100 Years Ago 1920 Mail late from up to 5 hours to eight hours today, trolley service on trunk lines crippled but local lines are open. This is a summary of Lewiston-and Auburn trying to recover to recover from the effects  of the storm. Street crews in both cities were at full strength and what […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 An audience of Auburn people, gathered in the Webster school Monday evening, heard a series of talks on their home town, designed not only to instill appreciation of the city in which they live, but to inspire every citizen with a strong desire to make it even better—more desirable from every […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Never did City Hall look more attractive than on Saturday, the opening evening of the Knights of Columbus Mardi Gras. Gay with red, white and blue bunting and the banners and flags the K. of C., with booths where games of chance are. Other attractions drew the crowds, and on the […]

100 Years Ago 1920 Chase Hall promises to be crowded for the Stanton Banquet scheduled for Friday of this week, when the Bates Alumni  of Maine will enjoy their first contact with the new Bates president, Dr. Clifton D. Gray of Chicago. Harry W. Rowe, who is receiving the reservations for the banquet, says “that […]

100 Years Ago 1920 Scores of people—hundreds, perhaps – were held up fifteen minutes during the rush hour Thursday noon by a slow-moving freight train at Bates Street station. It made a lot of them late to work. 50 Years Ago: 1970 Miss Karen Zielinski of 98 Winter St, Auburn, has been appointed a Girl […]

100 Years Ago 1920 The Lewiston Republican city committee will meet Wednesday night—the last gathering, it is expected, before the caucus Friday. With no candidate in sight yet to head the republican ticket, politicians, citizens, tax-payers and the rest of us are awaiting the meeting with considerable interest. It is no secret that the republicans […]

100 Years Ago 1920 On February 20, the biggest national campaign for recruits for the United States Army ever known is to be launched. In connection with this campaign there will also be a nation-wide “Essay Contest” in which thousands of school children will be entered. The subject of the essays will be “What Are […]

100 Years Ago 1920 The boiler of the heating plant at St. Mary’s parochial school, put in new three yours ago, “blew up” Sunday morning, and was completely wrecked, No one was in the building at the time, no cause can be assigned unless possible low water in the boiler. It will be a week […]

100 Years Ago 1920 As the pung of the Everett laundry was passing thru Lincoln street Wednesday morning a truck on which was a set of sleds swung around a corner and smashed into the pung, demolishing one side of it and throwing out the driver. He was struck on his head but, fortunately escaped […]

100 Years Ago 1920 With the advent of the month of February comes the big social event of the season in Norway. and one which is anticipated not only by the dancing public, but by all favors of good music. February third, 1920, will go down in history as one of the red letter nights […]