100 Years Ago: 1923

Scantily clad in light summer dresses, without coats or hats, one of them walking in her stocking feet and the other in bedroom slippers, Iola Miller and Arline Winchenbach, seventeen year old runaways from the State School at Hallowell walked into the arms of Officer Joseph Cloutter of the Lewlston police at 2.30 A. M. Tuesday. They had slipped out of confinement in their rooms about 10 o’clock Sunday night, jumped through second story windows and escaped to the shelter of neighboring woods, where throughout the night and the greater part of the next day they lay in hiding.

50 Years Ago: 1973

To read and to write a review of “Butterflies are Free,” which opened at the Ogunquit Playhouse Monday night, one must be in a conventional frame of mind, uninfluenced by audience reaction and aware of the quality of professionalism, and ready to enjoy one of the finest and most touching comedies to be performed on the Ogunquit stage. Heading the four member cast is Vivian Vance, an always welcome friend at Ogunquit and the cherry on the sundae when it comes to comedy.

25 Years Ago: 1998

Sixty years after taking his first job cutting brush along the Androscoggin River, state Rep. Roy Nickerson, R-Turner, said Thursday he was thrilled to be paddling the waterway. A sojourner on the 19-day Androscoggin River Source to the Sea Canoe Trek, the Natural Resources Committee member was joined by his 13-year-old grandson, Ryan. The group wrapped up its 13th day since starting at Lake Umbagog in Errol, N.H., enroute to the Atlantic Ocean 174 miles away.

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