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Library of Congress1926

Image 5 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), November 5, 1926

ICONSIIPAIMN tronMo depresston of irfitbity nervousuess vision toss of memory ip of sppottt ttcstop course of SCHEMCKS MANDRAKE PLLS promptly and frccty but thorougity eieanstntc the sPCio fo tndtKes hadaehc biiiousness heart Phitt or Sutr Cosrrd rTra7YlfSSE J H schtnck Son PiniadeipMa MMIMEU ihn GMnt bas resumed his Jtin ns mad carrier after his an day vnoatton _ Dief rth has returned home ra weekr business visit in Kew prit __ Th rosmiar meeting of Maine X i K T vviii be s at Misoaic hati thts evening Mis Edna Brooks of Hailowel is cvnt from her duties at thaD W jynsC store on account of lii Gforgeii Barron of the Barron prs Construction Co of Lewis m in town Thursday inspecting a work done on lower Water street Womens 4bucke overshoes spe riaiatHto Xowistiutimetoget v for stormy wother and the WMe mt Shoe store ts prepared to serve youAdv At the Farmingtiaie Town Hail to AMccwitiilca reguiar orchestra tttrnishtnpr thmttsic The crowd wii be there tacighYdv Yuba IfacPhee Sr who has been rasinga few days with his family at Sottth Gardiner returned to Banr aoriast night where he wiil join hih ship The pumper was calicd out fora ehitnuev

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Library of Congress1925

Image 9 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), July 7, 1925

Look Into the Home to Determine Adequate Advertising A DEQUATE advertising in any medium is determined by certain basic facts which are found in the home No advertiser can arbitrarily decide how much advertising effort is sufficient to influence the readers of any newspaper to the fullest degree The answer is found among the readerfamilies Minimum advertising is determined by the minimum purchases of the readergroup The only other controlling factors are the merit and available supply of the merchandise for saleand the spread between cost and selling prices Let us examine a thousand average homes to learn the minimum expendi ture for clothing advertising which can be called adequate The average U S family spends 23535 per year for clothing A thousand families purchase 23535000 worth of clothing annually It is the universal practice of clothing retailers to invest at least 3 for advertising Therefore the purchases of every thousand families who sub scribe to this newspaper justify an investment of more than 7000 in clothing advertising in this medium every year Ten clothing merchants would each be justified in spending 700 per thousand circulation per year Are you positive that your advertising effort is adequate in this newspaper

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Library of Congress1925

Image 8 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), June 16, 1925

W01V M resent the thought that they are concerned chiefly with the Womans Page of a newspaper The interest of a woman of today is certainly not limited to the gossip of fash ions and flippancies A nation and world interest is hers The ENTIRE morning newspaper is a womans newspaper Extract from nationwide interviews with women regarding newspaper influence Daily Kennebec Journal Copyright 1925 EMERSON B KNIGHT lac INDIAN APOUS

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Library of Congress1925

Image 9 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), May 25, 1925

Today the effect of your morning news paper advertisement is evident in sales made to residents of this dty You cover a vast multi tude of buying families within the city limits But you reach also another abletobuy field outside of the city limits TrDayWl tuyingToutr JJORNING newspaper advertising lives two days This fact has dis tinct bearing upon the manner in which you use morning newspaper space if you wish to obtain maximum returns from your advertising investment Ad vertising messages in this morning newspaper that are planned to inter est and inspire returns from two sep arate and distinct classes of readers on two different days will bring two days of active selling to you Newspaper space is like a field of fertile ground The better the plant ing and cultivation the betterthe crop Discuss this vital pointwith your advertising department or agen cy Plan your messages in morn ing newspapers for a 2day pull Dailx Kennebec Journal Copyriilit TO5 EMERSON B KNIGHT In INDIANAPOLIS Tomorrow the effect of todaya delivered and read today advertise ment is shown in sales made to suburban and rural families Throughout die entire trading zone this newspaper is the strong est link

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Library of Congress1925

Image 9 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), May 11, 1925

eer wowjyw Umiv iaJLfci 1Day 1tU apml g m jtmmmm i MARK the development of women as economic factors through the centuries From the pale presence of medi eval days ineffectual rare of speech a mere shadow in cloistered recesses to the modern robust participant in world affairs the progress of woman has paralleled the growth of printed knowledge In the 17th Century womans thoughts had little to do with writingsthe Braillelike achievements of the monks She lived as the lily to mind her nunlike face In Revolutionary times the Diary of Samuel Pepys or the plays of Wm Shakespeare were main constituents in womens men tal pabulum In hoopskirt daysGodey s Lady Book and the heartfluttering works of Ouida What of the Women of Today What or the women or today Ur 1 Zella Ford Warner Portland Oregon says Women direct family buying They have improved themselves as homemakers and citizens through newspapers Personally I prefer the morning newspaper Judge Virginia Henry Mayfield of the Domestic Relations Court of Birm ingham Ala says Morning news paper advertising plays an important part in the economics of the home 1 he housewife owes it to her family to pay thorough attention

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Library of Congress1925

Image 12 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), April 27, 1925

STATE HOUSE Governor and Council Will Meet t 10 A M Thursday Mey 7 Comr Thomas Calls Attention To Principals Meet While this annual conference Is really for principals of schools we are pleased to Include an Invitation to superintendents and school com mitteemen says Dr A O Thomas State commissioner of education in a letter being sent out to principals of high schools and academies in re regard to the annual conference of principals of secondary schools which will be held at the State House on Friday and Saturday May o and 9 The program for this conference was recently published in the Ken nebec Journal It Is also hoped that we have a good representation of academy peo ple present as some questions will be up for discussion in which they are vitally interested continues Dr Thomas Our program includes an address bv Governor Ralph O Brewster also by Trof John M Brewer director of the Bureau of Vocational Guid ance Harvard University and Dr Emery N Ferriss Professor of Ru ral Secondary Education Cornell Vnlversitq Each of these out of state speakers will give two ad dresses and will be helpful other wise in the various discussions

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Library of Congress1925

Image 2 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), April 21, 1925

Open Vour Stow Doors at HieirBMafast liable mm Tfutj W IS oCUBgianC A iHjPMPjfagfe teMrathM M of tta Amricm mnUof mam sjtisrayes asLasrsr 1DapTuU i BuymgPwcr V aisyiir Daytime is Selling Time The calendar isnt wrong Each day ends at midnight not at noon The morning newspaper is better fit ted naturally for an adequate and balanced presentation of the news The same factors that make the morn ing newspaper supreme as a purveyor of news also give it superiority as an advertising medium The morning advertiser appeals to the woman in the home at the very hour when she is planning her days pur chases There is no timegap between reading and buying He opens his store doors at the breakfast table The SecondDay Response Your store receipts come from two classes of buyerscity and suburb an Plan your store messages in morning newspaoers to reach also the multitudes who live in the towns surrounding the city Meet your pros pects through morning newspapers out where the sun comes up behmd the silo In the 377 morning newspaper markets of this country there are MORE homes in suburban zones than in the keycities These logically are morning newspaper homes

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Library of Congress1925

Image 14 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), January 8, 1925, (Centennial Edition, Main News Section)

More Kind Words From Friends on Occasion of Centennial The following Congratulatory Letters in Connection with the Centennial of the Kenn ebec Journal have been received in addition to those received earlier and placed in section B of the Centennial Edition SoninLaw Of James G Blaine New York N Y Jan 7 1025 Charles Flynt Kennebec Journal Augusta Maine Congratulations on anniversary of splendid paper WALTER DAMROSCH I CONGRESSMAN FOR THIRD DISTRICT Washington D C January 5 1925 Honorable Charles F Flynt President and General Manager The Kennebec Journal Augusta Maine My dear Mr Flynt Since boyhood the Kennebec Journal has been a household Institu tion in my family I have seen it through the years faithfully recording the events of my school and college days my early manhood the birth of my children the passing of relatives and friends and the thousand and one happenings large and small Joyous and sad that go into the making up of a full life In later years here in Augusta my boys have all acted as carriers of your paper and every morning in my home young and old read your columns with Interest and with profit Always the paper has been

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Library of Congress1922

Image 2 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), October 6, 1922

Interesting Papers Read at the Opening Sessions of the Maine Press Association Continued from Page One feystcm Mr Burleigh spoke at the afternoon session and what hfe had to nav was of high value to hi s aud ience Nichols Chosen President Frank B Nichols of The Bath Times was elected President of the Maine Press Association at the morning session Thursday at the Au gusta House He succeeds Charles H Fogg of Houlton whose term ex pires at this meeting R T ratten of Bkowhegan was reelected secre tarytreasurer in spite of his modest ly expressed belief that SUowhegan had hadthe honor long enough and that It would be for the benefit of the association toelect someone else The first session of tho meeting was called to order shortly after 10 oclock by President Charles H Fogg who Immediately introduced Mayor Hanford L Fogg of Augusta Mayor Fogg said that It was an honor to gfeet such a gathering of represen tatives of the press and as great a pleasure to welcome them upon be half of the citizens of Augusta to the capltol city because when newspaper men gather there Is a spirit of good fellowship and also

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Library of Congress1921

Image 8 of The independent-reporter (Skowhegan, Me.), December 29, 1921

We yield to the temptation to present our readers with the following very pleasant entirely unsolicited and unexpected letter recently received from one of the best known Advertising Agencies in New EnglandHttPjmtrntdKppnrtpr dnmpattg r DANIELSON SON V iSTAUSHKl 1SS i INDUSTRIAL TRUST BUILDING Providence Rhode Island i Skowhegan IndependentReporter i v 4 fv v Skowhegan Maine OjTJf T 1 f ct h r W J Dear Mr Patten V r v We have your exhibits of November 17th including a rate card and detailed state 0 I ment issued by the Audit bureau ot Circulations S A May we say that it is remarkable the manner in which you have proceeded to i I CAi illif Ot ue SOIf I AOUJ M H i l N t V f f J s assemble and furnish specific information concerning your medium and your field We jtn1 j tvspi04n or U n 1 m look to large dailies in metropolitan centers for information of tins character but have svri pr j tfn mfOLrtvrpoir COVCOIVUJS horn OO not been taught to expect anything of the sort from a weekly newspaper We are glad to i1 Trnf 11 Ut f V have the information

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Library of Congress1919

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 2, 1919

Beauty is Only mlm Skin Deep but a beautiful skin is possible only when the liver and kidneys are active and the bovves functionate properly The secret of beauty as well as of health is to maintain perfect digestion and elimination Beechants Fills help to preserve beauty and maintain Leah h because they influence liver kidneys skin and stomach to functionate in harmony and efficiently 4 Sold by druggiiiU throughout the world In boxesJOc 2 So v l I tklORT Miss Frances Eldridge received lirst premium for best tatted yoke at Monroe Fair Miss Agnes Morrill of Portland is hav ing extensive repairs made on her old home Miss Charlotte Thompson has accepted a fine position as teacher in a school in Connecticut Miss Harriet f Moody has begun her duties as teacher in the public schools of Dover Maine Mrs Lotta Eagleston has moved into her new home which she has recently purchased on Deane street Miss Esther Ford has moved into the George A Cole house on Washington street which she has leased Miss Mae Ellingwood received first premium on ladies driving horse exhib ited by driver at the Monroe Fair Mrs C C Homer of Boston has

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Library of Congress1919

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 25, 1919

North Waldo Pomona Grange North Waldo Pomona Grange was en tertained by Star of Progress Grange in Jackson Wednesday Sept 10th Although the sky was dark and the clouds threatening there was a goodly number present from the nearby granges and a pleasant and instructive meeting resulted Worthy Master O B Dow pre sided and the meeting was duly opened while Mr and Mrs F I Cronkhite satis factorily supplied the stations of Steward and Chaplain respectively Morning Light Sunrise Comet and Harvest Home Granges were represented besides the host grange During the business session a commu nication was read from the Lecturer of Waldo Pomona extending an invitation to tile members to meet with that Pomona at Frederick Ritchie Grange hall in Waldo Tuesday Sept 23rd The invitation was unanimously accepted At this time Mr and Mrs Sidney Tibbetts were introduced and received the instructions of the de gree of Pomona B WFarniiam of Comet Grange presided at the piano during the ceremony after which a delicious dinner was served by ladies of Star of Progress Grange and an enjoyable social hour fol lowed Grange was reassembled in the fifth de gree and the choir rendered a pleasing selection

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Library of Congress1919

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 18, 1919

Probate Court Following is a report of the business of the Probate Court of Waldo County held September 9th with Judge Ellery Bowden of Winterport presiding Petitions for probate of wills were pre sented in estates of Caroline E White late of Belfast George E Johnson late of Belfast Alma R Dodge late of Jack son Petitionsjfor administration were pre sented in estates of Daniel S Long late of Jackson Preston E Smith late of Winterport Forrest W Treat late of Searsport Susan C Mathews late of Belfast Spencer W Mathews late of Belfast Petition in regard to the collateral in heritance tax was present in estate of Alfted K Paul late of Searsmont Petitions for license to sell real estate were presented in estates of George O Grindle late of Prospect Charles N Dicker late of Northport Addie DeSil ver late of Prosped Accounts were presented in estates of j Daniel S Long late of Jackson final Edwin Cornforth late of Thorndike first and final Emma Gertrude Lane of Brooks guardians second Innis M Flummer late of Freedom hrst and final Sarah J Sanford late of Moutville first and final George F Mutch late of Unity hrst and final

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Library of Congress1919

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 4, 1919

h Sees No Reasonable ion to Reservations uncerning League vER AT WHITE HOUSE lit Asserts United States iders No Powers and Withdraw at Wiil President Wilson and of the Foreign Ue 1 iimiitee ot tlit ocudie luet i ic House Tuesday to dis ace treaty idl opened the discus mpressing on the Senators of prompt ratification of without amendments and nations that would n mission of the treaty to mnatories csp many tier i uent said that the inter v class of people the larm rial workers and employ Med prompt ratification to j at stable conditions of in uiculture and employment iblished The Presidents bicli was in effect an ad country follows hat this conference will vpedite your consideration aty of peace 1 beg that pardon and indulge me if 1 that practically the whole aging the country back to litions of life and indus pon the decision of the i regard to the terms of fiu again to urge my ad the act u ol th Senate to tlu p ahi tuHen at 1 f practicable moment be face in the readjustment onai life are uf the most ai erit cal character will r iheir proper solution the

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Library of Congress1919

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 28, 1919

F FIRST MAINE CAV f V x1rY ASSOCIATION rtyeighth reunion of the First Ip Association will be held f in September 10 1919 Head 1 uesday at the New Exchange f Wednesday at Custer Post ss meeting at 10 A M Ban m pfire at 100 P M 100 a ms at the hotel 100 and iv comrade Who intends being lie banquet notify the Presii will be laid only for those l him comrade who receives this who wishes to be notified lify the President and if the not living will some friend his death tive notice of the death of any nee our last reunion ns FRENCH Pres Lewiston no T Cor Sec hue Is Morally binding son is reported to take the i he league covenant does not ited States to go to war with bv Congress He is said to ewspaper correspondents that the treaty or league would t if Congress did not wish to the Executive could dc ac the Presidents statement recommend action but Con 1 exercise its constitutional agree or disagree with him the President is c rrect a the country will be bound e treaty terms precisely as end by the provisions

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Library of Congress1919

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 21, 1919

MBii 1 1 KHH IWIPIV 6 I ART HIM RIGHT FINANCIALLY nd War Savings Stamps Will Help to Give Your Boy the Start He Needs in Life MAN WHO SAVES s a bulwark against sick r adversity ds a bridge to the better s up a ladder to climb in world s in hand a tool to grasp tunity ns control over money and ngs ns himself for growing re sibility Dont make opportun ity knock Have a loud ringing electric bell ready to warn of her slightest touch at your front door War Savings Stamps in vite her touch Before You Cio Shopping Read These Buying Hints w ill a definite purpose and color lured into unneeded pur Reckon in advance how much roa terial you need 11w 1 v and thoughtfully i Look for simplicity of line and recognize quality decoration pect great savings from the Buy that which will serve more inter unless you are a good than one sort of occasion or time of aterials I year good materials for things Be sure the thing you buy is be i hard wear j coming to you and appropriate to the velties and fads in design purpose

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Library of Congress1919

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 31, 1919

T0 Build American Prosperity on the Impregnable Rock of Economy Fy THE WIFE OF THE JUNIOR SENATOR FROM NEW YORK How many of the women who worked so ardently for the war are now working with equal ardor for peace A certain service is badly needed just now by our country It is a vital service and can be performed at no loss of time and at a monetary gain While money is needed by the United States to carry out the extensive program of readjustment which peace brings in its train a part of the readjustment program and one which is far more important than just the gathering of money is the great task we have before us of learning what intelligent thrift is and put vwieuge mto such effective practice that we shall not only Ltc during 1919 but shall accustom countless generations ns to build prosperity on the impregnable rock of sensible ivmgs division of the United States treasury is calling upon to model life on the following lines To save intelligently ely to avoid waste and to invest safely It may sound easy d like things jou have heard often before but apply it con fer

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Library of Congress1919

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 24, 1919

Humphreys f pr Humphreys Remedies for il use meets the needs of v evry ailment from Tnfaney 1 in Dr Humphreys Manual S PARTIAL LIST I FOR pest ions Inflammations 1 r nn Fever t Wakefulness of Infants ullren and adults Bronchitis 1 1 ache Neuralgia iv Headache Vertigo digestionWeak Stomach se Cough Laryngitis 31 mptions sin Lumbago nd Ajiue Malaria Bleeding Internal External n za Cold in Head r i j outfh ressed DifficultBreathing iv ot the Kidneys incontinence rout Quinsy rtppe La Grippe rggists everywhere ITOMFO MKPTCTOTG CO and_Aim Streets New York ist Free Libarary uon AprilJune 1919 ur Hallowell 19 Ab 26 eph A f the North A Hunters of the IV A1 85 trailers A story vPlucky 1918 A1 89 rt rude lie A mystery I1 At 45 a pie Jier 1918 B 1534 old ill 1918 B 4318 Vicente of the cathedral B 6172 J iidgar Kice he apes 1914 B 941 Geoige Agnew I 19 C 347 ifc liiel 1918 C 384 ngS of operations C 63 i rie Benton 1919C 7763 j Diana An ex it of the lulure 1918 C 810 nines Oliver f the North 1919 C 9438 an 191 D

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