100 Years Ago: 1922 Mrs. Hazel M. Libby of College Street, Lewiston is in New York attending different schools of design in millinery and dressmaking  to get the latest ideas for her classes this fall. She writes that in New York the dresses on the street are so different, but at the better hotels and […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 Last night was no exception to several other nights lately when sections of Auburn were plunged into darkness by a failure of various electrical devices. For considerable time after 9:30 the lower section of Court Street was without illumination. 50 Years Ago: 1972 Demolition of the Cushman-Hollis Building at Court Street […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 Winslow Rouse, well known throughout the east as the boy soprano, arrived in Bath on Saturday to spend his vacation at the Rouse Island home on Todd’s Bay in Georgetown. He sang at the White Stone Church at Bretton Woods, N.H. and last season was singing on the Chautauqua circuit. Just […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 Miss Francesa Haire of the Community Service playground workers conducted various games and plays in the New Auburn playground yesterday morning from 10 to 11 o’clock. In the afternoon she supervised events of the same nature at the Webster School playground between 2 and 3 o’clock. From 3 to 4, playground […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 The construction of a new cement sidewalk in front of the Auburn YMCA has added considerably to the appearance of Auburn’s new building. The lawn is soon to be graded and placed in good condition. 50 Years Ago: 1972 Warm, humid weather may have been the reason why downtown Lewiston wasn’t […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 Harry M. Jones, a well-known Maine aviator has, according to the Portland paper, entered into an agreement with the Ricker Hotel Company to go to Moosehead Lake and establish an aerial taxi service between the railroad station at Greenville and the company’s hotel at Kineo. For this purpose Mr. Jones has […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 While towing a rowboat filled with timber, Daniel Crowley and Daniel Driscoll, Lewiston policemen, narrowly escaped from drowning in Lake Sabatis Thursday night. Waves capsized the rowboat and imperilled the motorboat with which they were towing it. The lumber was valued at more than $50 and was almost entirely lost. The […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 Lewiston street lights went bluey shortly after the last picture show last night, and the clouds gathered shutting out the moon light. The city was in gloomy darkness until the sun came up this morning. It was discovered that the Municipal Lighting Plant was slipping a cog now and then. Not […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 Jerry Hudson, well known Lewiston dare-devil, figured in a spectacular airplane accident in Lynn, Mass., Saturday when the plane he was operating struck an air-hole, dropped several hundred feet and landed on top of an empty touring car. Hudson was not injured, nor were the pilot and one passenger. Hudson is […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 Tourists over the road at Danville Junction from the Power House to the Upper Gloucester Road is much improved as several carloads of gravel have been used on it. 50 Years Ago: 1972 The Department of Veterans Services has been authorized to hire seven Vietnam veterans, according to Robert R. Washburn, […]