100 years ago, 1913War has been declared upon rubber sling shots and air rifles by the lighting department of the city of Lewiston. In the past two weeks boys equipped with these implements of destruction have broken about 25 street lights in the residential section of the city. Each light so broken represents an expenditure […]

100 years ago, 1913J.P. Hutchinson, of Auburn, has long had a dream of a passage from tide water on the coast to these cities. His idea is to get a government appropriation to deepen the Androscoggin River at certain points and with locks to get around the falls at Topsham and Brunswick. In speaking of […]

100 years ago, 1913While out gunning Friday, a Durham man came across something startling, nothing alive and not the wild man, but perhaps the wild man’s clothes. He found a rubber coat, a sou’wester (hat), a pair of rubbers, leather belt, an old leather satchel containing a testament with the name “W.H. Monroe,” some graham […]

100 years ago, 1913Barker Mill baseball arena in Auburn was the scene of historic slaughter Friday afternoon when the Spartans, desperate yet defiant and determined to come home with the enemy’s bats or upon them, swooped down upon the Tigers who journeyed from Sixth street to do battle and by dint of fierce warfare reduced […]

100 years ago, 1913Dr. H.B. Pulsifer, Prospect hill, Auburn, has a mystery on his hands and is perfectly willing that any of the local sleuths, Hawkshaws, Sherlock Holmes, Nick Carter or other solvers of difficult problems shall tackle it and inform him as to what became of his potatoes. Wednesday he prepared eight bushels of […]

100 years ago, 1913Lewiston’s great white way will be a blaze of light again on Thursday night, rain or no rain. Supt. Guimond of the lighting station makes this declaration positively. When the crew which has been at work on the lighting station quit work Wednesday night they left a gravel hole in the roof. […]

100 years ago, 1913John D. Clifford, Jr., Lewiston, was on Tuesday, admitted to practice law before the Maine bar at the opening of the September term of the supreme court of this county. He recently passed the state examination with high marks. His admission was moved by Hon. Frank A. Morey. Mr. Clifford was educated […]

100 years ago, 1913Herbert W. Pike, a jeweler of Lisbon Falls, on Tuesday evening became entangled in a rope trailing from the rear of an auto-truck and was dragged along Middle street, Lewiston, for nearly fifty feet, receiving a scalp in addition to tearing his garments. He was attended at the Central Maine General Hospital. […]

100 years ago, 1913Three Lewiston milk dealers are in for a session with the municipal court for selling watered milk. Warrants for their arrest were obtained on Monday by a State dairy inspector. According to the inspector, tests were made of the milk from these dealers and samples were found to be very much watered. […]

100 years ago, 1913Durham, as a whole, objects. It insists that there was a wild man, crazy man or some other abnormal creature wandering in the woods, lanes and cow paths of the town’s suburbs for many days in the past month. It declares that the wild man was a reality, not a hoax. One […]