100 years ago, 1913
There has been another daring break in the F. E. McLeary garage on Church street, Farmington. A window was forced open on the north side and entrance was made there. A seven-passenger Hupmobile, owned by Mr. McLeary, was stolen together with five or six robes and a fine coon-skin coat and good driving gloves. The Hupmobile was the car he used a great deal in his livery work and it was a little loose in the steering gear, which would cause it to swerve. Thus it was easy to trace it in the light snow falling during the night. Mr. Small and Mr. Keith, two chauffeurs employed in the garage, found the Hupmobile on the Bean’s Corner road in the ditch near the Hamlin farm. The fugitives had skipped. The robes wore found in the car, but the coon-skin coat and the gloves are missing.

50 years ago, 1963
Auburn firemen spent some time yesterday afternoon, clearing water from four floors of the quarters formerly occupied by the Panther Moccasin Mfg. Co., Inc. on Railroad Street. Water from a broken pipe on the top floor of the building flowed down through the structure all the way to the cellar, but firemen reported the lack of equipment in the building, kept the damage down. Firemen were called at 1:36 p.m. when water was seen flowing down the outside of the structure. Four pieces of fire equipment responded to the call and firemen were kept busy mopping up the water. A pipe apparently froze and then ruptured as temperatures rose during mid-day.

25 years ago, 1988
The Lewiston-Auburn area continued its economic surge during October as it registered the lowest October unemployment rate on record. The area’s 3.1 percent jobless rate was well below the corresponding national rate of 5 percent, said Gerard Dennison, who works at the Lewiston office of the Maine Department of Labor. The October rate was slightly higher than the September figure of 2.7 percent, which was the lowest monthly rate ever recorded in the Lewiston-Auburn area. Also during October, Dennison said, resident employment in the Lewiston-Auburn area climbed to an all-time high of 40,900.

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