100 Years Ago: 1923 Just Half Way Out of Jail! Halfway to liberty, Fred Wilder, a prisoner in the Kennebec County Jail, at Augusta, Saturday night became wedged between the iron bar grating and the window sash on the second tier of cells and unable to move either way, and shouted for help. Failing to […]

100 Year Ago: 1923 No one was hurt and no one was injured although many tears were shed and several diners were suddenly possessed with a desire to stop eating and get out into the open air at a Lewiston restaurant on  Saturday, noon. The reason for this mixup was a broken ammonia feed pipe […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Lobster Club Night in Lisbon Falls! Moreover the night is to be spread over a large area and the joy of the Lobster Club is to be communicated to folks in other sectors of the State. They are to carry the battle of lobster consumption to the home of the “lob” […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 On Monday was begun the work of dismantling the old organ in the Pine Street Congregational Church, Lewiston, preparatory to installing the new organ, the contract for which was placed several months ago with the Hook & Hastings Co., Boston. 50 Years Ago: 1973 Damage was reported light today following an […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 The woodworking plant of Joseph A. Shaw on Mount Vernon Avenue, Augusta, was totally destroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon with a loss of about $35,000. A brisk breeze carried burning embers to surrounding buildings which were partially damaged. The fire truck on the way to the blaze collided with a coupe […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Harry Vaughan of Arcadia street, Lewiston, proved a regular “movie hero” Tuesday afternoon when he rushed out of his house, seeing an automobile running down the hill driverless, with several children in the rear seat, and stopped the car. Vaughan did not understand the working of the machine but stuck to […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Mrs. Otis Witham, of Phillips, an elderly woman, hearing a commotion among her chickens, this week, hurried to the coop and found a snake attacking them. Getting a pitchfork she jabbed the life out of the reptile, which measured three feet and four inches. 50 Years Ago: 1973 A plow that […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Mrs. Myrtle B. Vickery of Auburn, widow of Charles E. Vickery, was granted an allowance amounting to about $1,700 by Judge W. H. Newell, before whom the petition hearing was held in probate court early In the week. This allowance is in addition to the lawful share to which she is […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Examples of vandalism In the vicinity of the Lewiston playgrounds at the city park are almost of daily occurrence says the caretaker. Dressing tents, erected by the Community Service for the boys and girls to use in changing to bathing suits, bear innumerable rents and tears from nightly marauders. Tents ropes […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 The rate of infant mortality In Lewiston, which has been designated the highest in proportion to that of any city in the United States, has decreased during the period of the past six months, according to figures available Thursday at the office of the Lewiston health department. In 1922 statistics show […]