100 years ago: 1918

The Annual Meeting of the Androscoggin Anti-Tuberculosis annual association will be held on Monday, January 6, 1919, at three o’clock p.m. for the following reasons: 1. To hear and set upon the records and reports of the officers and committee. 2. To elect officers. 3. To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting.

50 years ago: 1968

Opened Friday at the building office of Lewiston Controller Laurier E. Roy were bids submitted by several firms on an electric typewriter for the school administrative office. Carl I. Cutler and Berry’s Distributors submitted identical bids, $315 on Royal Typewriters. Berry’s entered an alternative bid of $345. Other firms entering bids include Olivetti-Underwood, Underwood, $315; Higgins Office Products, Remington, $335; IBM, $401; and an alternate bid of $450.

25 years ago: 1993

Groups of smokers huddled outside various Twin Cities businesses may become a common sight starting Saturday, when a state ban on smoking in most public places goes into effect. Though owners of many local establishments have eliminated smoking already, the state mandate will douse most remaining public smoking areas. “I really believe that 95 percent or more of Maine smokers will want to be respectful and concerned about the exposure of others to smoking,” said Lani Graham, M.D., director of the state Bureau of Health. The main issue is that secondhand smoke has been classified as a Class A carcinogen by the EPA and been linked to lung cancer in nonsmokers.

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