All posts tagged "Mechanic Falls Maine"

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  Crime and Scandal

  Oliver Garrett, Boston’s Booze-Busting Million-Dollar Cop

  When dashing Oliver Garrett was in charge of it during Prohibition, the Boston Police vice squad made 25,000 raids and 17,000 arrests...

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  Business and Labor

  Maine Twins Invent the Stanley Steamer, Climb Mt. Washington

  Freelan O. Stanley and his wife Flora climbed Mt. Washington in a Stanley Steamer on Aug. 31, 1899, in one of the...