100 years ago, 1914
(Advertisement) DON’T MISS Maine’s Great Fair AT LEWISTON, SEPT. 7, 8, 9, AND 10. Fair Opens Labor Day, Sept. 7, with Labor Day Sports, Horse Races and a $2,000 Vaudeville Show. There will be a Balloon Ascension Each Afternoon of Fair and Many Other Attractions too Numerous to mention including an Automobile Parade and Exhibits of Fan Hitches of Two, Four and Six Horses. HALF FARE ON THE RAILROADS. Governor’s Day, Thursday, Sept. 10th.

50 years ago, 1964
A Lewiston woman claimed her missing parakeet at Lewiston police headquarters yesterday afternoon. Officer Robert Saucy said that Mrs. Yvonne Morin of 111 Ash St. described perfectly the parakeet which, the day before, flew into the office of Dr. Paul R. Smith, a dentist, at 145 Lisbon St. Mrs. Morin told police her blue-colored parakeet is worth $300. The bird had been taken to a pet shop for safe-keeping prior to being claimed.

25 years ago, 1989
So-Fro Fabrics Inc. will close its Auburn Mall store today after 10 years in business, but will keep open its branch in Lewiston, District Manager Eva Frost said. Frost would not say why the company is closing its Auburn store, nor why the decision had not been announced earlier. The store sells fabrics and other sewing supplies. Some of the store’s eight to 10 employees will be transferred to the company’s other stores, Frost said. The remaining workers’ prospects with the firm had not been decided, Frost added. Auburn Mall Manager Tiffany Jones said the mall will be looking for a tenant to occupy the space before Christmas, but said there were no definite candidates at this point. The vacancy created by So-Fro combined with the closing earlier this summer of Benoit’s will not upset plans to expand the mall, Jones said. “That’s just part of this business,” she said. “We’re not concerned in the least.”

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