100 years ago, 1917Walter Bullock, the 17-year-old Minnesota aviator, has been in Lewiston for some time looking over the field and getting his bearings. His machine arrived Wednesday night and was carried to the fairgrounds Thursday morning. The work of assembling it will start at once. Whether or not he will make a trial flight […]

100 years ago, 1917Lewiston and Auburn will employ no child labor after September first when the new legislation regarding the employment of children comes into effect. Not very many children are employed now. “Last winter,” said the agent of one of the leading cotton factories, “I was talking with the Commissioner of Labor at Augusta, […]

100 years ago, 1917Mayor Charles P. Lemaire, chief of police by virtue of the authority reposed in his office by the city charter, took active charge of the department at nine o’clock Tuesday morning. Benjamin Keegan, former captain of night police and acting chief of police at the mayor’s designation when the courts declared the […]

100 years ago, 1917Maine boys in the Second Regiment need warm clothing. This is the message which comes from Dr. B. F. Sturgis, formerly of Auburn, who is now an examining official in Massachusetts for the troops. He says that 180 boys have no sweaters and most of the 2nd Maine are lacking in warm […]

100 years ago, 1917With American troops approaching nearer and nearer each day to the firing line, the time is here for Americans at home to think of the comfort of their boys overseas. To help Americans at home to add to the comfort and cheer which is so much needed at the front, the Lewiston […]

100 years ago, 1917(Excerpt from Letter to the Editors) I am a new arrival in this city, having come here several weeks ago to work. I am an ordinary enough chap, 29 years old, moderate in my habits and with a fair education. I don’t eat peas with my knife nor would I wear russet […]

100 years ago, 1917A young Cuban called on P. A Galvin of Auburn yesterday morning and during the conversation congratulated Mr. Galvin on his services in the Spanish war. He said that he will be one of 7,000 Cuban troops to be sent to Europe for war service within a few weeks. 50 years ago, […]

100 years ago, 1917“One of the most dangerous places on our streets is on Main on the right-hand side going toward Lisbon street, just after leaving the bridge over the canal,” said an employee of the Union Water Power company to the Lewiston Journal. “The traffic officer cannot watch everything at once, and 1 don’t […]

100 years ago, 1917The Japanese chef employed by William P. Gray, theatrical manager, at his Lake Auburn cottage was stunned by a bolt of lightning which splintered a big pine near the Gray cottage during an electrical storm last evening. Dr. W. H. Hawkins was summoned. He made a record run to the lake and […]

100 years ago, 1917Borax Bill with his twenty-mule team and Tarantula Pete, straight from the Death Valley of California, spent Saturday in Lewiston and Auburn. They were greeted by crowds at every stopping place and thousands followed the parade through the streets. The mule team is a novelty and the story of its work makes […]