100 years ago, 1913
A “line” car that had been in collision with a box car on the “Maine Central” siding, Sabatis, rolled down an embankment Wednesday noon. Four employees of the Lewiston, Augusta and Waterville street railway crawled out of the smashed car and heaps of construction tools, thanking their lucky stars that they were not seriously injured and ran to help the crew of the Express car to find that a severe shaking up comprised the injuries all around. The express car loaded with 200 barrels of apples turned turtle also, and the baggage went rolling over the ground but upon investigation only two of these were broken open. The total damage which consisted of smashed railroad furniture will not amount to more than $250. The officers of the railroad consider the escape of the men without serious injury to be miraculous.
50 years ago, 1963
“The Big L,” Lewiston’s newest self-service discount store, opens Tuesday morning at 38 Lisbon St. with Mrs. Annette Goodridge of Lewiston as manager. The store, owned by Hancock Distributors of Maine Inc., a Quincy, Mass., concern, will have all local help. Mrs. Goodridge, the manager, formerly managed the Frances Store at the same address. Leonard Silverman of Newton Center, Mass., head of the concern, organized the company in 1945 and the Lewiston store is the 36th opened so far. The new store will follow the same hours as other Lisbon Street business houses and will offer lines of patent medicines, cosmetics, stationery, candy and notions.
25 years ago, 1988
The New Gloucester Budget Committee yesterday chopped more than $2,500 from an article Selectmen will ask voters to approve for computer components at a special town meeting Thursday. Budget Committee members took a hard look at the article, a request to appropriate $13,650 for hardware and software the recently purchased $40,000 computer was not sufficient for the work. “I need justification why we spent $40,000 and it doesn’t do what we wanted it to do.”
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