100 years ago,1911

NORTH GREENE — Mrs. Marcia Rose has a flock of hens that she feels quite proud of. Some weeks she has sold $10 worth of eggs. Mrs. Rose recently got two eggs that weighed eight ounces, and during the winter she has got about 20 eggs of which the largest one measured 8 1/4 inches one way and 6 5/8 the other, and the smallest one measured 7 1/2 inches by 5 3/4 inches.

50 years ago, 1961

Auburn’s Fire Chief J. Coleman Miller has issued a warning to area residents that representatives of a national concern, reportedly operating a furnace repair racket, may be working in this area.

He said the men enter homes under the pretext of being inspectors representing government agencies or utility companies and pose as heating engineers. Once in the home they have falsified the condition of the heating units in an effort to sell their company’s product.

25 years ago, 1986

Supermarket and pharmacy owners in the Lewiston-Auburn area were divided Tuesday on whether to remove Extra-Strength Tylenol from their shelves after the death Saturday of a New York woman who took two cyanide-poisoned capsules.

Officials at three supermarket chains voluntarily ordered their Maine stores Tuesday to remove the capsules from the shelves. The pain-relief pills were withdrawn from displays at stores owned by Shaw’s Supermarkets Inc., Hannaford Bros. Inc. and A&P. None of the chains, nor any of the stores contacted in Lewiston-Auburn, reported finding capsules from the suspect lot.