100 years ago, 1917Milk dealers of Lewiston and Auburn have practically all decided that the local price of milk must go to eleven cents on August 1st. This is due, in the two cities, partly to the increased price of grain, bottles, caps and so forth, and the higher cost to the dealers of maintaining […]

100 years ago, 1917The Master Plumbers Association of Lewiston-Auburn received notice Monday from the Plumbers and Steam Fitters union asking an increase in wages from 44 to 50 cents an hour and double pay for overtime. They also demand a closed shop which signifies that only union men be employed. They will work only with […]

100 years ago, 1917There are three more laps, one might say, to complete the trolley line being laid from the Lisbon road at the junction of Pleasant street to the Campus avenue lines. Just now the workmen are busy at the turn on Webster street and are digging out the road-bed down the south side […]

100 years ago, 1917Seventy war-gardeners. working under the supervision of Agent Emil Dick of the Barker mill in New Auburn are learning much more than mere garden methods. They are learning what it means to set one’s course for a given goal and never to stop. Twenty women and fifty men responded to Agent Dick’s […]

100 years ago, 1917Two years ago Thomas Maguire of Auburn was reported as enlisted with the allied armies of Europe. No word was received from him during all that period, and it was thought that he had been killed. But a few days ago his mother, Mrs. Edward Maguire of 45 Mechanics Row, Auburn, received […]

100 years ago, 1917Lewiston-Auburn armories were busy places Thursday. The orders to move Friday and Saturday entailed considerable work. There are men without equipment, the lack being especially glaring in places, as the parade of Wednesday showed. There are men without rifles and uniforms, but these will be supplied at Portland, in all probability. Photographs […]

100 years ago, 1917Heavy damage to highways, gardens, electric and steam railways was caused by an electrical storm of unusual severity which centered in Lewiston and Auburn late Sunday afternoon. Seven people were in the midst of this unique Maine tornado, which toppled over the Hanscom stable and adjoining barn in the town of Greene, […]