Arriving at the jail, the city marshal told James M. Lowell he’d get the best accommodations possible and brought him to the northwestern corner cell, where the local newspaper editor noticed that the bones collected on Switzerland Road — thought to be the remains of Lowell’s wife — were still bound up in a mat in the corner, some of them protruding into the air.

After James Lowell stepped down off a wagon, where he was loading rags at the Munroe’s Paper Mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, Officer E.D. Wiggin of Lewiston handed him a copy of that day’s Boston Journal, which carried an account of the discovery of the headless skeleton in Lewiston.

It's official. The government says we're spending too much time on the phone.

Lewiston and Auburn residents were happy to ride rather than walk on muddy, manure-filled streets.

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.

'Bicycle fever' reached Lewiston in 1879, according to the Lewiston Evening Journal, and would go on to shake, rattle and roll into everyday life.

'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.'

Lewiston installed its first phone line just a year after Alexander Graham Bell received his patent for the telephone in 1876.

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.'

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.

From trains to trolleys, rail lines once tied the Twin Cities to the world.

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.

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.’”

The continuing story of Maine's most spectacular murder case.

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.

The real inventor of the Skycycle flew one over Lewiston 18 months before Arthur Wallace Barnard took flight in Tennessee

"A Newsman Who Is Not A Sportswriter Ordinarily Finds Fights ‘Smell Bad,’" from the May 7, 1965, edition of the Lewiston Evening Journal.

"'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.

Frank Dingley, who died in 1918, was Lewiston's longest-serving and most influential editor.

A history of the newspaper in Lewiston from 1847 to the present

A consumer investigation into valid car inspections, an analysis of school security, a story revealing how one Auburn women was scammed out of her living savings, and an investigation that led to the demise of Maine Education Services. These stories and more prompted results with impact.

A Lewiston Weekly Journal story from June 9, 1885 reported that Mrs. Spaulding was scuffling with her husband. She had her hands before her face. After the officers entered the door, he fired at her.

The Lewiston Falls Journal, the community's first newspaper, rolled off the press 175 years ago today.

The story of that man and that murder, arguably the biggest ongoing news story that ever occurred in Lewiston, will be told in full this year as part of the newspaper’s 175th anniversary.

This story, which appeared in the Lewiston Saturday Journal on April 20, 1912, is reprinted in full.

A Lewiston Evening Journal story from Nov. 11, 1896.

Let’s just grab a handful of the news items reported on that day to get a sense of what the paper’s local coverage was like in those simpler times.

The want of a newspaper in this vicinity has long been felt and lamented, and it is the intention so to conduct the Journal that it may be acceptable to all parties, and a profitable visitant at every fireside.

"Clay-Liston Championship Match Set for Lewiston’s CMYC May 25," from the May 7, 1965, edition of the Lewiston Evening Journal.

The first edition of the Lewiston Falls Journal was published 175 years ago. A Great Falls Forum on Thursday touched on a few highlights of history recorded by the press since then.

Sun Journal Reporter Steve Collins and Androscoggin Historical Society Director and Treasurer David Chittim take a look at notable events in Androscoggin County and the journalism that brought those events to light.

Street Talk: The Lewiston newspaper's very first crime reporter probably spent more time in the taverns down on Lisbon Street than he'd like his editors to know about. But can you blame him?

The true story of the once-acclaimed but now forgotten "Professor Barnard" and his fabulous flying machine

President Theodore Roosevelt once famously said, 'There are two newspapers that I always like to get a hold of. One is the Philadelphia North American and the other is the Lewiston Evening Journal.'  

As the Sun Journal prepares to celebrate its 175th anniversary Saturday, we asked longtime readers to share what the newspaper has meant to them and why they continue getting the paper each morning.

District Attorney Andrew Robinson referred to a six-page letter written by an Androscoggin County Jail inmate who detailed the account of her five-day trip from Florida to Maine last November caged in the back of a private prisoner transport van during which she was denied bathroom breaks and subjected to other inhumane treatment.

The times are unsettling. Should it take 22 minutes for a stranger to be stopped in an elementary school? And should strangers be allowed to wander unconfronted in high schools? That’s what happened when a team of reporters tested security at 37 schools on a breezy October morning. The results are startling

A Sun Journal investigation raises questions about the state’s motor vehicle inspection law.