It is hinted in a gentle way that a war is soon to be declared on slot-machines in these cities. While the practice will neither affirm or deny the report, The Sun has it on very good authority that something is likely to “drop” on the Lewiston slot-machines before many weeks.

Many complaints have been made about the hundreds of unlawful slot-machines that are now being operated in Lewiston. In some stores children are allowed to play the machines receiving candy instead of cigars when they win. The police, it is understood, have been making inquiries into the matter and are soon to act ridding the city of all unlawful slot-machines.

50 Years Ago, 1955

West Milton, N.Y. – The Free World’s first commercial atomic-electric power went “on the line” today, and one of its first uses was the grilling of a hamburger by a New York State housewife. Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission turned a switch that unleashed “several thousand” kilowatts of atomic-energy into the public utility system of the Niagara Mohawk Power Corp., which services sections of upstate New York.

25 Years Ago, 1980

Weymouth, Mass. – Ray Dubois runs a Honda automobile dealership here on Boston’s South Shore. But it’s not the booming small-car sales these days, or even the conventional motorcycle sales, that bring a hint of credibility to Mr. Dubois’s voice.

“See those,” he says, pointing to slim two-wheelers with less-than-mower-size motors. “They’ve taken off in the last two years.” Mr. Dubois is referring to mopeds, the pedal assisted motorbikes with a 1- to 2-horse-power engine and a gas mileage of 120 m.p.g and up. While sales of conventional motorcycles have risen 60 percent at his outlet in the past two years, moped sales have rocketed 300 percent in the same period.