Everett E. Howard of Lewiston has lately finished up some photographs in the “old fashioned way,” a way which has its attractive features. One is vignetting the heads. The lines, showing up clear-cut against the white background, reminding one of the silhouettes of our grandmothers. The other is done upon ground glass or porcelain, directly from the negative. The effect is unusually soft and “deep.” As a protection against dust and dampness this is given a thin coat of varnish, after the picture has been printed upon the glass, which is really a better medium than the more expensive ivory or celluloid.

50 Years Ago, 1955

St. Louis – Joseph Pulitzer, for 43 years editor and publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, died unexpectedly late last night. Pulitzer, 70 but robust in appearance, had put in a full day’s work at his office on the third floor of the Post-Dispatch where he kept a close watch on the news room. A few hours after he arrived home Pulitzer complained of feeling ill. He was taken to the Barnes Hospital where at 11:45 p.m. he died from a ruptured blood vessel in the abdomen. Pulitzer, a perfectionist who demanded and got good reporting, prided himself as being a working newspaperman. His afternoon Post-Dispatch became known as one of the nation’s great crusading newspapers.

25 Years Ago, 1980

Tad Runge, administrator of the Northern Cumberland Memorial Hospital in Bridgton, has announced that preliminary plans for a $3 million hospital expansion and renovation program have been approved by the board of directors.

The addition will result in space and certification for 34 medical/surgical, four intensive care, and two obstetrical patients with four of the medical/surgical beds having a “swing capacity” when needed for additional obstetrical patients. The hospital’s total contained area will increase from 27,000 to just under 53,000 square feet.