Read more about March 29, 1943, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 “Come and See” is the slogan which the girls of the clubs and classes of Y. W. C. A. have adopted for their exhibition to be given Wednesday evening. April 4th at 8 o’clock in Auburn Hall. Very few people have […]
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Looking Back on March 28: ‘River mauls way through cities’
Read more about March 28, 1953, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 The costs of clearing Lewiston’s streets and catch-basins this winter will amount to about $30,000, stated A. G. Roy, superintendent of the street department, to a journal reporter. Conditions affecting his department have been the worst in his experience, he said, […]
Looking Back on March 27: ‘University of Maine has never been held in check says Baxter’
Read more about March 27, 1923, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 A special meeting of the Clinton Grange was held Saturday in observance of the 36th anniversary of the organization. It was an all day meeting and Worthy master, Lizzie A. Burns presided. C. M. White of Augusta, chief of division of […]
Looking Back on March 25: ‘300 at Bates protest’
Read more about March 25, 1998, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 One-fifth of all the women in the country earn their own living and some of the married ones earn a much better living than they get. 50 Years Ago: 1973 Tuesday, United Methodist Women’s Day will be held at the Auburn […]
Looking Back on March 24: ‘Lewiston rector addresses K.K.K.’
Read more about March 24, 1923, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 Miss Rachael Metcafe, superintendent of nurses at the CMG Hospital is to give an address on “Community and Public Health,” at the social meeting of the Women’s Literary Union this afternoon at 2.30 at the Y. W. C. A. Mrs. Isaac […]
Looking Back on March 23: ‘Bates Manufacturing Co. has record year’
Read more about March 23, 1948, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 Gov. Baxter is not a candidate for the republican nomination for governor in 1924. The governor in a statement issued Friday made it plain that at this time he had no concern with future political honors. 50 Years Ago: 1973 (photo […]
Looking Back on March 22: ‘Liquor hidden in dead frozen horse’
Read more about March 22, 1923, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 A Bath man dug through four feet of snow Sunday and found parsnips which he left in the ground last fall. He says that the ground was so soft and free from frost that he pulled the parsnips up by hand. […]
Looking Back on March 21: ‘And it happened in the United So-Called States of America’
Read more about March 21, 1928, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 A whist party will be held at the new clubrooms of the BPW club Thursday evening. All the members, who care to attend are asked to notify Miss Charlotte Ball at 193-M or 2020 by Thursday morning. 50 Years Ago: 1973 […]
Looking Back on March 20: ‘Maine antique robberies laid to 5 Auburn residents’
Read more about March 20, 1948, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 The early “robins” being reported just now in Maine are said to be in reality an Arctic bird, a red breasted fellow like his brother robin. The reason he is here is because it is so much colder in Maine this […]
Looking Back on March 18: ‘Legault submits to truth serum test at Portland hospital’
Read more about March 18, 1963, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 Donald B. MacMillan expects to get away early in June on his next Arctic expedition in the schooner Bowdoin, and may go as far as Etah in Greenland for a series of educational motion pictures. He said in a letter received […]