100 years ago, 1913
George W. Horne, music supervisor of the Lewiston schools, probably has the finest vegetable and flower garden in these cities. It covers nearly or quite one acre and contains every vegetable grown on a Maine farm. Even tobacco may be seen here and in splendid condition and growth. The section devoted to gladiolas is a splendid sight. Willard A. Noyes of Auburn is in company with him in raising these flowers and certainly they have scored a great success. At the present time they have fifteen thousand of these magnificent flowers in full bloom and scores of people are going there to see them. The garden is just in the rear of Nichols street.

50 years ago, 1963
A Hudson Bus Co. driver is said to be in “fairly good” condition last night at St. Mary’s General Hospital where he was taken by ambulance after his bus was involved in an accident with a car and then crashed into a house at Fern and Granite streets. The porch section of house, which took the brunt of the blow from the bus, was moved off its foundation. The front wheel of the bus was up on concrete steps and a walk leading to the porch.

25 years ago, 1988
If the brush pile at Emerson’s landfill in Durham hasn’t been burned by Wednesday at the latest, the town will take “emergency measures” and have the Fire Department burn it. The pile must be burned before a needed new trench can be dug. Several times during the last two months the brush pile has accumulated to unacceptable proportions, mostly because of the hot dry conditions making it too hazardous to burn the brush.

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