100 Years Ago: 1923 An itinerant band of Oklahoma gypsies have been camping for the last two weeks on Stetson Road, Lewiston. They broke camp Thursday morning at the suggestion of the police, and by noon were on the road to “somewhere else in Maine.” And with the departure of the perennial tourists went the […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Vice President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and their two sons will accompany the Governors of the New England States to Maine on their vacation trip the latter part of this month. The party also will include the wives, secretaries and staffs of the governors. They will pass a day or two […]

100 Years: 1923 Six Lewiston men were arrested Tuesday morning on bench warrants from the superior court, as the result of secret indictments by the grand jury. They are each held in $1,000 bonds. There remains but one secret indictment to be revealed. 50 Years Ago: 1973 Nearly 400 motorists were issued warnings during the […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Wall to wall carpeting, air conditioning and huge picture windows are but a few of the many comfort features in the new $3 million Bates College Library which will be ready for use in the Fall. A preview showing of the nearly completed facility was given to members of the news […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Wall to wall carpeting, air conditioning and huge picture windows are but a few of the many comfort features in the new $3 million Bates College Library which will be ready for use in the Fall. A preview showing of the nearly completed facility was given to members of the news […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 The lives of seven or eight men and women were endangered Tuesday afternoon about 2 o’clock when the upper half of the flag stand before the Court House, Auburn, fell when a pulley by which it was being lowered, gave way. Nobody was injured. A workman, who was aloft at the […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Auburn’s hotel project has been again discussed by the directors of the Auburn Chamber of Commerce. The lot of land on Turner and Cushing Streets, next to the Auburn Post Office, is most likely. The price quoted for this is not absolutely determined; but is believed to be the price for […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 While the Lewiston police were searching her house at 268 Lincoln Street, looking for liquor, Mrs. Henry L. Wiseman kept on with her washing. And while she scrubbed the clothes, Capt. Picard scoured the premises for alcohol, which they allege “Tex” Wiseman had been hiding from them. 50 Years Ago: 1973 […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 In the electrical storm of Tuesday afternoon, the barn of Mrs. Lena Hersey was blown down and the chimney of her house was blown off level with the roof. The two story paint shop of Frank Dillingham was razed to ground and contents, wagons, sleighs, etc., are an utter loss. The […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Chief Rowe has received complaints from residents near the Little Androscoggin River in “New” Auburn, of men and boys who insist on bathing nude near the dam. Chief Rowe says that unless the practice is stopped they will be prosecuted. 50 Years Ago: 1973 Construction of the new Lewiston Central Fire […]