100 years ago, 1914(Advertisement) The Atherton Furniture Company is planning extensive changes and alterations on their first floor. These changes include a complete new office department and a large balcony. In this balcony the firm plans to build a suite of large size rooms which will be completely furnished with the most modern home furnishings […]

100 years ago, 1914A more effective or delightful program has seldom been witnessed in Lewiston city hall, than the Colonial Minuet given there, Friday evening, this being the closing night of the Colonial carnival given under the auspices of St. Joseph’s parish. Forty couples filled the floor and with the effective costumes of the colonial […]

100 years ago, 1914It is stated that the payrolls of Lewiston and Auburn mills and shoe shops aggregate about half a million dollars per month and that the Auburn shoe shops pay out nearly as much money each month as the Lewiston cotton mills. Within a year Lewiston will increase its output of cottons in […]

100 years ago, 1914(ADVERTISEMENT) COLONIAL CARNIVAL at Lewiston City Hall, three nights this week, Wednesdays, Thursday and Friday, at 8 o’clock sharp. One hundred ladies and gentlemen in colonial costume. Hall and stage a beautiful picture of colonial days. Performances of “The Colonial Rival Choirs” by 100 in costume. The Colonial Minuet and Grand Colonial […]

100 years ago, 1914Wrapped in a blanket and with nothing else on except a pair trousers, a seven-year-old boy was carried from the burning building on Ash street, Lewiston, Saturday night. All his clothes had been lost in the fire. “Take him across the street to the store and get him some clothes,” directed Geo. […]

100 years ago, 1914On Sunday and Monday Chief Moriarty of the Lewiston Fire Department was deluged with congratulation for the excellent work of the department in handling the fires of Saturday afternoon and night. By all it is considered a remarkable feat that, under the conditions which existed at the time, the fire in the […]

100 years ago, 1914The storm of Saturday was the worst which has swept Lewiston in a number of years. Early that day it interfered with travel of all kinds. Street car service was tied up and suspended and the public carriages were unable to help but little. Horses tired quickly in the fierce blizzard. It […]

100 years ago, 1914OF LOCAL INTEREST — The biggest and handsomest sign in Lewiston and Auburn is going up on the Cushman-Hollis Shoe factory, Auburn, extending the entire south front, around the corner and along the east end. It is nearly 160 feet long and four feet wide, in raised gold letters on a sanded […]

100 years ago, 1914A shell of ice enshrouded walls supported by charred and blackened timber marks the wreck of the $35,000 four story brick building at 199-201 Lincoln street, owned by Mrs. Pierre Provost of 59 Fourth street, Auburn. In the biting cold of Thursday night firemen from Lewiston and Auburn fought the worst fire […]

100 years ago, 1914Monday morning, at the factory of L.M. Mann & Son, West Paris, a blower pipe burst, emptying the boiler and blowing the fire, smoke, steam and hot water from the engine. The smoke and steam filled the factory and some of the workmen jumped from the windows and others crawled from the […]