100 years ago, 1914
Emile Leclair, 26 years, held to a steam pipe in the ceiling of the weave room at the Continental mill, Lewiston, Tuesday afternoon, while his clothes were stripped from his body by the shafting that caught his overall. Leclair was bruised and racked by the strain but treatment by the doctor revealed no serious injury and Wednesday morning he reported for work. Leclair was cleaning oil from a machine on the top of which he was standing and went too near the shafting He made a mighty grab for the steam pipe overhead and this undoubtedly saved his life for he would have been carried around and slat to death. The machinery was stopped and he was cut down.
50 years ago, 1964
Two Lewiston police officers and the two men who notified authorities when they noticed the plight of two Auburn youngsters stranded on rocks in the Androscoggin River a week ago have been commended by the grandparents of one of the boys. The letter from Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. Stevens, Auburn, came before the Lewiston Police Commission. They are the grandparents of Michael Soucy, who was stranded on a rock with Philip Larlee when the water in the river rose last Aug. 24. Commended for their efforts in rescuing the boys were Patrolman Normand Poulin and Robert Gladu, and for spotting the boys and calling police were Walter Carvilee and Bert Bourque.
25 years ago, 1989
The Lewiston City Council wants to hear what the people have to say about a proposal to build a hotel and convention center at the W.S. Libbey Mill. It will hold a public hearing on the $1.8 million project, which a private developer plans to undertake, at its meeting Tuesday. The council in July authorized Development Director Robert J. Thompson to seek a $1.25 million federal grant to pay for a parking garage for the mill project. The city would lend the grant money to the project developer, Pride Associates of Auburn, under a favorable repayment and interest rate plan. The proposed hotel, which would be built in the mill building, would include 90 hotel rooms, retail space and a restaurant and lounge.
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