100 years ago: 1925 The Legislature’s Judiciary Committee favored a bill that would prohibit advertising signs along Maine’s highways. The House accepted its majority report. “Last fall at the teacher’s convention, John Parlin, the well-known naturalist and principal of Freedom Academy, announced the finding of a blue spotted salamander. Now, (six months later) beneath a […]

100 years ago: 1925 “The First Universalist Church of Lewiston had an unusual evening Wednesday when a Russian drama by Essex Dane, ‘When the Whirlwind Blows,’ was presented to a large gathering. The parts were taken by Mrs. Philip Pottle, Mrs. Wilis Abbott and Mrs. Edwin Pierce. The little play was very well given in […]