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For sale – Farm of 120 acres, well divided into pastures and tillage. Cuts 35 tons hay, good orchard, wood lot, stock and farming tools, all for $1300.00. Call at once. C.B. Hartford & Co., 36 Lisbon St., Lewiston, Me.

For sale – Second hand surry beach wagon and carriages; also fine driving horses at Dr. Goddard’s livery and boarding stable, 101 Park St., Lewiston.

Machinery for sale – One 6-inch moulder, one heavy mortiser, one 24×4 planer. Good bargains. Builder’s Supply Co., 27-53 Middle St., Lewiston, Me.

For sale or to let – 50 coal and wood stoves all sizes. C. A. Kimball, 152 Main street, Auburn.

50 Years Ago, 1955

It will cost $1 to drive an automobile from Portland to Augusta on the new toll road extension, the Maine Turnpike Authority said today. Basic rate for the Kittery-South Portland strip remains 75 cents. But the Portland Congress St. exit will be closed and motorists leaving by the Brighton Avenue exit will pay 85 cents if they made the full trip from Kittery.

The Maine Turnpike Authority rate schedule gives these passenger auto fares for travel between Portland and way points on the Augusta extension:

Gray, .20, Auburn, .40, Lewiston, .50, Gardiner, .85. Lewiston-Augusta, .50, Auburn-Augusta, .60, Kittery-Lewiston, $1.35, Kittery-Augusta, $1.85.

25 Years Ago, 1980

Ann Landers, marking a quarter of a century as an advice columnist, would prescribe for herself 50 lashes with a wet noodle if she ever gave a thought to retiring.

“As long as I have all my marbles and the energy to do this job…” the syndicated newspaper column will continue, she said Thursday on its 25th anniversary.

Over those years of answering three letters a day, seven days a week, she has told thousands of people how to get along with mothers-in-law, to get rid of boyfriends and to inform children of the facts of life.

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