100 years ago, 1912
The wonderful vision of a Lewiston woman, Mrs. F.W. Brooks, of the destruction of the Battleship Maine in Havana Harbor, Feb. 15, 1898, seen and described by her on the evening of Feb. 22, 1898, has received confirmation by the recent raising of the Maine by the United State government. We reprint here a description of the vision as written by her husband and sent to the late Senator Frye and the Lewiston Journal a few days before the war with Spain was declared. The report began, “I seemed to be standing in a strange place, with my father near …”

50 years ago, 1962
With both Lewiston and Auburn municipal governments presently working on budgets for the coming year, the Journal today presents a comparison of figures pertaining to school operation costs in Lewiston and Auburn provided by the Maine Teachers Association. Auburn was, in 1961, paying double Lewiston’s school bill in mills based on state valuation.

25 years ago, 1987
A group that hopes to bring more French-language television to local cable offerings has taken its campaign one step further, warning Adams-Russell Cablevision that it is prepared to strike the company in the pocketbook if necessary. The Franco-American Committee, which has heatedly protested the elimination of one French-language station from the Adams-Russell cable package, has informed the company’s leaders that it intends to purchase blocks of stock in the company if its demands are not met.