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175th anniversary
News and information about the 17th anniversary of the Sun Journal.
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When trolleys came to town . . . they were pulled by horses
Lewiston and Auburn residents were happy to ride rather than walk on muddy, manure-filled streets.
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Reprint from the Sun Journal in 1983: ‘Information please…’ The operators know all
While constantly plugging new connections into the switchboard in front of them and timing long-distance calls, the two operators at the Bryant Pond Telephone Co. must also be authorities on all kinds of local information.
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From ‘bone-shakers’ to ‘penney-farthings’ and beyond: How bicycles rolled out in Lewiston in the 1800s
‘Bicycle fever’ reached Lewiston in 1879, according to the Lewiston Evening Journal, and would go on to shake, rattle and roll into everyday life.
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Western Maine town the last to use hand-crank phones in the U.S.
‘The lure of high-tech, touch-tone and total privacy won out in a two-year battle with nostalgia and the human element,’ announced the Sunday Sun Journal. ‘The crank phone is dead. Long live call forwarding.’
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Telephone service spread fast in Lewiston and Maine after Bell’s breakthrough
Lewiston installed its first phone line just a year after Alexander Graham Bell received his patent for the telephone in 1876.
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Maine Turnpike put Lewiston-Auburn, state in the fast lane for commerce, tourism
The turnpike is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year as the nation’s second “superhighway” and world’s first asphalt highway, helping make Maine a true ‘vacationland.’
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Chapter 5: Lizzie’s mother has a strange dream
Though the dream had no impact on the discovery of the skeleton, it likely contributed to the stir caused by the find in a spot eerily similar to what Sarah Burton imagined.
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Lewiston grew from small town to booming mill city thanks to rail
From trains to trolleys, rail lines once tied the Twin Cities to the world.
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An early history of bicycles
They were known as velocipedes, bone-shakers, penny-farthings and safety bicycles. The early bicycles of the 1800s had various names and various designs as makers around the world worked to improve on the increasingly intriguing and popular mode of transportation. One of the earliest pedal designs involved a very large wheel and a very small one […]