100 years ago, 1916
The furniture store of Ballard Chandler Co., Lisbon Street, have personally offered to the committee of the Better Baby contest, a beautiful reed baby carriage, finished natural, to be given as a prize to the best physically developed baby from the age of one month to one year, after the judges have made their decision. This reed carriage will be exhibited in one of their large windows during the baby week.

50 years ago, 1966
Snow removal equipment was kept busy Wednesday at the Lewiston Fairgrounds clearing the large parking area for next Wednesday’s opening of the spring harness racing meet. Dates for the meet — the earliest on record — are March 16 through April 9. A spokesman for Lewiston-Gorham Raceways said Wednesday night the track “is ready.”

25 years ago, 1991
The chairwoman of a city recycling committee said Friday it is too early to tell whether a City Council ban on direct communication with officials of Mid-Maine Waste Action Corp. will harm the panel’s mission. “Whether or not being unable to discuss these things directly with MMWAC is going to help or hinder us, I don’t know,” Kris Moniz said. The ban issued Wednesday came one month after Neal Allen, the executive director of Mid-Maine Waste Action Corp., attended a Feb. 6 meeting of the panel where, he claims, he was given a rough reception. That meeting led to a vehement City Council condemnation of the committee’s tactics and a warning to its members to either keep away from MMWAC officials or find themselves disbanded.

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