100 Years Ago: 1924

Mrs. Frank Pelletier of Canal Street, Lewiston asks $5,000 damages of Dupont’s bakery,  Auburn. She swallowed a pin that lodged in her throat, while eating bread alleged to be made at that bakery.

In the writ she alleges that she purchased a loaf of Dupont’s bread at a local grocery last February; and that she had to spend two weeks in the hospital after the pin stuck in her throat, and is still suffering from the effects. The pin, she says, left her neck and is somewhere in her body, although  physicians have not been able to locate it.

50 Years Ago: 1974

Elliott Lee Hurwitz, grandson of Lewiston residents, received his degree in medicine at Commencement exercises at Boston University School of Medicine recently. The young doctor is to intern at the Hospital of St. Raphael at New Haven, Conn.

Joining his parents, Beverly and Paul Hurwitz of Wyncote, Pa., at the Commencement exercises were his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Supovitz of 36 Bradley Street, Lewiston.

25 Years Ago: 1999

L.L. Bean announced Friday it’s going to the mall, the first step toward expanding its domestic retail presence beyond the 24-hour store that Leon Leonwood Bean himself opened 87 years ago.

The outdoors outfitter said its first major U.S. store outside Maine will be built at Tysons Corner Center in McLean, Va. It’s part of the company’s strategy for boosting profits in an era of ever-increasing competition in its core mail-order business. The company also launched a new, trendy line of women’s clothing in January.

Leon Gorman, president and grandson of L.L. Bean, said the company is up to the challenge of the suburban shopping mall.

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