100 years ago, 1914The “mayflower man” is again busy! He brought his season’s first lot of trailing arbutus to Lewiston on Patriots’ Day, having found the first blossoms the day previous. This first basket of flowers contained ten bunches. The basket, Thursday, held twenty-one good-sized beautiful bunches and it did not take the “mayflower man” […]

100 years ago, 1914Without previous warning, a huge pane of plate glass in the show window of the V. S. Darling Co., Turner street, Auburn, suddenly toppled out from its casings toward the sidewalk and there broke into thousands of pieces Thursday morning. Harry C. Lowe narrowly escaped having the glass fall upon him. He […]

100 years ago, 1914Lewiston cotton mills on the canal were forced to suspend Tuesday on account of the weakened condition of the coffer dam at the Bates. They may be able to resume work Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning if the gaps and holes can be plugged. When the old coffer dam at the new […]

100 years ago, 1914E. H. Kimball of Lewiston has asked the committee on public property from the city council to enter into a contract with him for brown tail moth traps. He provided the traps used in Auburn last year and met with success. The contract states, “E. H. Kimball of Lewiston, Me., inventor, owner […]

100 years ago, 1914Lewiston’s new baseball team actually took shape and life, Tuesday morning, when “Red” McMahon with his coterie of old-timers and hopeful recruits limbered their muscles on A. A. A. park, Auburn. Autumn twang was in the air and left-over March wind rustled around the sodden diamond but the sweet music of crashing […]

100 years ago, 1914The police department of Lewiston has been told to clean the city up! This order was given by Mayor Wiseman in a short, but to the point, talk to the entire department Tuesday morning. He told them that minors must be kept out of pool rooms and that those establishments must be […]

100 years ago, 1914Fire in Pownal which burned three dwellings and threatened more, Monday afternoon, brought out all the townspeople and gave the men a hard fight. The fire started around the chimney in the home of William Daley and under the influence of the high wind spread rapidly. The Daley house and barn were […]

100 years ago, 1914A band of young fellows with more than loss of the rowdy spirit stirred things up a bit in Lewiston Friday night. A rock was thrown thru a window in the house of Sheriff Stevens on Holland street. A rotten egg was thrown into the vestibule of the Main street trolley car, […]

100 years ago, 1914G. B. Whittaker, Auburn city forester, told the board of mayor and aldermen, Thursday night, that he could keep expenses in his department below $4,000 for the coming year. This, he said, was less by hundreds of dollars than other Maine cities were now expending yearly. With the distinct understanding that the […]

100 years ago, 1914In the carpenter shop of the late Chas. E. Greenleaf on Mechanics Row, Auburn, is a queer old historic relic. It is the toll board of the first wooden bridge over the Androscoggin where the North Bridge now stands. The board is about eight feet in length by three feet deep and […]