100 years ago, 1915Demand for a fire alarm system in Auburn separate to that of Lewiston has been apparent for some time and it is likely that some notion toward this end will soon be taken by Auburn officials. 50 years ago, 1965Heavyweight boxer Sonny Liston is a double loser. Tuesday night Cassius Clay’s phantom […]

100 years ago, 1915Paddling in a row boat in the Androscoggin, Tuesday afternoon, the attention of two boys was attracted to a black object, which whirled about in the mad waters beneath the falls. They rowed closer to the object as it struggled toward the stiller water and discovered, in a short time, that it […]

100 years ago, 1915“I didn’t know time were so many runners in Lewiston,” says a woman who lives on East avenue. “Every boy in this neighborhood is out racing, along the route of the Lewiston Journal’s big ten mile foot race of next Monday. I have found out that there are a lot of folks […]

100 years ago, 1915Several nights ago a beautiful palm, a plant especially choice to the owner because she had watched its growth for ten years, was stolen from the rear porch of a Pine street Lewiston home. The theft, it is believed, was committed after nine o’clock in the evening and presumably by someone who […]

100 years ago, 1915Just at this time Roak’s greenhouses, Auburn, are worthy of a visit. Of course, there are a multitude of plants in these large houses and Mr. Roak is always pleased to show them to visitors. The Memorial day flowers this year, are especially fine and will be in excellent condition for the […]

100 years ago, 1915Compliments are heard on all sides for Manager Bibber of Music hall for the tactful way in which he handled the great audience of more than 1300 people, during the Lisbon street fire in Lewiston, Monday night. The fire was almost next door to the play house. “It was the closest call […]

100 years ago, 1915The campaign against gambling machines for money or for checks representing money, was given added impetus Monday by Chief McCarron of Lewiston, who ordered patrolmen to make extra efforts to locate every machine of this kind in their districts. Sometime ago Chief McCarron ordered that all such machines should be seized and […]

100 years ago, 1915News of the loss of the four-masted schooner, Lewiston, off Maranham, Brazil, was received at Boston today. All of the crew reached shore safely in the ship’s boat. The Lewiston, which was carrying coal from Norfolk, struck a reef 12 miles from Maranham. Capt. T. G. Ginn of Auburn, who was in […]

100 years ago, 1915S. H. Keene and wife of Turner Centre arrived in West Auburn Thursday night from an automobile trip which lacks only two weeks of having been of a year’s duration and on which they covered a distance of 20,000 miles, visited the majority of the States in the Union and had many […]

100 years ago, 1915Something was doing Tuesday forenoon at Hillman’s ferry in Livermore Falls when Boardman Knox started to ferry an Auburn gentleman and his team across the river. The wind was blowing a gale when Mr. Knox pushed the ferry boat out into the river and this, coupled with current, pulled hard on the […]