In the first hours after the grisly discovery of a body in the woods, the Journal tracked down a few people who remembered Lizzie and her husband, James M. Lowell.
175th anniversary
News and information about the 17th anniversary of the Sun Journal.
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Chapter 3: The day Lizzie Lowell vanished
When the Lewiston Evening Journal reported the skeleton of a woman had been found near the Switzerland Road, women in town “said with one accord: ‘I think that’s Mrs. Lowell’s remains.’”
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Chapter 2: ‘Skeleton of a Woman Found’
Observers quickly discerned that by the standards of the day, the woman had been well-dressed, with beads and silk lace trimming her sleeves down to her wrists and extending over her shoulders to cover down to her waist.
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Serialized mystery: The Headless Skeleton
In the fall of 1873, a Lewiston woodcutter stumbled upon a headless skeleton and a tattered black dress lying beside some pine trees near the city’s most romantic drive. This series, published in weekly chapters on Sundays, tells the story.
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Chapter 1: The Mystery of the Headless Skeleton
Let’s go back in time to a crisp Wednesday in mid-October of 1873, beside a small clump of pine trees along the most romantic drive in Lewiston, a mile away from anyone’s home.
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Former Auburn man’s 1897 ‘airship’ full of hot air
The real inventor of the Skycycle flew one over Lewiston 18 months before Arthur Wallace Barnard took flight in Tennessee
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‘Fights smell bad’: A non-sportswriter covers Ali-Liston fight in Lewiston
“A Newsman Who Is Not A Sportswriter Ordinarily Finds Fights ‘Smell Bad,’” from the May 7, 1965, edition of the Lewiston Evening Journal.
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The night Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston made Lewiston the center of the sports world
“‘The Fight’ Will Be Argued About For Many Weeks,” by Lewiston Evening Journal Sports Editor Norman S. Thomas, as it appeared in the May 26, 1965, edition of the newspaper.
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‘The philosopher and prophet of New England’ who once edited the Lewiston Evening Journal
Frank Dingley, who died in 1918, was Lewiston’s longest-serving and most influential editor.
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Day after day for 175 years, the Sun Journal has chronicled its community
A history of the newspaper in Lewiston from 1847 to the present