100 years ago: 1919 Huge dolls, such as those given at country fairs and shore resorts camouflaged to represent sleeping infants, are the newest devices adapted by invaders of the bone-dry law. Two of them will hold will hold 20 small bottles of whiskey each were brought to Portland Tuesday by two men, one, of […]

100 years ago: 1919 Washington legislators have spoken the word and Daylight Saving will cease next October. The electric light and gas companies won’t shed any tears and the farmers may rejoice, but the factory working man and city-dweller who have become accustomed to the change and found it convenient as well as economical may […]

100 years ago: 1919 “The pool rooms of Lewiston,” said Chief of Police Field to a Journal reporter this morning, “are breeding places for young criminals. They are the places in which by far the greater number of offenders of law and order and decency are planned. All of them permit minors to play and […]

100 years ago: 1919 The World of Mirth Show, a carnival company of 150 people and 12 railroad cars has been engaged for the Midway of the Maine State Fair in Lewiston, according to an announcement by Ralph F. Burnham, of Auburn, one of the trustees. Lewiston Journal said that it was one of the […]

100 years ago: 1919 As a fitting feature of “Boy Scout Week,” Friday was Boy Scout day at the weekly meeting of the Lewiston-Auburn Rotary club, held at the DeWitt House at noon. Scouts, Leavitt Coburn, John Goss, John Cronin and Richard Pettingill were present and gave demonstrations of semaphore signaling and bandaging. As a […]

100 years ago: 1919 Traffic duty at Union Square is now more serious than ever. The increase in the number of autos is no-where better indicated, and Officer Driscoll, who presides there for the greater part of the day, is continually busy. 50 years ago: 1969 Auburn’s elementary school music supervisor will attend Florida State […]

100 years ago: 1919 Dr. L. W. Haskell has been named to succeed Dr. George B. O’Connell as medical examiner for Androscoggin County. 50 years ago: 1969 The bust of Governor Percival P. Baxter in the State House of Flags was wreathed in black and a wreath placed under it on Friday in memory of […]

100 years ago: 1919 Kennison’s Cafe at 171 Main St., Lewiston, was formally opened this morning. Charlie Kennison, the proprietor, is well-known about the two cities, having been it popular conductor on several of the loyal lines of the L. A. & W. for a number of years. Charlie has adopted a very Maine motto […]

100 years ago: 1919 Next Sunday night at the Salvation Army Hall a memorial service will be held for officers who have fallen in the field. During the last year in the year in the United States alone, over 20 Salvation Army officers have been called home from their fields of labor. The service will […]

100 years ago: 1919 Edmund Lebel and Walter Crites, who have been attending Tufts Dental School in Boston have returned home for the summer vacation. 50 years ago: 1969 From an ad in the Lewiston Sun Journal: UMPIRES WANTED: Apprentice umpires are wanted for work in the Auburn Recreation Department Baseball League. Interested parties are […]