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1999 – 25 Years

100 Years Ago: 1924 Miss Ellen Mae Stetson, talented pupil of Miss Marion Murphy, will be one of the features of the Triangle Club minstrel show on April 30th. at the club rooms, 86 Main Street, Auburn. The Triangle Club was the first of the many in the Lewiston-Auburn YWCA to be organized and so […]

John P. Hale’s strong anti-abolitionist stance of the 1830s gave way, over time, to a softening of the heart that led him to become an ardent anti-slavery campaigner.

100 Years Ago: 1924 An outstanding event which marked Augusta’s social circle the end of the lenten season was a delightful tea given on Saturday afternoon by Mrs. William H. Fisher at her home on Winthrop Street in honor of Princess Santa Borghese of Italy and Mrs. Augustus O. Thomas of this city. The spacious […]

ANN/THE STAR – The name ‘Stan Lee’ conjures thoughts of the late, iconic American comics creator, renowned for birthing some of the globe’s most beloved comic book characters and nearly synonymous with the term ‘comics’. In the 1970s, Malaysian artist Lee Cheow Hee embarked on his own illustrious journey in the realm of art and […]

It used to be common knowledge among the people of Starkey that George Washington’s secretary was buried in Dundee. Or was he?

LAWRENCE — Former NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund president Sherilyn Ifill said the nation should celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision by the U.S. Supreme Court as overdue recognition of the necessity to end legal apartheid in the United States. Ifill, speaking to a diverse audience Friday at […] The post Civil rights attorney: Legal action to ‘hollow out’ Brown v. Board moves at deliberate speed appeared first on Kansas ...

Northwich LitFest returns to the town this summer and Suzan Holder, the wife of Slades Noddy, will help to launch the festival on June 15 at…

100 Years Ago: 1924 The members of the Bright Idea Club met at the home of Mrs. Etta Kilgore, North Norway, Thursday for a social afternoon. Light refreshments were served by the hostess. Mrs. Izzie Cox, Mrs. Alma Judkins, Mrs. Kate Hobbs, Mrs. Susie Morse, Mrs. Ada Cox, Mrs. Olive Whitman, and Mrs. Effie Heath were […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 According to Dr. A.O. Thomas of Augusta, Maine has staged a tremendous building program. In the last ten years 85 towns have either remodeled their high school plant or built new modern buildings and many others are under construction. The cost of these buildings approximate $6,000,000. This is an enormous advance when […]