10 years ago
From the Journal Tribune: “President Bush celebrated a new era of relatively tension-free U.S.-German relations today, despite continuing controversy over American detentions at the Guantanamo Bay prison.”
50 years ago
From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “Mrs. Emma James Porter, who voted in every national election since women won suffrage in 1919, is dead at the age of 104. Mrs. Porter, oldest resident of South Paris, died in a nursing home Tuesday.”
100 years ago
From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “Dispatches send to America stating that Japan has authorized the construction of four super-dreadnoughts are untrue and misleading.”
— Marissa Heffernan
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