• The big lakes are full to the brim and running over, and still it rains! Not in years have conditions been so promising for steady work in the mills, as this year. W. H. Sawyer of Lewiston, agent of the Union Water Power Co., has just returned from a visit to the lakes and reports that they are full to the brim, and that if there is any trouble during the winter, it will be due to local conditions.

• WASHINGTON – Today President Roosevelt indicated to members of the committee on paper of the American Newspaper Publisher’s Association that he will recommend to Congress the abolition of the tariff on press paper, wood pulp and the wood that goes into the manufacture of paper.

50 years ago, 1957

Men who give stockings to all the girls on their Christmas list have been comparatively safe up to now. They know that no woman alive ever had too many of those feminine essentials. And they know it’s usually safe to pick a nice, medium sun-tan shade. With the advent of the new stretch stocking they haven’t even had to bother about the size.

But this year things are different, a stocking is no longer just a stocking. The all-one-color look has swept the high-fashion world.

There is a full range of fur tones in the new stockings, ranging from black mink to golden sable, with other tones such as red fox, nutria and an iridescent leopard (not spotted, thank goodness).

25 years ago, 1982

• AUGUSTA – More Maine households will be spared from winter power shutoffs for falling behind in their electric bills under a new rule approved by the Public Utilities Commission. As of Dec. 1, all customers can go into debt up to $50 for as long as three months during the winter season – Dec. 1 through April 15 – before utilities send notices that power is to be cut off.

• Monopoly’s popularity once assured it a spot on the Boardwalks and Park Places of the game industry. But slipping sales and competition from video games have forced its maker to try new ways of selling the game that celebrates American capitalism.