• The making of porcelain inlays, or fillings as they are more commonly known, is a comparatively recent invention of the dentist, but it is rapidly becoming the most popular filling for teeth that there is, especially among those who appreciate the best in the dentist’s line.

• “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players.” The quotation from “As You Like It” headed the program for yesterday in the Lewiston Reading Circle Club Calendars, as this program dealt with stage matters.

• Sleep is the best and cheapest medicine, and it is within the reach of everybody. We require as much sleep as we can procure. One of the prime causes of ill-health among men and women who have to work with their brains is neglect of sleep.

50 years ago, 1957

DECATUR, ALASKA – Four youths fired a 3-foot rocket “out of sight” into the sky today, estimating it traveled 4,800 feet above the ground.

The amateur rocketeers used their own launching ramp and a fuel formula which they developed in three previous unsuccessful firing attempts.

The 8-pound rocket was fueled with a mixture of potassium perchlorate, carbon, sugar and sulphur.

The youths are Bobby Clemons, 18; Mike Clemons, 17, a first cousin; Allen Johns, 19; and Roy Mitchell, 20.

They said they had fired three smaller rockets previously. One blew up and the other two burned.

25 years ago, 1982

Workers belonging to five of eight unions in the midst of labor negotiations with the city of Lewiston will be working without a contract as of Friday when their contracts expire and no new agreements have been made. According to City Administrative Assistant Michael Wing, no agreement has been reached between the city and negotiators representing more than 300 city workers, including firefighters, police patrolmen and supervisors, school food-service workers and general government employees.