10 years ago
From the Journal Tribune: “A federal judge says the nation’s top cigarette makers conspired for decades to mislead the public about the health hazards and addictive nature of smoking, but she says there’s not much she can do to make them pay.”
50 years ago
From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “The Maine Board of Commissioners of Pharmacy says it may move to restrict the sale of narcotic preparations not barred to the public by law. The board said Wednesday it is considering adding a dozen more such preparations to the federal list restricting 17 generic drugs.”
100 years ago
From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “Most everyone is acquainted with the corn-field brand of scarecrow and most everyone expects such devices of old clothes to fool the average crow but not many folks would look for such a combination to get the best of a whole train crew to the extent that the train would be brought to a stop that the supposed passenger in reality a lady of many furbelows but a soul of straw, might be taken on board.”
— Marissa Heffernan
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