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Article: Amid 1850s prosperity, a death and innocence lost ; The death by abortion of Saco factory girl Mary Bean illustrates the social growing pains of the industrial age, a historian says.
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- Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME)
- Article date:
- January 19, 2005
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SETH HARKNESS Staff Writer
Portland Press Herald (Maine)
01-19-2005
Amid 1850s prosperity, a death and innocence lost ; The death by abortion of Saco factory girl Mary Bean illustrates the social growing pains of the industrial age, a historian says.
Byline: SETH HARKNESS Staff Writer
Edition: Final
Section: Local & State
Memo: "The murder of Mary Bean reveals what was simmering beneath the surface of a no longer serene Saco." Elizabeth De Wolfe Associate professor of history, University of New England
SACO --
In the spring of 1850, residents of Saco discovered the partially clothed body of a young woman bound to a plank and floating in a stream near where the city's police station ...
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