100 years ago: 1925 “Lewiston city hall is bubbling over with excitement at the news that an attempt was made sometime between Saturday night and Sunday morning to break into the city clerk’s office by extracting a large window pane in the door. Napoleon Hamel, clerk of the office discovered the attempt Sunday noon. Three […]

100 years ago: 1925 “Evangelist Carrigan of Lewiston, trusty at the county jail, Auburn, was absent without leave at dinnertime yesterday, and in the opinion of the sheriff was to all intents and purposes and escaped prisoner at the evening roll call last night. Sheriff Murray as soon as he learned of Carrigan’s departure made […]

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100 years ago: 1925 Under a front-page headline that read “We Must Raise $2,000 To Send Bates Team To Debate Britishers,” the Lewiston Journal declared it would undertake to raise the cash necessary “for this most important of all international debates. Let’s get behind the plucky Maine college and give the boys a big send […]

100 years ago: 1925 An editorial in the Lewiston Evening Journal declared that “one thing necessary” for Maine’s future “is to have a great, handsome highway from Kittery to Portland.” It said the visitors will gain an impression of the state from what they see when they enter Maine, one reason that Arthur Race of […]

100 years ago: 1925 “The Lewiston police were ordered to maintain a stricter enforcement of the speed laws, by Chief Field, Monday. Automobile drivers who persist in using the public highways as racetracks will be quickly brought in check. The war on speeders has been launched and it is expected that the police court will […]

100 years ago: 1925 “William J. Sproul of South Portland was found in the Maine Central Freight yard” in Farmington “shortly before 6 o’clock Saturday morning, by Mr. Smith, an engineer, with one arm and leg nearly severed from his body, bruises on his head and skin torn from one thigh. He was rushed to […]