100 Years Ago: 1924 Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gutmann of Lewiston send the Lewiston Journal greetings from “the top of the world”; the top of the Juggfrau, Switzerland, where they were on June 29th about 13,000 feet amid the snow. They are well and having a most enjoyable tour. 50 Years Ago: 1974 Westward the […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 This spring Mrs. Archie Page of North Leeds had a pair of year old guinea-fowl. One day recently while Mr. Page and his family were away the guinea-hen was run over and killed. For the next two or three days, the guinea cock mourned for the mate and seemed disconsolate, then […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The White House, scene of many of the nation’s sorrows, again became a house of mourning today while the whole people, it seemed poured in their message of sympathy at the death of President Coolidge’s 16 year old boy, Calvin, Jr. 50 Years Ago: 1974 Officer Denis Pacquin was bitten early […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 After lying on the edge of the M. C. R. R. trestle over the canal at the Androscoggin Mill, Lewiston, to avoid being hit by the incoming 12:40 train, Alphonse Carron, 20, rose from his prone position just in time to be struck by the step on the platform of the […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Four horses were rescued from the smoky interior of a barn on Holland street, Lewiston, owned by the Valvoline Oil Co., when a quantity  of hay got on fire in some unknown manner, shortly after midnight Saturday. 50 Years Ago: 1974 Lewiston has another big money lottery winner in Glen Thibodeau of […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Figures have been compiled by the Main Railroad and steamship officials and Maine Publicity Bureau and Maine Automobile association showing that on closest estimate and actual revenue, the total cash brought into Maine every year by summer tourists is $52,000,000. 50 Years Ago: 1974 The children of the Heathwood Lane-Hillmount Drive […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The State Public Utilities Commission took under advisement Thursday the earnest appeal by Mayor Brann of Lewiston for a gate and gate-tender at the Fair Grounds crossing on Main street, at a hearing in Lewiston city building Thursday. The Maine Central Railroad opposed the petition. Mayor Brann urged that since five […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Doris E. Benson, the 10 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Benson of High street in Lisbon has been awarded a five dollar prize by the Lewis E. Myers Co. of Valparaiso, Indiana for a drawing which was a River Landscape. Her sister, Arline, six years of age received […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 When the Lewiston police, Monday located the lumber stolen from the old building next to the St. Patrick church, at the rear of a Lewiston residence, Dr. C. K. Donnell, the owner of the lumber, refused to prosecute giving the guilty party one hour in which to return the stolen lumber. […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 A party of Rumford people returning one evening recently from a ride during which they had been helped out of engine troubles by friendly passersby, saw another car standing by the roadside a few rows above Henry French’s at the Center. Of the four men occupants, two were standing beside the […]