100 Years Ago: 1923
Auburn police are to see that the light laws requiring all carriages and horse drawn vehicles to display lights are rigorously enforced. Livery stables should see that all carriages are equipped with lights before renting or the proprietors will be held responsible.
50 Years Ago: 1973
A Maine Supreme Court decision affirming the state’s sovereignty over its 400,000 acres of public lots paves the way for creation of new parks in the state’s wildest backcountry. “We can have numerous mini-Baxter State Parks and extend the Allagash Wilderness Waterway,” said Sen. Harrison L. Richardson, R-Cumberland, who heads a special legislative committee charged with resolving the public lots controversy.
25 Years Ago: 1998
In 6,000 years, brickmaking has changed very little. In fact, the earliest production from Auburn’s Morin Brick Co. was done in the time-honored tradition of sun-dried clay and wood-fired kilns. It’s different now. The 86-year-old company started mechanizing lines in the 1940s and now its cavernous, natural gas-fired kiln runs day and night throughout the year. Production has gone from 200,000 units to 25 million units a year. That’s a lot of bricks, but General Manager Norm Davis says Morin is still a small company among the giants that have evolved through consolidation of thousands of American brickyards in the past few decades. “We’ve found our niche, though,” Davis said.
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