100 Years Ago: 1920 Traffic officer Tim Walsh has a circus act of his own at Union Square. His unending supply of peanuts has attracted several doves, a number of which are now so tame that they will alight on his hands. 50 Years Ago: 1970 Ist Lt. Mary Ellen Morgan, Lisbon, who was commissioned […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Among the local collections of relics of earlier days few are more interesting than that of Rev. and Mrs. N. G. French, 123 Winter street, Auburn. Included in this is a hat worn by Mr. French’s great grandfather, Capt.Cadwalader F. Jones, in the War of 1812. Consulting the family Bible it […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 As exclusively told in the Lewiston Journal several days ago, the United Last Company of Auburn, successor to the Fitz Brothers’ Last Company, has purchased a tract of thirteen acres  in the Strawberry Avenue district It would be an ideal place for a factory, altho no plans are announced. The deed […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Auburn public library opens Wednesday after extensive alterations both inside and outside. The children’s rooms are especially attractive. 50 Years Ago: 1970 A special meeting of the Auburn School Committee will be held Monday night to clean up a few pending items before School Supt. Lewis Webber finally completes his duties […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 A picture taken from “King Spruce,” a novel by Holman F. Day, is to be shown in the Empire theater on Friday and Saturday, This is the first picturization of a novel by the widely known Maine author, who for years was on the staff of the  Lewiston Journal in Lewiston. […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Fifty-nine years ago today was fought the first battle of Bull Run. There are still many members of the Fifth Maine Regiment Maine in Lewiston and Auburn who participated in this battle, the first important one of the Civil War. 50 Years Ago: 1970 WLU Garden Clubs members will be guests […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 The four ornamental light brackets on the front of the Main Street Central Maine Power office building in Lewiston, which have just been put in place, add the finishing touch to a fine addition to the street. They were lit for the first time Wednesday night and improved the front of the […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Mrs. O’Connor has been teaching swimming for seven years with remarkable success. With her assistant, Mrs. Gladys Novis, she visited the swimming pools in Boston And New York during the winter with a view to obtaining new ideas, but found that her own methods were very similar to those she saw […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 The enterprising owner of a motion picture theatre, observing that his patrons had difficulty in finding their way to seats in the dark, had an electric light installed under the end seat of every tenth row. The lights were arranged on alternate sides of the aisle, and shaded in such a […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 John Phillip Sousa, the “March King, who is to give a concert in Lewiston August is to be entertained by the Lewiston-Auburn Rotary Club. Automobiles will be sent to Brunswick, where the band gives a concert in the afternoon, to convey Mr. Sousa and others to this city. A dinner will […]