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Library of Congress1900

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 22, 1900

NEWS OF THE WEEK Maine Matters The returns for the November election are practically complete and show McKinleys plurality in Maine to be 26200 McKinleys vote 61048 Bryans 35658 Wooleys 2012 ltebs 713The Maineborn congress men in other States are all reelected by big majorities Alexander of New York Fletcher and Stevens of Minne sota and Roberts of Massachusetts are returned by their constituents and there may be some sons of Maine among the new membersThe shoe business seems to be on the boom in Auburn Nearly all of the companies report a rush of work and say that the orders are coming in faster than they can be filledIt was announced that the new monitor to be launched from the Bath Iron Works the latter part of the month would be christened bv Miss Grace H Boutelle Since that time Miss Boutelle who is at present in Boston with her fatherCongressman Boutellehas decid ed that it would be impossible to accept the invitation of the Bath Iron Works and her sister Miss Annie Boutelle will do the christeningThe population of the cities of Maine and some of the larger towns has just been published by the census bureau In

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Library of Congress1900

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 12, 1900

A TRANSFORMED FARM HOUSE Marcia stood in the door of the best room surveying it thoughtfully she had graduated from college the week before and was going to teach in the village in the autumn Meanwhile she was expecting a classmate to visit her and she was trying to look at the farm house with anothers eyes The best room was dark Marcia raised the window with difficulty The blinds also stuck as though their hinges had rusted fast but the light streamed in at last Marcia sat down and looked about her Mie saw a mown ingrain carpet a walnut table with a marble top on which reposed the family liible upon a green worsted mat a sofa and six chairs hard and slippery in stiff black haircloth a narrow wood mantel with an ornament of waxen fruit under a glass shade and walls of stainless whiteness on which hung cuts of Washingtons deathbed II rants family a framed wreath of im mortelles from the coffin of her mothers aunt and a couple of chromes Asleep and Awake strange i had forgotten how hideous this room is she murmured but I have really never seen it lighted before And

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Library of Congress1900

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 5, 1900

LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES In the June number of The Maine Central appears Robert Rexdales poem on Maine entitled Motherland with an excellent likeness of the writer The poem was originally delivered before the Maine Club at hieago and its reproduc tion lias a special interest in view of Old Home Week J T Whelpley having recently given affairs in Cuba thorough and careful investigation describes in the July Atlantic Cuba of ToDay and ToMor row showing what the Spanish rule w as w hat the Americans have been and are doing since taking possession and how difficult and delicate is Hie task before u to regenerate and educate the Cuban people and lit them for ultimate Seltgoernment As an exsclmolc unuffttee woman Martha liaker Dunn in the July Atlan tic tells many wholesome and some un palatable truths as to the general mis manmanagenient ol educational ptob lemsthe often dishearti dug treatment of public school teachers andthecon scieneciess demands generally if not universally made upon them The slightly humoroustone which pervades the silicic makes it easy and attractive reading while it is none the less out spoken mid emphatic as to the need of rciitm for many crying evils

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Library of Congress1900

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 28, 1900

LETTER FROM ITALY Ve have been permitted to publish the following letter from Miss Fannie J liver to her fattier and mother Mr and Mrs 1 IV 1 yer of this city under date of Siena Italy June 1 1MOO If one wishes to have an easy time in traveling it is best to go into a person lid y conducted party and let somebody else attend to tickets luggage and other details But if one w ishes to learn a good deal about foreign ways there is noth ing like depending upon ones self We find too that it adds a spicy of novelty not to understand the language This necessitates the use of considerable pan tomime and it ii surprising how much in formation can lie conveyed by signs and tlie mere sound f the human voice 1 always know vs l en Ive made a mistake in taking a wrong street for example after inquiring of the natives by the way they shout and gesticulate making the most frantic efforts to set me right Along the well traveled routes one has no difficulty because French and Kng lisli are everywhere spoken But we are journeying just now

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Library of Congress1900

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 21, 1900

MRS POMFRET MAKER OF GENIUSES Alclton T Hatch was almost a prodigy Indeed to one ordinarily versed in the distinctive marks of embryo genius be might have seemed prodigy pure and simple Two circumstances however kept him out of the infant phenomenon class he was as yet a prophet in his own country and Airs Ioutlet refused to give Him his standing It was not known among the Apville people just why Melton T was outside the pale of genius hut all understood there was some good reason so it seemed openly schismatic of Airs Ilanslomthe new tailors wifeto declare that the hoy teas a genius positively And when Airs Iontret was quoted by the opposition Airs Ilanslom had laughingly added that comets were always more or less inconvenient to celestial bodies of fixed habits and that a certain person could not hope to order the universe forever and to keep alw ays intact her neat little assortment of carefully graded stars This remark made at the sew ing circle traveled straight to the lonely ears of Mrs homfret as she watered her gladi olai and mignonette in the early morn ing pending the arrival of the milkman with the

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Library of Congress1900

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 31, 1900

THE HUMOR OF POLITICS Some Good Stories Told of Public Men by Hon Joint J Ingalls Some of the very best stories of poli tics were contributed recently to the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post by ExSenator John Ingalls First he says Charles Sumner had no more sense of humor than a hippopotamus but there was something excessively hu morous about his colossal selfconscious ness of which it is no paradox to say he was apparently unconscious llis egotism was inordinately vast though innocent in its simplicity it was far from conceit and led to no dis paragement of his associates Indeed 1 doubt if lie ever instituted compari sons Probably Irant whom he hated and abused came the nearest to sizing him up when he said The reason Sumner doesnt believe in the Bible is because he didnt write it himself lie bad large intellectual powers but not so large as he imagined He had no inliuence on legislation He was un able to endure opposition If he could not have his own will he would do noth ing But this is not intended as an an alysis of his work or his character 1 started out to say that

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Library of Congress1900

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 24, 1900

NEWS OF THE WEEK Maine Matteks A great section of the estate of the late Jen SamuelF i Hersey was w illed to the city of Bangor for edr rational use Eighteen years before the testator had made his will a committee of the city council called upon totix tiie valuation fixed the value of the timber lands which he devised in trust to Bangor at 810108842 Six teen years later and two years before by the terms of the will the property could be divided the state assessors placed tiie valuation at 835378187 or 31200343 more than tiie valuation lixed by tiie trustees of the estate and the city council committee It is not surprising that the city is taking steps to secure its right to tin timber lands At tiie annual meeting of tiie Wo mans Aid Society of the Eastern Maine General Hospital at Bangor May 13th these officers were elected for tiie com ing year Pres Mrs Henry Lord 1st vice pres Mrs IN B Denio 2d vice pres Mrs K W Sawyer treas Miss Mary 11 Men ill sec Miss Jennie 1 Pickering The reports of tiie officers showed the hospital to he in a

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Library of Congress1900

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 17, 1900

NEWS OF THE WEEK Maim Mattkiis At a sheriffs sale last week at the granite works of the Maine iranite Co at Hewetts Island the property was disposed of Jo the fol lowing parties A C lay A Co a large hoisting engine Mathew Baird of New York a derrick w itli hoisting gear Hen i ry Sargent a derrick with hoisting gear and also several cars used to carry stone Jerry Harrington a steam hoisting en gine M A Johnson a steam hoisting engine Sherman A Hoverthe hoarding house The sale netted about 8000 William P Lennox aged To years one of the leading citizens of that section of the State died at his home in AAis casset May 2 For many years lie was president of the AViscasset Savings bank lie had held the office of county and town treasurer and was a promi nent merchant for yearsAVashbum Bros of Thomaston will huiklfor apt AVilliam 1 Lermond formerly in com mand uf the ship 1 l Thomas a four masted schooner with a carrying capac ity of 8000 tonsThe Androscoggin county Republican convention is called for June T An invitation has been ex tended Congressman Littlefield to ad

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Library of Congress1900

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 25, 1900

Suggestions for Kindergarten Reform j 1 would like to see organized a work of rescue to deliver the modern kindergarten from the metaphysicians aud to give it over to the philosophical hygienists who should make it everywhere and first of ail a palace of health The needed reforms in the kindergarten must of course come with deliberation enough to be suie A committee of ten or moie might help provided they were not kindergaitners but were wise and com petent although a badly appointed com mittee would do harm by confirming old piactices Let me confess frankly that I do not myself know at present just what should be done or just how this grade of education should be best organized One of my dearest w ishes is to have adequate means placed at my disposal to experi ment a few years or until I could present a scheme ot detailed work That this could now be done from data that are accessible is ceitain Great improvements an entirely piacticable A tew things 1 shall venture to indicate The body must be strengthened The activi ties should involve more body movements and the strain upon the hand aud eye should

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Library of Congress1900

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 4, 1900

Was it Providence A True Story of the Civil War It was in September ltj2 just before that terrible slaughter known as the bat tle of Autietam It was a time when tlie whole world looked on and held its breath The contending armies of the North and the South were about to meet iu a conflict that would go down iu history as one of the great battles of the world There arc those w ho remember how the old Iron Brigade went down as did the famous six hundred in its historic charge at Balak lava how but a remnant remained of that devoted band of heroes and that memory must be filled with horror as they recall the awful loss of precious lives One of the survivors of this Iron Brigade I believe but seven answered the rollcall after the hattle whm before it tin brigade was almost complete con sisting of two legimeuts the Sixth and Seventh Wisconsin Infantry then a mere boy of seventeen summers tells of a most remarkable incident which is the subject of this narrative and from the writers personal knowledge of the man there is no doubt of its truth The

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Library of Congress1899

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 29, 1899

NEWS OF THE WEEK Maine Matters Lawrence Bros of South Gardiner have sold to Boston par ties Crocker township for 110000 It contains 20000 acres and is said to be one of the best spruce tracts in Maiue today It is particularly well situated being bandy to either water or railroad Law rence Bros bought this tract of land three years ago for 40000 and have therefore netted a profit of 70000 and their original investment has paid them a dividend of over 50 per cent each year Lightning struck and wrecked the roof of Charles J Treworgys lumber mill at Ellsworth Falls June 14 The 15 men in the building were shocked by the electricity three men being unconscious for some hours The lire which followed the bolt was extinguished before much damage was doneThe Congregational clergy men of Hancock county in conference at Bluehill June 14th adopted resolutions condemning the flagrant violation of the marriage contract and the deplorable in crease of divorces iu the State The adoption of the resolution carried with it the agreement that clergymen of the conference should not solemnize marriage where one has or both parties have been divorced_Samuel Bryant a prominent citizen

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Library of Congress1894

Image 2 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 1, 1894

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Library of Congress1887

Image 5 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 10, 1887, (Supplement)

Republican J ournal Supplement VOLUME 59_ BELFAST MAINE THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10 1887 NUMBER 45 CHAT FROM WASHINGTON GOSSIP ABOUT MEN AND THINGS AT THE CAPITAL Frank Hattons New PaperGossip About Robert P PorterBancroft and Cor coran ComparedSome Newspaper Cos ipA Sensation Which ailed Special Correspondence Washington Nov 8It was tho hour in tho afternoon at which the great government departments vomit forth their mass of work ing humanity Crowds of men and women 1 mured by tho thousands out of tlio cavernous jaws of tho United States treasury Tho maws of the state war and navy building vcro black with tho human stream and tho clerks of tho attorney generals office wore leaving their department for their homes Thcaveuuo between Seventeenth street and the Higgs house was black with people and BANCROFT AS A PEDESTRIAN ft was the liveliest hour of the clay in Wash ington Just at this time clown the avenue and through this moving throng walked a straight old man He was six foot tall and as thin as a devils darning needle but his flesh apjiearcd to Ik as solid ns jerked beef and his slop was a springy one lie wore a tall silk hat

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