100 Years Ago 1920 A prominent Lewiston woman said to the Journal, Thursday morning: “After a constant struggle for almost three-quarters of a century, woman suffrage is now the law of our land. It has run the course of all other reforms and, like all just measures, won at last. I do not envy the […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 The Lewiston and Auburn chapter of the Red Cross like every other chapter of the organization, has been re-orginizing gradually for some time, to get the changes which must be made if it is to be as useful in peace as in war. Already the local chapter has taken over the […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 The YWCA  girls are not letting the present campaign for funds, which opened Monday, be entirely to the interested and philanthropic persons, who have generously volunteered to conduct the campaign and do the bulk of the work. They all appreciate too well the benefits of the association; they are infused with […]

100 Years Ago 1920 An important announcement was made Saturday morning by John T. McCarthy, proprietor of the Novelty Cloak store of Lewiston and owner in large canning interests in South Monmouth, who said that at the close of the present year he’s going to give up his business at the Novelty Cloak store and […]

100 Years Ago 1920 Pine-croft Dining-Room and Ice Cream Parlor, 194 Pine Street, Lewiston—-the new,up-to-date eating place, opens Monday of next week to the public. The building, formerly occupied by the late Zephirin Blouin, which has been closed this past year, has now been opened, thoroughly renovated and newly painted and papered thru-out, and has been […]

100 Years Ago 1920 Again Lewiston and Auburn are in the grip of a howling blizzard. It rained Friday night, early Saturday in the morning there were predictions of a spring thaw, but at nine o’clock the rain turned to sleet, and a little later the sleet became snow. The storm steadily increased . By […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 “Talking of cows,” Kenneth Bubier of Granite Street, Auburn, thinks he has one superior even to the one owned the Hon. Frank E. Guernsey of Dover an account of which was printed In the Lewiston Journal this week. This animal furnished milk, cream and butter for a family of five, a […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Congressman and Mrs. Wallace H. White Jr., of Lewiston and Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Briggs, of Washington, formerly of Auburn, will be among the guests at the Maine Centennial banquet of the Sons and Daughters of Maine society of New York at Hotel Astor, New York on March 12th. 50 […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Frozen grease on the ways prevented the launching today of the torpedo boat destroyer Preble at the Bath Iron Works. Postponemont until next Monday was caused when the tide turned after the destroyer had been trucked about six down the ways. Miss Sally M.Tucker of New York stood ready to christen […]

100 Years Ago 1920 In spite of the weather and illness of many members, there was a good attendance at the Rotary Club  meeting at the DeWitt, Friday noon. The chairman of the meeting was to be elected, President Williams announced, by lot from the list of the parishioners of Rev. Milo E. Pearson, pastor […]