100 years ago, 1913
Mr. Cloutier, proprietor of Cloutier’s Market, 261 Lisbon Street, Lewiston, returned from the Boston Markets, Saturday, with the best selection of Thanksgiving supplies that could be found. These good things were all picked out by Mr. Cloutier personally and are now in his store. The line includes Vermont and New York turkeys, geese, ducks, rabbits, guinea hens. The turkeys cannot be beaten. They are every one freshly killed, and as handsome birds as you ever saw. Boston celery, lettuce, cukes, oyster plant, parsley, Brussels sprouts, ripe tomatoes, mushrooms, chicory, red cabbage, bell peppers, grapes, radishes, mint and watercress, summer savory, leek, egg plant greens, endives, cauliflower, pulled figs, and a fine lot of native chicken and pork. Cloutier’s Musket has always furnished its customers the best. This year will be no exception. If possible, the quality will be a little ahead of any previous year.
50 years ago, 1963
(Page One Headline – Extra Edition – Lewiston Evening Journal) PRESIDENT KENNEDY SLAIN BY ASSASSIN IN DALLAS – President John F. Kennedy, thirty-sixth president of the United States, was shot to death today by a hidden assassin armed with a high-powered rifle. Kennedy, 46, lived about an hour after a sniper cut him down as his limousine left downtown Dallas. Automatically, the mantle of the presidency fell to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, a native Texan who had been riding two cars behind the chief executive.
25 years ago, 1988
(Feature story about Kennedy visit to Lewiston in 1960) Twenty-eight years ago on a bone-chilling November night, the young presidential candidate John F. Kennedy, three hours late and exhausted from hundreds of miles of campaigning, climbed the bandstand at the then-called Lewiston City Park and addressed a frenzied crowd of admirers. “I think anybody who heard him speak was touched,” said Mae Parker, a party worker and retired shoe-shop laborer who was there that night. “He had a way of making you believe everything he said.” It is 25 years ago today that Kennedy was slain in Dallas.
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