100 years ago, 1912
The Lewiston Journal intends to give Lewiston and Auburn baseball fans a complete bulletin service for the world’s series. A large platform will be raised on Journal block from which bulletins of every play just as it happens will be given following actual play and in every detail. The scoreboard by innings will be displayed. Baseball lovers can follow every movement of the game. This service is for the public and will be as complete as we can possibly make it. We have direct wire from the ball grounds. Each play is received within thirty seconds after it happens.

50 years ago, 1962
Quick thinking on the part of a Lewiston police officer this morning averted what might easily have been a bad fire at the Lewiston City Hall. Officer Gerard O. “Rocky” Laroche was in the LPD’s Traffic Bureau when he was called into the hallway by Laurette Boucher, another Bureau employee who had opened a door and discovered the fire. Officer Laroche grabbed a fire extinguisher and ran back to the fire scene, but heat and smoke prevented him from getting at the source of the trouble, which was burning trash. He ran outside and into the alley behind the building. He found that the extinguisher was empty, so he turned the tank around and, extending the handle to its fullest length, used it as a hook to drag the burning trash containers out into the alley.

25 years ago, 1987
Government surplus food will be distributed at five sites in Androscoggin County in early October, according to an announcement by Community Concepts Inc., the local service organization directing the program. Over 300 volunteers are expected to participate in the distribution. In 1986, several thousand hours of donated volunteer time helped to hold distribution costs down in the face of government cutbacks so that handicapped individuals, the elderly and low-income families could receive such basic commodities as powdered milk, cornmeal, cheese, rice and flour.