100 years ago,1910

It was a forlorn youngster who presented himself at the Lewiston police station last evening and was given a night’s lodging. The lad, who was from Old Town, hadn’t heard that the boxing match in Auburn had been postponed. The boy possesses an unusually fine voice and at the last show picked up a good many nickels and dimes between bouts, after he had sung. He thought that he could get some more change and not knowing the match had been called off, arrived here yesterday with an empty pocketbook. When he found that there wasn’t to be a fight, the world didn’t look so rosy.

50 years ago, 1960

Chief Deputy Leonard A. Gagne of the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the smashing of a telephone in a booth opposite the Chick-A-Dee restaurant at Turner and the larceny of an unknown amount of money.

A few years ago, local police and the sheriff’s department had a number of such breaks, but Gagne said this is the first reported to the sheriff’s department in some time.

25 years ago, 1985

Firefighters from Auburn and Lewiston battled a two-alarm blaze at a five-story box factory along the Little Androscoggin River early Monday morning while officials attempted to determine the cause of what was called “a very suspicious fire.”

Auburn Fire Chief Clifton Smith said two separate fires led to the engulfment of the fifth floor of the H. W. Hutchins Co. at the rear of 50 Washington St. The fire, which houses a factory for folding paper boxes, was reported by a resident of Barker Arms Estates.