100 years ago,1911

The greatest novelty presented in the motion picture line, since the actual advent of motion pictures as a form of entertainment, will be seen at the Empire Theatre, Lewiston, tonight for the first time in Maine. This is the “Herbst Full-Light” pictures, a marvelous scientific invention which completely upsets the established theories and laws of optical projection, and light transmission, and accomplishes that which has been asserted by eminent scientists as impossible.

50 years ago, 1961

A Lewiston man took his driving test yesterday afternoon, not a particularly newsworthy item.

But Auburn police reported that in the process the prospective licensee hit a parking meter on Turner Street and broke it.

The police report on the incident added, perhaps needlessly, that the driver didn’t pass the driving examination.

25 years ago, 1986

Auburn’s School Committee will discuss funding for fighting the department’s high student dropout rate during a budget work session Wednesday.

Superintendent Roy D. Loux’s $13.3 million proposed budget includes $39,000 to hire a teacher and three assistants in an effort to attack the dropout problem. Nearly 25 percent of Auburn’s ninth-graders don’t finish high school.