100 Years Ago: 1925

B. H. Dingley of Auburn, formerly advertising manager of the Lewiston Journal, has recently entered into co-partnership with C. H. Tobey, formerly publisher of the Boston American, and they have organized a new corporation to be known as the Consolidated Newspaper of New England, controlling nine newspapers in Massachusetts, four dailies and five weeklies.

50 Years Ago: 1975

A young man found sitting on a snowbank, ill, was taken to a Lewiston hospital by the Androscoggin Sheriff’s Department early last evening.

The Sheriff’s Department received word from St. Mary’s General Hospital that it had been contacted by a young man who said he was very ill, was calling from a phone booth in Turner, but didn’t have transportation to the hospital.

Town Deputy Williams Hobbs was dispatched and found the phone booth empty. However, he checked around and found the young man sitting on a snowbank beside the road, complaining of chest pains.

He was taken to St. Mary’s where he was treated. Apparently having no place to go he was given lodging overnight by Rap Place in Lewiston, according to the investigation report.
There were no details relative to what his condition was or the nature of the illness.

25 Years Ago: 2000

A trio of cross-country skiers on a winter camping trip avoided serious injury after becoming lost Tuesday at Umbagog Lake. Howard Cohen, 41, of Bennington Vt., Danielle Weis, 20, of Brookline, Mass., and Davida Kutscher, 18, of Woodbury, N.Y., were found cold but in good condition at a makeshift shelter with a fire going about 2 a.m.

They followed good backcountry protocol, Game Warden Norman Lewis said Wednesday.

“They had done the right thing,” Lewis said. “They had gotten to shore, found some shelter and made themselves as comfortable as they could. They had some pretty cold fingers and pretty cold feet, but were otherwise unhurt.”

The group, part of a commercially guided trip with the Newry-based Mahoosuc Guide Service, was traveling across the lake from a base camp that had been established on the New Hampshire side of the massive lake that is the headwaters for the Androscoggin River.

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