100 years ago: 1918 Henry Ford today announced his retirement from active participation in the management of the Ford Motor Company, complete control of the Ford interests in the company to be taken over by his son, Edsel. In making this announcement today, Mr. Ford said he intended to undertake the publication of a national […]

100 years ago 1918: “There is no reason,” says President West of the Chicago Park Association, who is making a plan for Auburn, “why the city shouldn’t look forward to more than the average rapidity of growth. Some of Auburn’s advantages which he has noted during his survey to determine future possibilities and present needs […]

100 years ago: 1918 “I think,” said a Lewiston woman, interested in social work, to the Journal, Monday, “that the Y. W. C. A. athletic league is one of the finest organizations ever promoted in these cities. I am delighted at the prospect of its permanent establishment here and it seems to me that it […]

100 years ago: 1918 “The power of the press, not the power of armies, ended the war,” said Dr. Eugene A. Crockett, of Boston, a major in the American Red Cross, today. He added that he had interrogated hundreds of prisoners of every nationality who had returned from Austria and that he had agreed that […]

100 years ago: 1918 President Wilson, in a proclamation today, designated Thursday, Nov. 28, as Thanksgiving Day, and said this year the American people have special cause to be grateful and rejoice. Complete victory, he said, has brought not only peace but the confident promise of a new day as well, in which “justice shall […]

100 years ago: 1918 Mr. A. Waterman at East Auburn has been for many years manufacturing pegs. He makes nearly all of the pegs in the Lewiston and Auburn and vicinity, except those driven by machinery. He uses about 15 cords of white birch per year and makes from six to ten thousand bushels of […]

100 years ago: 1918 After a long enforced vacation on account of the Spanish flu epidemic, the Auburn Grange is to open its doors Saturday for an all-day meeting. The lecturer, Mrs. A. L. Merrill, has organized a fine program, while the dinner committee will have one of the best banquets ever set in that […]

100 years ago: 1918 The Lewiston and Auburn community chorus held its first rehearsal since the State Fair, in Lewiston City Hall, Wednesday evening. Over 300 members showed that their interest had not flagged during this long, enforced vacation and they came with the fall program clipped from the Lewiston Journal, prepared to sing the […]

100 years ago: 1918 The Lewiston-Auburn Community Chorus “sing” in Lewiston City hall Wednesday evening should be a joyous occasion and all Lewiston and Auburn are invited to meet and express their thankfulness for peace. The Lewiston Journal tonight prints the words of the new songs to be rehearsed and all who attend are urged […]