• Brownville – Four cracksmen, in the presence of a half dozen citizens a part of whom were armed, forced open the safe in the local post office with three separate charges of dynamite early today, secured $100 in money and $300 worth of stamps and ran away unmolested.
• Considerable business was transacted at the meeting of the Lewiston city government last night and more would have been if the Common Council had not adjourned almost as soon as it was 10 o’clock. An order for $1,500 for a Fourth of July celebration was passed by both boards.
50 years ago, 1957
The Associated Press has been kind enough, in the past day or so, to convey to tons of millions of worldwide readers of its news service an appeal published in the current issue of the “Flying Saucier Review,” a London bimonthly.
The review notes that almost anytime now we may be visited by the inhabitants of planets in outer space, and it urges that we treat them kindly. The magazine’s research offers no reason to think that these interspatial visitors will be hostile. It finds considerable evidence to show that they will, instead, be friendly and curious, and it asks that we reciprocate, instead of acting with suspicion and dislike we customarily display toward each other here on earth.
25 years ago, 1982
• The country’s banks are quietly preparing to do away with the canceled checks you use to prove that you paid a bill or to review your bank statements. Instead, you will have to analyze the statement for any mistakes. If you need a canceled check, you will have to ask for it, pay an additional fee and wait to get it.
• One of Maine’s biggest shopping centers, the Maine Mall, is getting even bigger. A ground-breaking ceremony is scheduled Thursday for a 400,000 square foot expansion that will increase the mall’s total size to about one million square feet. South Portland officials say the expansion should create about 1,000 jobs.
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