100 years ago, 1913Nothing was lacking in the entertainment at Thorne’s Corner, Thursday evening, to celebrate the installation of electric lights in the grange hall, but the lights themselves. Twice they made their appearance for a brief, tantalizing minute and the hall and stage shown resplendent. Then they went out as suddenly as they came […]

100 years ago, 1913The Durham wild-man, primitive nut, who made his debut in the woods at Durham a few weeks ago with nothing to cover his identity but bushes and his ability to evade all searchers, has been located. Nut was not a man nor was he a scare-crow. In fact, he was nothing but […]

100 years ago, 1913A marriage certificate recently was found on Harris Hill in Poland on the cross road leading to the Falls. It had evidently lain in the rain and wet for a long time for hardly any writing remains legible. Only the day of the month, “twentieth,” one or two letters in month, one […]

100 years ago, 1913The St. Hilaire brothers of Lewiston are fast gaining prominence in local athletics. Telesphore, who is 20 years of age, won the Labor Day marathon to Lake Grove, while Alphonse, who is a year younger, also finished among the prize winners. Telesphore has been running for three years and has also appeared […]

100 years ago, 1913James McNelson, a workman at the new Bates weave shed, Lewiston, had his after dinner smoke as usual, Saturday, but the pipe was somewhat damp, for McNelson just before the noon hour had dived into the canal, coming to the surface with his pipe that he had dropped. Just a few minutes […]

100 years ago, 1913“There are plenty of good reasons,” said Samuel Sylvester of Lisbon Falls, “why the State should build the trunk line (highway) from Lewiston to Brunswick for us. We have a large amount of water power to be developed. We are one of the largest towns of the state. There is as beautiful […]

100 years ago, 1913It was a neat job done by Chief-of-Police Leader, Wednesday night, when he discovered the plot of a bunch of crooks who were planning to rush the Maine State Fair’s lower ticket office and seize the money till. The discovery was brought about by the pickpocket who had been detained earlier in […]

100 years ago, 1913Efforts to carry off loot from three places on Main Street, Lewiston, were made by burglars sometime during Thursday night, the breaks being discovered Friday morning. Little of value was taken. At the lower Maine Central station, a “drop a penny in the slot” machine was unfastened and carried a short distance […]

100 years ago, 1913Beginning Sunday, the Lewiston, Auburn & Waterville street railway will run cars from the head of Lisbon and Main streets to the Maine State fair grounds every five minutes. The service will be better than ever before. In order to do this, however, it will be necessary to take one of the […]

100 years ago, 1913Let everyone in Lewiston and Auburn walk down Lisbon Street tonight as far as the Novelty Cloak Store and see the new electric light and trolley pole, which is being installed there. A story goes with this new and improved form of lighting and it begins with a trip to the south […]