100 years ago, 1912
 Saturday was the banner day with the Lewiston and Auburn Automobile Show. All day long crowds of buyers and those interested in Automobiles thronged the Maine Supply Company’s Lisbon Street garage. In prices the cars varied from the four cylinder 22 ½ horsepower Metz at $495 to the 80 horse power Knox, with models for $750 up to $4,000. There were roadsters, runabouts, messengers and four and seven passenger cars. It is a great disappointment to motor car people that there is to be no exhibit of the Haynes automobiles and the white truck. The bad condition of the roads made it an impossibility to get them here from Portland.

50 years ago, 1962
The Bates Mfg. Co. for the past six months has been buying John B. Stetson Hat Co. stock and now holds 31,150 chares, according to Bates President A. Philip Goldsmith. Yesterday the hat company stock was listed on the American Exchange at $31.50 a share. At this figure the present bates holdings in the famed hat company are valued at nearly $1 million.

25 years ago, 1987
Lewiston city councilors rejected plans Tuesday for $60,000 in improvements to two controversial pump stations one resident said “look like a combination filling station and cheap pizza parlor.” Despite repeated criticism of plans for the stations, one under construction at the foot of the James B. Longley Memorial Bridge and the other at 20 Central Ave., as well as charges that city official failed to seek public opinion on them, only four citizens attended the hearing to support the improvements.