100 years ago, 1914
Mr. “Bull” Montana, globe trotter and philosopher, sauntered into the Lewiston Journal office in tow of Gus Legendre Friday afternoon. He is a dark, pleasant spoken young Prussian and has wrestled in forty of the United States, to say nothing of matches abroad, China, Prussia and points west. It was suggested that Kilonis, who is to be his opponent at City Hall Friday night, is a tough specimen with a pretty good knowledge of the game. “That suits me fine,” said Bull. “I like to meet good men. You can’t learn anything from a poor workman so I like to meet the top-notchers.”

50 years ago, 1964
The Pepperell Mfg. Co., with two Maine plants (Lewiston and Biddeford) and others in the south, expects an increase in volume of sheet and blanket sales, during the present fiscal year, with total sales by June 30, 1964, the end of the present fiscal year, “a few percentage points ahead” of the last year. Treasurer and Controller Douglas H. Sears said today in Boston that sales of Lady Pepperell blankets and sheets thus far this fiscal year are “on the order of ten per cent” above that of a year ago. Sears noted, “We have been working six days and sometimes seven days a week at our plants to fill the demand for sheeting.”

25 years ago, 1989
A state commission’s rejection Monday of Central Maine Power Co.’s Hydro-Quebec purchase plan means the company’s plans to run a new high-voltage transmission line through Lewiston “are canceled for the foreseeable future,” said Frank Chiaravalloti, CMP director of public communications. He said the company had not seen details of the Public Utilities Commission decision and declined to say whether the Hydro-Quebec project was dead. However, he said CMP has no plans to appeal the decision or ask for reconsideration. CMP had proposed running a 345-kilovolt transmission 10.7 miles through Lewiston. The line, which was part of the proposed 134-mile Hydro-Quebec power line, would have run from Quebec to Pownal.