100 Years Ago: 1920 Lewiston and Auburn summer recreation grounds, The Lake Grove Theatre, will open the season of 1920 on Monday, according to the announcement made this morning. What is more, the plans for this season call for the most elaborate season in the history of this popular amusement park, and it is the […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 A khaki-clad outfit of sturdy Maine boys swung up L Street at Camp Devens late Saturday afternoon, fell out and swarmed over the section of the big concentration camp, filled barracks and started to make things ship-shape. They did it with the same zest, the same get-at-it-ness and know-how of the […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Gov. Calvin Coollidge of Massachusetts is not a big man; weighed in ability, farsightedness, and understanding of human nature, he is all bigness. He is not a great talker, but as a listener he is a wonder. His face is serious and his eyes are gray, but in those eyes there […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 In full marching order, Co. I, 3rd Me. Infantry entrained at the upper Maine Central Railroad Station Saturday at 11:45, daylight savings time  for Camp Devens for a 15 day tour of duty with the regiment. It was the first time for some months that Lewiston has seen soldiers marching in […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Otis F. Parker of Bartlett Street Lewiston, received a letter recently from Samuel Harris of Sousa‘s Band to the effect that the band contemplated a tour of New England before starting on its world tour and asking if there was enough support in Lewiston to warrant a booking in this city. […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Wednesday of next week is to be observed as “Lewiston’s Seventh Dollar Days.” This simple announcement means a great deal. It means that the streets will be filled with shoppers, who will come here from all parts of Androscoggin County and beyond; it means values unequalled anywhere in Maine, and, finally, […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 The Alden Gayton post, American Legion, of Auburn will start its drive for new members this morning. The organization for the drive is almost completed which the American Legion members, hope, will increase the roll of the Auburn post by scores as far as possible. A complete list of Auburn veterans […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Investigations following numerous complaints have prompted Chief Mower of the Auburn Police Department to issue strict orders to his men regarding the allowing of loafers to hang around the street corners and doorways in several locations of the city and particularly the section between Main street and the North Bridge. Numerous […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Daylight saving, appropriations for the Canal bridge, the fire station addition, a new generator for the lighting plant and the formation of a water district will be referred to the people of Lewiston at the same time they vote in the state primaries. Such was the decision of the special meeting […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 An enthusiastic delegation of White Ribboners attended the first day’s proceedings of the 24th annual convention of the Androscoggin County W.C.T.U. at the Baptist church in Turner yesterday. One cause for their contagious enthusiasm was the recent upholding of the prohibition amendment by the Supreme Court and another was the fact […]