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Library of Congress1916

Image 10 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), July 7, 1916

AN OVERTURNED CANOE FOUND IN RALD MOUNTAIN POND TELLS STORY OF THREE MISSING ROYS Searching Party Organized to Ascertain the Truth of Their Dis appearance from their Homes in Blanchard on July Fourth Monson Me July 6Three Blanch ard boys Colby Fox Emery Packard and Parley Whitman are believed to have been drowned In Bald Mountain 1 pond at Blanchard on the Fourth of July Searching parties were out look ing for them today An overturned canoe in which Packards coat was found but otherwise no trace of them was found HEAVY SUIT BROUGHT AGAINST PROMOTER IN REORGANIZING UNITED STATES WORSTED CO Claimant of Maine Company Alleges Boston Banker Failed to Furnish Capital and Unsuccessful Concerns Were Unloaded on Ne w Organization Boston July 6A suit for J200000 agilnst Neal Rantoul a local banker for losses alleged to have been sustain ed through reorganization of the Unit ed States worsted Co of Maine was fil ed in the superior court today by E J Ilylan The claimant who is a manu facturer of woolen goods founded the United States Worsted Co of Maine In connection with the expansion of its working capital he alleges a plan of reorganization was agreed

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 6, 1916

The Second Maine Regiment Left Augusta June 29th for Texas Regi mental Flag Presented by City Addresses by Mayor Viles and Hon Frank M Dut ton 15000 People 1 hrong the Streets to see the Start From the Kennebec Journal Through ianes of cheering people wav ine flags teardimmed eyes and flutter mg handkerchiefs the sections of the three long trains bearing our State of Maine soldier boys to Laredo Texas to serve their countrys flag pulled slowly from the Augusta station Thursday afternoon the first at 520 the second and third sections at intervals of 15 min UtBefore the noon hour hundreds of the 15000 people who thronged Water street and Market Square packed the windows of every block at the south of the street and dotted even the roofs and towers of surrounding buildings had begun to take their positions There was a tense un dercurrent of excitement in the whole spirit of the people who gathered to wish our boys God speed it was a different attitude than any crowd has ever mani fested in this city since the days of the SPinhou8oclocK the expectations of those who had for hours waited patient ly on the street

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Library of Congress1916

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 29, 1916

D June In Missouri Correspondence of The Journal Springfield Mo June 13 1916 The month of June is to us full of joy and beauty To begin we have been favored with an abundance of delicious straw berries gathered fresh from our own patch in the garden For more than four weeks morning noon and night we ate them without stint or weariness and handed over the patch at surplus times to neighbors and friends We have also been bountifully supplied with radishes lettuce beet greens and yesterday we picked our first mess of string beans This morning we cut our first crop of en dive and dug our first mess of new pota toes one hill being sufficient for the days needs Not only do we partake of the eatables but our eyes are being feasted with the sight of the beautiful Flowers of almost all early varieties are to be seen everywhere in profuse abun dance particularly is this true of the roses which just now are exceedingly pro fuse A week ago we were charmed and delighed with the sights which met our eyes as we drove through the Btreets of the city Last night in our

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Library of Congress1916

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 22, 1916

Ansel A Packard of the Graduating Class U of M Gives the Class Day Oration Prom the Bangor Commercial W Ansel A Packard of Belfast was the class day orator and proved himself worthy of the name He delivered an oration that will be long remembered by those who heard it The oration was well adapted to this era of preparedness and was a call to the students to do their share towards the preservation of this republic Mr Packard Baid in part On the afternoon of Nov 19 1863 a vast vast silent multitude billowed like waves at sea over what had been not long before the battle of Gettys burg True Americans all they had paused in the midst of that terrible strife to do honor to the memory of thoBe who had gone down in the storm On the platform before them towered a loosebung figure six feet four inches tall a man awkward and illdressed in whose haggard face seemed to be the suffering of the sinB of the world Abra ham Lincoln President of the United States out of the depth of his great heart spoke to his people these words which shall endure throughout

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Image 1 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 25, 1916

II The Republican Joitrnai 1 MK Sh BELFAST MAINE THURSDAY MAY 25 WIG ymimli 0 I of locays journal W _ lirtbe8 News of the Gr nges y in Press Association Secret SocietiesPer VlHll Problem Washington Obituary Benjamin Priest itinal Lecture North Wal Grange Vogue of Spots lM i g luris Wilson a Girl of The News of Belfast in Keal Estate Wedding ast BelfastThe News of yoks News of Belfast h Nichols County Corre t A Few Notes on the Life k of Col Jesse Smart of Composite Disease from California Northport Recent Deaths Transfers in i 8tate Two John J Ingalls Accuse U S Department cnculture of Swindle retort Stockton Springs The fast Price Currentborn rm Hied_ I he L hurclies the Congregational church ext Sunday Morning wor Sunday school at noon is Thursday evening at A Knowlton 16 Miller rvice next Sunday in the and all veterans and aftili nvited to attend the Me Methodist church when is will preach an appro t honor ionary Auxiliary of the i their annual meeting iast with Mrs Charles M sent The Kings High dialogue was read by sev mbcrs The annual reports o 1 and the following offi lent

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Library of Congress1916

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 24, 1916

THE TAJ MAHAL _ A Letter From India Miss Sadie Gowen to her Dear C E Friends Balasore India Dec 6 1915 It is just six years ago tonight since Miss Coe and I first alighted in Balasore We have been going over those years for a little while tonightand the review finally brought us to the point where we both said heartnv I am I came and I added I am glad 1 am to stay another yearand she said I wish I were Just by way of celebrating we walked over to the station and watched the train come in at the same time it did six years ago tonight and we recalled the friends who met us there Only one is now in India and she is in another station In fact there are only five missionaries on the whole held who were here when we ar rived India is very slow but it is always changing and six years have seen many transforming scenes and circumstances In fact so far as we know there are absolutely none of the white people in Balasore who were here when we came Ever the capital of the empire is

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 6, 1916

u Sylvester Cottrell and Some ot His Descendants Sylvester Cottrell belonged to the Westerly R I family which is still rep resented in that town Buying land in Islesboro about 1772 he settled on what is now called Hewes Point having a tannery there it is said The Westerly records show that on June 7 1767 he was married to Peggy Margaret Pen dleton daughter of Thomas Pendleton of Stonington Conn and later of Isles boro Maine Sept 4 1789 Silvester Cotterell sold 100 acres of land in Isles boro to Stephin Pendleton the deed be ing witnessed by Gideon Pendleton and Sylvester Cottrell Jr also July 1 1790 Silvester Cottell sold 100 acres to Samuel Jackson for 73 pounds 10 shill ings The name is variously spelled having four different spellings in one deed These transfers were probably made about the time he removed to N B where he died atMiramichi it is be lieved According to the Bangor Hist and Gen magazine his tombstone re cords that Sylvester Cottrell died Mar 20 1830 aged 88 and his wife Margaret died Oct 20 1833 aged 84 So far it has been impossible to find the record of Sylvesters birth

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Library of Congress1915

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 30, 1915

A Journey Through the South fA Paper read by Mra Tdomaa B Dinamore before the Unitarian Alliance Dec 2nd and published by request of The Journal The fame of the markets eating placesand the cooking of New Orleans is worldwide We enjoyed a dinner at Farbachers where soft shelled crabs are servedand unless you know just how to manage in eating them you have to be shown And not to have breakfast at Madam Johns where the best coffee in the world so they Bay is served the delicious French Dip would be to miss one of the unusual attractions When the itinerary for these trips is made not to be out but one night at a time in a sleeper is alw ys planned and to have our trunk at every stop is a great comfort The New Orleans ex perience was the only disappointment we had As we left New Orleans and were shown to our section we heard quite a commotion outside and oa looking out found it to be a bridal party There was much laughing and flowers were thrown and our good natured porter had all he could do to keep the crowd of young

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Image 9 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), October 18, 1915

TOUR GIRLS APPETITE your growing daughters ap pecomes fickle and she shows a for sour starchy or chalky fti juries look after the condition of her tshe iS pale and languid nervous ithout ambition and irritable her llood Is unable to meet the demands ffade UPn il pr Williams Pink Pills are a tfic remedy for the form of etuis or lack that afflicts oWinf girls and proper treatment tjj these pills will not only correct trouble but prevent It from pro etflinr into a w orse form purine hpr teens a girl lays the foundation for her future health Lack blood at this time may rob her of bust healthy womanhood It is of ne greatest importance to administer etric v ho grow pale and weak a ff nonalcoholic tonic and Dr Wil Pink Pills meet every require nt of the most careful mother pr Williams Pink Pills make the blood rich and red and it carries re fwed health and strength to every oart of the body These pills are ecomniended wherever a tonic is needed your own druggist selis Dr Wil iuns pink Pills Send today to the o Williams Medicine Co Schenec iidr N T for

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Library of Congress1915

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 9, 1915

Skim Milk as Food lb Nutritive Elements Underestimated Many Ways in Which it May be Used in the Diet Skim milk is a very economical food material in the opinion of experts in the department and might well be more largely used as human foodthis in spite of the fact that it is ninetenths water The argument for economy is based on the price at which it is usually sold and upon the composition of the remaining tenth or the nutritive portion Whole milk as everyone knows is an indispensable food for the young and even in the diet of the adult it is com paratively economical The only nutrient taken from it in skimming is the butter fat There is left therefore in the skim milk not only all of the sugar which amounts to about 4 12 parts in every 100 and all of the mineral substances but also all of the protein The last named substance is important because besides serving as fuel for the body as fats sugars and starches do it also supplies nitrogenous tissuebuilding ma terial The proportion of protein in skim milk as well as of the mineral constitu ents which are also

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Library of Congress1915

Image 14 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 2, 1915, (INDUSTRIAL SUPPLEMENT)

Notes on a Trip to Toddy Pond Late in August about thirteen years ago a party of four of us two ladies and two gentlemen drove to Toddy Pond from Searsport and spent the day there On the way up and back and while at the pond we endeavored to find as many wild flowers as possible and the number we were able to collect surprised us On July 24th this year three of the original party with another amateur botanist determined to repeat the trip and to see if we could equal of surpass our former record We were not quite certain what our record was as the list bad been misplaced but from our best recollection we had to find either one hundred and fifteen or one hundred and thirtyfive varieties This time we made the trip up by auto mobile and the return trip by walking and it was unanimously decided that a horse and carriage is a much more desir able vehicle for botanizing than an auto mobile After arriving at Mr Whites and get ting the key to the boat we began mak ing the list of the flowers we had noticed on the way

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Library of Congress1915

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 26, 1915

That German Submarine Suspicious Craft Explained as Ol Gramp a Fixed Institution In These Waters boston Globe J Castine Me Aug 18 The Oakum Club which meets every afternoon on the shady side of Spurlings fishhouse and peruses fractional parts of the met ropolitan journals that Sam Strout picks up around the big hotel where he is night watchman has passed informal resolu tions that there has been so much foolish ness printed about German submarines being round Penotscot Bay that it is incumbent upon the club to set the public right ldunno remarked Capt Eph Simp son these newspaper fellers or least wise all I ever run afoul of cant never git nothin right Last week I got out my old chart and showed one of em jest what the perils of navigation was that lay tween Monhegan and Cape Rozier way and how slim the chances of them furriners in a craft that was travelin down close to the bottom and steerin by squintin around the corners of a stove pipe thing that stuck up through the deck of makin White Head to say nothin of the Muscle Ridge channel and all the rocks an bars and sich

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 19, 1915

GOuD THINGS From the Good Will Record A very interesting monthly is the Good Will Record published by the Good Will Publishing Co Hinckley Me George W Hinckley editor and we want our readers to enjoy some of the good things from the current issue as follows In Defence of the Old Farmer Said a Boston editorial in June Ap ply early and avoid the rush Not a bit too early to write to that old farmer up in Maine or New Hampshire to secure hat front room overlooking the country h and wide for the two weeks you are to spend in the country Allow us to remark that any old edi tor who will publish an old squib like that in his old newspaper is behind the times If any old quill driver should chance to write to us for a chance to rest his old baldpate in our attic while on his old two weeks rest in the country he would get it we would decline to board him or his old wife or any of his old sons or old daughters or his old sons inlaw or his old daughtersinlaw and all their old babieB until

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Image 4 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 13, 1915

The Republican Journal BELFAST THURSDAY MAY IS 1916 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY The Republican Jour Pub Co CHARLES A PILSBURY f Manager Advertising Terms For one square one Inch length in column 25 cents for one week nnd 26 cents for each subsequent insertion Subscription Terms In advance 200 a year 100 for six months 60 cents for three months This is Tulip Week Do all the young men know itBoston Globe Yes but they dont spell it that way With them it is twolip fiftytwo weeks in the year The editor received by mail Monday several strawberry blossoms picked by Merton Bessey in Peru May 2ndRum ford Falls Times South America7 The Germans fired a shot into Dun kirk from a distance of 20 miles and would have killed an infant had it not been rescued by its father Such is war fareGerman warfare Whatever may be the verdict of the jury in the case of Barnes vs Roosevelt i the verdict of the people as voiced by the pressof all shades of political opinionwill be adverse to the Colonel Indeed we may say that the verdict has already been rendered in advance of the jury Chapters of inside

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Library of Congress1914

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 27, 1914

The European War ft Eflecct Upon the Resource and Indus tries of this Country Washington Aug 24 1914 A di rect benefit to the United States from the European war will be its effect in making the people of this country real ize to a greater extent the value of its mineral resources said Franklin K Lane Secretary of the Interior in an interview today It is entirely possible to so utilize these resources and expand our industries that the label Made in America will become familiar in our own foreign markets Of an importance second only to that of the food supply said Mr Lane is the supply of mineral products necessary to meet the requirements of Twentieth century civilization One of the first ef fects of the war has been to make us realize the interdependence of nations in the matter of food supply Most of the countries now at war are dependent up on importation of foodstuffs and we have cause for selfcongratulation in the United Stales that we are able to feed ourselves What we possibly have not so fully realized is that we are nearly as independent in the possession of essential mineral resources and

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Library of Congress1914

Image 6 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), March 5, 1914

Daily Kennebec Journal Entered at the Augusta Post Office as second class mail matter ESTABLISHED 1826 No notice whatever will be taken of unsigned communications The Journal cannot be held responsi ble for the preservation or return of rejected communications Address all communications relating to subscriptions and advertisements to Kennebec Journal Co Publish ers Augusta Maine Thursday March 6 1914 Republican Ticket FOR MAYOR Hon Willis E Swift Ward One AldermanArthur N Soule CouncilmenOscar H Anderson and Burleigh Martin WardenOrlando H Tolman Ward ClerkClarence C Hunt ConstableAlbert E Gardner City CommitteemanClaude W Townsend Ward Two AldermanNorman L Bassett CouncilmenGeorge W Wadlelgh and Wilbert S Wilson WardenCharles J House Ward ClerkFrank V Mendall ConstableWilliam P Fox City CommitteemanBlaine S VUes Ward Three AldermanCharles P Kinsman CouncilmenFred S Daggett and Winfred A Jackson WardenCharles H Dill Ward ClerkWilliam B Fletcher ConstableJohn C Howes City Committeeman Harold A Murchie Ward Four AldermanEdmond Doyon CouncilmenPhilibert Poulin and Joseph Lambert WardenFred Lapointe Ward ClerkC A Miron ConstableArthur Roy City CommitteemanHiram H Weymouth Ward Five AldermanArthur E Percival CouncilmenPercy W Morrill and Charles B Phllbrlck WardenLester G Teague Ward ClerkFrank W Damren ConstableBenjamin Tracy City CommitteemanW S Knowles Ward Six AldermanCharles M Taber CouncilmenAlbert E Folsom

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Library of Congress1914

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 26, 1914

political Situation gn by Hon Reuel Robinson of Camden the Editor op This Camden 1 D I have been requested to ex fiER v views concerning the present Prf9 1 situation and my opinion as to P01 s necessary to be done by those tftl n dissatisfied with existing condi r order to effect a change My hnt ig no better than that of any Pnl prs0n who has been in touch with 0 1 Heal affairs for the past quarter of a P1 rV and I do not consider that it The of much value to anyone except afl t is the opinion of one individ of the many which together go making up of the great public it is true that during the above Pned period I have been a resident 11 l Courty where there is I think 11 uch politics to the square rod as a re else in the State and although 1 a an officeholder I have had an 1 rtiinity to come in contact with a iitics and to observe from time the display of more or less polit jsdoni as well as a good quantity of 1 p unwisdom and for that

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Image 6 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), September 17, 1913

Daily liennttec Journal Entered at the Augusta Post Offlos as second class mail matter ESTABLISHED 1825 _ No notice whatever will be taken of unsigned communications The Journal cannot be held responsi ble for the preservation or return of rejected communications Address all _subj communications relating tions and advertisements c Jouriltab Co Fublish sta Wednesday September 17 1913 Behind words lie deeds be hind deeds qualities behind qualities intention and the dis tinction between one man and another is the innermost am bition and the chosen attitude of the soulIan Mactaren The Real Situation In a twocolumn editorial heavily attempting to squeeze consolation from the recent election the Water ville Sentinel Tuesday hits upon i fact that has figured in the past and is bound to figure in elections to come Our Waterville neighbor makes th error of treating it as though for the first time such phenomena were now recognized by intelligent observers The Sentinel says A trifling margin of 500 votes separates our total from theirs while between us lies a wide field of 6500 independent voters ready to go where they think they ought and back of us a reserve force of 000 stayathomes who will come

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