100 Years Ago: 1925 A member of the Federal narcotic squad is said to be investigating the actions of an attractive 17 year old Park Street girl who has been held at the Lewiston police matron’s’ quarters during the last few days for safe keeping. The girl first came to the attention of the police […]

100 Years Ago: 1925 A flaming gas meter in the cellar of a tenement occupied by Dr. Robert Brown, Sabattus Street, resulted in a call from the Lewiston Fire Department chemical crew Saturday night. The gas meter damage was all. The doctor is said to have detected the odor of gas from the cellar and […]

100 Years Ago: 1925 Let us introduce to you Mrs. J. Charles MacDonald, minister. Many Lewiston and Auburn people know her well as a minister’s wife. Not so many are aware that she is a preacher. Yet she has performed double duty and knows the best, if not the worst, about both jobs; and she […]

100 Years Ago: 1925 Dr. L. J. Dumont, Lewiston health officer, has given notice that all persons or firms who do not apply for their Food Handlers Certificates at once are subject to arrest. The six months time required for them to make an application is long overdue and many have yet to do so. […]

100 Years Ago: 1925 Effie Cutler Coombs, Auburn pianist is author of lyrics for a new song just published by the Sam Fox Co. entitled “Waitin’ In the Shadows.” It is not her first published work, for several years ago she wrote the words to a song that reached great popularity throughout the country. The […]

100 Years Ago: 1925 Roads and sidewalks in all parts of Lewiston and Auburn were filled with slush and water Wednesday. Walking was bad all over town and “very bad” in some sections due to the February thaw. Superintendent A. G. Roy of the Lewiston street department said that a large crew was out correcting […]

100 Years Ago: 1925 Despite the downpour of rain and a heavy fogbank that hung over Rumford Tuesday morning, the officials of the Chisholm Ski club carried on with the program of the annual Rumford carnival Tuesday. Spectators in raincoats and protected by umbrellas watched the morning snowshoe races. Contestants were drenched by the morning’s […]

100 Years Ago: 1925 Think there’s much snow? Old timers declare there’s hardly been a flurry yet. Fifty years ago Lewiston “was boasting 11 foot drifts on the streets”, one Boston paper reports in its 50 years ago column. 50 Years Ago: 1975 The 35th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Laureat Comeau of Danville […]

100 Years Ago: 1925 Governor Ralph O. Brewster had the time of his life in Lewiston, Saturday at the International Convention of the Canadian Snowshoers’ Union. He enjoyed every minute from the time he stepped into City Hall to the moment he took the 1 o’clock trolley car for Augusta with his secretary, Colonel Charles […]

100 Years Ago: 1925 Two freight trains, one from Portland and the other from Rumford were in head-on collision at Fuller Crossing in Canton, near the grove at the foot of Lake Anasagunticook about 7.45 Friday morning. Two trainmen, R. B. Bridgham of Auburn, and Mr. York of Canton, were badly injured. The freight for […]