100 Years Ago: 1924 DON’TS FOR SWEETHEARTS For Him Don’t tell your girl you don’t like her dress; Don’t say she’s like her father if he’s plain; Don’t knock her hair down with a rough caress And say you’ll help her do it up again; Don’t keep her waiting if you’ve asked her out, For […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 An article from September 7, 1924 was unavailable; an article from September 7, 1923 is being offered instead. In a boys’ camp near Belfast is a Japanese prince and the son of China’s first president and whatever the relations of the two countries may be, these two boys are good friends. […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Misa Elva M. Parker, Supervisor of Physical Education in the New Bedford, Mass. Schools, has purchased the Harry J. Hilton farm in St. Albans, Me. The farm of about 125 acres includes lake property, field and woods. Miss Parker, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Parker, 585 Main St., Lewiston, intends […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 William R. Pattangall, democrat and Maine candidate for governor, held a gathering of 2,000 spellbound in Lewiston city hall Thursday night as he denounced the Ku Klux Klan with vigorous but quiet eloquence. He declared that Ralph O. Brewster, republican candidate for governor, had “sold himself body and soul” to the […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 A bright little blue-eyed girl of six is looking for a home, according to information given out by the Lewiston police department. Authorities fear that the environment in which she is living is not proper. The police are anxious to hear from some family willing to adopt a child. 50 Years […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 “If Wilton village and Bridgton village are not twins in scenic attractions and general appearance, I’ll leave to anyone,” declared a visitor there recently. “Both have thrifty business houses on a side hill, a lake close at hand and plenty of mountain scenery in the distance. But the view across Wilson […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The will of Robert A. Dunning of Freeport, who died Aug. 15, provides that his mare, Kitty, shall never again wear a harness, and provision is made that eventually a veterinarian shall be employed to put an end to the animal and see that she is decently buried. 50 Years Ago: […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The most extensive public playground program that the city has ever had comes officially to a close Friday with a play circus, minstrel show and patriotic pageant announced by the Director Wright of Lewiston Community Service who has had charge of the children’s playfields. Thousands of children have attended the various […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Albert W. Smith of Skowhegan left Thursday afternoon for Brunswick where today he attended the reunion of Civil War veterans of the 20th Maine Regiment. Mr. Smith was the only Skowhegan man to join that regiment. He enlisted in 1864 at the age of 17 years and served nearly a year. […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Alarms for fire from Friday night to Tuesday will necessarily have to be given by the ringing of the church bells as the steam at the plant of the Johnson brothers shoe factory will be dispensed with thus putting the fire whistle out of commission. 50 Years Ago: 1974 Auburn Police […]