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In 2013, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) decided to push for a restrictions on bear hunting in Maine. Maine voters previously rejected a ban on using traps, bait, and dogs to hunt bears on 2 November 2004, with 389,455 opposed and 344,322 in favor.
The Portland Longshoremans Benevolent Society was a trade union and benevolent society in Portland, Maine, United States.It existed as an independent organization from its founding in 1880 until it affiliated with the International Longshoremen's Association in 1914.
Elizabeth Pitts Merrill, known as "Lizzie", was born October 8, 1838, in Portland, Maine. [2] She was the only child of Charles Merrill, a lumber owner and Frances (Pitts) Merrill. [3] In 1855, she married Thomas W. Palmer with whom she adopted two children.
Percival Proctor Baxter (November 22, 1876 – June 12, 1969) was an American politician and philanthropist from Maine.The son of canning magnate and Portland, Maine mayor James Phinney Baxter, he served as the 53rd Governor of the U.S. state of Maine from 1921 to 1925.
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is an American nonprofit organization that focuses on animal welfare and opposes animal-related cruelties of national scope. It uses strategies that are beyond the abilities of local organizations. [ 3 ]
In June 2016, the Humane Society of the United States released an undercover video of a Hillandale facility in Turner, Maine depicting egg-laying hens in rusty small wire cages. [4] On July 1, 2017, a fire killed over 100,000 chickens at a Hillandale farm in Tyrone Township, Pennsylvania. [6]
Thomas Lamb Eliot (October 13, 1841 () – April 28, 1936 ()) was an Oregon pioneer, minister of one of the first churches on the west coast of the U.S., president of the Portland Children's Home, president of the Oregon Humane Society, a director of the Art Association, director of the Library Association, and founder of Reed College.
Florence House is a 3 1 ⁄ 2 story building in Portland, Maine, United States, named after Florence Young "a social worker who spent more than 20 years working at Preble Street." [ 1 ] The building was created to help end homelessness .