100 years ago: 1925 Under a front-page headline that read “We Must Raise $2,000 To Send Bates Team To Debate Britishers,” the Lewiston Journal declared it would undertake to raise the cash necessary “for this most important of all international debates. Let’s get behind the plucky Maine college and give the boys a big send […]

100 years ago: 1925 An editorial in the Lewiston Evening Journal declared that “one thing necessary” for Maine’s future “is to have a great, handsome highway from Kittery to Portland.” It said the visitors will gain an impression of the state from what they see when they enter Maine, one reason that Arthur Race of […]