100 Years Ago: 1921 WHY PAY RENT — When you can buy a two-family house with electric lights on a corner lot for $2690 with an income from the start. We have a big list of new property for your Inspection (if thinking of buying). Contact L.B. Gould Co., at 31 Court St.. Auburn. 50 […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 The Stick-to it Club will give a complimentary Bird evening in the Greene Town Hall on Monday evening. They have fortunately secured Rev. A. E. Wilson of Boston to give a Bird talk. Mr. Wilson stops on his way home from a lecture given in Belfast on a previous evening. There […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 H. Tremblay of Lewiston obtained the contract Thursday from the SS Kresge company of Detroit, Mich., for remodeling the store on Lisbon Street, formerly occupied by the Novelty Cloak Store. Work has already begun. 50 Years Ago: 1971 The area’s newest bed and breakfast is gearing up for its first full […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 The police have a little of everything to do in their line of work. Early this week a woman’s hat blew into the canal. Later in the day the hat was rescued by a member of the Lewiston police department. It is now resting quietly at the police station, awaiting Identification […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 Dr. E. P. Goodrich of Lewiston, District Health Officer, is kept very busy these days. He returned Friday from a business trip which took him pretty well over the state, to find an urgent call waiting for him to go immediately to Stratton, where several  cases of Scarlet Fever have broken out. He left […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 One Lewiston man who is in a position to meet a great many people stated yesterday that he feels very strongly in favor of daylight saving and that it would be an easy matter for him to get hundreds of signers for a petition making for an adoption this year. 50 Years […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 A large flock of wild geese flew over Pine street in a northerly direction at about 2 o’clock one morning recently. The flock was of immense size and flying low enough so the birds could be plainly seen by the moonlight. They were squawking loudly and aroused several light sleepers from […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 Roads in the outlying districts, and many streets in the suburban districts of both cities are rapidly becoming almost impassable for automobiles which sink nearly hub-deep in mud and water. 50 Years Ago: 1971 The Taylor Pond Yacht Club members and their guests held a square dance Saturday evening at the […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 Directors of the Auburn Chamber of Commerce, at their meeting Thursday afternoon, took no action on the question of daylight saving, nor will they do so, it was announced, at any later date. 50 Years Ago: 1971 “In Your Easter Bonnet With All the Frills Upon It” will be the theme […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 A very successful apron and food sale was held at the Novelty Cloak Store yesterday by the Nurses Social Club for the benefit of the C.M.G. Hospital. The committee for the sale were Mrs. Merton Warren, chairman, assisted by Mrs. Robert Curran and Miss Matilda Alexander. Members of the Alumnae assisted […]