100 years ago, 1918
Lewiston and Auburn slept a little later than usual on Friday morning, took off the outside windows, put on our rubber boots and started off with fishing tackle, went to the Bates-Bowdoin baseball game, took in the movies, bowled a few strings, enlisted in the third Maine, won the war, smoked cigars, took out the ashes, washed windows, went to church now and then, and did all the things to get more tired for Saturday. 
 
50 years ago, 1968
Groundbreaking ceremonies to mark the start of construction of Auburn’s housing for the elderly project will be held Monday morning. Harry W. Woodard, Jr., executive director of the Auburn Housing Authority, said members of the AHA will on hand for the occasion. Woodard said dismantling of the old corn factory which, for years, has occupied the site of the new construction, is well underway, and the new construction will start as soon as possible. The project involves a six-story building with 100 housing units. Construction is expected to take about a year 
 
25 years ago, 1993
Former Democratic presidential candidate Jerry Brown will be at Lost Valley Ski Lodge Monday evening to give a Patriots Day address. This will be Brown’s first visit to Maine since his victory last year in the state’s Democratic presidential caucuses. The evening is co-sponsored by We the People Maine, the Coalition for Political Reform, and Androscoggin County Consensual Government.
 
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