• A fiend in the form of a “Jack the Biter,” who has a mania for attacking unprotected women after dark and biting them on their cheeks, has appeared in the two cities. A prominent Lewiston club woman was assaulted early last evening on Frye Street, Lewiston, while Saturday night an Auburn woman was bitten. There have been several other cases recently.

NEW YORK – A section of land 80- by 300-feet on the east end of Barren Island, which lies between the entrance to Jamaica Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, dipped into the sea today.

50 years ago, 1957

• Lewiston’s hubcap thieves were back in action Saturday night and lifted a couple of them on Shawmut Street. Wilfred Cote of 45 Shawmut St. reported to police yesterday that two hubcaps were taken from his 1953 Studebaker auto while it was parked in front of his house. He valued the missing hubcaps at $20.

• Lewiston-Auburn will have nearly 1,100 Cancer Crusaders making neighborhood calls tonight in a dramatic two-hour crusade from 6:30 to 8:30 o’clock as part of Cancer Control Day, Mary Leo Eaton, executive director of the Maine Cancer Society Inc., said yesterday. Crusaders, she said, will be armed with educational cancer information leaflets listing the warning signals of cancer, cruelest of the diseases that plague mankind.

25 years ago, 1982

DOVER-FOXCROFT – A woman whose attempt to sell her 20-room Victorian mansion through an essay contest has drawn national attention and says she has been deluged with inquiries.

“It seems as if everybody wants to come to Maine and own a big, old house,” said Jane Pieriboni, referring to the subject of the essays.

Participants, who are required to pay a $50 entrance fee, must write an essay of 125 words or less on the subject: “Why I want to own a big, old house in Maine.”

If fewer than 1,000 entries are received, Austin says the money will be refunded.