100 years ago, 1914An automatic sprinkler proved its worth in the Ashe, Noyes & Small shoe factory in Auburn at 9 o’clock Tuesday night. Fire, starting in some unknown manner in a case of shoes on the ground floor of the Railroad street section of the factory, gained little headway before the sprinkler let go […]
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Looking Back on October 6
100 years ago, 1914(Lewiston Music Hall ad) WORLD SERIES. First Game Friday. Played by ELECTRIC SCORE BOARD (direct wire). Quick as a flash, it shows every play the instant it’s made. Seats Now Selling. Buy Early. 10 and 20 cents. 50 years ago, 1964Renovations are again under way at St. Mary’s General Hospital on the […]
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Looking Back on October 4
100 years ago, 1914Although the Low-King Company, Lewiston, is showing a full line of general wearing apparel for men, it is making a specialty of light suits for dancing. The tango shirts have proven a comfort for one season and now the lightweight suit has come as a blessing to those fond of dancing. A […]
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Looking Back on October 3
100 years ago, 1914(From a column titled “Rambles Among the Highways & Byways of Maine) The kids learn the ways of the older ones very early in life. The Rambler had this fact impressed upon him recently, when he stopped at a shoe shine stand for a polish. After the operation was completed, in answer […]
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Looking Back on October 2
100 years ago, 1914The project of a new hotel for Lewiston has been revived. A Boston man in Lewiston has been working out his plans for a couple of months and now is ready to bring them to a head by organizing a Maine corporation with a number of directors of Lewiston and Auburn for […]
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Looking Back on October 1
100 years ago, 1914Bales of cloth from the Pepperell Mfg. Co. of Biddeford are being received in large quantities by the Lewiston Bleachery for finishing, after which they will be shipped to Europe to be used for hospital purposes in connection with the war. The Biddeford Journal says that something over five hundred thousand yards […]
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Looking Back on September 30
100 years ago, 1914This is the day that the Bates girls have a celebration all to themselves, no boys asked or expected. The annual Hare and Hound chase, which has been held for years and years by the girls of the college, was Wednesday afternoon. The girls were busy all day getting enough food ready to […]
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Looking Back on September 29
100 years ago, 1914(Real Estate ad) 30 Acre Farm, $300 Down. This productive farm is located about 6 miles from Lewiston and Auburn and within five minutes’ walk of R. R. Station and school. There are about 10 acres in good tillage with balance in pasture and considerable wood and timber. Buildings consist 8-roomed house, […]
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Looking Back on September 27
100 years ago, 1914Edward Byron, 71 years old, died at his home, 120 First street, Auburn, Sunday morning. He had been ill for many years but had been confined to his bed only a few days, because of a fall. When a boy in England he worked in a coal mine. Mr. Byron may be […]
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Looking Back on September 26
100 years ago, 1914Dr. John Sturgis of Auburn and F. D. Abbott of Houghton, who attended the Rockingham Fair together, making the trip in the former’s auto, had a narrow escape from being killed by running into a freight train at Oquossoc when they mistook the trainman’s signal to stop for one to come on. […]