100 years ago: 1919 A timely stop of a runaway horse was made by Ralph B. Harnden, truckman, yesterday afternoon. The animal had a good start but was stopped as he was about to pass between two big automobiles at one side of the street. The damage was small compared to what it appeared to […]

100 years ago: 1919 George A. Emerson and his son, Walter L. Emerson, attended last evening’s meeting of Morning Star Lodge, F. and A. M., Litchfield, making the trip by auto. Both are natives of Litchfield. Mr. Emerson senior is a past member of Morning Star Lodge, and Walter L. Emerson is a present master […]

100 years ago: 1919 The final coat of paint was applied for this season on the Washburn primary school at the corner of Lake Auburn Avenue and Whitney Street, Auburn, yesterday. The building looks greatly improved, the new coat of the same color as that originally applied. The work was done by James A. Langen […]

100 years ago: 1919 Some of the local barbers are charging 50 cents for a hair cut and 20 cents for a shave. But it is said more of them are holding to the old prices: 35 cents for a hair cut and 15 cents for a shave. 50 years ago: 1969 The Pine Tree […]

100 years ago: 1919 Miss Jasmine Fenner, industrial secretary of the Lewiston YWCA, left Friday to attend the two weeks’ conference of industrial workers at Camp Makonikev at Vineyard Haven, Mass. Delegates with her were the Misses Lowell Quint and Grace Foster, Constant Comfort club, Leona Baron and Pearl Burgess, Triangle club. 50 years ago: […]

100 years ago: 1919 The lowly penny is coming back into its own. Any Lewiston or Auburn dealer will tell you so. A year ago the penny was a drug on the money market. Nobody wanted to have it. When any person got a handful in change there was likely to be murder. Today, however, […]

100 years ago: 1919 Ground was broken Friday on Main Sreet, on the left lot adjacent to the Empire theatre, for a new office building to cost $85,000 for the Androscoggin Electric Co. The building will be three stories high, constructed of tapestry brick, and will be stone-trimmed. The contract was given to W. A. […]

100 years ago: 1919 Probably the happiest Woman in Lewiston this week is Mrs. Margaret Marquis of Hines Alley who received a letter this week from her missing son, Fred C. Soucy, whom the family feared was dead. Private Soucy, it will be remembered, won the Croix de Guerre for capturing a machine gun nest […]

100 years ago: 1919 A country club in Lewiston and Auburn ought to do well if the talk the writer has heard since the announcement that an option had been taken on a property is any indication one of the criticisms of Lewiston and Auburn. There’s no place for grownups to get exercise except what […]

100 years ago: 1919 A band concert is to be given on Saturday afternoon from 2 to 4 at the house lots on Webber Avenue that are to be developed by the C.W. Hedmark Co. Everybody is invited, and unquestionably there will be a big attendance. 50 years ago: 1969 The brief retirement of Joe […]