It’s almost impossible to overstate the thrill that once raced through Lewiston’s youngsters each year when Santa Claus arrived in Lewiston. We’re not talking about the sleigh and the reindeer, or Santa slipping down the chimney, though. A lot of what got everyone hyped up for the holiday involved the promotional skills and hefty advertising […]
175th anniversary
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For 175 years, the Sun Journal has published from the heart of Lewiston
We take a look back at the newspaper’s various locations downtown in the wake of its first move in nearly a century.
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The Lewiston Evening Journal put ‘rosy old’ Santa on trial in 1897
125 years ago, the Journal asked prominent religious leaders in Maine if Santa Claus should be abolished. It got a spirited variety of responses.
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Watch: Learn how to access history from the newspaper archives with Steve Collins
Join us for a virtual conversation about what hidden gems can be found in our archives, now on Newspapers.com.
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Odors from a polluted Androscoggin River used to peel paint off houses
The river’s staggering stench in days past defied description, though many tried in newspapers, politics and even poetry.
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The shameful support of eugenics by the Lewiston Evening Journal
A century ago, the paper endorsed involuntary sterilization and flirted with murder in a quest to rid humanity of “feeble-minded” people.
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Judith Meyer: Recognize discrimination for what it is. Wrong
The power of the people — and of the press — is to push back and make it right for all people, regardless of skin color, where they were born, their abilities, their sexual orientation or their faith.
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Before radio and television, crowds gathered at the newspaper for big sports news
Before radio or television arrived in Lewiston, sports fans occasionally gathered in front of the Lewiston Evening Journal’s office on Park Street to follow the news as it arrived on the newspaper’s teletype machine from the Associated Press. Take, for instance, the July 4, 1919, boxing bout in Toledo, Ohio, in which Jack Dempsey pounded […]
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In 1884, the ‘very interesting’ sport of hockey arrived in Lewiston
Hockey arrived in Lewiston on March 4, 1884, a Tuesday night, when the Portland Polo Club came to town to take on the newly organized Lewiston club at City Hall as part of a Polo League tournament that also involved teams from Saco, Bath, Biddeford and Brunswick. The Lewiston Evening Journal explained to readers that […]
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Gray-New Gloucester boys dominate Maine soccer in the late ’70s and early ’80s
The team took three state titles over a five-year period starting in 1979.