100 years ago: 1925 A man arrested on suspicion of having murdered a Vermont man turned out to be innocent. He wasn’t the Lewiston man sought. But John Lombard, 25, of Biddeford didn’t get off the hook entirely. It turned out he was living with a woman so they were both charged with “unlawful cohabitation.” […]

100 years ago: 1925 One of the most severe electrical storms in years broke over Lewiston and vicinity Saturday night, bringing with it rainfall of an inch and three quarters. No damage, save road washouts, was reported in the immediate vicinity, but other sections suffered worse in this respect. Several towns along the coast were […]

100 years ago: 1925 If a Lewiston man who was napping on the railroad tracks at the woodyard in the rear of Libby Avenue, Lewiston, had delayed his nap Friday afternoon just a few minutes, he would have been enjoying a more extensive nap. Workmen in the yard found him asleep on the track, sprawled […]

100 years ago: 1925 A definite movement is underway, it is reported in Auburn, to transfer support and activities of a considerable group of influential Auburn businessmen on the hotel proposition of constructing a new high school. This movement, it is expected, will be revealed at the forum meeting of the Auburn Chamber of Commerce […]

100 years ago: 1925 The Lewiston Evening Journal reported, at the top of its front page, that the advertising manager of the competing Lewiston Sun, Frank S. Hoy, had married stenographer Gladys Parker at her sister’s house in Bethel. Parker has been the private stenographer of L.B. Costello, business manager of the Sun. Efforts were […]

100 years ago: 1925 Auburn’s high school, “the Edward Little,” famous throughout New England, cannot hold its lead much longer in the present school building. This is the opinion of Superintendent George R. Gardner of the Auburn School Board, who will set these things forth in their plain truths before the people of Auburn in […]

100 years ago: 1925 Sam E. Conner reported from Augusta that ever since the hearing on the ice fishing in Belgrade lakes bill a couple of weeks ago, there has been a bitter wrangle in progress about the Augusta House at night. It will be recalled that some question was raised as to the honesty […]

100 years ago: 1925 A complete little home which with the lot, lawn and neat little picket fence occupies a plot less than two feet square can be found at the county building, Auburn, if one looks hard enough. It is the handiwork of Ted Morin of Lewiston, one of the prisoners, who used only […]

100 years ago: 1925 Sensational statements made at Augusta concerning Lewiston government and Lewiston people were the talk of the town yesterday. On street corners, in stores, street cars everywhere the discussion was warm. It was openly asserted that those responsible for the “besmirching of Lewiston’s fair name” will have to answer to the people […]