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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 5, 1912

From December Magazines WANTEDA SENSATION To make advertising interesting we need a sensation and advertising forms so large a part of our daily intellectual diet that it seems not too grasping to ask for a change of mental food Kosy Rumfurt Raramels have lost their taste Sharp Snappy Styles for Serious Students have wearied eye and mind Mannish togs of dainty model tug at the feminine pursestrings in vain We could not improve the picture but look what we have done to the frame won us by its complacent satis faction but now tires us by its constant repetition A prominent manufacturer who is going out of business has placed at the advertisers disposal his entire stock which is being offered by us at merely nominal pricesbut for us he has re tired once too often his magnanimity no longer touches us and we wearily thrust aside the lists of his misplaced philan thropiesElizabeth C Billings in the Atlantic WHATS THE USE I am ceasing to criticizeI use the word in its present degenerate sense of faultfinding because my complaints have not been productive of one iota of good Moreover they have always been ungraciously received either by the per

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 28, 1912

Some New Books QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER DETECTIVE L C Page Co of Boston have re cently published a volume by Charles Felton Pidgin entitled Quincy Adams Sawyer Detective chronicling the fur ther experiences of Quincy Adams Saw yer The possibilities in the establish ment by this clever discreet and ever entertaining person of such attractive qualities of an office for the investigation of crime are capably handled by the au thor The young detective proves his intelligence by unravelling a seriesof startling mysteries which have long baffled the city police LITERARY HEARTHSTONES OF DIXIE La Salle Corbell Pickett widow of Gen George E Pickett the Confeder ate officer whose name is associated with the desperate charge at Gettysburg who has devoted her life to literature is the author of Literary Hearthstones of Dixie a volume full of side lights on Poe Sidney Lanier Paul Hamilton Hayne Henry Titnrod Joel Chandler Harris Francis Scott Key Fr Ryan Dr George W Bagby Margaret Junkin Preston and Augusta Evans Wilson all of whom are poets or authors of the South The text is appreciatively writ ten and much of the material relating to the writers who are alive was gathered in person by

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Library of Congress1912

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 3, 1912

RHEUMATIC SUFFERER Throws Away Cane When Rheuma Ban ishes Swelling From Knees and Ankle Every reader of Th Journal who is op pressed or tortured with Rheumatism Sciatica or aiiiiniiB is iuvhcu w gu to A A Howes Cos and secure a bottle of RHEUM A the remedy that made Mrs Knox happy and healthy If it doesnt drive the poisonous waste matter from your sys tem and end your agony you can have your money back A bottle costs but 0 cents For 14 months I was so badly afflicted with Rheu matism that much of the time I was obliged to use a cane 111 wanting vii me rccum mendation of your druggist in Glens Falls I used one bottle of RHEUM A and THE CANE IS IN THE CORNER NOW No one could be happier than I am to be rid of the pain swollen knees contracting muscles under the knees and badly swollen ankles When I tell you my weight is 238 pounds you will understand what the use of RHEUM A for Rheumatism means to me 1 certainly believe there is no remedy for the disease like RHEUM A Signed Mrs Daniel S Knox Severance

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Library of Congress1912

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 26, 1912

Nora Goodwin Little Heroine Nora Goodwins home was on the sandy beach overlooking the reat sea I dont mean that she lived right down on the very beach itself but a1 safe distance above the hightide mark The Goodwin house stood on a high point of land which jutted out well into the water Thus they had a fine view of the sea from three sides of the house and al ways a sea breeze blowing about them Noras father owned a boathouse and let out fishing smacks rowboats and motor boats to the tourists and summer boarders who thronged the village near by from early May to late September And Nora being the only child was her fathers chum as well as her mothers comrade On long afternoons Nora and her father would row far out to sea and soon the 15yearold girl was considered one of the finest oarswomen on the coast for many miles One fine August morning Mrs Good win was obliged to go to the village to do some marketing and shopping After she had finished her shopping she drop ped in to see a friend for an hours chat While thus socially engaged she

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Library of Congress1912

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 5, 1912

From Nassau to New York in a CatBoat BY ALFRED JOHNSON FROM A LETTER HOME The following extracts from a letter home written on the trip will perhaps give an idea of what our life aboard was like On yacht Myrtle off Cape Fear April 17 1912 9 a m I have just come down to my watch below after holding the wheel for four hours i e since just before dawn of day this morning The half dozen breakfast dishes are cleared away the useless remnants of the baconandeggs and coffeegrounds thrown overboard the clean red checkered tablecloth spread on the cabin table and I am seated at it in a flood of sunlight A cool breeze is blowing through the open portholes into my face and feels good at my throat bared by the opennecked sailors blouse Charlie has a bottle of beer and Im likely to have an hour or more to myself alone with you in which Ill try to give you some idea of what our trip up the coast is like Myrtle as you know is the cathoat Mr Bacon uses to get back and forth to his island 3 miles from Nassau in

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Library of Congress1912

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 22, 1912

Washington Whisperings Washington D C August 19 1912 Taking the items carried in the Sundry Civil bill for waterways on which there is absolute agreement between the Sen ate and House and these added to the several amounts appropriated in the River and Harbor bill which is now a law the total sum set aside for improv ing the rivers harbors and canals of the county for the fiscal year ending June will reach in the neighborhood of forty three millions within seven millions of the amount set by the National Rivers and Harbors Congress as a proper an nual appropriation to put the water ways of the United Sates in a condition to do their proportion of the work of transportation For the past two years the biggest of the waterway organizations the National Rivers and HarborsCongresshas been on record in favor of a yearly appropriation of fifty million dollars It has bent every energy to the accomplishment of the principle for which it stands and now with the present appropriation of nearly fortythree millions and a like sum prob bly at the short sessions of Congress next winter it looks as if the campaign of education conducted by

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Library of Congress1912

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 2, 1912

fortune in Hens and Apples v Hampshire Man Realizes 16000 4 1 cpfi 000 a Year from Fruit and to u rfiiicious mingling of hens and ap Lj inabled C E L Haywood of Ee ik M H to develop a rough sl Vnl uneven bit of runout soil into rr c5t fruit and poultry farm in md and to earn a profit which 11 16000 to 26000 a year i has been brought about by a a century of unremitting la h evolution of a successful trictly business management is today the land supports an 10000 trees and more than At first sight it looks like a tmvn with its long streets of tses which now number 720 iions were merely incidental growth of the industry both ive been placed upon a paying i both hens and apples contri general success of the under go Mr Hayward first started in had only a property of 250 a i idi had no more promising fea liundreds of neglected places other States To work upon orchard of some 400 trees in ss promising condition He av hundred hens soon after tak en and by elaborating his own I the groundwork of

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 25, 1912

bounty Correspondence Deferred sWVihase Hon A E Nickerson Mr r ckerson and Mr A T Nickerson at J Republican State convention in tvveek_Miss Augusta Nickerson ieion spent the latter part of the of1 tn lltr parents Mr and Mrs J W I he A S met with Mrs J NiC ast Thursday and reelected the utticers for the ensuing year oi Church is now in order and will SF as soon as the shingles can be he schools began Monday With eachers 1 and 2 Miss Wood mi 3 Miss Nellie Rose 8 and mrtshorn 7 Miss Alice Nicker Nickerson is very sick i has been quite sick but is im LthpokT Mrs Wm Dihvorth have arrived v and will probably stay all sura V i F Hills who has been very measles is getting better Clar till sick with them aiso Willie f1 klrenSchooner W H Jewell x I Mar posts for RocklandSchools i v April 22d Miss Mary Kelley I Cove Capt Wm Patterson hood has gone to Bangor for a Mrs Annie Herrick has ar ii Bangor where she has been mother since last December xrk has been operated upon in a r and is getting along

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Library of Congress1912

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 18, 1912

ouniy vviipvuuuv Deferred eHlLL Swanvllle 04K york and Frank Ordway are sawing his vicinity with their gasolene en i ff0 iviiss Helen Knowlton is in Lynn Sir _t veral weeks visiting relatives and Mr and Mrs Bert Lenfest who aii employment in New Jersey for the ve returned to their home for the Mrs Bertha Burdeen of Thomas utDine ecj her parents Mr and Mrs Levi recentlyMr and Mrs Jonathan Belfast are with their daughter ekins for several months i5i5BOR aide Hatch has returned to Milli resume her school duties_Mrs ue has gone to East Millinocket Pjn ini a month in Islesboro_Miss iams has gone to Brewer for the Mr Charles Dana Gibson and ere in town for a few days recently v her C Hatch was at home from Dart r iue Kaster vacation also Mark Pen hi the C of MMiss Marie Coombs lined to Bingham Me to finish the pgpSPFFT FERRY e M Ginn arrived from Worcester I d 6th and will spend a week with Mr and Mrs P M Ginn_J D isi ted in Bangor several days re Vr and Mrs W H Ginn called on ce 1 Sandypoint April 4thMrs Vira turned from Boston

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Image 2 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 4, 1912

Back Numbers Two recent deaths in one family ir Machias recall boyhood memories of thal historic town Few towns in New Eng land of its size couldcompare with it ir the intelligence culture and sterling qualities of its people The old families included the Longfellows from the same stock as thepoet the Porters to one of this family Machia3 is indebt ed for her public library the OBriens of Revolutionary fame the Crockers the Hills Sargents and others all more or less distinguishedand all worthy law abiding Godfearing citizens Two mem bers of the Holway family and I think the last of their generation died withir one week Miss Eilen C Holway daughter of the late John and Leonici Crocker Holway died March 3 1912 aged 8 years As I recall her she was something of an invalid and it seems surprising that she should have attainec so great an age She was fond of flow ers and in the season there was a wealtl of bloom around the hospitable Holwaj home on what was known as the Dublir side of the Machias river I recall he as working about her flowers out oi doors or seated in a low

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Library of Congress1912

Image 2 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 28, 1912

The Republican Journal BELFAST THURSDAY MARCH 281912 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY The Republican Jour Pub Co CHARLES A PILSBURY t Bu Manager Subscription Terms In advance 200 a year 100 for six months 50 cents for three months Advertising Terms For one square one inch length in column 25 cents for one week and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion Taxes are already too high We must spend less of the peoples money The direct State tax must not be in creased It cannot be reduced for 1911 but it should be materially reduced for 1912 Gov Plaisteds inaugural ad dress The direct State tax for 1911 was2712641 88 1912 1809081 65 4621723 53 The direct State tax for 199 was1286651 55 1910 2143156 47 3429808 02 Increase in State taxes1091915 51 In addition to this direct tax on the people there was an increase in other taxes such as railroad tax tax on ex press companies tax on automobiles etc etc amounting in all for the two years to more than 500000 Thus it is clearly shown that during Governor Plaisteds administration the total tax k levy was nearly 1600000 more than the LUA IV I Y UIIUC1 VJVYY1IIU1

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Image 2 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 21, 1912

Letter from San Francisco To the Editor pF The Journal Thinking that a few lines from the Me tropolis of the Pacific coast might be in teresting to your many readers I will give you some of my impressions of the city There has been but little rain here for the rainy season In January only about two inches of rain fell Last year in January the rainfall was thirteen inches Sometimes there will be a week at a time of pleasant sunny weather I was surprised to see it so pleasant in the rainy season as I had an idea that it rain ed nearly every day They tell me it is about as pleasant here now as at any time of year In the summer there is much more wind ard fog The nights are all cool here in the summer and you want plenty cf bedclothes There are no hot nights as we have them in the east The papers say there are forty thousand men here out of work Thou sands have come from the east this win ter expecting plenty of work and big pay but they have been grievously disappoint ed and are stranded

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 7, 1912

A REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION WILL HE HELD IN CITY HALL BANCOR Wednesday April 10 1912 AT 2 OCLOCK P M For the pm pose of selecting six candidates for electors of President and Vice President of the United States and four delegates at large and four alternates to attend the National Re publican Convention to be held in the City7 of Chicago in the State of Illinois on Tuesday the 18th day of June 1912 Also to formulate and adopt a declaration of principles or platform for the election next en suing to elect a State committee a district committee for each Congressional district and a county committee for each county Also to transact any other business which may properly come before it The basis of representation will be as fol lows Each city town and plantation will be entitled to one delegate and for each 75 votes cast for the Republican candidate for Governor in 1908 an additional delegate and for a frac tion of 40 votes in excess of 75 votes an ad itionai delegate Vacancies in the delegation of any city town or plantation can only be filled by a resi dent of the county in which

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 29, 1912

A REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION WILL HE HELD IN CITY HALL BANCOR Wednesday April 10 1012 AT 2 OCLOCK P M For the purpose of selecting six candidates for electors of President and Vice President of the United States and four delegates at large and four alternates to attend the National Re publican Convention to be held in the City of Chicago in the State of Illinois on Tuesday the 18th day of June 1912 Also to formulate and adopt a declaration of i principles or platform for the election next en suing to elect a State committee a district committee for each Congressional district and a county committee for each county Also to transact any other business which may properly come before it The basis of representation will be as fol lows Each city town and plantation will be entitled to one delegate and for each 75 votes cast for the Republican candidate for Governor in 1908 an additional delegate and for a frac tion of 40 votes in excess of 75 votes an ad itional delegate Vacancies in the delegation of any city town or plantation can only be filled by a resi dent of the county in which

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 22, 1912

KITTYS RETURN She trailed slowiy uown the stairway in her velvet gown It was peachy hued with old lace at throat and wrists She moved with an indolent grace and held her head with its heavy masses ol dark hair a trifle haughtily The crim son lips were unsmiling and the eyes deeply blue under the long lashes looked distantly coid Sherrod watching her as she came slowly down to him felt a contraction of his throat and a sense of disappoint ment vaguely accusatory She re minded him in her new stateliness of an old painting he had seen in an art gallery in Florence The Marchioness the velvet gown with its clinging folds j accentuated her graceful slenderness and the long train lent dignity to her little figure Sherrod caught his breath 1 as he watched her hungrily He had 1 not remembered that she was so beauti ful She had always been to him the very essence of all that was lovely and gracious anil sweet and he had known her beautiful But he had never pic tured her with this regal air He felt i bewildered and somehow defrauded And then just as she reached the

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 4, 1912

A Miracle of the Sea One Chance in a Million Saved thi Hannah F Carleton Mysterious Trag edy of the Active How the Charle Houghton Blundered into Boothbay Bangor Daily News When the old Bangor schooner Han nah F Carleton went to the bottom o Vineyard Sound Davy Jones claimed thi coaster that was famed all along shon as having been the victim of the Strang est collision ever known at seasuch i collision as never occurred before o since and is not likely to happen again There was one chance in a million fo the Hannah F Carleton in that famou crash and chance favored the schooner Old sailors regard her escape as nothin short ot a miracle They were telling about the Hannal F Carletons remarkable experience the mariners assembled around the fir in Mulvanys sail loft the other day am other close shaves were mentioned bu none to compare with the miracle of Cape Cod which is well remembered b the older captains The Hannah F Carleton was a twomaster of 189 tons built at Pembroke in 18S4 and at th time of her strange experience haiiin from Jonesport She had been to Ne York with lumber

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Library of Congress1911

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 28, 1911

MAINE STATE GRANGE The Maine State Grange met in Lewis ton last week The feature of the day Tuesday was the address of State Mas ter C S Stetson He gave a brief re port of the doings of the National grange referring to the position he took as an insurgent and said that his sole ob ject was the bettering of the conditions in the National grange He spoke of the Kegley trial and explained the posi tion taken by the representatives from Maine He was heartily applauded when he said that he felt that the machine of the National grange is brok n and said that the increase in membership had been satisfactory Dishonest officials and political combinations have discredited the Prohibitory law he declared Hon est men men of courage and integrity men in whom the people have confidence are needed in public office They can be found and the grange should aid in the finding I have faith to believe that the frange of the future will use all its in uence in creating a widespread public sentiment and demand for an honest en forcement of the law prohibiting the manufacture and sale the use and

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Library of Congress1911

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 21, 1911

Stockton Springs Trust Company STOCKTON SPRINGS MAINE We have grown in Deposits over 42 and in accounts about 100 since April first last We respectfully solicit your banking business j We offer you the most modern banking facilities and the strongest connections in and out of Maine Deposits or withdrawals may be made by mail as well as in person We can now legally accept acounts in the names of two persons payable to either or the survivor Statement of Condition December 12 1911 of STOCKTON SPRINGS TRUST COMPANY RESOURCES Demand and Time Loans 1197089 Loans on Mortgages of Real Estate 817396 Loans on Collateral 77000 Stocks and Bonds 5410500 Expense Account 174904 Furniture and Fixtures 870C0 Cash Deposited in other Banks 744178 Cash on Hand 237970 Real Estate Owned 100000 8846037 LIABILITIES Capital Stock2500000 SurPlus 200000 Undivided Profits 292571 Demand Deposits 3L23659 Savings Deposits 2729807 _ 8846037 I We pay 4 h per annum on savings accounts Deposits received on or be fore the 12th of any month will draw interest from the first day of the same month Dividends payable on and after the first day of January and July H R HICHBORN President DIRECT0RS FRANK S BENSON

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