100 years ago, 1914Difficulties regarding the removal of the three garages on Ash street, Lewiston, on the lot belonging to the city back of the manual training school building, have been amicably settled and probably within a few days the buildings will be gone. About two years ago, a request was made by residents of […]

100 years ago, 1914(Advertisement) DON’T MISS Maine’s Great Fair AT LEWISTON, SEPT. 7, 8, 9, AND 10. Fair Opens Labor Day, Sept. 7, with Labor Day Sports, Horse Races and a $2,000 Vaudeville Show. There will be a Balloon Ascension Each Afternoon of Fair and Many Other Attractions too Numerous to mention including an Automobile […]

100 years ago, 1914Tired, nervous and without their baggage but thankful that they can walk on neutral soil, Mrs. Jeanne Toutain, Miss Jeanne Toutain and Miss Mary Madeline Toutain arrived at their home on Pine street, Lewiston, last Friday from France, where they had intended spending the summer. They reached New York, Thursday, having made […]

100 years ago, 1914Interference by mob of nearly 1,000 people at Lake Grove, Sunday evening, made possible the escape of a young man from Officer John Mullaney, but in spite of it, another Lewiston boy, was held. Page was put on probation, after pleading guilty to the charge of creating a disturbance. Mullaney, special officer […]

100 years ago, 1914A team of six horses of an average weight of one ton per horse, will be one of the attractions at the Maine State Fair, which will open in Lewiston on Monday. This team is one of the show rigs of the country and has attracted the widest attention wherever it has […]

100 years ago, 1914Mrs. David Crockett started for Bath from South Durham with her weekly produce and going down George Cox’s hill the tug came unhooked, the horse ran away and the wagon ran into the ditch, striking a telephone pole. Mrs. Crockett was thrown out and her leg broken. Mrs. Crockett has kept the […]

100 years ago, 1914Lewiston firemen were given $25 a year some time ago and on the condition that each man buy a dress uniform. Only a few have complied with the order, but Mayor Wiseman announced to Chief Moriarty, at the meeting of the Fire Commissioners recently, that if the men did not rig out […]

100 years ago, 1914No one could better appreciate such a gift as was presented by Frank N. Curtiss of New York City to Col. Theodore Roosevelt. It was an eight-and-one-half pound Lake Auburn trout, which Curtiss caught early Tuesday morning. Curtiss made the presentation after the colonel and party had boarded the Narcissus and they […]

100 years ago, 1914A more dramatic scene than the entrance of Theodore Roosevelt upon the stage of Lewiston City Hall, Tuesday afternoon, could not be imagined. A greater reception of riotous applause never greeted a speaker. (Several dignitaries) were at the rear of the stage, but as yet unobserved by the great audience in the […]

100 years ago, 1914(Advertisement for Type “L” Klaxon horn) The HAND KLAXON costs ten dollars; the KLAXET twelve; the KLAXONET, twenty. Each has its place. But in every community there are those who do not ask the price, who want the best there is — whether it be a car, a watch or a warning […]