100 years ago, 1911

The new automobile combination truck manufactured for the City of Lewiston by the American LaFrance Fire Engine Company of Elmira, N.Y., was delivered here yesterday, and taken to the Central Fire Station on Ash Street. It is fully up to the expectations of the Fire Commission and the Board of Engineers. It is a handsome piece of apparatus, finished in red. It has been speeded up to 75 miles an hour, fully loaded. It carries 1,000 feet of hose, besides the chemicals, ladders and men.

50 years ago, 1961

The City of Lewiston was on the receiving end of a free tar application to a portion of Lincoln Street last night, when the bottom of a tank truck carrying 3,000 gallons of tar was ruptured and the contents poured onto the street.

Lewiston police identified the driver of the truck as Ira Morrison of New Gloucester. Morrison had just picked up the load of tar at the Lincoln Street plant of the Lewiston Gas Light Co. and was driving from the plant when two pony legs extending from the bottom of the tank hit an obstruction at ground level, and the force ruptured the bottom of the tank.

25 years ago, 1986

Julie Garvey of Lewiston was honored for being one of the top saleswomen in the more than 100,000-member Mary Kay Cosmetics sales organization.

Company founder and chairman of the board Mary Kay Ash named Ms. Garvey to the Directors’ Court of Personal Sales, placing her among the top 1 percent in Mary Kay nationwide.

Ms. Garvey joined Mary Kay Cosmetics in December 1979.