100 Years Ago: 1923 Carlton Haynes of Auburn, a salesman at the Lewiston Motors, Inc., has sworn off leaving his automobile outside of a garage overnight. One morning recently, at three o’clock, when everything was quiet, he was awakened by loud explosions. Listening for moments he heard his father shouting to someone. When he got […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 City officials estimate that automobiles en route to the Harding funeral stretch out to a distance of 80 miles from Marion. Cars are running two and three abreast and there is not a break of more than ten feet for many miles. The caravan is being constantly augmented by cars from […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 The camp meeting at Empire Grove opened Saturday evening with good attendance. Nearly all of the cottages are now open. Sunday morning Rev. A. Bean preached a fine sermon, and in the afternoon Rev. Forgrave of the Anti-Saloon League spoke on Federal Prohibitory Law, what it has accomplished, and the difficulties […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Pres. Warren Harding, of Ohio, is home tonight; sleeping time away near the mother at whose knee his first childish dream of greatness was prattled. Before his tomb, as the chiming verses of the choir sang softly among the trees. “Nearer. My God To Thee,” another tender, brave woman stood with […]

100  Years Ago: 1923 Callers on the president get the impression that Mr. Coolidge is determined to carry out prohibition policies of the Harding administration, Washington dispatch says. 50 Years Ago: 1973 The final play of the 1973 Theater at Monmouth Repertory season will be William Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale”. This will open at Cumston Hall, Monmouth […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Eventually, the body of Warren G. Harding may find a final resting place on the top of an old Indian mound just east of this city and overlooking the home where he lived for so many years and where he made his famous front porch campaign for the presidency. Close personal […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Under the vast dome of the capital, with low spoken prayer and the tender words of old hymns, Warren G. Harding was given into God’s keeping at noon today by the men of high place in the nation, who had served with him in the short years of his leadership for […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Mrs. Harding, aboard the special train bearing the President’s body to Washington, D.C. has requested railroad officials to see that the train travels no faster than fifty miles an hour at any time. and that its maximum speed in cities and towns where crowds have gathered be ten miles per hour, […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Governor Baxter issued a proclamation addressed to the people of Maine designating Friday, Aug 10, 1923 as a day of mourning in this State. “A God-fearing, upright man, chosen leader of a great Nation has gone from us and the people mourn,” says Governor Baxter in his proclamation. “Warren G. Harding […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Calvin Coolidge arrived in Washington tonight to assume his duties as President. After an all day journey from Plymouth, Vermont, where he was sworn in as chief executive early today, Mr. Coolidge stepped from a special train at the Union Station at 9:10 p.m. He was accompanied by Mrs. Coolidge and […]