100 years ago, 1914At a recent meeting of the board of managers of the Home for Aged Women, Auburn, it was decided to build a new building on the Hersey lot at 86 Pleasant street. This lot which was recently left by the late R. S. Hersey, for this purpose, is ideally located for such […]

100 years ago, 1914Attendance at the Webster playground, Auburn, is holding close to 150 all the time. The basket-ball equipment this season lacked a ball and the nets. Were the boys going to give up the game just for this? Well, hardly! They set out themselves and from the big-hearted business men, quickly solicited the […]

100 years ago, 1914Tennis enthusiasts are appreciating the interest of Bates college officials in arranging for systematic use of the courts at the campus. There are twelve courts, all in good condition, and these will be let for a small fee, the proceeds being used for the repair and improvement of the courts. The plan […]

100 years ago, 1914Octave Cloutier of Lewiston called on City Clerk Lemaire at quarter after six Monday morning. Cloutier was engaged to be married and the wedding morn had arrived. Cloutier and his bride, Miss Edith Parent, arrived at St. Peter’s chapel to find that Cloutier was without the license. Hence the doorbell rang early […]

100 years ago, 1914The last touch needed to consecrate the Lewiston Athletic park to the national game was added Thursday afternoon with the raising of the American flag and long blue pennant underneath It. John West, a patriotic man of Lewiston, member of the First Maine Cavalry in the War of the Rebellion, headed a […]

100 years ago, 1914No more finely equipped bakery will be found in New England than is now located at the corner of Second and Mill streets, Auburn, where new bread baking equipment has been installed at the bakery of Philippe Dupont. Dupont has the contract for the wholesale and retail sale of Edgeworth bread to […]

100 years ago, 1914The annual outing of Lewiston’s Chamber of Commerce will take place on Wednesday, July 15, at Tacoma Inn. This annual event is one of the big outings of the year. All business men in the city feel it a duty to go. They get a lot of fun out of it and […]

100 years ago, 1914Howe’s Great London Shows exhibited in Lewiston Monday on the old circus ground at Sabatis street and Central avenue. The circus train of 21 cars, each 70 feet in length, arrived in Lewiston Sunday morning shortly after three o’clock. A street parade preceded the show. It started from the grounds promptly at […]

100 years ago, 1914Nowhere in Maine was the Glorious Fourth more genuinely enjoyed and more heartily celebrated than at Opportunity Farm, an institution for boys, at New Gloucester. When the bugle call sounded at ten o’clock, the guests gathered with the boys under the trees. A ninety foot flag pole presented to the Farm in […]

100 years ago, 1914The word has been pronounced and the Maine State Grange is to meet in Lewiston in December. The executive committee of that body met in the Dewitt House Thursday afternoon and made the final decision. This will be good news to all the people of these cities as the grange is an […]