Looking Back on April 24

Jason Rathbun

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April 24, 2024

Looking Back on April 24

100 Years Ago: 1924 Plans are on the way among a group of Auburn businessmen for the organization of a local branch of the nationally known Lion’s Club, which is similar to Rotary and Kiwanis. Meetings have been held for preliminary plans but those interested are not ready to give out information yet. It is […]
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April 23, 2024

Looking Back on April 23

100 Years Ago: 1924 Miss Ellen Mae Stetson, talented pupil of Miss Marion Murphy, will be one of the features of the Triangle Club minstrel show on April 30th. at the club rooms, 86 Main Street, Auburn. The Triangle Club was the first of the many in the Lewiston-Auburn YWCA to be organized and so […]
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April 22, 2024

Looking Back on April 22

100 Years Ago: 1924 An outstanding event which marked Augusta’s social circle the end of the lenten season was a delightful tea given on Saturday afternoon by Mrs. William H. Fisher at her home on Winthrop Street in honor of Princess Santa Borghese of Italy and Mrs. Augustus O. Thomas of this city. The spacious […]
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April 20, 2024

Looking Back on April 20

100 Years Ago: 1924 The members of the Bright Idea Club met at the home of Mrs. Etta Kilgore, North Norway, Thursday for a social afternoon. Light refreshments were served by the hostess. Mrs. Izzie Cox, Mrs. Alma Judkins, Mrs. Kate Hobbs, Mrs. Susie Morse, Mrs. Ada Cox, Mrs. Olive Whitman, and Mrs. Effie Heath were […]
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April 19, 2024

Looking Back on April 19

100 Years Ago: 1924 According to Dr. A.O. Thomas of Augusta, Maine has staged a tremendous building program. In the last ten years 85 towns have either remodeled their high school plant or built new modern buildings and many others are under construction. The cost of these buildings approximate $6,000,000. This is an enormous advance when […]
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April 18, 2024

Looking Back on April 18

100 Years Ago: 1924 Alfred Sweeney, general manager of the Androscoggin & Kennebec Railway, said Friday afternoon that the official news of the decision of the Public Utilities Commission authorizing straight 10 cent fares had not been received and therefore he could not say when the company would put them into effect. Probably right away, giving, of […]
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April 17, 2024

Guitarist Albert Lee to perform at The Hill Arts

Grammy Award-winning British guitarist Albert Lee will play beginning at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7, at The Hill Arts in Portland. Lee is a multiple recipient of Guitar Player Magazine’s “Best Country Guitarist” who is celebrated by fans and musicians the world over for his fingerstyle and hybrid picking technique. Lee has worked both […]
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April 17, 2024

Opening reception planned for Roger C. Williams exhibition at Fryeburg Academy

An opening reception is planned for “Roger C. Williams, Artist and Adman of Lovell, Maine” from 4-7 p.m. on Friday, May 3, in the Pace Galleries of Art at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center on the campus of Fryeburg Academy. Over a lifetime of combining fine art and advertising, Roger Williams presents his […]
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April 17, 2024

Looking Back on April 17

100 Years Ago: 1924 Miss Louise McLoon, dental hygienist at the Lewiston-Auburn Red Cross, is considering going to Labrador to take up work with Dr. Wiltrid T. Grenfell. 50 Years Ago: 1974 Winners of a regional typing contest held recently at the Auburn Maine School of Commerce under the auspices of the Maine Association of Business Educators were […]
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April 16, 2024

Mexico native Monica Wood to hold author talk

Friends of the Rumford Public Library will host “One-in-a-Million Boy” and “When We Were the Kennedys” author Monica Wood for a reading at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 8. Because the Public Room at Rumford Public Library is temporarily closed, the event will be held at the American Legion located at 184 Congress St., Rumford. […]

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