100 years ago, 1915Lewiston is a long, long way from old England. But the Sons and Daughters found that they could have just as jolly a celebration of Shrove Tuesday right here as they could in the old country. Tuesday evening in Grand Army Hall, the most of the English people in the two cities […]

100 years ago, 1915“Talk about city hustle, Sanford can put it all over our Maine cities,” said a patron of the movies, this week. “Sanford is sending flicks all over the country showing her plush factories, citizens and fine residences. Is not there a hint here for the Lewiston Chamber of Commerce?” 50 years ago, […]

100 years ago, 1915It was Gramp Morse and he was leaning over a hitching post apparently communing with nature when seen by a Journal reporter. On being asked to answer the query of Jim Tracy regarding his dog, Gramp mournfully replied: “I fear that he is lost. He was with Jim Tracy during his three […]

100 years ago, 1915The Atwood Hotel property at the corner of Main and Mill streets, Lewiston, was sold, Thursday, by the Libbey & Dingley Co., to S. Merritt Farnam and John P. Stilton of Lewiston, the proprietors of the Atwood Hotel. This is a building of five stories on the Mill street side and running […]

100 years ago, 1915The long anticipated Androscoggin checker tournament will be pulled off at the checker parlors in the rear of the Geo. F. McGibbon shoe store, 282 Main street, Lewiston, on Friday evening. The crack players of Bangor and Portland are expected and they will meet all the star performers in this section. Lewiston […]

100 years ago, 1915Over 275 couples had the joy of the Shrine ball for 1915 — the best ball ever in Kora Temple, Lewiston. The crisp, starlight, mid-winter night was ideal, some improvement over that memorable night in 1914 when the thermometer registered several miles below zero and everybody was “friz up” — the very […]

100 years ago, 1915Ten cases of whiskey and a barrel of wines consigned to a Lewiston resident were confiscated Thursday at noon by Deputy Sheriff Picard at the lower Maine Central station. The assortment is of the choicest variety and estimated at $200. The stuff was taken to the county building and labeled, and put […]

100 years ago, 1915Darting from side to side, in and out among the people on Lisbon street, pausing a moment more to discover a democratic office holder not looking for another, keeping out of the way of shoe and coal men, was a brown, elusive, little animal, ambitious and proud, Mr. Ground Hog on his […]

100 years ago, 1915A woman fire-bug theory in connection with the recent fires and more particular the $20,000 fire Saturday at midnight in the four-story brick building at 169-175 Main street, Lewiston, containing the Bellvue hotel and stores, is in rigid examination by fire and police departments. Chief Moriarty of the fire and Chief McCarron […]

100 years ago, 1915Rather a cool reception is that accorded to the military idea in the public schools, when it comes to a local application of it, judging from the position taken by Supt. D. J Callahan of the Lewiston schools. “I have no Idea,” said he, when interviewed this week, “that people would stand […]