100 years ago: 1918
The preliminary conversations which lately have occupied the allied representatives in Paris have been concluded and more important discussions now are beginning, according to reports reaching official quarters here. To take part in the discussions, Andrew Honar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, went to France yesterday, crossing the channel in an airplane, as he had done on a previous occasion. The scope of the deliberations of the allied representatives has not been announced. Although it is stated from a reliable source some official declaration of armistice terms may be made before the end of the present week, nothing definite is known about them.
50 years ago: 1968
Some 531 loads of trash were taken to municipal dumps in the Twin Cities during the annual Lewiston-Auburn autumn clean-up program held the past two weeks. The Lewiston Public Works Department had a truck on the road Tuesday looking for leftovers and found enough to make two trips to the dump. “It really ended yesterday but that’s the end of it right there,” said Lucien Couture, assistant director of the PWD. The PWD counted 335 loads, about the same as a year ago, during the cleanup program which spanned a period of seven working days. George McKay of the Auburn Highway Department reported that eight truckloads of trash were taken away from curbside Tuesday to wind up the program in that city. “It’s about the same number of loads as last year.”
25 years ago: 1993
Auburn’s winter parking bans will soon be in effect and Auburn police are taking applications for the 10 parking areas designated as winter relief parking. There is no cost, but space is limited. Applications are taken on a first-come basis, Lt. Richard Keene said. The lots are located on Hampshire, Court, Pine, High and Miller streets and at the Great Falls Plaza. Winter relief parking is in effect from Nov. 15 to April 15, and forbids parking on any of the public streets and ways of the city for more than one hour each day from 12:01 a.m. to 7 a.m., according to the parking ban which has gone unchanged on city books for the past 40 years.
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