100 years ago, 1915 Just 16 years ago the Great Department Store, occupying three acres of floor space, was opened to the public for the first time and then full skirts and puff sleeves attracted the style seekers. Wednesday, full skirts were again on the racks and new colors, new models and new materials have […]

100 years ago, 1915Mr. Dillon and Miss Raleigh, Lewiston’s popular dancing partners, are proving a big attraction at the Dainty Lunch room at the Great Department store. They dance between three and five in the afternoon and it is becoming quite the proper thing to drop in for a cup of tea and get an […]

100 years ago, 1915The ice went out of Lake Auburn sometime during the dark hours Tuesday night (April 13) or Wednesday morning (April 14) so there is chance for an argument. Fishermen lost no time in getting busy and three boats were reported to be out, Wednesday afternoon. The first fish will be the next […]

100 years ago, 1915Frank Brown, alias Frank Moore, and John Peterman, who, after pleading guilty in the Auburn municipal court, Monday, to being tramps, were sentenced to 10 months in the county jail, again appeared in court, Tuesday, and appealed their cases to the September term of supreme judicial court. Each was asked to furnish […]

100 years ago, 1915Joseph D. Stanford, formerly of Lewiston, well remembered as one of the first superintendents of the New England Telephone in this vicinity, is making a trip to San Francisco via the Panama Canal and, as he puts it, “unless picked up by a German war-ship,” will write a few notes now and […]

100 years ago, 1915Because someone on the line refused to “get off” even when told that fire was spreading toward the house and the wire was wanted for emergency, a Rowe’s Corner woman had to rush to a neighbor’s telephone, Thursday morning, to summon aid. A blaze started in the dry grass and rapidly spread […]

100 years ago, 1915And now the city of Auburn is in the war game and supplying material for the great European struggle. This time it is not war weapons to destroy life but an ingenious device to save human lives on ships equipped with the life floats now being made by the Otto E. Hitt […]

100 years ago, 1915One hundred and eight grocerymen ate their fill of Penley’s Blue Tag Hams, Sunday afternoon at the packing room of the E. W. Penley company, Auburn. The guests were served the Blue Tag Ham in plenty, but there was also plenty else to eat for clam stew, onion salad, sauer kraut, coffee, […]

100 years ago, 1915Franklin Holding, the violinist of Lewiston, has been chosen by Alice Nielson, formerly prima donna of the Boston Opera Co., as soloist for her big concert tour of the South and West, and has been signed for the trip. They will leave April 16 on the private car which they are to […]

100 years ago, 1915The Corner in Lewiston has added to its prestige, not only as the executive office of the local democratic party, but also the breeding spot for a revival of boxing, the game that died in Lewiston not long ago. On the door that leads to the offices of Congressman McGillicuddy and the […]