100 Years Ago: 1924 William R. Pattangall, democrat and Maine candidate for governor, held a gathering of 2,000 spellbound in Lewiston city hall Thursday night as he denounced the Ku Klux Klan with vigorous but quiet eloquence. He declared that Ralph O. Brewster, republican candidate for governor, had “sold himself body and soul” to the […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 A bright little blue-eyed girl of six is looking for a home, according to information given out by the Lewiston police department. Authorities fear that the environment in which she is living is not proper. The police are anxious to hear from some family willing to adopt a child. 50 Years […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 “If Wilton village and Bridgton village are not twins in scenic attractions and general appearance, I’ll leave to anyone,” declared a visitor there recently. “Both have thrifty business houses on a side hill, a lake close at hand and plenty of mountain scenery in the distance. But the view across Wilson […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The will of Robert A. Dunning of Freeport, who died Aug. 15, provides that his mare, Kitty, shall never again wear a harness, and provision is made that eventually a veterinarian shall be employed to put an end to the animal and see that she is decently buried. 50 Years Ago: […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The most extensive public playground program that the city has ever had comes officially to a close Friday with a play circus, minstrel show and patriotic pageant announced by the Director Wright of Lewiston Community Service who has had charge of the children’s playfields. Thousands of children have attended the various […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Albert W. Smith of Skowhegan left Thursday afternoon for Brunswick where today he attended the reunion of Civil War veterans of the 20th Maine Regiment. Mr. Smith was the only Skowhegan man to join that regiment. He enlisted in 1864 at the age of 17 years and served nearly a year. […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Alarms for fire from Friday night to Tuesday will necessarily have to be given by the ringing of the church bells as the steam at the plant of the Johnson brothers shoe factory will be dispensed with thus putting the fire whistle out of commission. 50 Years Ago: 1974 Auburn Police […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Four generations of the Hackett family attended the golden wedding anniversary party of Mr. and Mrs. George Hackett of Bowdoinham, held Sunday at the family homestead in the eastern part of the town. George Hackett and Hattie Campbell were married fifty years ago, August 23,1874, in the town of Bowdoinham. The […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 While Joseph Michaud, lumberjack, was receiving treatment in the hospital for a badly cut foot, his chum and companion, Joseph Goulet, 41, of Turner, was wearing out his shoes and spending his savings. Mr. Michaud complained in the Auburn municipal court Saturday morning when Goulet was arraigned on an embezzlement charge. […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 A few days ago an elderly lady came into the Lewiston Journal and produced from a large pocketbook a very small scrap of paper. Unfolding it, she passed it over and said “What right have you to print such a thing as that? Who authorized it?” Looking at the scrap of […]