100 Years Ago: 1923 A remarkable record has been established in the building of Waterville’s new junior high school building, now nearing completion. Every dollar of the municipal money spent upon it has been spent in this city. It was designed by a Waterville architect, H. T. Hussey. Augusta Corey & Co., local contractors have […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Scantily clad in light summer dresses, without coats or hats, one of them walking in her stocking feet and the other in bedroom slippers, Iola Miller and Arline Winchenbach, seventeen year old runaways from the State School at Hallowell walked into the arms of Officer Joseph Cloutter of the Lewlston police […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 14 year old Stellar Leber of 21 First Street, Auburn, attempted to take her bath Saturday night. She proceeded in the usual manner but for some reason or other the gas heater failed to function properly. Within a few moments the house was filled with gas and Miss Leber was overcome. […]

100 Years Ago” 1923 While returning from Portland Thursday, George P. Gauvin and William Durand picked up a black bag on the road and upon opening it found it contained a large amount of jewelry and nuggets of gold They notified the chief of police in Brunswick and he took their address and they continued […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Circus day in Lewiston meant something to the hundreds of boys and girls, to say nothing of several thousand grown-ups who lined the streets, for they saw a real circus parade shortly before noon Friday. Although it was the usual kind, the parade was long and interesting. It was the first […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Pat Murphy, 103 year old pioneer, the oldest man in Colorado and the oldest Knight of Columbus in the world, is missing. He had planned to climb Pike’s Peak, but whether he is lost on the mountain is not known. He left early Friday. 50 Years Ago: 1973 Gov. Meldrim Thomson […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 The fire department was called out Wednesday for a small blaze on the roof of a house at 91 Sewall street, Augusta, occupied by the family of C. A. Bachelder. The chemical from the Hartford station responded to the call, and the fire was speedily extinguished. The blaze started from a […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Babies born in Androscoggin county in the year 1923 will start life with a bank account at the Peoples Savings Bank, Lisbon street, Lewiston. Directors of the bank voted at the weekly meeting, it was announced Wednesday, to open an account in the name of each new baby with $1. The […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Miss Dorothy Elsie Gray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Gray of Dayton, street, Augusta, has accepted an invitation to dance in the Fourth of July Pageant at Pawtucket, R. I. Miss Gray will typify “The Spirit of Immortality” in the pageant which is called “Makers of America.” 50 Years […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Poland Spring is entertaining Vice President and Mrs. Calvin M. Coolidge, and governors of the New England states today. Accompanied by their immediate families, they arrived very quietly, each little group from its respective capital. The spotlight of publicity always lays upon those in political high places — it followed these […]