100 Years Ago: 1924 The clairvoyant who came to Wilton on Monday to assist in the search for Edward Young of Dryden, did not succeed in locating the missing man. At three different places the clairvoyant pointed toward the old ball ground but a search of the locality failed to give any clue. The Goodspeed […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 An Article for July 13, 1924 was unavailable, instead an article from July 12, 1924 is being offered. Governor Baxter has  appointed Howard D. Smith of Norway for his eighth consecutive term as Notary Public. Mr. Smith has been previously appointed for seven years, and the term for which he is […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Clubs classes or other societies are urged to avail themselves of the service given this summer at Opportunity Farm with special “eats,” according to the season. Strawberries now are plentiful and shortcake or other delicacies may be arranged for, with due notice by telephone. The Management will use proceeds for the […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gutmann of Lewiston send the Lewiston Journal greetings from “the top of the world”; the top of the Juggfrau, Switzerland, where they were on June 29th about 13,000 feet amid the snow. They are well and having a most enjoyable tour. 50 Years Ago: 1974 Westward the […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 This spring Mrs. Archie Page of North Leeds had a pair of year old guinea-fowl. One day recently while Mr. Page and his family were away the guinea-hen was run over and killed. For the next two or three days, the guinea cock mourned for the mate and seemed disconsolate, then […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The White House, scene of many of the nation’s sorrows, again became a house of mourning today while the whole people, it seemed poured in their message of sympathy at the death of President Coolidge’s 16 year old boy, Calvin, Jr. 50 Years Ago: 1974 Officer Denis Pacquin was bitten early […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 After lying on the edge of the M. C. R. R. trestle over the canal at the Androscoggin Mill, Lewiston, to avoid being hit by the incoming 12:40 train, Alphonse Carron, 20, rose from his prone position just in time to be struck by the step on the platform of the […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Four horses were rescued from the smoky interior of a barn on Holland street, Lewiston, owned by the Valvoline Oil Co., when a quantity  of hay got on fire in some unknown manner, shortly after midnight Saturday. 50 Years Ago: 1974 Lewiston has another big money lottery winner in Glen Thibodeau of […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Figures have been compiled by the Main Railroad and steamship officials and Maine Publicity Bureau and Maine Automobile association showing that on closest estimate and actual revenue, the total cash brought into Maine every year by summer tourists is $52,000,000. 50 Years Ago: 1974 The children of the Heathwood Lane-Hillmount Drive […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The State Public Utilities Commission took under advisement Thursday the earnest appeal by Mayor Brann of Lewiston for a gate and gate-tender at the Fair Grounds crossing on Main street, at a hearing in Lewiston city building Thursday. The Maine Central Railroad opposed the petition. Mayor Brann urged that since five […]