100 years ago, 1914It appears that the strange acting man who has been prowling about the Bates campus goes well armed. This fact was brought out by a party of Bates students who decided they would chase the fellow off the grounds. They had only begun the chase when the strange acting individual drew a […]

100 years ago, 1914The Rowell shooting mystery has reached the letter writing stage. The first missive offering a solution of the problem of who shot Aretas Rowell to be received reached Auburn officials on Wednesday morning. It is signed by a woman, who says that she is a writer of detective stories, and who lives […]

100 years ago, 1914Hundreds of people gathered under the budding trees on the mountain-side to watch the annual May Festival given by the young women of Bates College. Soon after three o’clock the long procession of girls, all daintily gowned in white with various floral decorations, marched slowly down the mountain-side. In the chariot were […]

100 years ago, 1914Charles Allen, who lives at Auburn plains, lost his eye, Friday afternoon, in a very peculiar and painful manner. He was driving some young cattle to the pasture, carrying a whip in his hand with a long lash The cattle being unruly, he snapped the whip at one of them and the […]

100 years ago, 1914Any transfer of firearms done thru a business house must be recorded in a book kept for that purpose together with the name and address of the recipient. Chief McCarron of Lewiston will notify the dealers, pawnbrokers, or anyone whose business may include a transfer of firearms, that the police will insist […]

100 years ago, 1914To abolish the semi-annual rummage sales, which have been conducted fall and spring for many years under the direction of the Women’s Christian Association, Lewiston, was the vote of the board of managers, Wednesday afternoon. The board asks that all people, who have been in the habit of saving their cast off […]

100 years ago, 1914“A bargain for a dollar” day may be instituted in Lewiston retail stores if plans of the committee on retail trade from the chamber of commerce as expressed at the meeting Wednesday are put thru. Charles Lugrin and H. E. Abbott were made a committee to get the feeling of the merchants […]

100 years ago, 1914A pair of green horses becoming frightened at a trolley car on the north bridge, Lewiston, Saturday morning bolted. The wagon was smashed to kindlings and the driver, H.L. Price, was hurled into the street. One of the horses was tripped by the reins but in a second both were tearing up […]

100 years ago, 1914Shipping horses in box cars that have no provision for ventilation doesn’t conform with the laws of the State of Maine nor the disposition of H. A. Pearson, State agent for the prevention of cruelty to animals. One night recently Agent Pearson held up two box cars at the upper Maine Central […]

100 years ago, 1914The Auburn auto fire truck after making a run to East Auburn in a little less than eight minutes Thursday evening got stuck in the soft ground in a field back of Breezy Point on the shore of East Auburn where the cottage of H.H. Houghton of 62 Winter street, Auburn, was […]