100 Years Ago: 1924
John H. Crowley, Jr., and Dr. E. A. Freeman of Lewiston jumped from the former’s Hudson coach they were riding in about three seconds before the Bar Harbor Express struck it at the Maine Central railroad crossing in Monmouth at 8.50 o’clock Tuesday morning.
50 Years Ago: 1974
Two Lewiston men, Raymond Morin of Northeast Banks and Attorney John Beliveau, former mayor of the city, will be assisting the local regional associate of a Corporate and Business Development Appeal inaugurated by the Diocese of Portland.
25 Years Ago: 1999
When Auburn Police Chief Robert T. Tiner Jr. joined the police force back in 1964 there were no fancy portable radios and the Police Department was a dirty and cramped space in the city building. The hardest drug in town was marijuana in those days. A young police officer started his career on a walking beat and he got into his share of scraps downtown. More than 35 years after his career began, the chief is calling it quits. His retirement becomes effective Friday and Tiner is going fishing.
The material used in Looking Back is produced exactly as it originally appeared although misspellings and errors may be corrected.
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