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100 Years Ago: 1923 All records for the second day of the Maine State Fair at Lewiston, were shattered beyond all recognition. With the biggest attendance in history for the opening day Monday, shouting the praises of the fair, all day Tuesday, those in Lewiston and Auburn who could get away to go, went early […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Auburn’s fire department is completely motorized. There are few cities of the same size which can say the same thing and point to so many pieces of first class motor apparatus as can Auburn. It has a total of five motor trucks, including two powerful combination pumpers, chemicals, hose and lad- […]

One of the most widely read American authors in the 19th century was Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907).

100 Years Ago: 1923 When John F. Mullaney of Auburn, the veteran door keeper of the Maine state fair, successor to Jerry Brackett of honored memory, pulls his stop watch and opens the big front gate, the fair will be officially on. One might have thought that the fair was on yesterday because it was […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 Unless the present week turns up some unexpected warm weather, the present month will be the coldest August since 1912. Slightly below normal weather conditions have prevailed on 19 of the 26 days of this month and the deficiency of heat totaled 72 degrees. On 11 days of this month it […]

NBC New York's longtime lead sports anchor, Bruce Beck, was reportedly robbed last Wednesday night (August 23) in Rockefeller Plaza.

Sept. 3

A look back in history from past issues of the Lake Country Echo weekly newspaper

100 Years Ago: 1923 Members of Lewiston Reading Circle enjoyed a delightful day Tuesday as guests of Mrs. George W. Horne at the Horne cottage at Norway Lake. The day was rainy so there was not much chance for going out-of-doors, but the Hornes have a large boathouse which contains as one of its pleasant […]

The history-making Dutchwoman had been in charge since September 2019.