100 Years Ago: 1922

E.E. Crafts of West Auburn is getting nearly sixty eggs a day right along from one hundred pullets and hens.

50 Years Ago: 1972

Mrs. Robert W. Clifford poses like a mannikin in a B.Peck store window to call attention to Aloha Way, a poolside extravaganza to be held at the YWCA Pool Building on April 23, She is serving as general chairman of the show, which will be held between one and three o’clock that day. and which is open to the public. A program of synchronized swimming will be presented at the show’s
intermission. Peck’s is furnishing the fashions. Reservations may be made with Mrs. Raymond Sirois or Mrs. Robert Hood. Refreshments will be served following the show.

25 Years Ago: 1997

(from a Journal photo) A crane gingerly lifts Rumford Community Hospitals new CT scanner, commonly known as a CAT scan machine, from a Mayflower moving van. The 3,500-pound machine, which takes detailed pictures of patients’ internal organs, arrived Wednesday from its Cleveland manufacturer. The machine, which will be operational April 1, replaces a mobile scanner the hospital has been using two half-days a week. (Because of availability, today’s item from 25 years ago is from March 28, 1997)

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