100 years ago, 1914 The L. A. & W (Lewiston, Augusta and Waterville Street Railway) is doing a great deal of track improving the present year. Part of it is already completed and the rest is well along. The work of laying new rails and stringers on Dennison street bridge continues and new stringers are […]

100 years ago, 1914Lewiston will have a transient population August 18 when Colonel Roosevelt speaks in city hall that will crowd the industrial heart of Maine. Letters, telephone inquiries and callers literally swarm into this office with inquiries regarding arrangements. According to present plans Col. Roosevelt in his private car will arrive from Portland at […]

100 years ago, 1914It may or may not be true that Chief McCarron warned the citizens of Lewiston who were going to have crimes committed Wednesday afternoon to postpone them till Thursday as the police would be playing baseball with the City government that afternoon and must not be disturbed. At any rate they did […]

100 years ago, 1914A granite column, 40 feet long, weighing 36 tons, passed thru Lewiston on the upper Maine Central, Wednesday, on the way to Philadelphia. The column was billed to the Doyle Brothers of Philadelphia and was from the North Jay Granite Works. Four of these columns will be furnished and one of the […]

100 years ago, 1914The Orpheon of Lewiston will be off for its annual excursion, Wednesday, leaving town at one o’clock to take the Triangle Trip. The forty men will be donned in their outing suits, the official uniform of the Orpheon, and will take their music along, planning to sing as the boat sails down […]

100 years ago, 1914C. E. Dyer’s large livery and sale stable on Park street, Livermore Falls, was destroyed by fire Thursday night and a dwelling house adjoining owned by S. S. Locklin and occupied by Fred Blaisdell and family, was badly gutted. Mrs. Blaisdell escaped in her night clothes with her baby in her arms. […]

100 years ago, 1914(Display advertisement) Up-to-the-Minute…War News. Read the Lewiston Evening Journal To keep in touch with the European Situation. The LEWISTON JOURNAL is prepared to give its readers the best possible service. Full Associated Press service, together with special London dispatches will enable us to serve you up-to-the-minute. Full Underwood photo service enables us […]

100 years ago, 1914Eight Camp Kohut boys, on a canoe trip from their headquarters on Thompson Pond, Poland, to Bath arrived in Auburn, via the Little Androscoggin late Tuesday afternoon. They started from the camp at two, Monday afternoon. The first appearance of this outing octet was on the Grand Trunk railroad tracks when they […]

100 years ago, 1914A Lewiston residence was entered Saturday night and three suits of clothing taken, and the house ransacked. Nothing of value was removed, altho a $5 bank note was in plain sight in one of the rooms. The jewelry and sliver were not disturbed. Dresser and desk drawers were emptied and the contents […]

100 years ago, 1914Lewiston’s municipal court room was bereft of even standing room Friday night at public demonstration of a pulmotor recently established at the Central Fire station, Ash street. Dr. William H. Hawkins showed how the machine worked. An animate body could not be used as a subject, but it was explained that the […]