100 Years Ago: 1924 Miss Belle Foote of Bath has a novel and highly popular little business which she conducts in her home, the manufacturing and renting of puzzles. She makes them from interesting pictures, pasted on to specially prepared panels of three-ply wood which she cuts into intricate shapes, in tiny pieces and boxes, […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Three trains from Montreal, one from Quebec and another from Sherbrooke have been chartered to bring the Canadian Snowshoe Union members to Lewiston for their annual convention on February 7th and 8th. In this group of Canadian snowshoe, ski and skate artists there will be 100 members of the Tramways Employees’ […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Officials of the State Fish and Game Department assert that they have failed to find any evidence of a pestilential louse, or tick, attacking the partridges in Maine. Robert K. Tukey, cashier of the Newcastle National Bank, is going to show ’em that such an insect exists. Saturday Mr. Tukey shot […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Starting next Monday noon, the Waterville Rotary club will go on a bread and milk diet for the three weeks preceding Christmas and the money thus saved will go into the club Christmas fund. This decision was made at the meeting Monday noon. The club also considered plans to finance treatment […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 An article for November 30, 1924 is unavailable, therefore an article for November 30, 1923 is being offered instead. Everett Carter Marston, senior at Colby College, missing since Saturday night was found in Portland. He came home Friday afternoon, accompanied by friends who have been searching for him since Tuesday. Marston […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The Auburn Planning board which also has charge of the parks and trees of the city is asking $1,575 from the city in the budget, now in process of making. It has been included in the budget and will go through the mill at the December meeting when the budget is […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The announcement that Paul Whiteman and his orchestra are coming to Lewiston will interest a large public. There are few persons who do not respond to the rhythm and the joyousness of dance music — if it is good enough. Paul Whiteman’s is the best to be had. His fame as […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 An article for November 27, 1924 is unavailable therefore an article from November 27, 1923 is being offered instead. The Spear Folks Candy store at 33 Lisbon Street, Lewiston, closed its !luncheonette department Tuesday, preliminary to closing the entire store the latter part of this week. A. G. Spear, proprietor of […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 “Put in a dozen oranges, please!” Housewives are including the above in their grocery orders these days, ever since the announcement of the California Orange Recipe Contest, to be held Dec. 2 to 16th, which is creating widespread interest among the readers of the Lewiston Journal. Dealers report increased sales of […]