100 Years Ago: 1924 The L-A Cycle Club has just been organized in Auburn with 28 charter members who are all ardent motorcyclists. At present there are no women members but they are eligible for membership and several are expected before the season is underway. The club’s first banquet will be held March 10 in […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Mrs. Levi S. Griffin of Stockton has in her possession a sled built by her father, the late Sylvester B. Pendleton, in the year 1851, when he was 14 years of age. It served him faithfully, descended in due time to his children, was used by his grandchildren and still going strong […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Deputy sheriffs in Portland reported the youngest bootlegger. After they arrested a cobbler on a charge of rum selling they questioned a 12-year-old boy, who admitted that he was the cobbler’s accomplice, carrying liquor from the shop to customers for $2 a week. He was sent home with a warning. The […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 One of the youngest of Auburn’s talented musical children is little Dorothy Rawson, who is a pupil of Albert L. Auger. Mr. Auger has arranged a piano recital for this seven-year-old Miss for Sunday evening at 6:30 o’clock. 50 Years Ago: 1974 American and Canadian snowshoers headed for home Sunday night following […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Two Freeport men while working in the woods this week cut down a large Hemlock tree which was hollow-hearted. In the tree they found 50 pounds of honey in excellent condition. 50 Years Ago: 1974 Maine’s unpredictable weather forced a lot of improvisation upon the officials of the International Snowshoe Congress currently […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The Women and Men of the Farm Bureau will hold a joint meeting Thursday, Feb. 14. The subjects for the men are to be labor saving methods in dairy, poultry and potato farming; the subject for the women will be basketry. A picnic lunch will be served. 50 Years Ago: 1974 […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Frank Groves of Lewiston has a New York Herald extra of April 15, 1865, that is invaluable for it contains the complete account of the assassination of President Lincoln. Each column is heavily lined in black and the headlines which go down each column, instead of going across the top as they do […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The second volume of the trilogy by Mrs. Edna Worthley Underwood, the Phillips author, the “Passion Flower,” is to be published this spring, it is announced. The first story, “The Penitent,” was said by the critics to be one of the best books of 1921. 50 Years Ago: 1974 The East […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 A meeting of the Mechanic Falls Chamber of Commerce will be held in Perkin’s Hall on Monday evening at 7:30 and will be attended by members and their friends. The program will include a moving picture furnished by the Great Northern Paper Company and it will tell the story of spruce […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 A recent millinery exhibition in Cincinnati had a radio receiving set fastened to a hat. Next they will be equipping them with transmitters and talking through them. 50 Years Ago: 1974 The United Methodist Youth Choir of Auburn is now in rehearsal for “It’s Cool in the Furnace,” a light musical comedy […]