100 years ago, 1910

“I don’t believe the general public realizes what a delicious dish brussel sprouts make,” said a Lewiston grocer yesterday as he was arranging a number of fresh boxes of the green stuff, which had just arrived from Massachusettes. The sprouts are really very small cabbages and are exceedingly tender and sweet. Although they have been on sale in Lewiston for sometime now, the demand for them has not been so very large.

50 years ago, 1960

Arthur Auger of Auburn is officially opening his new Stop ’n Go Car Wash on Center Street today.

The new business is reported as the only real drive-through car washing setup in this section, and the building was designed especially to handle the Cholder “Auto-Magic” carwashing equipment.

While the car is being washed, patrons may wait in a heated waiting room and through a glass wall watch the washing operation. Canteen service also will be available to patrons.

25 years ago, 1985

A Lewiston physician’s book on prehospital emergency care has gone to press for a third time and is now available through a Baltimore publishing house.

The second edition of “Protocols for Prehospital Emergency Medical Care,” co-written by Dr. Jean T. Abbott, an emergency room physician at CMMC, has been published by Williams and Wilkins of Baltimore. The first edition of the book was published in 1980, and a reprint was issued in 1981.