100 Years Ago: 1918   The crowds at Auburn Hall, last night, would have inspired any of the politicians interested in the recent campaign if they could have delivered one of their addresses to such an audience. The Fort Williams band gave one of the best concerts ever heard in these cities. They also ran […]

100 Years Ago: 1918 The largest gathering of high-class fair attractions ever seen in a Maine Fair Ground, in Lewiston will be held on Sept. 17, 18, 19 and 20. Some of the features will be a Community Chorus of 1,200 voices, Fort McKinley Military Band and Quartet, Captain Vernon Stiles, leading American tenor, and […]

100 Years Ago: 1918 A meeting of the representative business men of Norway was held at the Municipal Courtroom Wednesday and reports were listened to from the members of the investigating committee in regard to the trolley line from Norway to South Paris going out of existence. The committee which includes L. M. Carroll, Albert […]

100 Years Ago: 1918 Sale of Grand Stand Boxes and Reserved Seats for the week of the Maine State Fair, Sept. 17, 18, 19 and 20, will open Wednesday morning, Sept. 11, 1918, at Callahan’s, 216 Lisbon St., Lewiston. Price of Reserved Seats for the whole week of the Fair is $1.00, the price of […]

100 years ago: 1918 Miss Lenora Chaplin, Lewiston-Auburn’s first Red Cross nurse, has been in town on a short furlough from duty. She is in-service at the temporary camp at Mineola, N. Y., where is there is a military hospital of 1500 beds. It is expected that the camp will be broken by this fall, […]

100 Years Ago: 1918 Republicans expect that Saturday night’s rally in Lewiston will be the biggest event of this kind in years, if not in the political history of the state. Started out as a local proposition, it is now known there will be big attendance from all around. It was not surprising that interest […]

100 Years Ago: 1918 Miss Gertrude Daggett, general secretary of the Lewiston Y. W. C. A., who has been spending the month of August with her parents in Elmira, N. Y., has returned to take up her duties at the association. In her absence, Miss Daggett attended the National Y. W C. A. conference in […]

100 Years Ago: 1918 At the point where the Maine Central railroad crosses Hampshire Street in Auburn, an old and dingy lantern hangs on the telephone pole. The light that it gives out is just enough to make darkness visible. This is one of the most important railroad crossings in the city and it deserves […]

100 Years Ago: 1918 Mayor Lemaire stated to the Journal Friday afternoon that acting in his capacity of the city’s chief executive, he will fight the petition of the Lewiston Gaslight Co. for permission to increase its rates from $1.30 to $1.60 per thousand feet. “I have asked Judge Brann, who is thoroughly familiar with […]