100 Years Ago: 1924

Kristiana Hansen of Tokton Springs, Maine, dropped dead on the bridge of the freighter Absecon, of which he was skipper, as the vessel was entering this port Thursday. A distress signal from the freighter brought another boat alongside but there was no doctor on the answering craft.

The body will be sent to Stockton Springs, where Captain Hansen’s wife lives. The Absec had come from Southern ports.

50 Years Ago: 1974

A panel of experts concluded, in a report released Tuesday, that a 182-minute section of a White House tape recording was erased by someone operating the keyboard manually at least five times. But, the panel said, its report “draws no inferences about such questions as whether the erasure and buzz were made accidentally or intentionally, or when, or by what person or persons.”

25 Years Ago: 1999

A four-month-old baby who was released from the hospital Friday, a day after he became wedged under a car in an alley along Oxford Street.

Lance Roy was treated at Central Maine Medical Center Thursday night after his mother accidentally drove the car over the boy while he was secured in a car seat. The baby suffered cuts, bumps and bruises.

A man who helped lift the front-door Toyota off the ground to free the infant also suffered scrapes and bruises but 46-year old John Flores wasn’t complaining about his injuries Friday.

“I got a good bruise and a scratch on my right arm, but who cares?” Flores said. “I’m very glad God gave me the strength to help out.”

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