TO LET: An elegant up-to-date tenement with all the modern improvements. Located at 344 Main St., Lewiston. Also a cottage house and stable 2 minutes walk from Bates College, $10.00 per month. Inquire of C. B. Hartford & Co.

The children of Lewiston and Auburn will have many novelties awaiting them at the Empire, and a very beautiful doll now in the B. Peck window, will be presented to some little girl in the audience who is the holder of the lucky coupon, and a fine new pair of ice skates will be given to some boy.

50 Years Ago, 1956

New York State’s new insurance law will bar more than a million New England auto owners from operating cars in that state, a spokesman for the Automobile Legal Asn. said. Philip C. Thibodeau, ALA general manager said New York’s new compulsory auto insurance law, (effective Jan. 1) requires all cars operated in the state to carry at least $10,000 insurance for death or injury to any one person and $20,000 for multiple injuries, as well as $5,000 in property damage liability. He said the law applies equally to residents and nonresidents of the state.

25 Years Ago, 1981

A group of Bryant Pond residents fighting to keep the nation’s only hand-crank telephone system asked Maine utility regulators for help, but the system’s new owners argued that the state has no right to interfere with their business decisions.

Natalie Wood, angry over an argument between her husband, Robert Wagner, and actor Christopher Walken, stormed off the Wagners’ yacht and apparently fell into the sea while trying to board a dinghy, a coroner has surmised.

The Soviet Union’s chronic food shortages appear to be getting worse. The nation’s food supplies were a main preoccupation of Soviet President Brezhnev’s speech to the party’s Central committee.