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Looking Back on Aug. 3

100 years ago: 1919 The lowly penny is coming back into its own. Any Lewiston or Auburn dealer will tell you so. A year ago the penny was a drug on the money market. Nobody wanted to have it. When any person got a handful in change there was likely to be murder. Today, however, […]

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Looking Back on Aug. 2

100 years ago: 1919 Ground was broken Friday on Main Sreet, on the left lot adjacent to the Empire theatre, for a new office building to cost $85,000 for the Androscoggin Electric Co. The building will be three stories high, constructed of tapestry brick, and will be stone-trimmed. The contract was given to W. A. […]