100 Years Ago: 1924 The home of Silas Sprague at West Waldoboro was burned early Thursday morning, the family escaping in their night clothes. Lowell Creamer a boarder was dragged unconscious from the window of his room. He soon revived. The fire caught around the chimney. Nothing in the house was saved but the livestock […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Happy and satisfied women almost never smoke, in the opinion of Dr. R. Hofstaetter, gynecologist, who some time ago created a considerable stir by his assertion that smoking alters women’s faces to their disadvantage, making them look more masculine than feminine. “Women who smoke much have almost invariably contracted the habit […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 “The Sign Post,” a comedy skit acted by Billy Miller & Co. is the star act of the vaudeville, at Music Hall the first half of the present week. The three characters, Mrs. Peck, who wants a divorce because her husband is so good she can’t stand him any longer; Henry […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Two Wiscasset hunters reported several days ago the finding of a carcass of a cow moose near the end of Chewanki Neck. This report was half true. The carcass was that of a cow all right but of the common barn yard variety, we understand it was a Jersey. How about […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 An article for November 16, 1924 was unavailable, therefore an article from November 16,1923 is being offered instead. Lewiston furnished at least one contestant for the $100,000 peace  prize, offered by Edward K. Bok, the American publisher. B. Peck of the B. Peck Company states that he sent in what he […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The body of Donald Gordon was found Saturday morning by a searching party in the deep woods beyond Oquossoc, many miles from any human habitation. There was a bullet wound through his head. At the time the sad news was sent to his home in Livermore Falls, members of the party […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Miss Laura Herrick, preceptress and teacher of English at Leavitt Institute, entertained the sophomore class at her home at West Leeds, Saturday evening. There are twenty-two pupils in the class. They were accompanied by the principal and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, as chaperones. The trip was made in a […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 An article for November 9, 1924 was unavailable, an article from November 10, 1923 is being offered instead. An alarm of fire was sounded Sunday morning about 11.45 when flames were discovered coming from the roof of the barn owned by Mrs. A. D. Horn at the foot of Titcomb Hill […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 An article for November 9, 1924 is unavailable therefore an article from November 9, 1923 is being offered instead. Twenty-five cottage owners around the shore of Lake Auburn have been ordered into court to answer to a charge of pollution of the Lake Auburn water. Papers were served on them by […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Walter R. Cameron, chief carpenter’s mate, and George C. Bleiler, ship’s cook, 1st class, were in Lewiston Friday in charge of a big U.S. Navy recruiting truck on which was mounted a model of the battle cruiser Constitution, which was scrapped in accordance with the 5-5-3 treaty. The car and crew […]