100 years ago, 1912
Headed by a band, a large number of the employees of the cutting room of the Cushman & Hollis shoe factory marched to the home of Eugene E. Packard on Cliff Street, Auburn, and presented him with a beautiful leather upholstered chair. Mr. Packard has been an employee at the factory for 27 years, ten of which he served as foreman of the cutting room. Eugene Gore made the presentation speech and Mr. Packard, although very much overcome, responded as best he could.

50 years ago, 1962
The peak of the Christmas mail rush is expected to be reached today or tomorrow in the Twin Cities. Arthur Mason, mail room foreman at the Lewiston Post Office, said he anticipates the figure will go to 125,000 cancellations on the big day of the season. Cancellations in Lewiston yesterday boosted the month’s total at the downtown main post office to 456,700.  Auburn cancellations yesterday totaled 24,473 and there were 45,431 Saturday to bring the Auburn total for the month to 384,090.
 
25 years ago, 1987
There are plenty of silver bells ringing in the Twin Cities this holiday season: They’re cash register bells. Local merchants say October’s stock market crash hasn’t hurt Christmas and Hanukkah sales in the slightest. Some say they’re looking forward to the last few days before Christmas, when last-minute shoppers, mostly men, take to the stores. Tiffany Jones, general manager of the Auburn Mall, said, “We’re looking at a real decent Christmas. There were concerns. You just never know how the public is going to react to things like the frightening thing with the stock marker. There was also concern about the strike at International Paper, which is right in our backyard.”