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100 Years Ago: 1921
Crews are now busy on the Androscoggin and the shores of Lake Auburn The ice is about 13 inches thick, clear color and of unusually fine quantity. The cold wave of the present added about two inches to the thickness of the river. It is believed before the harvesting the ice will obtain a thickness of from 1 percent to 18 inches later, now is plentiful and it has been easier to recruit crews than any season for the past five years. From three to four weeks is required to cut, haul out and store the ice.
50 Years Ago: 1971