100 years ago: 1925 Sam E. Conner reported from Augusta that ever since the hearing on the ice fishing in Belgrade lakes bill a couple of weeks ago, there has been a bitter wrangle in progress about the Augusta House at night. It will be recalled that some question was raised as to the honesty […]

100 years ago: 1925 A complete little home which with the lot, lawn and neat little picket fence occupies a plot less than two feet square can be found at the county building, Auburn, if one looks hard enough. It is the handiwork of Ted Morin of Lewiston, one of the prisoners, who used only […]

100 years ago: 1925 Sensational statements made at Augusta concerning Lewiston government and Lewiston people were the talk of the town yesterday. On street corners, in stores, street cars everywhere the discussion was warm. It was openly asserted that those responsible for the “besmirching of Lewiston’s fair name” will have to answer to the people […]

100 years ago: 1925 Four affidavits were presented at the hearing on the Parent-Gagne bill in the state Legislature today naming two Lewiston men, Hubert Verreault, janitor at Lewiston city building, and William P. Lambert, former Lewiston alderman, now employed at the municipal lighting plant. Both are accused of being intoxicated while on duty. 50 […]

100 years ago: 1925 Under the headline “Woman and Sissy Men Oppose Death Penalty,” the newspaper reported that two clergymen were the only persons who favored a restoration of capital punishment for the crime of murder before a legislative hearing. They were Rev. Andrew T. McWhorter of the South Paris church and Rev. John Balch […]

100 years ago: 1925 Leslie B. Hilton of Auburn got such a kick and saw so many arms, legs and feet in rapid motion at the regular spiritualist meeting Sunday night in the block at the corner of Main and Court streets, Auburn that he has had one of the alleged evil spirits arrested on […]

100 years ago: 1925 Despite the theft of radio equipment overnight at the Armory, Lewiston’s first official appearance ‘on the air’ by radio in connection with the opening of the big auto-radio show at the Armory yesterday was a great success. The program, afternoon and evening, was under the personal direction of John D. McCarthy, […]

100 years ago: 1925 John C. Woodrow of Auburn expects shortly to move the house situated on Hampshire Street, which he purchased from Dingley-Foss Shoe Co., to the corner of Union and Hampshire streets. He is planning to remodel the building, which was formerly a boarding house, into an apartment house. It will stand on […]

100 years ago: 1925 When the doors of the Lewiston Armory open Monday on the first automobile and radio show of metropolitan proportions and the first for several years, the building will have been transformed into a mammoth show place. A small army of people were busy on the job Saturday. Automobiles of every kind, […]

100 years ago: 1925 Police and fire officials of the two cities are investigating an attempt to set fire to the Roman Catholic Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Ash and Bartlett streets, last evening, and three attempts to set fire to St. Louis Roman Catholic Church of Auburn, the latest on Tuesday evening. […]