100 Years Ago: 1918 Columbia Hall, in Lisbon Falls, has been quickly turned into a hospital and there are now more than 30 patients being cared for there. The State Authorities have provided two doctors and several nurses to assist the local physicians. The local Red Cross has been busy putting the hospital to readiness, […]
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Looking Back on Oct. 5
100 Years Ago: 1918 (Two ads in the Journal, re: the Spanish Flu): On account of Influenza, the Field Day of the New Lake Auburn Boat Club is postponed. The Topsham Fair is canceled for this season. 50 Years Ago: 1968 More than 1,000 U.S. Infantrymen and scores of warplanes attacked a Viet Cong base […]
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Looking Back on Oct. 4
100 Years Ago: 1918 Thirteen hundred front-line packages sit in the Red Cross rooms which must be finished before the last of September. There are base hospital packages, too, which have to be completed if there is time. but they must be done if the chapter is to meet its obligation to the National Red […]
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Looking Back on Oct. 3
100 Years Ago: 1918 All of the public schools in Lewiston and Auburn, all churches, the theatres, societies, pool rooms, billiard parlors, business colleges and other public gathering places, except Bates College and wage-earning industries, have been ordered closed, beginning Friday morning until further notice. This action was taken by the boards of health of […]
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Looking Back on Oct. 2
100 Years Ago: 1918 The Dixfield village people very generously responded to the call for clothing for the Belgians, and Friday noon, several of the ladies of the Dixfield branch of the Red Cross were busily engaged in sorting and packing. Five large dry goods cases were filled to their utmost capacity, and stenciled to […]
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Looking Back on Oct. 1
100 Years Ago: 1918 Some new cases of influenza have appeared in these cities, but according to reports by physicians, the situation has changed but little since Saturday. One Lewiston doctor stated to the Sun last night that the disease seemed to be on the increase here and it was his opinion that the local […]
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Looking Back on Sept. 29
100 years ago: 1918 There will be inspiration for every Lewiston and Auburn woman who will be able to hear the address given at 3 o’clock this afternoon, by Mrs. Halsey Wilson of New York at the Young Women’s Christian Association. Mrs. Wilson is in Lewiston attending the work conference of the Maine Woman’s Suffrage […]
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Looking Back on Sept. 28
100 years ago: 1918 General Pershing’s troops continued their drive against the German position between the Argonne Forest and the river Meuse. The Americans increased their total of prisoners to 8,000. They also captured guns and other war material, but these have not yet been enumerated. The prisoners belonged to various units and included a […]
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Looking Back on Sept. 27
100 Years Ago: 1918 Two horses, valued at $600, the property of the City of Auburn, were electrocuted on Holland Street, Lewiston, near the works of the Texas Oil Co. about noon yesterday. The team is one that is used at the Auburn city farm and was being used to haul coal from a point […]
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Looking Back on Sept. 26
100 years ago: 1918 Dr. Donald H. MacMillan, the noted Arctic explorer, entertained the students at Hebron Academy with his lecture on his recent four years in the north. Speaking in the assembly room Tuesday evening, Dr. MacMillan explained the purpose of his latest expedition into the Arctic, showing stereopticon views of the scenes and […]