100 years ago, 1916
The call of the calliope will soon be heard in Lewiston, for the Barnum and Bailey Circus is trekking this way and will spread its acres of canvas here, Monday, July 3rd., giving two performances and a street parade upon that day. The greatest show on earth has undergone a great many changes since the days of compelling alliteration on posters and death-defying, dare-devil doings inside the big tent. No longer does a beauty stick her head in the month of a roaring beast. The whole show has been softened and sweetened. The appeal of beauty and skill has taken the place of the lure of sensation so that now the circus is a happier circus for everybody.

50 years ago, 1966
The Lewiston Police Department will give out Courtesy Parking Tickets to out-of-state parking violators again this summer, it was decided Tuesday night at a meeting of the Police Commission. Police Chief Joseph H. Farrand told the commission that he had received a verbal request from William P. Tewhey, executive vice president of the Lewiston-Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce, that the policy be put into effect for the months of July and August. In past years, the patrolmen have been using the courtesy tickets for out-of-state violators instead of the regular parking tickets which require a fine be paid.

25 years ago, 1991
A dozen Soviet teenagers, the vanguard of almost 200 foreign campers, arrived Thursday at the Samantha Smith Worldpeace Camp. They included a quartet of singers and their director from Tiflis, Georgia, U.S.S R.; four youths from the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, in outer Siberia; three from Pskov, in the Leningrad region; and one from Moscow. The 12 youths, 10 girls and two boys, ranged in age from 13 to 17. The group flew the Atlantic via the Soviet airline, Aeroflot, arriving in New York Wednesday, then were driven by van to Maine, with an overnight stop in Hartford, Conn.

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