100 years ago, 1913Inasmuch as the World Series will be played at Music Hall, Lewiston, by the electric score board, beginning tomorrow afternoon, the management wished it known that this extra big feature will in no way interfere with the regular vaudeville and picture program. The electrical scoreboard is so well known among local fans […]

100 years ago, 1913At last, the ladies of Lewiston and Auburn all this section of Maine are to have what New York has been so interested and concerned about — a “Fashion Show,” which will be held at E. S. Paul & Co., Lewiston. This is in reality a display of gowns, coats, furs and […]

100 years ago, 1913The new Bates weave shed in Lewiston (now known as Bates Mill No. 5) will be covered in within a few weeks, but the wheel pit and other work on the canal side will hardly be finished before cold weather. The turbines are ready to be put in place and a large […]

100 years ago, 1913There was but little change in the strike situation, Thursday, except that the pouring rain kept many of the strikes under cover. Lunn & Sweet shoe company in Auburn adhere to the position taken by them all along, not to give in to the strikers and are training men to take their […]

100 years ago, 1913Alderman William E. Skelton cast a bombshell of facts and figures into the meeting of the Lewiston board of aldermen Tuesday evening, laying incompetence and graft at the doors of the Democratic heads of the departments, and at the same time answering the criticisms that lay the increase of the 2 mills […]

100 years ago, 1913A jolly crowd it was which gathered at the farm of A.A. Howard, Montello Street, Lewiston, Saturday evening, the occasion being an old fashioned barn dance, in honor of the dedication of a new barn just completed by Mr. Howard. Twenty-five couple attended and to the music of Mr. Sturtevant’s violin, old […]

100 years ago, 1913George W. Bowker, who on the seventh of September passed the eighty-second mile stone in the journey of life and entered upon the sixty-second year of his life as a workman, day after day goes to his bench in the Wade & Dunton factory, Lewiston, to ply his trade as carriage maker […]

100 years ago, 1913A spicy trial was held fore the court in Livermore Falls Thursday when Dascomb and Piper, two farmers from Leeds, sought to settle their differences. Dascomb, whose fence was up, turned out his cows and, Piper’s fence being down, they strayed into his field. Dascomb found Piper turning his cattle into the […]

100 years ago, 1913An Auburn Heights woman is troubled with a skunk that persists in making its habitat under her shed. She says that it is very much alive and she writes to the Journal to inquire if the chairman of the fish and game commission will come and get the animal, as she thinks […]