100 Years Ago 1920 Arthur G. Staples, editor of the Lewiston Journal and author of “Just Talks,” little human tid-bits running daily in that paper, gave an enlightening and very interesting address Sunday evening at the Open Forum session held in the Universalist Church, Augusta, “Hon. G. Waldon Smith, president of the associates, presided, and […]

100 Years Ago 1920 Howard Holbrook, sixteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Holbrook of North Auburn, came very near drowning Saturday afternoon while fishing thru a hole in the ice near the bridge. He stepped back and, losing his balance, fell into another hole into the swift-running water beneath. Managing to grasp the edge […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Current reports that the Cushman-Hollis Co, is to enlarge its present factory to nearly double capacity this summer were not confirmed by E.F. Farrington Abbott, the general manager, when he was asked by the Lewiston Journal, Thursday, He was careful not to deny that plans are underway for improvements, but stated […]

100 Years Ago 1920 Mr. Hinckley took as his topic, “Maine, Our State,” and called  attention to the fact that, on Monday, Maine will have been a separate state for 100 years. The remainder of his talk was instructive criticism which was well chosen and full of truth. “For the past 100 years,” he began, […]

100 Years Ago 1920 A prominent Lewiston woman said to the Journal, Thursday morning: “After a constant struggle for almost three-quarters of a century, woman suffrage is now the law of our land. It has run the course of all other reforms and, like all just measures, won at last. I do not envy the […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 The Lewiston and Auburn chapter of the Red Cross like every other chapter of the organization, has been re-orginizing gradually for some time, to get the changes which must be made if it is to be as useful in peace as in war. Already the local chapter has taken over the […]