100 Years Ago: 1924

Smuggling booze from Maine into New Brunswick doesn’t seem to be in strict accord with prevailing notions of the rum traffic, but those whose business keeps them in touch with the situation say such is the condition which now exists.

It is also asserted that the volume of alcohol going out of this State into the province exceeds the volume coming in by a large amount.

It is still further said that a large part of the alky seized in the western section of Maine by federal and State officers is not intended for use in Maine, but is designed for New Brunswick points.

50 Years Ago: 1974

The three television networks will a rotate live coverage of the public portions of the House Committee’s Judiciary Impeachment investigation, a CBS spokeswoman said Tuesday.

The spokeswoman, who made public a joint statement by the CBS, NBC and ABC networks, said they will follow the rotation agreement first used last June for live coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings. In that system, the networks take turns providing live TV coverage of each day’s testimony.

25 Years Ago: 1999

People are rallying around Melissa Smith and her daughter, MyKayla, 3, after neither the state nor the town has stepped forward to erect two “Deaf Child” signs near their home on busy Route 156.

Smith said Friday that more than 100 residents have signed a petition requesting the town install the cautionary signs. State agencies have been calling her and are willing to help her, Smith said.

Employees at Boralex Stratton Energy Inc. in Stratton are willing to buy and install the signs using money from their employee fund, an official said.

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