100 years ago, 1911

Although he had nearly completed the deal for land on Russell Street for his cleansing and dyeing establishment yesterday, Joseph LeBlanc of the Lewiston Steam Dye House decided to purchase land on Lafayette Street, just off Skinner Street, for this purpose. The latter location being much better. Mr. LeBlanc decided to try there instead of Russell Street, as he had planned.

50 years ago, 1961

“Your Newspaper —Heritage of Truth, Frontier of Freedom” — This is the theme of National Newspaper Week Oct. 15-21. And in conjunction with the observance, the Lewiston Lodge of Elks is sponsoring a National Newspaper Week essay contest for newspaper boys and girls of the Lewiston Daily Sun and Evening Journal.

Entries must be mailed in no later than Tuesday, Oct. 24, and will be judged by an Elks team.

25 years ago, 1986

Auburn’s city manager is recommending that city councilors authorize him Monday to remove all fire-alarm street boxes because of “their predominant use in setting false alarms and their minimal use in reporting actual emergencies.”

A study of street boxes was conducted in 1981, according to manager Charles A. Morrison, but the council at that time decided to keep them.

At a recent meeting, Morrison was again asked for an updated analysis of the street boxes and he reports that fire calls from boxes account for only 1 percent of the total calls, and that 86 percent of those street box alarms “are acts of Vandalism. The majority of all false alarms come in through street boxes.”