100 years ago, 1914
Items from Business and Professional Director — Woodbine Café, regular dinner, 25 cents, C.H. Goodwin and Son, proprietors, 124 Main Street, Auburn; Chinese and American Restaurant, for ladies and gentlemen, 107 Main Street, Lewiston; Dr. N. Maude Kellet, osteopathic physician, Graduate under Founder of the Science, Class of 1908, 145 Hampshire Street, Auburn.

50 years ago, 1964
While American ski jumper John Balfanz won the special jumping event of the Nordic Ski Tournament at Le Brassus, Switzerland, John Bower of Auburn, Maine, also boosted U.S. Olympic hopes with a surprise ninth place finish in the Nordic combined standings. American skiing teams began to assemble today for final practice sessions before moving on to the Olympic site at Innsbruck, Austria. There will he no further competition until the Olympics get underway Jan. 29.

25 years ago, 1989
A proposal to convert the Old Hurricane Club at 343 Lisbon St. into a soup kitchen won Development Review Committee approval on Thursday. Oasis Encounter Ministries, a non-profit group that formerly operated a soup kitchen for the indigent at 325 Lisbon St., hopes to open the new kitchen by the end of February, according to the group’s president, Brian McLellan.
The kitchen moved to Trinity Episcopal Church after the Lisbon Street kitchen was closed. The group later moved the kitchen to United Calvary Methodist Church and then to a building at the corner of Lisbon and Birch streets that has since been torn down. In the past, the kitchen served hot meals to about 200 people per day.

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