100 Years Ago: 1923

Babies born in Androscoggin county in the year 1923 will start life with a bank account at the Peoples Savings Bank, Lisbon street, Lewiston. Directors of the bank voted at the weekly meeting, it was announced Wednesday, to open an account in the name of each new baby with $1. The only qualification is that the  original dollar given by the bank can not be withdrawn for 10 years.

50 Years Ago: 1973

Forty-two young people from all over the world, currently in the Twin Cities under American Field Service sponsorship, will be entertained and will be entertaining at a get-together tonight at the Central Maine Vocational Training Center. Many of the visitors will perform dances and songs from their native lands following the serving of a potluck supper at 6:30.

25 Years Ago: 1998

President Clinton declared six Maine counties federal disaster areas Thursday, freeing up money to help them recover from last month’s severe storms. The counties approved are Androscoggin, Franklin, Kennebec, Oxford, Somerset and York. The response came less than a day after Gov. Angus King requested federal aid for those counties, plus Cumberland County, which was not included in the White House announcement. However, the White House said damage surveys are continuing in other areas, and additional counties and assistance may be added after the assessments are completed. “This is not the final word,” said Doug Dunbar, a spokesman for U.S. Rep. John Baldacci, D-Maine. King also on June 25 asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to declare 11 of Maine’s 16 counties agricultural disaster areas. “The State of Maine remains in recovery from Ice Storm ’98,” King wrote in his latest letter to Clinton and Jeffrey Bean, regional director for the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Boston.

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