100 Years Ago:1923 According to some of the Lewiston merchants, the cold weather has continued so long that the sales of coats for children have been considerably hampered. Many parents have preferred to keep their children in their heavier garments until real warm weather broke; and now it looks as if the little tots would […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 A bootleggers’ convention has just been held here in Bangor. So far as known this is the first session of the kind to be held In the country since Congressman Volstead’s famous act became a law. Until this time the convention has escaped attention in the newspapers. No list of delegates […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 In its leading editorial Friday the Portland Press Herald praises in high terms “the wisdom of Mayor Brann” of Lewiston in keeping Lewiston’s tax rate at 29 mills. “Mayor Brann is a wise official,” the editorial begins. 50 Years Ago: 1973 A burned snack led to a call tor Auburn firefighters […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 An itinerant band of Oklahoma gypsies have been camping for the last two weeks on Stetson Road, Lewiston. They broke camp Thursday morning at the suggestion of the police, and by noon were on the road to “somewhere else in Maine.” And with the departure of the perennial tourists went the […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Vice President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and their two sons will accompany the Governors of the New England States to Maine on their vacation trip the latter part of this month. The party also will include the wives, secretaries and staffs of the governors. They will pass a day or two […]

100 Years: 1923 Six Lewiston men were arrested Tuesday morning on bench warrants from the superior court, as the result of secret indictments by the grand jury. They are each held in $1,000 bonds. There remains but one secret indictment to be revealed. 50 Years Ago: 1973 Nearly 400 motorists were issued warnings during the […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Wall to wall carpeting, air conditioning and huge picture windows are but a few of the many comfort features in the new $3 million Bates College Library which will be ready for use in the Fall. A preview showing of the nearly completed facility was given to members of the news […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Wall to wall carpeting, air conditioning and huge picture windows are but a few of the many comfort features in the new $3 million Bates College Library which will be ready for use in the Fall. A preview showing of the nearly completed facility was given to members of the news […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 The lives of seven or eight men and women were endangered Tuesday afternoon about 2 o’clock when the upper half of the flag stand before the Court House, Auburn, fell when a pulley by which it was being lowered, gave way. Nobody was injured. A workman, who was aloft at the […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Auburn’s hotel project has been again discussed by the directors of the Auburn Chamber of Commerce. The lot of land on Turner and Cushing Streets, next to the Auburn Post Office, is most likely. The price quoted for this is not absolutely determined; but is believed to be the price for […]