100 years ago, 1914Friends of the pupils and teachers in the Wallace school have taken much interest in their efforts to raise money for the purchase of a talking (phonograph) machine, which they hope a will be of much practical benefit to the children. With a nest-egg of about $6 in the bank, they netted […]

100 years ago, 1914Checker players all over Maine have been following with interest the series of ten games of checkers, just completed between S.S. Locklin of Livermore Falls, and D.E. Hayes of Rumford, the promoter of the recent State Checker tournament. The series has been played by correspondence. Of the ten games, Locklin won four, […]

100 years ago, 1914A man who conducts a grocery business on Court Street, Auburn was fined $5 for over-working and over-driving his horse, by Judge Webber in the Auburn municipal court, Thursday afternoon. Complaint was made by Agent Geo. A. Allen of the S. P. C. A. Several witnesses appeared. 50 years ago, 1964George L. […]

100 years ago, 1914Deputy Davis, the patrol driver, and station men at the Lewiston police headquarters thought the weather or politics had got into the signal system or some one had a key and was after the official police goat Thursday night and Friday morning. The gong clamored and Officer Murray read the symbols that […]

100 years ago, 1914Nothing on the surface at the Lewiston police station would token that Chief McCarron and George R. Hall, recently appointed, consider each the Chief, for McCarron is the recognized head. Unless something new breaks he will remain until the formal procedure of the courts make a settlement. Formal notice to vacate the […]

100 years ago, 1914A spicy and lively debate was heard by a special committee at the Webster grammar school room of Miss Wilson in Auburn on Friday afternoon. The question was, “Ought Lewiston and Auburn To Be United in One City?” About 25 disputants, girls and boys, took part. Among the reasons given for union […]

100 years ago, 1914Enthusiasm for a Young Men’s Christian Association in Lewiston and Auburn is again in the air. Rev. I.A. Bean of Hammond street Methodist Episcopal church recently went to Kennebunk to observe methods and interview various business and professional men, relative to the result of two years’ work there. The report of his […]

100 years ago, 1914The Salvation Army industrial work was actually launched in Lewiston, Tuesday, and the team will arrive in the city Wednesday, and very soon collections of old papers, magazines, clothes, furniture, almost everything under the sun, will be made. Adjutant Clifford of Portland, who has charge of Maine industrial work, was in Lewiston, […]

100 years ago, 1914A steam power plant which ultimately will develop from 6000 to 8000 horse power, will be installed in Lewiston by Libbey & Dingley, on their Lincoln mill property in the rear of Hotel Atwood, Mill street, Lewiston. Work will be begun at once and before the winter season comes, from 2000 to […]