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Tales of Long Ago Food Fair A Winner Killed Thousands
A long feature recounts Bowdoinham and Kennebec Indians, early settlers, and treasure legends at Abagadasset point. It highlights the week’s food fair led by Major Kimball with Swift & Co. exhibits, piano dealers, and local booths, plus profiles of Al Ridley the Bay’s famed gunner and his hunting lore on Merrymeeting Bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebec
Great River
Bowdoinham
Lovells
Merrymeeting Bay
Abba
Dassett
Dalvett
Abagadasset
Abagadassett Point
Samuel Jack
Robert Browne
Captain's Kidd
Te Coast
Plyerg
Maine
Samuel
Kimball
Swift & Co
R. M. Whitson
John Copp
Whitson
Swift
Pride
Staples Piano & Music Co
Portland
Kranich & Bach, Kimball and Armstrong
L. T. Akers
American Technical Society
Frank H. Merrill
J. Q. Adams Co
Boston
Walter Baker Co
Miss Bean
le Clairs
Bath
Bath & Brunswick Lights& Tower Co
A. W. Hinckley
E. J. Smith
Lawrenceburg Roller Mills Co
Miss Rowell
D. T. Percy & Sons
AL Ridley
Ridley
Winchester
A. K. Ridley
Dexter W. Ridley