100 years ago: 1918

John Fitzgerald, former mayor of Boston and Congressman, addressed an open-air Democratic rally at the Lewiston city park Wednesday evening. The event, which was preceded by a parade by the Dominican Band, was well-attended. Judge Brann presided and others seated in the stand were Mayor Lemaire, Frank A. Morey, J. Arthur Stacey, John M. Googin, T. J. Robinson, Dr. H. S. Sleeper, C. J. Russell and John D. Clifford Jr.

50 years ago: 1968

Fifty-five graduates of the Poland Spring Job Corps Center for Women were told at graduation exercises Tuesday night “that these were their years and that they should put their best efforts into them.” Miss Lottie Thompson of the business and clerical colony was the valedictorian of the class and won a four-year scholarship to Tillotson College at Austin, Texas.

25 years ago: 1993

State Labor Commissioner Charles Morrison reminds employers that effective Sept. 1, the student sub-minimum wage will no longer be in effect. The Maine law currently allows a business to automatically pay a student who is under the age of 19 a rate as low as 85 percent of the regular minimum wage. The Maine Legislature recently passed an amendment to abolish the student rate. Employers will be required to pay the regular minimum wage rate of $4.25 an hour to students for all work performed on or after Sept. 1. In addition, effective Oct. 13, service employees who customarily receive tips as part of their wages will have their cash wage increased from $2.01 an hour to $2.13 an hour. The total tips received each week must bring the employee’s average hourly rate up to the minimum rate of $4.25 an hour. This change primarily affects waiters and waitresses.

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