100 Years Ago: 1924 “If a call came today to put the entire national guard of Maine into the field, it is ready!” There was pardonable pride in the voice of Adjutant General Hanson when he made that statement. “In twelve hours from the time the call came we could have our troops mobilized at […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The Public Utilities Commission, Thursday rendered a decision granting the request of the Androscoggin Electric Company (Portland- Lewiston Interurban) to increase its fare between Lewiston and Portland from 93 cents to $1.00, which change necessitates a readjustment of intermediate fares, thereby making both slight advances and reductions for the intermediate zone […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Kristiana Hansen of Tokton Springs, Maine, dropped dead on the bridge of the freighter Absecon, of which he was skipper, as the vessel was entering this port Thursday. A distress signal from the freighter brought another boat alongside but there was no doctor on the answering craft. The body will be […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Bad men are elected to office when good women stay at home, said Mrs. Althea Quimby, state president of the W. C. T. U. at the annual meeting of the Androscoggin county W. C. T. U., which held a two days’ session in Turner on Tuesday and Wednesday. We are not […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 For a number of years, Charles Millard Starbird of Danville, Auburn, has been at work on a history of Danville. Mr. Starbird is well qualified to do this work. He is a graduate of Bates college; was a brilliant student; a member of the debating team that went to Oxford, England; […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The No. 1 Advertising charge of J. M. Randolph was in Lewiston Monday and his crew of 26 billers immediately started to work putting up the flaring posters and bills that set forth the wonders innumerable of the big performance to be given Monday June 16. The Sparks circus bears the […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 A man named Collins has an article on Governor Baxter in the Woman’s Home Companion which is well worth reading. Mr. Collins says that the Governor is a “character” which may or may not be taken as a compliment according to the way you look at it. 50 Years Ago: 1974 […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 When Roland McDonald, the 16 year old boy, was arrested Monday, and later, confessed to the murder of this school teacher, the officials were at a loss to attribute a motive. After the boy had re-enacted the murder in the presence of the Sheriff and a photographer, who took pictures of the scene, […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 County Commissioner Fred Leavitt, on his way from Turner to  Auburn, Monday morning found plowed ground frozen to a depth of a quarter of an inch. It was just like late Spring or early Fall so that when he walked over it there was a distinct crunching sound. 50 Years Ago: […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Stanley Pike of East Jay was held up and robbed of about $42 Friday night in a lonely spot on the road between Jay and Livermore Falls. This community which had not entirely recovered from the excitement of the wholesale breaks and robberies of a few nights ago, is stirred up […]