100 Years Ago: 1925 About 200 children on and about Lincoln street are taking advantage of the large skating rink on the old school yard next to the Lincoln street fire station. The rink was built by firemen and some of the boys in the district and flooded by the fire laddies. It cost practically […]

100 Years Ago: 1925 Dick Ford, while scraping off the ice on the Androscoggin River with his big truck and plow attachment for the Rumford Driving Association, narrowly escaped drowning. He heard someone scream, “The truck is sinking!” and jumped just in time before the truck went down in 18 feet of water. It required […]

100 Years Ago: 1925 A cup is on display in a local store window to be known as the “Waterfalls Trophy.” It has been presented to the Mechanic Falls Ski Club by the Poland Paper Co., for annual competition among the Ski Clubs of the State of Maine and will be awarded for proficiency in […]

100 Years Ago: 1925 A crippled telephone operator gave her life while alarming the countryside of fire in the business section of Brooks early Friday morning. Her assistant sustained a broken arm. Six business buildings were burned with an aggregate loss of at least $50,000 and other property was barely saved by a fire on […]

100 Years Ago: 1925 “I appreciate the compliment, but prefer to take my chances with you men!” Instantly the House of Representatives was a bedlam of cheers, as its members realized the significance of the woman member’s words. She was accepting full equality with them, asking no favors, only the same treatment as the men […]

100 Years Ago: 1925 L. M. Linnell of Gardiner, Maine lays claim to being the oldest Shriner in the United States. To the Lewiston Journal reporter when seen at his Pray street home Mr. Linnell said “I recently saw by a newspaper that a man in the State of Ohio claimed to be the oldest […]

100 Years Ago: 1925 A departure from the usual routine in the ninth grade domestic science classes, is the serving of dinners to guests of the class on different evenings. The dinners are prepared under the direction of the class teacher, Miss Edith Wiggins. The girls, however, do all the work of preparing and serving […]

100 Years Ago: 1925 An article for January 4, 1925 was unavailable, therefore an article from January 4, 1924 is being offered instead. Judge Crockett of the Lewiston municipal court has under advisement a suit against W. C. Girard, prominent Lisbon merchant for $12.50 which Harry Day, proprietor of the Maine Bottling Co., of Auburn, […]

100 Years Ago: 1925 A chickadee called “Happy New Year!” in chicadese to the Stanton Bird Club members who braved a temperature of 12 below zero and went over to the sanctuary New Year’s morning. He had been waiting for Bird Club friends near Uncle Johnny’s oak, and his cheery greeting brought others of his […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Fred H. Harrington of Durham was the recipient during Christmas week of a crate of oranges from his brother, Frank Harrington of St. Petersburg, Florida. 50 Years Ago: 1974 Lewiston Senior Girl Scout Troop 309 has expanded their project of collecting used Christmas cards and greeting cards. This year the girls […]