100 years ago, 1915
A. Marsden of Auburn, who has engaged as chauffeur for Miss Delia Tebbetts of Auburn is going up to Boston next week to see the new Stanley steamer with the condenser. It is the plan of Miss Tebbetts to make up a party of four or five to drive across country from Auburn to the San Francisco exposition this summer.

50 years ago, 1965
The Bates Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, with plants in Lewiston and Augusta. “is taking a bold step forward,” H. L. Gosselin, assistant to the president of the company, said today. Involved is what Gosselin called “a new and different approach to the problems of employee-management communications in the textile industry. . .” Gosselin told the Journal the company is organizing “a committee made up of both labor and management which will provide a two-way communications link between the two groups.”

25 years ago, 1990
The Auburn Housing Authority Wednesday morning voted to uphold a 20-year-old no-pets policy. Earlier this month, 41 residents of the Family Development, a subsidized housing project administered by the AHA, signed and submitted a petition requesting they be allowed to keep cats and small dogs as pets. The petition was later informally amended to pertain mainly to cats, and several residents attended the monthly board meeting to present their case for allowing cats. The current policy states that birds, small caged animals and fish are allowed. Although residents said they were willing to put down security deposits and have their pets spayed or neutered and de-clawed, the board remained unmoved and on a motion by Arthur Wing, who stated he felt it would be unfair to the animals, unanimously approved keeping the policy.

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