100 Years Ago: 1920 One of the most forceful characters interpreting Western roles that the screen has ever known, Tom Mix can attribute his popularity with theater-goers the country over to his sincerity and the naturalness with which he enacts every role that is entrusted in his care. From the outset of his career Mix […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Members of the institution Jacque Cartier society will have their golden jubilee celebration in two years, and a big and elaborate celebration is planned. It is expected a committee will be appointed soon, and plans made to entertain the 1,100 members. The society is a local organization and was founded by […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Don’t forget that all roads lead to the Topsham Fair Grounds next Tuesday. Everything is ready for the happy good time that is always found at this exhibition. 50 Years Ago: 1970 Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird said today the Pentagon hopes to eliminate draft calls by mid-1973. He also […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 School Street in Auburn was recently paved with brick fenced off while the concrete was hardening. A lane along the side was left open for persons living on the street, and a careless motorist instead of going up one more street drove  on the new paving and broke off a large […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Rosario Giguere of Horton Street will leave next Wednesday for Chicago, where he will enter the Chicago Engineering School Works and study engineering. He has received news from Chicago telling him that he won the free scholarship course in his last examinations contest out of several thousand who competed. 50 Years […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 The Mothers’ Conference and Baby Weighing Clinic at the Red Cross rooms, Lisbon Street has been scheduled for Tuesday, at 3 pm. A French-speaking attendant is always present at these clinics. 50 Years Ago: 1970 Two large diseased elms which were removed from the front of the Auburn City building recently have been replaced by […]