100 Years Ago: 1923 Pres. Warren Harding, of Ohio, is home tonight; sleeping time away near the mother at whose knee his first childish dream of greatness was prattled. Before his tomb, as the chiming verses of the choir sang softly among the trees. “Nearer. My God To Thee,” another tender, brave woman stood with […]

100  Years Ago: 1923 Callers on the president get the impression that Mr. Coolidge is determined to carry out prohibition policies of the Harding administration, Washington dispatch says. 50 Years Ago: 1973 The final play of the 1973 Theater at Monmouth Repertory season will be William Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale”. This will open at Cumston Hall, Monmouth […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Eventually, the body of Warren G. Harding may find a final resting place on the top of an old Indian mound just east of this city and overlooking the home where he lived for so many years and where he made his famous front porch campaign for the presidency. Close personal […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Under the vast dome of the capital, with low spoken prayer and the tender words of old hymns, Warren G. Harding was given into God’s keeping at noon today by the men of high place in the nation, who had served with him in the short years of his leadership for […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Mrs. Harding, aboard the special train bearing the President’s body to Washington, D.C. has requested railroad officials to see that the train travels no faster than fifty miles an hour at any time. and that its maximum speed in cities and towns where crowds have gathered be ten miles per hour, […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Governor Baxter issued a proclamation addressed to the people of Maine designating Friday, Aug 10, 1923 as a day of mourning in this State. “A God-fearing, upright man, chosen leader of a great Nation has gone from us and the people mourn,” says Governor Baxter in his proclamation. “Warren G. Harding […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Calvin Coolidge arrived in Washington tonight to assume his duties as President. After an all day journey from Plymouth, Vermont, where he was sworn in as chief executive early today, Mr. Coolidge stepped from a special train at the Union Station at 9:10 p.m. He was accompanied by Mrs. Coolidge and […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Warren G. Harding, president of the United States, died instantaneously and without warning tonight at 7:30 o’clock, a victim of a stroke of apoplexy, which took him down in his weakened condition after an illness of exactly a week. The chief executive of the nation and by virtue of his office […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Six alligators arrived at Bear Pond park in Turner Saturday from Tampa Fla. They each measured two feet in length. Moving pictures are being held every Monday and Thursday evening at the Park. Dances are being held every Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday. The Bear Pond orchestra will play at the Dixfield […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 When Governor Baxter’s big car rolled into the square at West Minot Grange Hall Wednesday afternoon at one o’clock, nearly 200 patrons were gathered here for the first official visit of a governor to this thriving little village. The stars and stripes flew over the hall. Over fifty automobiles were parked […]