• While on the way to answer an alarm from Box 66, corner of Lincoln and Cedar streets, last evening, two pieces of the Lewiston fire apparatus broke. The steering gear of the hook and ladder and the rear axle of the hose reel, No. 3, were the pieces. No one was injured. The fire was in a box and could have been put out very easily without ringing in an alarm.
• Largely attended meetings of the mule spinners and loom fixers were held in their rooms on Lisbon Street, Lewiston, last night. The spinners have written the national headquarters for permission to insist that their demands for a 10 percent increase be granted. Loom fixers appointed a committee to meet with mill agents today.
50 years ago, 1957
• Larceny of $1.85 from a man’s pocketbook while the family was away from home on Thursday is being investigated by Chief Deputy Leonard A. Gagne of the Androscoggin County sheriff’s department.
Gagne said the larceny occurred at the home of Fernand Bosse on the Woodman Hill Road in Minot. Entrance was gained through an unlocked window. The place was ransacked but apparently the only loss was the money.
• The Forest Service reports there are eight tree planting machines operating in Maine, some of which are available through county soil conservation districts.
25 years ago, 1982
• A prayer, a rifle volley, church bells and taps were heard Monday morning as combat veterans of several wars and area residents gathered in Lewiston’s Kennedy Park to honor those who died fighting in defense of America.
• Why is Canada so upset? It’s because 50 percent of the pollutants which cause acid rain blow across the border from the United States. That means if Canada shut down all its smelters, closed its coal-fired generating stations and parked all its cars, lakes would continue to die. In Ontario alone, acid rain threatens 48,000 lakes over the next 20 years.
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