100 Years Ago: 1924

Women are fast coming to the front in the art of poultry breeding. Miss Mary A. Wingate of Hallowell has made the same success with ducks that Mrs. Florence Guptel of Topsham has with turkeys. Both have a love of nature and a natural aptitude for raising poultry. Miss Wingate is not only skillful in raising ducks, but is equally successful with the Rhode Island Reds in the line of hens. It is with her a natural love, and without that love she could never have accomplished such wants.

50 Years Ago: 1974

Shipbuilding was halted at Bath Iron Works today, as union production workers set up picket lines in their effort for higher wages.

Local 6 of the International Union of Marine and Shipyard Workers of America, AFL-CIO, voted Sunday to strike the yard at midnight.

Raymond Cloutier, local president, said union demands would bring BIW pay scales in line with those paid at union shipyards around the country. The union represents about 2,300 workers, including maintenance workers and janitors as well as all those involved with the physical construction of ships at the yard, one of Maine’s largest private employers.

Engineers, draftsmen and other workers covered by separate contracts make up the remainder of BIW’s work force of 3,500.

25 Years Ago: 1999

Dedicated to bringing children from distant corners of the world together on a philosophy that even if their parents don’t get along the children will, Omni Camp in Poland has operated for 10 years without a single violent incident.

Formerly the Samantha Smith Peace Camp and the World Peace Camp, Omni Camp opened in 1989 bringing  American and Russian children together.

It was founded following the visit to the then Soviet Union by Samantha Smith, a child from Manchester, who wrote a letter to a Soviet leader. She gained worldwide attention as an unofficial ambassador of peace.

Smith died in a plane crash in Auburn a few years later.

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