100 Years Ago: 1924 Four generations of the Hackett family attended the golden wedding anniversary party of Mr. and Mrs. George Hackett of Bowdoinham, held Sunday at the family homestead in the eastern part of the town. George Hackett and Hattie Campbell were married fifty years ago, August 23,1874, in the town of Bowdoinham. The […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 While Joseph Michaud, lumberjack, was receiving treatment in the hospital for a badly cut foot, his chum and companion, Joseph Goulet, 41, of Turner, was wearing out his shoes and spending his savings. Mr. Michaud complained in the Auburn municipal court Saturday morning when Goulet was arraigned on an embezzlement charge. […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 A few days ago an elderly lady came into the Lewiston Journal and produced from a large pocketbook a very small scrap of paper. Unfolding it, she passed it over and said “What right have you to print such a thing as that? Who authorized it?” Looking at the scrap of […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Threatening letters have been received by Merrit I. Harris of Minot, a Lewiston Remnant Co. employee who was assaulted as he entered upon the day’s work Wednesday. Mr. Harris states that the writer or writers of these letters has continually written that unless he got through at the Lewiston Remnant Co., […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 “Two were seriously injured and hundreds bruised” was the report Tuesday of a hasty check up of the casualties from the collapse Monday night of the first base bleachers at the Lewiston athletic park. Some five hundred fans were thrown to the ground at the opening of the 8th inning of […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Auburn police notified the Portland police Friday to be on the lookout for Charles Canbage, 15 years old, and Clarence Grant, nine years old, who ran away from the Mrs. Myron H. Watson field’s Corner, Auburn, morning. The lads said they were going to pick blueberries but they had not been […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Governor Percival P. Baxter in a statement today urges clean fairs in Maine. “For four years I have visited many county and state fairs in every section of Maine, and as the Fair season now is opening, I urge those in charge of these exhibitions to eliminate all objectionable and sensational […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Among the delegates attending the convention of the Ladies of the G. A. in Boston was Mrs. Emily Nash, 93 years old, representing Barnside Circle of Auburn. She is a daughter of the late Sir William Trevylian of London and is proud of the fact that she was born in a […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Mayor Brann is waiting for the aldermen to take action and the aldermen are waiting for their special committee to report, and the committee is waiting for Mayor Brann to recommend, and Lewiston’s much needed grade school is still “in the air.” 50 Years Ago: 1974 The 60th wedding anniversary of […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Through the courtesy of Mrs. V. S. Darling of Auburn who opened her farm on the shores of Lake Auburn to the employees, friends and families of the Darling Automobile Co. and the Reo Service Co., about 100 enjoyed a delightful outing at this beauty spot on Wednesday afternoon and evening. 50 […]