Chicago – The anti-age limit league believes it has solved the problem of the men who are unable to obtain employment in Chicago because they have passed the “age limit.” If plans now under way are successful, such men are to be sent in great numbers to colonies in Canada and Florida, where they will become the ministers, the school teachers of the business men of the newly created towns.

Negotiations are now being carried on by James F. Downey, president of the league with the managers of three colonization projects, one of which owns land in Northwestern Canada, another tract three and half miles from Tampa, Florida, and a third an area on the Eastern coast of Florida.

50 Years Ago, 1956

Lewiston’s tallest building, the former home of the Manufacturers National Bank at Lisbon and Ash streets, was sold yesterday and is to be converted into a professional office building.

The warranty deed filed late in the day at the Androscoggin County Registry of Deeds carried documentary revenue stamps indicating a sale price of $135,000.

The bank building was opened in 1914 and the man who signed the deed yesterday as the bank president,

George T. Bain, was the first one to enter the then new building when he carried in the bank’s papers 42 years ago.

25 Years Ago, 1981

It will be like black and white. Day and night. Like old and new. It will be where money and effort ran out. It will be the unmistakable difference between lower Lisbon Street, where the environmental improvements were planted and nurtured, and middle Lisbon Street, where the environmental improvements stopped and the “ghetto” remains.

This summer, a long-awaited dream for many people will materialize.

Supported by about $9 million in private efforts to revitalize businesses in the lower Lisbon Street area, $2 million in environmental improvements to streets and sidewalks will be laid down during the warm season.