At an early hour last evening, Sturgis Deputies Beaulieu, Howard and Allen raided a place under a Lincoln Street pool room and found a keg half full of beer. There was a crowd about the place drinking and having a fine time. Louis Cloutier who appeared to be in charge was arrested and taken to the police station and locked up.
Earlier in the day the enforcement deputies raided Jack Curtis’ place on Middle street and found seven quarts of hard stuff. A search was also made at Thomas McNamara’s place on lower Main street. Two cases of beer, which McNamara said was uno, was seized for analysis.
50 years ago, 1957
• An Auburn construction firm headed by Mayor Hebert E. Callahan has been awarded a half-million dollar job at the Brunswick Naval Air Station. The $572,000 Navy contract for five concrete buildings, with the necessary roads, water services and grading, was given to Herbert E. Callahan Inc. as the low bidder.
• Edward Little High School has been awarded one of the 30 A. K. Oliver Citizenship Awards for 1957, it was announced by Principal Arnold G. Westerberg. In the announcement in the school, the sponsors said the award was for “sponsoring an extensive campaign for Hungarian Relief and raising more than the quota.”
25 years ago, 1982
PORTLAND – Ma Bell wants to make sure that Down East accents and other regional dialects don’t upset her vision of a computerized future.
Consider, for example, the number “four.”
To many Mainer’s, particularly those in coastal sections of Hancock and Washington counties, it comes out as “fo-ah,” posing potential problems for voice-activated computers.
“The special accent – called the ‘Downeast twang’ and characteristic of some Maine residents’ speech – can confuse a computer,” said Cindy Karhan, a Bell Labs researcher studying “automatic speech recognition.”
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