Federal Grand Jury Accuses Bowdoin With 63 Drug Sales
Federal prosecutors charge Warren F Bowdoin a Kennebunk pharmacist with 63 counts for selling morphine based drugs in 1973 and 1974 including Dilaudid and half grain morphine. Gill's Leader Drugs pharmacist Kenneth Fox and the store face 51 counts for large scale morphine sales. The probe widens with more names to come as 200 Biddeford High and Thornton Academy musicians prepare a concert tonight.
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Bowdoin
Peter Kingsley
Portland
Kennebunk
Warren F. Bowdoin
Main Street
Gill's Leader Drugs
South Portland
South Main St
Kenneth Fox
Fox
Gill's
Leader Drugs
Sanford
Sterling Ave
Maine
Peter Mills
Grand
Thomaston
Mills
Gill
Gills
Biddeford High School
Thornton Academy
Thornton
Linnell Gymnasium
Saco Police Year In Review Highlights Thefts and DUIs
The 1975 year-end report shows 56 larceny charges and 71 DUI arrests. In total 1,140 adults and 273 juveniles faced offenses from larceny to escape custody, with curfew most common for juveniles and speeding for adults. Thefts valued at $95,824.20 were reported, with $34,677.34 recovered.
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Susan Morrison
Saco
Engineers urge Greenfield Lane study on frost cracks Biddeford
E C Jordan Co Inc calls for a formal evaluation including borings at Greenfield Lane housing to confirm frost as the probable cause of foundation cracks. The firm estimates $1000 to $1400 for testing and notes possible repairs may wait until frost ends, with crack treatment or removal and replacement as options.
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Greenfield Lane
Biddeford
E.C. Jordan Company Inc
Ben Poirier
West Street
Family rejects Lindbergh claim by Kerwin in Hartford article
A brother and two half-sisters join their father in denying Kenneth W. Kerwin’s assertion that he is Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. Read as UPI reports the Kerwins believe the man is not the kidnapped Lindbergh child, casting doubt on the sensational claim.
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Hartford
UPI
Kenneth Kerwin
Mansur Kerwin Jr
Norwich
Dorothy Hayes
Old Ned Pioneered Takeout Chowder in Maine Beach town
The article chronicles Edward H. Clemmons known as Old Ned in Biddeford Saco Old Orchard Beach. He opened the area’s first public bath house after arriving in 1845, then launched a turtle soup restaurant with a staged turtle gimmick. After a fire he moved to Cataract Block and later built the Old Orchard Retreat. He offered chowder for picnics and rented bathing suits, promoted St John’s Day lore, published a weekly paper, and hosted gunning parties before dying in 1865 and being buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
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Dick Charles
Old Ned
Biddeford-Saco
Old Orchard Beach
Edward H. Clemmons
Saco
Clemmons
Thornton House
Thornton
Ned
Factory Island
Maine
Sea Shore House
Old Orchard Retreat
St. John’s Day
Atlantic
Goose Fair Gazette
Old Orchard Bellows
Laurel Hill
Sunday church service seen as convention by some families
Some families send only one delegate to the Sunday church service, much like a convention. The idea of shared participation is contrasted with single delegation.
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Marcel Drapeau
Jim
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OUI
E.C. Jordan
E. Allen Berube
Poirier
Holly Homes
Jordan
Allen Sakalas
George DesRoberts
DesRoberts
Lindy
Inside the Journal
New England News
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