100 Years Ago” 1923 While returning from Portland Thursday, George P. Gauvin and William Durand picked up a black bag on the road and upon opening it found it contained a large amount of jewelry and nuggets of gold They notified the chief of police in Brunswick and he took their address and they continued […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Circus day in Lewiston meant something to the hundreds of boys and girls, to say nothing of several thousand grown-ups who lined the streets, for they saw a real circus parade shortly before noon Friday. Although it was the usual kind, the parade was long and interesting. It was the first […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Pat Murphy, 103 year old pioneer, the oldest man in Colorado and the oldest Knight of Columbus in the world, is missing. He had planned to climb Pike’s Peak, but whether he is lost on the mountain is not known. He left early Friday. 50 Years Ago: 1973 Gov. Meldrim Thomson […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 The fire department was called out Wednesday for a small blaze on the roof of a house at 91 Sewall street, Augusta, occupied by the family of C. A. Bachelder. The chemical from the Hartford station responded to the call, and the fire was speedily extinguished. The blaze started from a […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Babies born in Androscoggin county in the year 1923 will start life with a bank account at the Peoples Savings Bank, Lisbon street, Lewiston. Directors of the bank voted at the weekly meeting, it was announced Wednesday, to open an account in the name of each new baby with $1. The […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Miss Dorothy Elsie Gray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Gray of Dayton, street, Augusta, has accepted an invitation to dance in the Fourth of July Pageant at Pawtucket, R. I. Miss Gray will typify “The Spirit of Immortality” in the pageant which is called “Makers of America.” 50 Years […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Poland Spring is entertaining Vice President and Mrs. Calvin M. Coolidge, and governors of the New England states today. Accompanied by their immediate families, they arrived very quietly, each little group from its respective capital. The spotlight of publicity always lays upon those in political high places — it followed these […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 O. A. Gagnon, formerly of Lewiston, was ordained a  bishop In Sherbrooke, Que.. Friday morning. His diocese will be at Ostica, near Sherbrooke. 50 Years Ago: 1973 Fire Chief Ralph Adams warned store owners today that he and Auburn police detectives will make routine checks in the near future to ensure that […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Many changes, all for the best, have come at the Maine State prison in Thomaston during the past twenty years. To make the prison what it ought to be as many more should be made and without too great delay, this is the assertion of those who are familiar with the […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 People of Franklin County are seeing what may be the last days of the Sandy River Railroad, the narrow gauge. On June 30th the Maine Central gives up its management and control, and the Sandy River R. R. Phillips and Rangeley will probably go into receivers hands. 50 Years Ago: 1973 […]