100 Years Ago: 1924 Both the Elm Street Universalist church, Auburn, and the Auburn Home for Aged Women are to receive bequests from the estate of Martha Dresser Roberts who died recently in New York, and who was formerly an Auburn woman. To the Elm Street Universalist Church or the First Universalist church of Auburn […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Police officers on duty at Ward Six, Lewiston, told a reporter that conditions there for voting were deplorable. Ward officials were forced to wear heavy coats to keep warm. Ward Six is situated in L’Heureux’s grain store on lower Lisbon street and is not heated. Women working in the ward headquarters […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 When Capt. Donald B. MacMillan, world famous explorer of Arctic wastes, lectures in Lewiston City Hall Wednesday evening under the auspices of the A. D. P. class of boys, Court street Free Baptist church, he will face a large audience. The hall seats between 1200-1500 and although the exchange of certificates […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 An article for November 2, 1924 is unavailable therefore an article from November 2, 1923 is being offered instead. An interesting radio message from Donald B. MacMillan, Arctic explorer, was picked up early this morning by Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Hamilton of this town. The message from the schooner Bowdoin […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Hens have slacked away a little on laying the last week or so partly because of moulting. The sharp cold stops them a little. The production of eggs will be rather uncertain from now until shutting up time. When the snow comes and the hens are closed in for the winter […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Sheriff Mooers became suspicious of the actions of two men, Clifford I. Stevens and Stephen Hoppe, the alleged thieves and safe breakers, who were apprehended several weeks ago and who are now held in a steel cage at the county jail. Calling in Deputies Tuscan and Crocker, the sheriff proceeded to […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Five splendid bucks were brought back to Lewiston and Auburn by a party of six who just ended their annual camping tour at Eagle Lake. In the party were Colonel George C. Webber and Dr. Archer Jordan of Auburn; Doctors Wallace E. Webber, J. E. Dupras, W. W. Bolster and Harry […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Faunce Pendexter, the nine year old boy of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Pendexter, gave a recital Monday p.m., assisted by the Misses Hayden French and Kenyon and Margaret Hill. Several invited friends were present. Tea and delicate refreshments were served by Mrs. Huston assisted by Mrs. Pendexter and Miss Agnes Beal. […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Partridges build nests, which entails more or less weaving of course, but one bird more ambitious than the rest struck out for the weave room of the Continental Mill, Lewiston, sometime over the weekend and became a cropper. Not waiting for the employees to open the windows Monday morning, he crashed […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 An article for October 26, 1923 is unavailable therefore an article from October 26, 1923 is being offered instead.  The ribbon of concrete that runs from Lewiston and Auburn to Gray and on into Portland, the greatest stretch of road in Maine of its kind and one of the wonder roads of […]