the search for the yellow metal in that far off wilderness.
