100 years ago, 1913(Advertisement) Martin’s General Store, East Auburn, Me. Everything to Make Christmas Merry. Broken Christmas cookies, 2 Lbs. for 25 cents; walnuts 20 cents per pound; popcorn, 5 Lbs, for 25 cents; Chase & Sanborn’s Perfection Blend Coffee, 30 cents per can; 5 Gals. Kerosene for 50 cents; sugar, 25-lb. bag for $1.25; […]

100 years ago, 1913The Lewiston police station looked like a January white sale in a dry goods store on Monday morning. It was strewn and littered with cotton goods. The collection was the result of the raid made Saturday morning in a house on Park street by the police. At that time cotton goods to […]

100 years ago, 1913“Lewiston is like Sunny Italy,” was the statement, in speaking of this part of New England, made by Francis M. Evans of Harrogate, England, who with Mrs. Evans, is making his first visit to America, Lewiston being the first sojourn. And a happy family gathering it has been, for Mrs. Evans is […]

100 years ago, 1913 Miss Isabelle Trask of Rome, who enjoys the distinction of being the only woman to kill a silver gray fox, sold the pelt to T.J. Murphy, the Lewiston dealer in pelt and skins. The pelt, which is considered an excellent one, is of remarkable beauty and will be placed in the […]

100 years ago, 1913Several cottages at Taylor Pond are reported to have been broken into during the last few days and while so far as known few articles of value were taken, the cottages were thoroughly ransacked and it is believed that it was the work of some persons who were thirsty and thought possible […]

100 years ago, 1913The new street lights in Auburn which will be turned on tonight were paid for by the Board of Trade. The members of that organization feel that their work has been justified and they will celebrate the event with a banquet at the Elm House in the near future. Judge Harrie L. […]

100 years ago, 1913Monday, Christmas money in the amount of $67,101.86 will be distributed among 2523 Lewiston and Auburn people. This fortune, for it is such, represents the amount plus interest, which the members of the Manufacturers’ National Bank Christmas Savings club have accumulated in the past fifty weeks. The checks are now ready and […]

100 years ago, 1913The Longleys of Greene have been exhibited thru the Lewiston Journal as farmers, cheese makers, hotel keepers and stage drivers. Do many people remember when they ran Longley’s express, now the Androscoggin & Kennebec and Grand Trunk railroad between Lewiston and Portland? For some time the Grand Trunk, before extending its main […]

100 years ago, 1913Arthur Grenier, 36, an expert heavy construction workman employed as a foreman at the new Ashe, Noyes & Small factory, Auburn, fell a story and a half yesterday afternoon when a two inch timber on which he was walking broke allowing him to drop through to the basement. He struck across an […]

100 years ago, 1913A 90-year-old man jumped onto the tracks at the upper Maine Central station, Tuesday morning, as a train pulled in. Certain death was avoided by the prompt action of Thomas Nelligan, a patrolman on the Lewiston department, who got him off the tracks and had but little time to regain the platform […]