100 Years Ago: 1924 Few people locally realized the variety of shoes manufactured in Lewiston-Auburn until the display by 10 manufacturers in one of the large show windows kindly lent for the purpose by the Androscoggin Electric Co., of Main Street. 50 Years Ago: 1974 Each year the Key Club of Saint Dominic’s Regional High […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 In connection with the New England Week, displays at B. Peck’s of locally manufactured goods is the attractive window given over to the Bates Street Shirt Co., Lewiston, whose shirts are known the world over. 50 Years Ago: 1974 Two thousand gallons of coal tar poured into the already polluted Androscoggin River […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Frank M. Hacker of Frye Street, Lewiston, is going to give the city of Lewiston  a handsome watering trough in place of the trough that was wrecked when an automobile crashed into it some time ago. He made the offer to Mayor Brann and the Lewiston aldermen accepted it Wednesday night. Mr. […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 A prominent Auburn man from now on looks upon the present fad for hand-made rugs with feelings more or less mingled with distrust. One member of his household has become a devotee of the art and has already fashioned several rugs which are the envy of her friends. Every new rug […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Albert H. Palmer, aged 26 years, of Oakland, confessed Tuesday night to the police that he entered the Blaine House, the executive mansion, during the day and stole two watches, a ring and a camera belonging to Gov. Baxter and the family of his sister, Mrs. Fenton Tomlinson. Palmer also confessed […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Marcel Roy, three years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Francois Roy of 148 Oxford Street, Lewiston, decided Friday morning that he could make a fire as well as his father, if not better. His father had to start a fire in a big, black iron thing called a stove, and […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Brunswick was first in having an airplane landing field. She also was the first town to receive a postal delivery by airplane. And last week. unexpected, unheralded, the waters of Mere Point, Brunswick’s summer resort, held the magnetic needle and drew the American Army Airmen who have encircled the world to […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Lewiston and Auburn today joined hands with the rest of the Union in a practical demonstration of a “Defense Test.” National Guard and Organized Reserve members were reporting through the day at the Armory on Central Avenue, Lewiston. In the evening, three local units of Infantry (National Guard) will be mobilized, […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Roland Chandler had a strange experience recently when he went to his cottage at Sabbathday Lake and was unable to unlock the door as someone had locked it on the inside. He went to a neighbor’s for assistance and upon their return they found the offenders had fled. They had a […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Chief of Police William B. Edwards was struck Monday by an automobile driven by Fred Libby of Brunswick. The accident on Main street nearly occurred opposite the Town Building. Chief Edwards was knocked to the ground and carried unconscious to the office of Dr. Elliott nearby. He was badly bruised on […]