-It is announced that Sarah Bernhardt is to appear at a Portland theater during her present engagement in America. The famous actress can rest safe in the assurance that the Canadian egging incident will not be repeated in the Forest city, at least while eggs are quoted at present prices. – Biddeford Journal.

-At the Lake Grove House. Christmas dinners, 75 cents. Menu: Lobster Stew, Tomato Bisque, Roast Goose, Potato Stuffing, Cream Gravy, Creamed Carrots, Spiced Apple Sauce, Roast Turkey, Oyster Dressing, Riced Potatoes, Cranberry Sauce, Boiled Onions, Cream Sauce, Mashed Turnip, Olives, Lettuce, Heinz’s Pickles, Celery, Virginia Chicken Pie, Cabbage Salad, Salmon Salad, Apple Pie, Mince Pie, Custard Pie, Marshmallow Pudding, Sherry Sauce, Walnut Cake, Almond Cake, Vanilla Ice Cream, Tea, Coffee.

50 Years Ago, 1955

Car frozen? Pipes burst? Ears nipped? You haven’t seen anything yet.

Old Man Winter won’t crunch into the Twin Cities on his icy feet until 10:12 a.m. tomorrow. The Old Farmer’s Almanac is far from optimistic about the weather winter will bring along.

“Winter’s really here,” says the almanac, “The worst in many a year.”

Cold or not, after tonight, the days soon will start getting longer and the anemic sun will start to get back a little of its lost strength.

25 Years Ago, 1980

For 50 years, engineers have dreamed of tapping the tides around Maine’s Passamaquoddy Bay for power. But it may be the Passamaquoddy Indians who finally do it.

The last report of Indians helping the white man harness the ocean’s ebb and flow was in 1660, when a tribe in Canada helped colonists build a waterwheel mill on an ocean inlet.