100 Years Ago: 1923 Warren G. Harding, president of the United States, died instantaneously and without warning tonight at 7:30 o’clock, a victim of a stroke of apoplexy, which took him down in his weakened condition after an illness of exactly a week. The chief executive of the nation and by virtue of his office […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Six alligators arrived at Bear Pond park in Turner Saturday from Tampa Fla. They each measured two feet in length. Moving pictures are being held every Monday and Thursday evening at the Park. Dances are being held every Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday. The Bear Pond orchestra will play at the Dixfield […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 When Governor Baxter’s big car rolled into the square at West Minot Grange Hall Wednesday afternoon at one o’clock, nearly 200 patrons were gathered here for the first official visit of a governor to this thriving little village. The stars and stripes flew over the hall. Over fifty automobiles were parked […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 No trace of Alfred Merlan, Jr., and Gaston Dallendsch, who have been lost on the side of Mt. Katahdin since the forenoon of Wednesday, of last week, had been found up to 10 o’clock Tuesday morning. In view of the weather conditions which have prevailed in the intervening days, the fact […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Unusually large midsummer attendance at the Lewiston-Auburn Rotary Club Friday at the Auburn Y indicates the sustained interest in Rotary matters. Eleven boys are to return Saturday from the Cobbosseecontee Y camp, where they have been placed by the Rotary Club. The boys have had the funnest of summer vacations. One […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 A fine ecclesiastical plant – not alone a church, as forecasted in Thursday’s Lewiston Journal, but a rectory, a convent and a school-will be erected on the seven acre lot on Scribner Boulevard, near the Lisbon road, Lewiston, just purchased by Bishop Louis S. Walsh of the Catholic Diocese of Maine. […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Suspended by his foot from an airplane 1,000 feet in the air, George  M. Sparks, noted “daredevil,” narrowly escaped falling to his death while practicing a new balancing feat on the tip of the upper wing of the  airplane, above their landing field on upper Main street, Lewiston, Friday morning. It […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Many of the leading men and women of Maine are registering for the special Portland to Portland trip in which the State Chamber of Commerce is to run in September. This trip, which covers practically all of that month and which takes in Canada and much of the United States from […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Alcohol contained in 80 tin cans and valued at $1,500 was seized by Deputy Sheriffs Leveque, Maloney and Dobbins of Sheriff Murray’s liquor squad, on the South River road, Auburn, Tuesday night. The sheriff had been on the lookout for this lot of liquor which is said to have been brought […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Thomas Meighan’s popularity as a screen star was never more strikingly illustrated than Monday night at the Empire, when “The Ne’er-Do- Well” opened a four day engagement. Meighan in the flesh, or Richard Mansfield reincarnated, couldn’t have drawn a greater throng. Had another person squeezed inside, we honestly believe that  the […]