100 years ago: 1925 The Legislature’s Judiciary Committee favored a bill that would prohibit advertising signs along Maine’s highways. The House accepted its majority report. “Last fall at the teacher’s convention, John Parlin, the well-known naturalist and principal of Freedom Academy, announced the finding of a blue spotted salamander. Now, (six months later) beneath a […]
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News and information about the 17th anniversary of the Sun Journal.
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Looking Back for April 2, 2025
100 years ago: 1925 “The First Universalist Church of Lewiston had an unusual evening Wednesday when a Russian drama by Essex Dane, ‘When the Whirlwind Blows,’ was presented to a large gathering. The parts were taken by Mrs. Philip Pottle, Mrs. Wilis Abbott and Mrs. Edwin Pierce. The little play was very well given in […]
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Looking Back for April 1, 2025
100 years ago: 1925 “The exhibition of landscape and animal pictures by D. D. Coombs, the well-known local artist, at the old Murphy store on the corner of Ash and Lisbon streets, attracted much attention yesterday afternoon, even though everything was not exactly in place. Nearly everyone who went by stopped in, for Mr. Coombs […]
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Looking Back on March 31
100 years ago: 1925 A man arrested on suspicion of having murdered a Vermont man turned out to be innocent. He wasn’t the Lewiston man sought. But John Lombard, 25, of Biddeford didn’t get off the hook entirely. It turned out he was living with a woman so they were both charged with “unlawful cohabitation.” […]
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Looking Back on March 29
100 years ago: 1925 One of the most severe electrical storms in years broke over Lewiston and vicinity Saturday night, bringing with it rainfall of an inch and three quarters. No damage, save road washouts, was reported in the immediate vicinity, but other sections suffered worse in this respect. Several towns along the coast were […]
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Looking Back on March 28
100 years ago: 1925 If a Lewiston man who was napping on the railroad tracks at the woodyard in the rear of Libby Avenue, Lewiston, had delayed his nap Friday afternoon just a few minutes, he would have been enjoying a more extensive nap. Workmen in the yard found him asleep on the track, sprawled […]
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Looking Back on March 27
100 years ago: 1925 A definite movement is underway, it is reported in Auburn, to transfer support and activities of a considerable group of influential Auburn businessmen on the hotel proposition of constructing a new high school. This movement, it is expected, will be revealed at the forum meeting of the Auburn Chamber of Commerce […]
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Looking Back on March 26
100 years ago: 1925 The Lewiston Evening Journal reported, at the top of its front page, that the advertising manager of the competing Lewiston Sun, Frank S. Hoy, had married stenographer Gladys Parker at her sister’s house in Bethel. Parker has been the private stenographer of L.B. Costello, business manager of the Sun. Efforts were […]
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Looking Back on March 25
100 years ago: 1925 Auburn’s high school, “the Edward Little,” famous throughout New England, cannot hold its lead much longer in the present school building. This is the opinion of Superintendent George R. Gardner of the Auburn School Board, who will set these things forth in their plain truths before the people of Auburn in […]
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Looking Back on March 24
100 years ago: 1925 Sam E. Conner reported from Augusta that ever since the hearing on the ice fishing in Belgrade lakes bill a couple of weeks ago, there has been a bitter wrangle in progress about the Augusta House at night. It will be recalled that some question was raised as to the honesty […]