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50 Years Ago: 1970 Two large diseased elms which were removed from the front of the Auburn City building recently have been replaced by […]

100 Years ago 1920 Vocational training for women and girls in machine shops where light parts are made in wood product factories; where assembling and finishing are important processes in optical and instrument factories, and in sheet metal shops, in order that the women may reach the more skilled and remunerative jobs now occupied by […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Thirty children between the ages of six and twelve met In the vestry of the Elm St. Universalist Church in Auburn for a party on Wednesday afternoon. Games were played and refreshments served. Miss Barbara Bearce was presented with a rose in honor of her birthday. 50 Years Ago: 1970 Mrs. […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Complaints have been received at headquarters that bicycles and vehicles other than automobiles, are being operated in the city without being properly equipped with lights. Ignorance or disregard of the law requiring all vehicles to carry lights, when operated in the evening, has caused the traffic officers a great deal of […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Recently a call was issued through the Richmond churches for dolls for little foreign children in far-off countries. Women were asked to bring dolls to church to send away and the Business Women’s Club devoted an evening to dressing dolls. 50 Years Ago: 1970 Dennis B. (Butch) Lawler, former Edward Little […]

100 Years Ago : 1920 A new device of Interest to swimmers and those learning to swim, is the “Swimming Collar,” a water-tight affair made of transparent celluloid. It has a sheet of rubber across the bottom which fits snugly around the neck. Its designers claim it makes swimming easy as it holds one’s head […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 The newest thing in suits has an apron muff, which is not as bad as it sounds. In fact, it Is quite a novel and attractive addition to a suit, and has the advantage of doing away with the necessity of carrying a muff. One new suit in a reindeer duvetyn […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Boys found two pint flasks in Lisbon Street Alley last evening. One bag half filled with denatured alcohol and the other with a mixture of this liquor and some substance unknown. They brought their find to a store and it was turned over to the police. One bottle bore the label […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 A joint reception of the YMCA and YWCA will be tendered to the freshman class this evening in Chase Hall, Bates college. In the receiving line will be Pres. and Mrs. Gray,  Prof.and Mrs. Leote, Dean Clara L Buswell, Mr. Shaftner, Mr. Carl Belmore, Pres. of YMCA, Mr. Gilbert, YMCA secretary, and […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 “It may be prohibition and it may be the fear of the law,” said a local barber while at work Saturday morning, “or better still perhaps the world is reforming, but nevertheless, after several nights with no street fighting whatever, there has yet to be a holdup or an assault. None […]