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June 9, 2009 Archives


Maine topless; more college hotels; Vermont doctors

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Residents of the small Maine town of Vassalboro have shown themselves open to entrepreneurial creativity. They voted to approve an adult-only businesses ordinance that would have presumably covered a coffee shop featuring topless waiters and waitresses that burned to......

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Mussolini Modern for a Mainer

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- Caption by WILLIAM MORGAN (who found the post card in a Bath, Maine, junk shop) World's fairs, despite all the hype that fuels them, almost always disappoint. The Century of Progress International Exposition in Chicago celebrated 100 years......

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