100 years ago, 1917A Reo touring car, with its nose pointing due sou-sou-west and its front wheels three feet in air, saluted the morning sunshine at the corner of Court street and Highland avenue, Auburn, Friday morning. It looked like a submarine in distress or a British tank coming out of the trenches. Its head […]

100 years ago, 1917Lewiston and Auburn are today facing the most serious sugar famine in their history. There is not one place in the two cities, so far as those in intimate touch with the situation can discover, at which a spoonful of granulated or brown sugar can be bought. There is a little powdered […]

100 years ago, 1917The Androscoggin County Humane Society is sending out circulars giving the “winter rules” for the care of horses. The rules include: Protect your animals from cold. This will make them more comfortable and will save you feed. Stop the holes in your barn. Board in your tie-up. Blanket your horses on frosty […]

100 years ago, 1917The ticket sellers at the local theaters are earning their money like they never did before. Since the war tax was imposed, there is no more shoving back a nickel and a dime when a quarter is tendered for admission. Pennies have to be carefully counted out and returned also. Many people […]

100 years ago, 1917A club for war service, which sprang from nothing but a bare idea to a membership of nearly a thousand almost overnight, is the record of the Lunn & Sweet Employes War Service Club, which is now a flourishing organization. The firm is noted all over New England for the way in […]

100 years ago, 1917Lewiston faces a problem in sewer construction which will soon call for the expenditure of thousands of dollars. The announcement, made by public works officials, is not in the nature of a sensation, as the need of sewer enlargement has become increasingly apparent during the past few years. During 1911 the department, […]

100 years ago, 1917Lewiston faces a problem in sewer construction which will soon call for the expenditure of thousands of dollars. The announcement, made by public works officials, is not in the nature of a sensation, as the need of sewer enlargement has become increasingly apparent during the past few years. During 1911 the department, […]

100 years ago, 1917 In the interest of food and wheat conservation, Edith Flint, emergency home demonstration agent, from the University of Maine has been assigned to Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties. Miss Flint has arrived and is all ready for business. She is making her headquarters at 72 High street, Auburn. She is prepared […]

100 years ago, 1917Two handsome crops of apples are being harvested on General Turner Hill in the town of Turner. At the Hale place, Manager C. G. Anderson has a crew of men picking Baldwins and other fruit including Northern Spies. A great improvement has been made in the orchard by him during the past […]

100 years ago, 1917At a meeting of the Twin City Local Branch of the N. E. M. P. A. held at Abou Ben Adhem hall in Auburn last night it was unanimously decided that the producers could not afford to raise milk at six cents a quart. The final vote to rise to seven cents, […]