100 years ago: 1918

Austria-Hungary is out of the war. Deserted by her last ally, Germany fights alone a battle which means ultimate defeat or abject surrender. After days of pleading, an armistice has been granted Austria-Hungary, whose badly defeated armies in the Italian theatre are staggering homeward under the violence of the blows of the Entente troops.

50 years ago: 1968

Arrangements have been completed with the Museum of Modern Art in New York for an international showing of the Bates College collection of Marsden Hartley drawings from the Treat Gallery. The arrangements for the tour were made by Assistant Professor William J. Mitchell, gallery director. The Hartley drawings will form the core of an exhibition which will travel throughout the United States and Canada for two years beginning in 1969. “The College and Lewiston citizens take special pride in the recognition granted this major artist of international and historical repute. Hartley was openly fond of, Lewiston, his birthplace, its people, the College and the State of Maine,” said Professor Mitchell. “The Art Department at Bates is pleased to have been instrumental in further perpetuating the name and work, of Hartley, by making its significant collection of drawings available for the first time to a vast audience, through collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, one of the foremost museums of the nation.

25 years ago: 1993

A renowned martial arts champion and motivational speaker won nearly a third of the votes in Tuesday’s mayoral race, putting him in contention with the City Council president in a December runoff. John T. Jenkins, 41, who gained national attention as Lewiston’s first black mayoral candidate, received 4,338 of roughly 12,900 votes cast, announced by the City Clerk’s Office Tuesday night. That’s incredible,” Jenkins said with some astonishment when he heard the tallies. “I’m honored that enough people thought me worthy of their respect and their votes. I want to thank the voters wholeheartedly.” A thousand-vote margin made Jenkins the front-runner in an unprecedented seven-way race that saw City Council President Edouard G. Plourde come in second with 3,830 votes.

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