100 Years Ago: 1921 A cataract has formed over one of Ty Cobb’s eyes and the baseball diamond may never again see him after 1921 as an active performer. If Cobb should pass at the end of the season from the fields which he has glorified for nearly a generation, if baseball then should see […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 Governor Baxter has received a letter from Captain Donald B. MacMillan, the Arctic explorer, now on an expedition to Baffin Island, in which he states that he has reached what may he called the last outpost of  civilization. “I have taken on the last provisions and freshwater and am now awaiting […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 The Poland Paper Company will be shut down soon while rope belts are being put on a large wheel on the engine to make It possible to start it on low water. 50 Years Ago: 1971 The first comprehensive history to be written has been published and the books are being distributed. […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 The Martindale Country Club opened this afternoon for the first formal inspection by members and their guests, altho members have been playing on the first six holes of the temporary golf course for some time. The new furnishings for the club house arrived this week, and were rushed into place. The […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 Dr. Lloyd Crites, of 82 Ash Street, has returned from a business trip to Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia. Mrs. Crites and little son who have been visiting in Coventry, NH, have returned with him. 50 Years Ago: 1971 Col. Ralph B Skinner of Auburn will be speaker at a meeting of […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 The arrival of a good sized lion In Auburn Wednesday afternoon drew a big crowd around the addition to the county building where the workmen were busily engaged in placing him in position. He is a granite lion and there will be two to guard the entrance. 50 Years Ago: 1971 […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 An original production will be given by the girls of Lake Tripp in the form of a pageant, Sunday afternoon at four o’clock. This pageant represents the early settling of Maine. It has been written by a fourteen year old girl of Lake Tripp Camp and deals with the conflict between […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 Members of three firms of architects — Tooker & Marsh of New York City, Haynes & Mason of Fitchburg, Mass., and Harry S. Coombs of Lewiston — demonstrated their proposed plans for the new Edward Little High School building in Auburn Thursday evening to members of the special committee on the […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 Fifteen automobiles filled with Mechanic Falls people attended the ball game at Oxford Thursday afternoon which they say was the finest of the season. 50 Years Ago: 1971 It’s carnival time along Martin Drive in Lewiston. Today Is the date set by neighborhood youngsters for their Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America. Cathy […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 One of the loveliest bouquets of vari-colored gladiolus we have seen this season was brought to the Journal office Thursday afternoon from the gardens of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Potter of Upper Main Street. There were fifteen or twenty stalks laden, with brilliant blossoms, no two alike. Mrs. Potter is an […]