100 Years Ago: 1921

A vaudeville show will be held by the Sprague Club of Auburn at Abou Ben Adhem Hall, Main Street, Friday evening, Jan 13. The acts were booked through Lewiston’s first and only agency, Kelley and Kelley, and include two local entertainers.

50 Years Ago: 1971

Jane Muskie will be in Lewiston on Friday, January 14. addressing a joint luncheon meeting of the Central Maine General Hospital’s Woman’s Hospital Association and the Patroness of St. Mary’s General Hospital. At the time she will have been in her ten days into her role as an announced presidential candidate’s wife. Senator Edmund 8. Muskie is to make a formal announcement concerning his candidacy for the Democratic nomination tomorrow. No neophyte on the political scene, it might almost be said that Mrs. Muskie grew up in politics. She had just attained young age when she became the wife of a young Waterville attorney and Democratic legislator and she was 23 when she became Maine’s first lady.

25 Years Ago: 1996

For months, police sorted through stacks of lost and stolen bicycles stored at the Lewiston Armory, searching for the bikes’ owners and wondering what to do with the unclaimed property. And now they have a solution. On Friday. a public viewing will be held for people who have lost bikes. Any bicycles not claimed will go to area children under a new program called Give a Bicycle to a Child. With no clues to identify a bicycle’s owner and no one coming forward to claim it, police in the past have had to destroy the bicycles to make room for the next one that’s recovered. “It’s a hidden problem,” said officer Ivan Boudreau. “From what I’ve been experiencing. I get the sense it’s an ongoing problem statewide.” The open house will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the armory. Boudreau is in charge of keeping track of the bikes, and it can be a daunting task. It’s not unusual for 20 bikes to be recovered each month.

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