100 years ago: 1919 Ty Cobb’s drive for the 1919 batting championship is underway. According to unofficial averages, including Wednesday’s game’s, he is leading the race with 350. He batted his way from third place within a week. George Sisler of St. Louis was sixth in batting a week ago. Today finds him tied for […]

100 years ago: 1919 The Jewish synagogue at New Auburn, rebuilt and remodeled since the old one was burned a year and a half ago, is now partially completed so far as its exterior goes, with the exception of the doors. The congregation had hoped to finish the interior by the Jewish New Year, which […]

100 years ago: 1919 A broken hayrack on the canal bridge, Cedar Street, delayed the trolley car for over an hour Thursday afternoon. The rack contained a large load of hay, and one wheel came entirely off. The load was moved onto a side street with considerable difficulty. 50 years ago: 1969 Former campaign workers […]

100 years ago: 1919 The first entertainment given under the auspices of the newly elected of the Ladies’ Aid of the West Auburn Congregational Church was held Friday evening. The president of the society is Mrs. J. F. Flanders. On the program were several humorous recitations by Miss Frances and Miss Margaret White and piano […]

100 years ago: 1919 It was there Tuesday night and Wednesday morning it had gone. Talk about speed! The one-story wooden building at 114 Main St., Lewiston, occupied by Gibbon and McWiggin, real estate dealers, was removed from its foundation after the trolley cars had ceased operating Tuesday night, placed on wheels and ridden down […]

100 years ago: 1919 The Stone Congress Shirt Manufacturing Co., Lewiston, has leased the third floor of the Park Street section of the Journal building, exactly doubling its present floor space. The company, Mr. M. Stone proprietor, has for several years occupied the fourth floor of the building, conducting their business which has increased with […]

100 years ago: 1919 A midsummer meet is to be held at the Maine State fairgrounds, Lewiston, next Saturday afternoon; and although the promoters don’t claim that the purses are large, there promises to be some mighty good sport. 50 years ago: 1969 Two American men landed and walked on the moon Sunday, the first […]

100 years ago: 1919 New Auburn is, perhaps, the most fortunate in the location of a playground; for it might almost be a bit of the country, shut in as it is by trees from the road. There is sand to play in, and grass to lie upon, and, all things considered, it is an […]

100 years ago: 1919 George H. Curtis left Friday night for the west. He will return next week, bringing a carload of horses. 50 years ago: 1969 The men of Apollo II — their lunar orbit only hours away — inspected Friday the fragile spacecraft called Eagle and found it ready for man’s first landing […]

100 years ago: 1919 It Is announced that when the Prince of Wales visits America next fall that he will stay at the White House. Lucky, if President Wilson is at home. 50 years ago: 1969 The regular monthly meeting of the East Auburn Community Unit was held last night at the Grange Hall and […]