100 Years Ago: 1924 No such ovation as was accorded Geraldine Farrar in Lewiston City Hall, Thursday evening, has been given to any singer in Lewiston, not even excepting the beloved Schumann-Heink. With hands, feet and voices the audience paid tribute to her beauty, her voice, her magnetism and her consummate art, in applause loud, […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Mrs. Frank Pelletier of Canal Street, Lewiston asks $5,000 damages of Dupont’s bakery,  Auburn. She swallowed a pin that lodged in her throat, while eating bread alleged to be made at that bakery. In the writ she alleges that she purchased a loaf of Dupont’s bread at a local grocery last […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Recognition of the importance of women on the farm has led the American Farm Bureau Federation this year for the first time to include both men and women in its home and community work. Another sign of recognition is the resolution adopted at the federation’s last annual convention, urging that women […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Alfred Leblanc of Pine street, Lewiston, has taken over the interests of his brother, Philip, in the Lewiston Steam and Dye House at 139 Main street, Lewiston. Alfred has been manager of the concern, and is now sole owner. Philip Leblanc has opened a grocery store at 51 Knox Street. Mr. […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 A rather spectacular escape effected from the State School at Hallowell at 1 o’clock on Thursday morning when Cora Littlefield dropped from the third story window of her sleeping room to the ground by tying together bed clothing and hitching the same to a bedpost. The girl was found walking along […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 A new industry for Maine? Yes, and it bids fair to be a mighty factor to the agricultural prosperity of our State. Canning of peas may well be called a new industry for our state. This has been started by the Portland Packing Company, and for the first year has proved […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Fire which broke out in the shed at the rear of the Park street poolroom at 11 o’clock Friday night, swept its way into the Victoria Hotel overhead and the adjoining four story rooming house, 209 Middle Street, owned by Henry Free, causing the tenants, scantily clad, to flee for their […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The first woman to be arrested by the Auburn police among offenders of the traffic laws, was Mrs. Ralph Cameron of Auburn who was intercepted on South Goff street Friday night for speeding. She pleaded guilty and paid the costs of court. 50 Years Ago: 1974 An official of the Textile […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Three patrol units of two men each, equipped with three automobiles, will go on duty June 1 to augment the United States customs service along the northern frontier of Maine to suppress the illegal transportation of contraband material across the Canadian border, Dr. Charles M. Sleeper, Collector of Customs, announced today. […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Smuggling booze from Maine into New Brunswick doesn’t seem to be in strict accord with prevailing notions of the rum traffic, but those whose business keeps them in touch with the situation say such is the condition which now exists. It is also asserted that the volume of alcohol going out […]