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100 Years Ago, 1904

Local milliners are all busily at work shirring and puffing and folding and twisting and concocting all sorts of artistic “creations” in terra cottas, receda greens, melon shades, blue and green mixtures and golden browns and yellows. More color is to be worn this season than for many a long winter and as for work: there is not much left to do to a hat after it leaves the hands of the “maker” as there is practically no trimming – just a pompon or two, half a dozen black plumes or one or two shaded plumes to match the colors of the hat.

50 Years Ago, 1954

The Maine legislature heeded a plea from farmers, spurned the desires of the radio-television industry and voted without dissent today to extend Daylight Saving Time through October. Thus the state joined Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and parts of Vermont in adopting an extra month of “fast time.” The House vote was 110-0 and the Senate, 28-0. Gov. Burton M. Cross quickly signed the bill into law. Maine farmers traditionally opposed to Daylight Time, lobbied for the extension this year as a direct result of Hurricane Carol and Edna. A spokesman for the farmers said the extra daylight is needed to harvest whatever crops managed to to survive a rainy growing season and the havoc of the two windstorms.

25 Years ago, 1979

For some people, life begins at day one. For others, like 67-year-old Louis Steele, of Auburn, who is confined most of the time to a wheelchair, life begins when you form your own company – in his case, Handicapped Printing. Handicapped Printing publishes a monthly newspaper entitled Happy Days, which Steele delivers to nursing homes in Lewiston, Auburn and Lisbon Falls. He designs it himself, prints it and distributes most of the circulation of 700. He mixes the Bible with humor in his tabloid, and sometimes throws in a little common sense or good measure.