100 Years Ago: 1924 Miss Emily Taft, the 19 year old ingenue lead with the Twin City Players to open at the Music Hall on June 30th, was destined for a career in art but yielded to the stronger call of the stage. Miss Taft is the daughter of Lorado Taft and a grand- niece […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Experienced chauffeur wanted at once at Belgrade Hotel, Belgrade Lakes, Me. Must furnish best of references as to reliability, temperance and character. Must be able to make own repairs, etc. Apply by letter or person. No tel. calls. 50 Years Ago: 1974 Geoffrey Law, instructor of history at Bates College, and […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Benny Wong, 19 years old China man, of the Royal Restaurant force, was knocked unconscious and robbed of $48.50 in the lower Maine Central yard at 11:50 Monday evening after having been dragged from the sidewalk in front of the Empire theater and rushed from Main street by several youthful bandits. […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Because the June 15, 1924 Sun Journal is not available, we are offering this item from June 15, 1923. For the forty-eighth consecutive season, the Poland Spring House opened Thursday noon with luncheon promptly and as though it had never been closed — every department in complete order and the house […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Women are fast coming to the front in the art of poultry breeding. Miss Mary A. Wingate of Hallowell has made the same success with ducks that Mrs. Florence Guptel of Topsham has with turkeys. Both have a love of nature and a natural aptitude for raising poultry. Miss Wingate is […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Miss Alice Dick of Auburn was one of four Maine girls to receive a signal honor at Commencement exercises at Lasell seminary this week. These young women received the scholastic award; their work being deemed the best from among 55 senior candidates. Miss Dick is the daughter of Emil Dick. 50 […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 A corps of earnest, sincere men and women are at work making their first reaches for a goal that will not be achieved before October. And then, when it is achieved, it will only be by virtue of unceasing work from now until the Harvest moon is shining. But it is […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Impressive flag raising exercises by the visiting Patriarchs Militant in front of Abou Ben Adhem Hall, Auburn, opened the second day’s program Wednesday. Several hundred were in attendance when the halyards were raised, carrying a huge American flag, which as it unfolded sent a shower of tiny ones floating to the street […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 More than 700 heart specialists, among the fifteen thousand physicians attending the seventy fifth annual convention of the American Medical Association in Chicago, listened simultaneously today to the pulsation of a heart. The demonstration made possible through the use of a giant stethophone was a feature of the opening of the […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Lewiston democrats are going to organize the French speaking women of the community. A meeting will be held in the aldermen’s room, Lewiston city building, at 7.30 p.m., Thursday night, when Mrs. Phil Howard of Rockland will speak. Her remarks will be in French. The meeting was called by Mrs. Ruth […]