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A Wide-Open Frontier Town
Page 15: The first chapter opens with a quote from the Portland Daily Telegram, Feb. 22, 1893. Here's the clipping:
Click the clipping to see a larger version of the full story.
Page 17: Looking south along Third Street from Stark, toward the "respectable" part of town, in 1888. (Image: The West Shore magazine)
Page 17: The Portland waterfront as seen from the east side of the river in 1898. (Image: Library of Congress)
