•Turner Center – The corn factory here is running with its fullest capacity and is turning out nearly 100,000 cans of corn a day. The corn is of a fine quality this year and plenty of it.

•A railroad accident that would probably have resulted disastrously to the passengers had there been any aboard occurred last evening at the Upper Maine Central Station. The train that arrives here at 6:45 was made up of 6 cars last evening and the rear car, No. 13, which is an unlucky number, stood on Middle street switch or the main track with one side of it overlapping on track No. 2. This train leaves at 7:05 and was ready to pull out of the station when the accident occurred.

50 Years Ago, 1955

Adolf Hitler will be declared officially dead this month. After a three-year investigation, court sources said the Berchtesgaden Magistrates’ Court will hand out a death certificate saying Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin Reichschancellory bunker April 30, 1945.

The inquiry involved the questioning of scores of witnesses, including a dentist who repaired Hitler’s false teeth.

Historically, Hitler’s suicide has been assumed an established fact but German authorities considered him alive so long as no death certificate existed.

25 Years Ago, 1980

Maine’s population increased more in the 1970s than during any decade in the past century, thanks largely to growth in small towns, according to preliminary U.S. Census data.

Although figures for the entire state won’t be completed for several weeks, officials in Washington predicted Maine will register better than an 11 percent increase over 1970.

They reached that conclusion after completing initial census data for northern Maine. An 11 percent growth rate would be higher than the national average and much higher than the increases estimated for southern New England states.

Most of the growth has been in small towns rather than in cities, according to the figures for Maine’s five northern counties.