100 Years Ago: 1924

The mysterious disappearance of Bennie Savage of Portland from the Superior court room in Auburn, Monday afternoon caused a sudden postponement to Tuesday of the $10,000 Harry Day-Charles Isaacson damage suit. Frequent, sharp clashes between counsel livened the proceedings.

Isaacson’s Savage, the driver of an automobile that left the road near Brunswick July 6, 1920, and caused the death of 17 year old Harry Day of Auburn, was to be a material witness for both the plaintiff and the defendant. He was in the courtroom during the morning session, it was said, but when he was called for the afternoon session he was among those missing. His mother declared she did not know his whereabouts and his absence caused such a disagreement between counsel that the case was continued until Tuesday morning.

50 Years Ago: 1974

A newspaper printed in another land is always of interest to a traveler, but when an Auburn resident opens her Aucklad, New Zealand, paper and finds a Lewiston, Maine, U.S.A., picture it is, to say the least, a bit startling.

The newspaper reader is Mrs. Adeline Wheeler of Auburn whose travels have taken her to nearly all parts of the world and whose most recent trip took her half way around it.

The Lewiston item in the Auckland paper was the Journal’s now-famous picture of Lewiston’s adventuresome young man whose investigation found him trapped in a sidewalk waste collector.

25 Years Ago: 1999

There were about 390 people unhappy at the close of the moose hunting season last Saturday, according to figures released by the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Wednesday. The upshot: 390 moose that could have been dinner or had their heads mounted on a wall were still clomping through the woods and swamps.

With an additional 1,000 permits issued to moose hunters during the 1999 season, the success rate for tagging a woodland behemoth dropped from 93 percent to 87 percent. A total of 2,610 moose were checked at 24 different tagging stations, DIFW spokesman Latti said.

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