Read more about April 10, 1923, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 Good progress is being made on the Lewiston-Armory-Auditorium building. The roof is now nearly completed and a few weeks more will see the brickwork finished. 50 Years Ago: 1973 (photo from Sun) Some of Lewiston’s Pine Tree Warriors are standing proud […]

Read more about April 8, 1953, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 What a live wire bunch of “Newsies” can do once they start out to accomplish anything was demonstrated Saturday by the Lewiston and Auburn “Sun Newsies.” As a climax to an eight weeks’ contest for new subscriptions, the “Newsies” started out […]

Read more about April 7, 1923, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 Eighteen members of the Auburn Friday club were entertained at a luncheon at the Elm House yesterday by Mrs. Willis Snow. The tables  were prettily decorated with potted plants, and pinks, the club flower. There were also dainty favors. After the […]

Read more about April 6, 1948, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 The widely heralded University of Maine band will conduct their “Pop Concert” in Lewiston City hall Friday night. This has been an annual event and one anticipated with great interest each year by local alumni and friends of the state college. […]

Read more about April 5, 1963, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 At the meeting of the Skowhegan B. P. W. the club secretary gave an interesting report. A supper will be given at the next meeting, when Mrs. Howard Ives is to speak. At the supper held Saturday night, which was a big success, […]

Read more about April 4, 1953, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 The second annual banquet of the Business and Professional Women’s club was held at the DeWitt last evening, 69 attended. Miss Rose D. Nealley was toastmistress, and those who responded were Mrs. Kitty Barker, Miss Lilli Herling, Miss Mabel S. Merrill, […]

Read more about April 3, 1923, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 Chairman Stetson of the State Board of Assessors stuck his head into the newspaper room the other day, looked around at the paper bestrewn floor, the paper-cluttered tables and desks and  grinning remarked: “Cluttered looking place!” “No, just a regular newspaper […]

Read more about April 1, 1953, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 Not so very many years ago the appearance of a ‘horseless carriage’ upon the public streets was the signal for everyone to line up at the curb, marveling at the wonderful progress made in the mechanical arts that produced a mechanism […]

Read more about March 31, 1923, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 Alden M. Gayton Post Ladies’ Auxiliary is to give a masquerade dance Monday evening at Auburn Hall. Music is to be by Morrill’s orchestra. The committee includes Mrs. Maude Starkey, Mrs. Mary Williams. Mrs. Marie LaRose, Miss Marion Gullifer, Mrs. Mildred […]

Read more about March 30, 1923, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 Mrs. W. A. Paul of Auburn has a unique souvenir of a recent trip and one which she says she is going to keep, a big round ragged hole in the side of her automobile, made by a bullet from a […]