100 Years Ago: 1924

Happy and satisfied women almost never smoke, in the opinion of Dr. R. Hofstaetter, gynecologist, who some time ago created a considerable stir by his assertion that smoking alters women’s faces to their disadvantage, making them look more masculine than feminine.

“Women who smoke much have almost invariably contracted the habit at a time when they were especially unhappy,” he avers in his book, “The Smoking Woman.”

“Women regard smoking as something ‘smart’,” he continues. “Smoking affords them an opportunity to execute a surprisingly large number of playful and, therefore graceful movements and positions. It is a significant fact that the smoking woman is much more concerned about the motions through which she goes as she smokes than is the man.”

50 Years Ago: 1974

Football fans next year will be cheering new goal posts, as well as goals, at Lewiston Athletic Park.

The old goal posts, similar to those common on most high school fields, will be replaced by a newer and safer model heavily padded to protect players against collision, Mayor John Orestis announced today, thanks to a gift from businessman Salvatore Grosso.

25 Years Ago: 1999

Faced with global competition, one of the Lewiston’s top 20 employers, Acorn Products, announced this week that it will lay off 40 employees.

The cutbacks were announced to employees of the Lewiston manufacturer Friday, a company spokeswoman said. On Tuesday affected employees will get a presentation by Department of Labor officials, who will outline available employment options.

This is the second set of layoffs the company has announced this year. Earlier, it announced 45 employees would be laid off when the company closed its Hampden manufacturing facility.

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