100 years ago, 1916
Arthur P. Wyman, well-known chef in this section of Maine, has purchased the Dixon restaurant, Lisbon street, Lewiston, and has already taken possession of the place. In his work he will be assisted by his wife, who has also had wide experience in this kind of business. For four years Mr. and Mrs. Wyman have been in the employ of A. L. Grant, Lewiston, being located at the Lewiston store in the winter and at The Spa, Squirrel Island, in the summer. A year ago last summer, Mr. Wyman was chef at one of the large hotels at Belgrade Lakes. Some years ago Mr. Wyman completed a service of nine years as deputy warden at the State prison, Thomaston.

50 years ago, 1966
A National Labor Relations Board examiner who heard allegations involving the Pioneer Plastics Corp. of Auburn at a hearing in Auburn earlier this year today ruled the firm was guilty of violations of the National Labor Relations Act, and recommended reinstatement of four female employees, plus payment of back wages. Two of the girls were fired and the other two walked off the job in protest of the firing of the other two. An appeal can be entered by the company if it so desires.

25 years ago, 1991
Tribute to the hopes and tribulations of immigrant generations marked poet Susann Pelletier’s work presented at the First Universalist Church in Auburn Friday. Pelletier’s reading was the third in a “United Nations of Poetry” series funded by the Maine Arts Council. In addition to pieces from her previously-published “Immigrant Dreams and other Poems,” the poet read recent, unpublished work including a tribute to Archbishop Oscar Romero, assassinated in 1980 by a Salvadorian death squad. Much of Pelletier’s work is informed by the Franco-American working-class culture from which she springs, and by the experience of her Lewiston childhood.

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