100 years ago, 1912
The work on the Lewiston playgrounds has been going on steadily this summer. It is not generally known that on these playgrounds not only are right rules of playing, and principles of justice and fair play are taught, but also many valuable things which make for better workers, by and by, are shown the children, especially the girls who come there with little sisters and brothers in charge. Mrs. C.H. Weymouth has been devoted in her attendance upon the work. With cloth donated by the Bates Street remnant store manager, she has been able to cut out little aprons, and even dresses for the smallest children, and under her direction the girls have been taught how to sew them. One little girl in particular, who had never held a needle in her hands, if one can imagine such a thing in the case of a girl the oldest of several children, has been so helped and instructed that she is making a frock for her baby sister, and is so proud of her work that she begs to carry it home every now and then to show her mother how she is progressing.

50 years ago, 1962
(PHOTO CAPTION) John Cook, manager of the Benoit Store in Lewiston, is congratulated by Lewiston Chamber of Commerce Executive Vice President William P. Tewhey upon the opening of the new Lady Benoit Store on Lisbon Street today. The new store at the site of the former Cortell Dress Shop is a subsidiary of the A.H. Benoit Co.

25 years ago, 1987
Maine will soon be the third state in the nation to train basic emergency medical technicians in new techniques that reduce the time required to get trauma victims to a hospital emergency room. Tri-County Emergency Services Inc., Central Maine Medical Center and the Maine Committee on Trauma will sponsor a two-day Pre-hospital Trauma Life Support program. A class of 32 basic EMTs will participate in the pilot program which will be offered at Central Maine Vocational Technical Institute Sept. 1 and 2.