100 years ago: 1919 There will be a meeting at the Wallace White Club Tuesday night at the Republican headquarters. The meeting adjourned last week after paying tribute to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. 50 years ago: 1969 Mrs. Howard Cody will present a review of the best-selling book, “Our Crowd,” at a meeting of the Lewiston-Auburn […]

100 years ago: 1919 The heaviest pair of cattle handled by the E.W. Penley Company, Auburn, was recently put there to be sold on commission by Mr. Hasty, the horse dealer. The oxen girthed 8 feet and 5 inches and 8 feet and 6 inches. and weighed 4,800 pounds. The meat of one of them […]

100 years ago: 1919 Mrs. J.D. Rockefeller, Jr., head of the Housing of the National Young Women’s Christian Association, has approved the installation of beauty parlors in the new recreation houses to be built by the associations throughout the country. Mrs. Rockefeller was quoted as saying that “every girl should have a good place in […]

100 years ago: 1919 Officers of the Leeds Grange for the following year will be installed at the next meeting, Saturday, by E.T. Clifford of Winthrop, a member of the executive committee of the Maine State Grange. It is expected that the programs will be ready for distribution at that time, also the traveling library […]

100 years ago: 1919 (This item is from an ad in the Lewiston Journal) WANTED: Girls from 17 to 24 years of age with high school education, who desire permanent position to learn telephone operating. Seven dollars a week paid while learning. Frequent increases and two weeks vacation with pay. Apply, Hannah B. Leader, Chief […]

100 years ago: 1919 (This item shows a vast difference in the 26th president’s funeral and the more recent 41st president’s funeral.) The body of Theodore Roosevelt was laid to rest today in a family cemetery plot witnessed by members of the family and a Congregational delegation and a group of two hundred neighbors, among […]

100 years ago: 1919 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth President of the United States, who died at his home on Sagamore Hill will be laid to rest without pomp or ceremony, in Young’s Memorial Cemetery in this village, Wednesday afternoon. He will be buried on a knoll overlooking Long Island Sound, a plot which he and […]

100 years ago: 1919 Mr. and Mrs. McLean of Rumford were notified last month by the War Department that their son, John W. McLean, had died on Oct. 16. Today they received a letter from their son, dated Dec. 4, saying that he was in a base hospital recovering from wounds and expected to start […]

100 years ago: 1919 The Wallace H. White Jr. Club of Lewiston will hold its first meeting of the municipal campaign in Republican headquarters Tuesday. George S. McCarty, whose fame as a speaker is not slight will be the principal speaker, Robert J. Hogdson will preside. Politics is getting ready to stir In Lewiston. While it […]

100 years ago: 1919 Headquarters of the Lewiston Chamber of Commerce are to be in the main floor of the Strand Theater building. The committee, appointed by the chamber to arrange for new quarters, signed a three-year lease for this store. The committee included: President George W. Raymond, Henry A. Free, E. A. Mollheron and […]