100 years ago, 1916
At the meeting of the Lewiston Chamber of Commerce, T. F. Callahan aroused the interest of all those present by suggesting wind-shelters to be erected on the North bridge and Broad street bridge. His plan as he outlined it was to have a fence or shelter built on the north side of each sidewalk on the bridges, some seven or eight feet tall. These, he said could be made of rather light lumber and at a nominal cost. Those shelters, if one follows Mr. Callahan’s plan, are to be taken down and repaired in the summer time and put back in the fall

50 years ago, 1966
(Photo Caption) Toothpicks and glue plus the talent, imagination and patience of a 14-year-old is the formula for this delightful western town. Norman Houle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bertrand J. Houle of 11 Orange St., Lewiston, is the designer of this clever piece of work. The animals, trees and shrubbery were cut out by him from cardboard. The buildings and remaining construction of the village was all done with ordinary toothpicks. The scale model train track around the town adds a finishing touch. Norman is a student in the eighth grade at Jordan Junior High School, Lewiston.

25 years ago, 1991
Speaking minutes after the outbreak of war Wednesday, political activist Angela Davis called on Bates College students to join in an effort to “shut this country down. We need campus strikes, we need workers’ strikes, we need a general strike,” she told an applauding crowd that overflowed the Bates chapel. “We must do everything we can to stop this irrational, belligerent behavior — this racist war.” Groups of students, who continued pouring into the chapel during the course of Davis’ speech, began meeting immediately at its conclusion to discuss possible anti-war demonstrations. “I feel I should be on the streets instead of speaking here in the Bates Chapel,” Davis said. Davis, who twice ran for vice-president on the Communist Party ticket, had been scheduled to speak Wednesday on “Gender, Class and Race” as part of the Bates women’s study program.

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