100 Years Ago: 1923 Seven new cottages have been added to the summer colony at Popham Beach this season – a good healthy growth. 50 Years Ago: 1973 The Lewiston-Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce has begun the installation of Christmas decorations on streets throughout the downtown shopping district. The plastic bells, along with the other […]
Read more about Feb. 1, 1963, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 Miss Alice Grovo, whose picture appeared in a Portland paper recently in connection with her delightful dancing, lived in Auburn until about a year ago and her dancing was a feature of many social affairs in both cities. She is the […]
Fire destroys Baily Bros. grain mill at East Poland 14 Oct 1922, Sat The Lewiston Daily Sun (Lewiston, Maine) Newspapers.com Read more on this story from 1922 from our archives on Newspapers.com. Find our full archive of newspaper content at sunjournal.com/archives 100 Years Ago: 1922 Frank Bartlett has leased the store right next to his […]
100 Years Ago: 1922 About $80 was realized from the Biblical play, “A Purim Dream,” presented by girls from the Lewiston-Auburn Y.W.H.A. in Abou Ben Adem Hall, Auburn, Wednesday evening. Half of that amount will be donated to some charitable organization in the near future. About 20 were present at the performance and many more […]
100 Years Ago: 1921 A lost baby gave Patrolman Walsh of the Lewiston police department a busy five minutes Monday afternoon on Lisbon Street. Just as he had commandeered Jacob Ham’s sedan to take the child to headquarters, the frantic mother appeared. A considerable crowd had gathered in the meantime. 50 Years Ago: 1971 The […]