100 Years Ago: 1923 Only two girls were missing from the roll call at the Lewiston-Auburn telephone exchange on Park street, Lewiston, Tuesday morning – first day of the strike among telephone operators throughout New  England, called by Miss Julia O’Connor, department head of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. It was said that only […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Telephone service in Lewiston- Auburn and Maine is promised by the management of the local exchange. In the meantime, the war of conversation between the Electrical Workers’ organization, which led by Miss Julia O’Connor of Boston and the Telephone Brotherhood, an independent union goes merrily on with the first real test […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Wednesday evening, June 27th, a minstrel show will be staged at Norway Opera House under the auspices of the Loyal Order of Moose. Garvin Gilman, a character actor and director, will appear with thirty local favorites. Mr. Gilman has played with the “Green Goddess” company and on the Keith Circuit. There […]

100 Years Ago 1923 Albert Dion of Waterville was brought to St. Mary’s hospital in Lewiston Thursday, suffering from Injuries received in a 16 foot fall. One hip was broken, but on Friday morning, he was in so weakened a condition that the extent of the other injuries could not be determined. Dion is about […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Auburn police are to see that the light laws requiring all carriages and horse drawn vehicles to display lights are rigorously enforced. Livery stables should see that all carriages are equipped with lights before renting or the proprietors will be held responsible. 50 Years Ago: 1973 A Maine Supreme Court decision […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Michael J. Collins, father of four daughters and seven sons, of whom five were in the service during the world war, died Monday in Bradbury Memoria! Hospital in Belfast from injuries received two weeks ago when his horse ran away throwing him under the wheels of a heavy cart. He was […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 The Honorable Louis J. Brann, Mayor of Lewiston, is tired of throwing up the first ball at various league opening ceremonies. He has estimated that some 794 times during the past ten years he has performed this memorable feat. This year he pleads leniency and craves the opportunity to stand at […]

100 Years Ago:1923 According to some of the Lewiston merchants, the cold weather has continued so long that the sales of coats for children have been considerably hampered. Many parents have preferred to keep their children in their heavier garments until real warm weather broke; and now it looks as if the little tots would […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 A bootleggers’ convention has just been held here in Bangor. So far as known this is the first session of the kind to be held In the country since Congressman Volstead’s famous act became a law. Until this time the convention has escaped attention in the newspapers. No list of delegates […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 In its leading editorial Friday the Portland Press Herald praises in high terms “the wisdom of Mayor Brann” of Lewiston in keeping Lewiston’s tax rate at 29 mills. “Mayor Brann is a wise official,” the editorial begins. 50 Years Ago: 1973 A burned snack led to a call tor Auburn firefighters […]