The sweet cider vendors in Lewiston are taking due care not to violate the law relating to the sale of cider. Sweet cider may be either intoxicating or non-intoxicating according to special circumstances. If it is sold in two-quart cans for cooking purposes or alleged to be for cooking purposes, it is non-intoxicating and hard cider sold in this same way is also non-intoxicating in law, though it would give the partaker a head that would feel swollen for several days. Sweet cider, even if it comes directly from the mill, is considered intoxicating and sizable, if it is sold for tippling purposes or to be drunk on the premises. Therefore, the local cider venders are exercising due care in dispensing their goods.

50 Years Ago, 1956

Rene Quirron, 15, a veteran Lewiston Daily Sun carrier, proved what stuff newsboys are made of, while delivering his route. As he approached the Fournier block on Bridge Street at 5:30 a.m., he heard children screaming wildly and ran up to the third floor apartment of Robert Fournier, finding the place ablaze. He snatched Peggy, 6, and Freddie Fournier, 7, from the burning room and carried them to the street where he pulled in the first of two alarms for the $25,000 fire that gutted the six tenement building in the heart of the Mexico business district.

25 Years Ago, 1981

After years of inquiry, the Federal Trade Commission felt it had the evidence to issue a rule that would require used car dealers to tell you which basic guts of the metal you are buying are OK and which are not. The dealer could sell you the car “as is” with no guarantee of any kind, but would have to tell you that. Car dealers have reacted to the FTC’s “truth in used vehicles” rule with rage. The rule would require a checklist to be provided to you, the buyer, describing the car’s vital statistics and whether such key elements as the brakes passed simple tests (which might save your life).