100 Years Ago: 1924 With the Lewiston branch of the Coon Ice Cream Co. operating day and night 365 days in the year it will be seen that this community’s share of the system’s million gallon yearly output is large. Well may Lewiston take pride in having one of the seven manufacturing plants of this […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 On Jan. 1 836, Andrew Johnson put five dollars in the Gardiner Savings Bank for his son, the late George N. Johnson. The son lived his entire life without drawing a penny from or adding to his deposit. On Jan. 1 of this year the deposit of five dollars, with its […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Two damage suits — one for $10,000 and the other for $1,000 have been started against The Texas Co. as a result of the explosion last May of an empty gasolene tank on First street, Auburn, which was believed to have been caused by a match tossed into the open vent. […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Hot dog vendors in all sections of Lewiston were ordered from Lewiston streets Monday when the license committee of the Lewiston city government refused to grant them permits to operate. As a result all available places in various sections of Lewiston are being sought by the vendors of frankforts and rolls […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Henry Cloutier, proprietor of Cloutier’s Market Lisbon Street was adjudged guilty of speeding, Tuesday morning in the Lewiston municipal court, but sentence was suspended when he explained that he had been travelling 25 miles an hour on Pine in order to carry a priest from the Dominican monastery to a patient […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Miss Lucie Sanborn entertained her dancing school pupils at her Wilton home Wednesday afternoon. The party of little folks enjoyed themselves “in the open.” A delicious lunch of cake, cookies, punch, chocolate and candy kisses, added to their enjoyment. 50 Years Ago: 1974 A stuck car horn broke the still of […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 John W. Davis, the democratic presidential nominee, after some persuasion, posed for photographers as he passed through Bath early today on his way from New York to Islesboro. Mr. Davis also thanked the people who had gathered at the station for the interest they had shown and said later he hoped […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The most enthusiastic meeting held by the newly organized Lions’ club of Auburn was enjoyed by 24 members at Paradise Farm Thursday evening. Mrs. Kendrie served one of her delicious chicken dinners and after everyone had done justice to the “bird”, their attention was turned to the king of the animal […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Alexander Horth, 13 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Horth of 305 Bates street, Lewiston, has the makings of a great violinist, according to his teacher, Miss Marguerite Burke Girouard of Lewiston. He has been taking violin lessons for four years, and is unusually earnest in his efforts to […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The tower clock which was purchased by the city of Lewiston in 1922 and placed in the turret of the United Baptist Church on Main Street has been out of active service for the past month. The two large hands, caught in some unaccountable manner, have defied the attempts of the […]