100 years ago, 1914July first brought the usual rush of visitors to Ricker Hill at Poland Spring, all eager to breathe the air of the elevated hill country of Maine, to enjoy the facilities for sport by means of which Hiram Ricker & Sons entertain their guests, and to drink the matchless Poland Spring water […]

100 years ago, 1914Lewiston baseball fans have the pool epidemic and are taking doses all the way from ten cents with a $5 prize to 25 cents with the prize of ten dollars each day. The basis for awarding the money is the total number of runs scored in the day or week by a […]

100 years ago, 1914Lewiston street sprinkling system needs a shaking up according to the steps which are being taken to improve the service and put the department on a sound basis. Within a few days the present administration has paid a bill of approximately $2,200 to the Lewiston, Augusta & Waterville street railway for the […]

100 years ago, 1914The L. A. & W., represented by Gen. Supt. Bowie, is going to give Lewiston and Auburn a Fourth of July celebration which will be worth looking at and which will bring the events of that day to an illuminating and gorgeous close. At Lake Grove that night will be one of […]

100 years ago, 1914Mr. and Mrs. John W. Lufkin of Boston have opened their summer home, Dreamland, in Wayne, motoring to Maine from Boston in their Detroit electric. They are the first to make the trip to Maine, so far as we know, by an electric automobile. They made Lewiston in three days, charging their […]

100 years ago, 1914He was taking life easy, was the man perched on the one horse cart load of old boughs, drawn by a single, well mannered horse, which was coming down Main street, Lewiston, Friday morning. He was smoking and dreaming, possibly, of the good dinner which was to be his and of the […]

100 years ago, 1914A spectacular tumble was that taken by Elmer C. Smith from a motorcycle which he was riding on Center street, Auburn, at about 6:30 Wednesday evening. He escaped with a few scratches. He was coming up the street from the city at a great rate of speed and got into a bad […]

100 years ago, 1914Mayor Wiseman has under consideration a plan to borrow $100,000 on a temporary loan for the City of Lewiston to expend in permanent improvements on streets and sidewalks, building or repairing the Thorne’s corner school house and relieving the cramped condition of the city finances. Mayor Wiseman said that the streets, sidewalks, […]

100 years ago, 1914With aspirations as high as Mt. Washington, eight young men from Mechanic Falls started on a hike to that very place Monday, taking with them provisions, blankets and supplies enough to last until after the Fourth. It was a merry party which was cheered from the square on its way. The trip […]

100 years ago, 1914Supt. Page of the Lewiston fire and police signal systems is up against a snag in complying with the mandates of the city council that the wooden poles carrying the over-head wires on Lisbon street be removed and the wires placed on the ornamental poles. The wooden poles from Cedar to Pine […]