100 Years Ago: 1924

A bright little blue-eyed girl of six is looking for a home, according to information given out by the Lewiston police department. Authorities fear that the environment in which she is living is not proper. The police are anxious to hear from some family willing to adopt a child.

50 Years Ago: 1974

What’s it like to chat with the President of the United States over a bowl of clam chowder?

Auburn Mayor John R. Linnell, in his capacity as chairman of the state’s Republican Party, had a chance to find out last Saturday, seated for an hour at President Gerald Ford’s right hand on the upper level of a two-stage dais overlooking the GOP’s fundraising luncheon in Portland.

First of all, the President liked the food — a traditional Maine feast of steaming clam chowder, lobster Newburg and rich dessert cake — all a far cry from the Chief Executive’s usual lunch of cottage cheese doused in A-1 Sauce.

25 Years Ago: 1999

A shoe store in Lewiston that is one of the oldest businesses left in the downtown is preparing to yield to the wheel.

It was a good run for Maynard’s Shoes, more than 70 years, starting in a time when 14 shoe stores competed on Lisbon Street. But now the city wants to tear down the building at 68 Lisbon St. and build a two-story parking garage.

It has bought the property from Richard and Noelle Rocheleau, who’ve carried on the Maynard’s tradition for nearly three decades.

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