100 Years Ago: 1924 A new Red Cross-YWCA class in home nursing and care of the sick is to be formed. This class will start Monday 3 at 7:30 o’clock. These classes which are of interest to many Lewiston-Auburn girls are formed by the cooperation of the Red Cross and the YWCA, and will be […]
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Looking Back on Feb. 20
100 Years Ago: 1924 Visitors never fail to comment on the manner in which specimens of birds and game are displayed at the museum in the State House connected with the Fish and Game department. It is so different from what they see in other places. No long rows of shelves upon which stand stiffly mounted birds or […]
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Looking Back on Feb. 19
100 Years Ago: 1924 Byron Plummer, one of Augusta’s popular young men, who is spending the winter in the south, at present being located at Aramond Beach, Florida sent his mother, Mrs. A.L. Plummer of Higgins Street, a crate of oranges and grapefruits recently. 50 Years Ago: 1974 The Garden Club of the Women’s Literary Union […]
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Looking Back on Feb. 17
100 Years Ago: 1924 There will be a rehearsal of the combined orchestras of Edward Little and Jordan High at the auditorium of the Dingley Training School in Lewiston this afternoon at 4 o’clock. 50 Years Ago: 1974 Dr. Jacqueline Poirier of Whitney St, Auburn entertained the Ruth Circle of the Auburn United Methodist Women when […]
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Looking Back on Feb. 16
100 Years Ago: 1924 Movie fans will find following the motion pictures quite profitable if they follow up the series of New England in Motion Pictures which is to begin at 100 of the best motion picture theaters in New England next Monday. The theater to be selected in Lewiston is the Strand, and each […]
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Looking Back on Feb. 15
100 Years Ago: 1924 Real winter weather under blue skies and a smiling sun greeted the second day of Auburn’s big carnival, Friday. Whetted by the taste of the opening events of Thursday, the winter sports fans were eager for the program to be resumed. Public schools were closed at noon in order to permit […]
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Looking Back on Feb. 14
100 Years Ago: 1924 Youth will open the Second Annual Auburn Winter Carnival today, when the junior snow meets commence at 3 o’clock at the Pettingill Park winter playground/ Snowshoe and ski-jumping are the feature events scheduled for this meeting. While the meet is the opening event of the program, the official opening will not […]
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Looking Back on Feb. 13
100 Years Ago: 1924 The Women and Men of the Farm Bureau will hold a joint meeting Thursday, Feb. 14. The subjects for the men are to be labor saving methods in dairy, poultry and potato farming; the subject for the women will be basketry. A picnic lunch will be served. 50 Years Ago: 1974 […]
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Looking Back on Feb. 12
100 Years Ago: 1924 Frank Groves of Lewiston has a New York Herald extra of April 15, 1865, that is invaluable for it contains the complete account of the assassination of President Lincoln. Each column is heavily lined in black and the headlines which go down each column, instead of going across the top as they do […]
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Looking Back on Feb. 10
100 Years Ago: 1924 The second volume of the trilogy by Mrs. Edna Worthley Underwood, the Phillips author, the “Passion Flower,” is to be published this spring, it is announced. The first story, “The Penitent,” was said by the critics to be one of the best books of 1921. 50 Years Ago: 1974 The East […]