100 Years Ago: 1924 Trolleys and steam railroads were struggling out of Lewiston Wednesday in one of the most severe blizzards of the year. One foot of snow fell between 8:15 pm and 1:45 am Wednesday. It was the heaviest snow of the season, the records at the Lewiston Gate House show. The heaviest snowfall […]
Read more about April 13, 1948, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 The Poland Spring House opens for the summer season on Monday, June 14th. The Mansion House and Riccar Inn have been open all winter, the mecca for many young people from out of the State who come for the winter sports. 50 […]
100 Years Ago: 1922 Monday night will be the “Get Acquainted” meeting of the Lewiston-Auburn Business and Professional Women’s Club. It will be a supper meeting and Mrs. Hazel Libby will be the guest speaker to the club members. Mrs. Libby is a dress designer of New York and if the club is sufficiently interested […]
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100 Years Ago: 1921
An Auburn milkman said Friday that he could see no indication that milk in this community would be any cheaper before spring, and he had formed this opinion after discussing the question with other dealers. Nothing concerning the milk business he said, “Is any cheaper except the price of grain. Delivery costs as much and it has for some time past, and bottles which were formerly bought for four dollars a gross now cost ten and a half cents apiece. And the price of milk certainly would come down if patrons would put out their milk bottles. Sometimes when we leave two bottles in one place we get one back, and perhaps not any. “More than that, it is difficult to get bottles from the factory. Each dealer has just about enough bottles to supply his trade and his customers.”