November 14, 2024
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Comments for: Mainer key to success of Panama Canal effort

Many Mainers had developed a bad case of “Panama fever,” the Bangor Daily News announced in late January 1905. They were taking civil service tests to get jobs as engineers, railroad workers, carpenters, steam shovel operators and many other occupations working on the “big ditch” that within a… Read More

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