10 years ago

From the Journal Tribune: “A Biddeford man tested the fine line between art and advertising yesterday on a new medium – the human body. Until yesterday, Mark Greenlaw had three tattoos. Yesterday he added a fourth. The story behind this one is that two weeks ago Greenlaw was strapped for cash after his Internet retail consignment shop, Redi Bay, shut down. He’d seen other people offer up space on their body for a fee, and it seemed like a good way to make a few bucks. So he offered up the back of his neck for a minimum of $4,500.”

50 years ago

From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “Search is continuing for two youths suspected of breaking into Paul’s Motor Sales office, 424 Elm St., Biddeford, on Sunday night and stealing a car in the yard of the establishment. George Friary, sergeant detective of the Biddeford Police Department, said this morning that the car was located yesterday afternoon in the rear of Jim’s Market parking lot on Washington Avenue, Old Orchard Beach. The proprietor of the store said he noticed the car that morning when he came to work, and noted that it had no registration plates. When the youths came back to reclaim it they both suddenly left when questioned and a call to the OOB police identified the car as the one stolen from the Biddeford agency.”

100 years ago

From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “Petition for the pardon of Stephen senior, a former resident of Sanford, who is serving a sentence of 15 years in the state’s prison at Thomaston for criminal assault on Martha S. Senior, was filed with the governor and council today. The petition states that Stephen Senior was convicted in the supreme judicial court for York County at the September term 1912, of the crime, the affair happening at Sanford on April 21 of that year, and on December 19, 1912, was committed to the state’s prison for a term of 15 years.”

— Krysteana Scribner