100 years ago, 1912
Two thousand people packed Lewiston City Hall last night to hear Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Party presidential candidate, and there was applause, repeated and insistent. Three clergymen on the platform; every church in the two cities represented in the audience; and all classes of citizens there, from old-party politicians who quaked in their shoes at the demonstration and eyed aghast the turnout for Debs in comparison with the thinly-attended rallies of their own primary candidates, to the laboring man in the mills and factories. 

50 years ago, 1962
The first “street dance” of Lewiston’s summer recreation program will take place tonight at the Lewiston City Park from 7 to 9 o’clock. Lewiston Recreation Director John Aliberti said today that the newest hit tunes will be played at the dance. The affair was arranged by Mary Topping and Carol Conley.

25 years ago, 1987
Old friendships and old memories were renewed to the sounds of the 1960s Friday night as the United Way’s “PAL Hop Rocks Again” came to the Central Maine Youth Center, delighting young and old. More than 4,000 people, many of whom had been regulars at the original PAL hops, gathered to listen and dance to four local bands from the early Sixties who played regularly in Lewiston’s City Building. PAL hops, held every Friday from 1962 to 1966 in the City Building, were fundraisers for the Police Athletic League. Five to seven bands played each night to a crowd of the first 1,200 people who made it through the door.