Jason Rathbun

Lewiston

Copy Editor at Sun Journal (Lewiston, ME)

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Sagittarius: Get what you want in writing, review the fine print and dodge impulsive action or drama

3 weeks ago | sunjournal.com | Jason Rathbun

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Jessica Szohr, 40; Ewan McGregor, 54; Christopher Walken, 82; Shirley Jones, 91. Happy Birthday: A positive attitude will promote extraordinary results. Put your energy into socializing, networking and connecting with people heading in a similar direction as you. Refuse to let uncertainty set in and deter you from reaching your full potential.
Looking Back on March 31

3 weeks ago | sunjournal.com | Jason Rathbun

100 years ago: 1925A man arrested on suspicion of having murdered a Vermont man turned out to be innocent. He wasn’t the Lewiston man sought. But John Lombard, 25, of Biddeford didn’t get off the hook entirely. It turned out he was living with a woman so they were both charged with “unlawful cohabitation.” They were alleged to have been living as man and wife at the Wilson Grant farm, at Hillside, where they were employed.
Looking Back on March 29

3 weeks ago | sunjournal.com | Jason Rathbun

100 years ago: 1925One of the most severe electrical storms in years broke over Lewiston and vicinity Saturday night, bringing with it rainfall of an inch and three quarters. No damage, save road washouts, was reported in the immediate vicinity, but other sections suffered worse in this respect.
Looking Back on March 28

3 weeks ago | sunjournal.com | Jason Rathbun

100 years ago: 1925If a Lewiston man who was napping on the railroad tracks at the woodyard in the rear of Libby Avenue, Lewiston, had delayed his nap Friday afternoon just a few minutes, he would have been enjoying a more extensive nap. Workmen in the yard found him asleep on the track, sprawled across it so one tracks served as a pillow for his head and the other a footrest. He appeared quite comfortable and was more or less annoyed when awakened.
Looking Back on March 27

4 weeks ago | sunjournal.com | Jason Rathbun

100 years ago: 1925A definite movement is underway, it is reported in Auburn, to transfer support and activities of a considerable group of influential Auburn businessmen on the hotel proposition of constructing a new high school. This movement, it is expected, will be revealed at the forum meeting of the Auburn Chamber of Commerce primarily in interest of the hotel.
Looking Back on March 26

4 weeks ago | sunjournal.com | Jason Rathbun

100 years ago: 1925The Lewiston Evening Journal reported, at the top of its front page, that the advertising manager of the competing Lewiston Sun, Frank S. Hoy, had married stenographer Gladys Parker at her sister’s house in Bethel. Parker has been the private stenographer of L.B. Costello, business manager of the Sun. Efforts were made to keep the news of the wedding secret until Friday. They are now on a wedding tour to Montreal and other parts of Canada.
Looking Back on March 25

1 month ago | sunjournal.com | Jason Rathbun

100 years ago: 1925Auburn’s high school, “the Edward Little,” famous throughout New England, cannot hold its lead much longer in the present school building. This is the opinion of Superintendent George R. Gardner of the Auburn School Board, who will set these things forth in their plain truths before the people of Auburn in his annual reporter, which will be coming along soon. Mr. Gardner talked with the Lewiston Journal Tuesday and he was emphatic in his statement that Auburn is at a crisis.
Looking Back on March 24

1 month ago | sunjournal.com | Jason Rathbun

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Looking Back on March 22

1 month ago | sunjournal.com | Jason Rathbun

100 years ago: 1925A complete little home which with the lot, lawn and neat little picket fence occupies a plot less than two feet square can be found at the county building, Auburn, if one looks hard enough. It is the handiwork of Ted Morin of Lewiston, one of the prisoners, who used only a jackknife in its construction. The house itself from back porch to front porch is only a foot long yet it is complete in every detail.
Looking Back on March 21

1 month ago | sunjournal.com | Jason Rathbun

100 years ago: 1925Sensational statements made at Augusta concerning Lewiston government and Lewiston people were the talk of the town yesterday. On street corners, in stores, street cars everywhere the discussion was warm. It was openly asserted that those responsible for the “besmirching of Lewiston’s fair name” will have to answer to the people sooner or later. Some were inclined to place the responsibility on a very few office holders and would-bes. “What are things coming to in this city?