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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 7, 1911

or Cat calls for quidVf yAo treatment Dont try experiments M Ivl I Bu I You are safe and sure with the oldreliable ri j f JOHNSONS Limmenti avopyv Liniment ghMMUi Used over 100 years for Rheumatism Swellings f Pills Stiff Joints Wounds Used inwardly for E _ I Colds Sore Throat Croup Bowel Troublesr a 1 s 25c and 50c Bottles At all Dealers System CO LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES The December Womans Home Com panion is a specially illustrated and beautified Christmas number It con tains aside from the usual illustrations a great many pictures in color Stories are included in greater number than usual and several of them are extraor dinary presentations of the Christmas spiritfull of action and the best kind of sentiment Some of the contributors of the fiction are Jeffery Farnol Mary E Wilkins Freeman Norvell Harrison Owen Oliver and Hulbert Footner Among the articles in the December Wide World Magazine is one entitled A 200000000 Treasure Hunt which deals with the recent excavations in i Jerusalem by British explorers for the j purpose of recovering the buried riches of the Jewish kings It is written by A Resident of Jerusalem and is illus

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Library of Congress1911

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 30, 1911

Exports of Raisins From the United States Washington D C Nov 27 1911 More than one million dollars worth of raisins were exported from the United States in the last fiscal year the quanti ty 18 12 million pounds being tar in ex cess of the total exported in any earlier year The imports during the year amounted to only 2 12 million pounds against 10 million pounds in 1900 and as high as 50 million pounds in certain years prior to the development of production in the United States Comparing 1911 with 1900 the figures of the Bureau of Statistics Department of Commerce and Labor show that exports grew from 2 12 million pounds to over 18 12 million pounds and their value from 140000 to 1069000 During the same period im ports of raisins fell from 10 13 million pounds in 1900 to 2 12 million in 1911 and their value from 531000 to 237 lW 1I1C laigcot CApui IU11U1I un iuioiuh recorded in any year prior to 1911 was that of 1907 a little over 9 million pounds or less than half that of 1911 while the largest importation of raisins on record is that of 1884

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Library of Congress1911

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 23, 1911

FRANK W GOWEN Frank W Gowen widely known in temperance work and as a very active business man left Waterville last week to locate in Southern California Mr Gowen has been one of the most active workers in Maine for Prohibition by voice and pen and from a boy an earnest Good Templar in which organization he became very prominent He has held high office in this order in Maine also in the Supreme Lodge of the world having been Supreme Lecturer and organizer and visited many States in the Union in its interest also Canada and only a few years ago was sent to Europe twice in succession by the Maine Good Templars to represent them in the worlds sessions of the order Mr Gowen has also been engaged in the insurance business for many years and it is understood that he will engage in the same business in Cali fornia He is a gentleman of dis tinguished presence and will be missed in Maine but all of his friends throughout the State will wish him suc cess in his business undertaking on the r acuu tuasi COST OF LIVING THE SAME TODAY AS FORTY YEARS AGO In the

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Library of Congress1911

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 5, 1911

County Correspondence NORTH ISLESBORO Mrs I M Burgess is the guest of Mr and Mrs Charles Rose in Rockland Mr Jesse Bates is attending the M C I in Pittsfield Mrs William Farrow left last week for a visit with her husband in BostonMiss Caro Heal arrived from Brockton Mass last Satur day to spend a week with her parents Mr and Mrs B F Heal Miss Elizabeth Bates who is teaching in Unity was at home over Sunday Miss Eunice Keller a student of the Cas tine Normal school spent the weekend at home MrsHelen Ryder and daughter Gay lie were in Belfast over Sunday Mrs H M Coombs visited in Camden and Rockland last week_Mrs Jason Greenlaw who spent the summer at her home in Deer Isle arrived last week for the winterMrs Isabel Sprague is the guest of Mrs Velocia E Coombs LIBERTY Mr and Mrs Earle P Maloney have return ed from a two weeks visit with Mr Maloneys relatives in Thomaston MeSherman Cram and Earl Reynold are digging potatoes in Freedom_The corn factory has closed hav ing done a very successful falls workDr S W Johnson of Belfast was in town last week on business

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Library of Congress1911

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

THE RIGHT HOUSE Jack Merton arrived in Chicago at 5 oclock on a rainy afternoon His train for the west left at 9 and he was prompted to spend the intervening hours with his cousin Taking a cab he was driven to the house No 232 There she is the next one to this I might have recognized the bronze flowerpots on the balcony any way Now for a surprise He ran lightly up the steps of No 232 pulled out a latchkey he had long carried and inserted it in the lock The key fitted easily and the door swung open revealing a long expanse of cool dark hall in summer attire of linen coverings There was not a 30ul in sight The doors that he remembered led to drawing rooms library and sitting room tirrViflxr Mrusorl At this hour Uncle Fred and Peter would probably have returned from the office and as was their daily custom would be grilling overthe evening papers in the little library in the glare of strong electric lights instead of spinning along the lake front watching the sunset after the strenuous day down town The Mer tons were money grubbers anyway with but

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Library of Congress1911

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

The Story of a Man Who Made Good BY HARRY LEE SNYDER From the National Magazine About ten oclock in the morning of the first day of April the high cost of living landed h solar plexus blow I had just paid my good German landlady for my preceding weeks board and lodging and she had remarked apologetically Pota toes costs so much an meat is so high once that it is 1 must ask you for ten dollars every week already And I had been paying only seven I went to my office and sat down at my desk to think things overa not alto ether pleasant or wholly profitable task was a lawyer My honest old black smith fatherhaving in mind nothing but the thought of securing my futurehad made numberless sacrifices that I might be educated and his dearest wish had been to see me cozily established in my chosen profession Within a week after my admission to the bar he died and I found myself alone in the world for my mother had passed away some years be fore As I sat at my desk that morning 1 fell to thinking of my fathers last words

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Library of Congress1911

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 3, 1911

jSEP TO LEAVE HIS VESSEL Mazerill Stays by the Dismasted r E Ayer His Wife and Baby ueJ ff Cape Cod The Schooner Ited into Boston Sunday 1 rJight of terror on a waterlogged iflt7 iTed vessel Mrs Jennie Mazerill jo of the twomasted schooner ife I n f Bangor and her 14monthsold i A Albert were brought to Boston iby tie steamer Bunker Hill which M the schooners boat off Cape I bert Mazerill and the crew of turned to the lurching craft after b 1 inferred the woman and child to l r Mrs Mazerill lost most of her when she reached the deck of the Eie t and her baby were drenched iit It was a terrible night and we choner would capsize any mo hl M Mazerill She was given hot t ourishing food and was placed k ts in one of the staterooms eatt in bed when the Bunker Hill her berth on the south side of T ar at 1030 a m was caught in the furious north Friday and the lurching and t he seas caused her to spring a he was wallowing about in a wild ght when the mainmast toppled it

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Library of Congress1911

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 27, 1911

Jr 1 _ INDUSTRIAL BULLETIN j 1 WANTED STEADY RELIABLEMEN ARTISANS BOOK KEEP T ERS CLERKS MECHANIC SALESMEN THE TEXTILE CRAFTS ETC ETC MEN ADDICTED 1 JO THE USE OF I INTOXICANTS 1 NEED NOT 1 APPLY I EMPLOYERS AND H Business men W of America B lierOlT TWAT PART OUT CAnY Yi ITS A 4K VIRY TO Af BUSINESS f iiftmtv Ttmm J _ By courtesy of the Kennebec Journal UN AND BRAWN of Skowhegan has Both ant Things on His Farm entReporter July 13th imes to working to the ad 1 all concerned Roscoe G ids at the head Mr Bige st farmer in this section tc is haying He had about 4 and had been at it about ve July 3rd up to Saturday led in 30 double ox loads ll he said that he hauled in for one of those oxen was id family ox that equals twc wn way Mr Bigelow has carried ng deserves a great deal of lis crew has consisted of the Mr Bigelow Mrs Bigelow Palmer Mr Palmer is th year and he was the only hat Mr Bigelow had Mr been right there with Mr the field every day He

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Library of Congress1911

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 20, 1911

PUISTEMH xxtra DRY WHW ITA A CflwSH v tyDOS wTn E x G0VEiE HIS HVU sJ KtjHNESS SHOULD I fcji LOOK INTO THIS J M itl une in a Night sr for small wages for a company My work was that had got out of order ier odd jobs that required iv of the business I was t my affairs in shape to i not see much prospect home one evening and had n there was a ring at the boy handed me a note It the letter head of a big _ firm and said that Mr fasurer of the company I ad recommended me fora asked that I come around soon as convenient my tool bag which 1 had with me I went with the fiice of the manufacturing ised with the prospect of ner and found there a tall ressed man with gray hair hop whiskers and two or sitting on stools working us hooks pen that safe asked the gray whiskers Weve vork to do here this evening ier who knows the combi out of town this afternoon it the name of the maker on made my observations and ue gentleman that I didnt ay to

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Library of Congress1911

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 6, 1911

inhibition Prosperity in the F011 South from the Lewiston Sun iiided out year just before the spent in a small settlement Ieuntv Kv known then as Y In that little village was l ept by a Mr Henderson ready with right hand up i w as an unmitigated curse uding community The i pent was over them all it over the many When was young and lived in rered away his liberty by never to taste touch nor that intoxicates and he tough livingin the shadow neither he nor his boys of whiskey He was still iniquitystill shackled liberty stili wearing the while his neighbors were joyment of the greatest world the unrestricted live those dependent on tl pursuit of happiness e was a veritable death lhe young men I knew good fellows and treated tlier drunk or sober and thoughts of them abide All gone down the tide they shall hunger no more iiv more or if they thirst f the water of life of i old brews and not the rson made many efforts e shackles that bound me 1 into a great and bound t he didnt seem to make it It so happened that I i

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Library of Congress1911

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 22, 1911

he Secret Orders atholic Order of Foresters held fe state convention at Livermore P Twentytwo courts were repre f ivcr300 of the order paraded W mUit was served Rev Louis i8 f Biddeford will remain as a until his successor is appointed Walsh Noel Beaupre of was reelected chief ranger S y rotary lierre P Thibault of tf Treasurer Elzear F Thib iurn L Micheau of Fort Laboie of Chisholm and u ante of Westbrook were cues of 11 of the 14 can latriarchs Militant were council held with Canton Waterville June 13th The Miners were elected presi Wewart Bangor vice presi Berry Waterville secre vette Bangor treasurer Portland chaplain L L mien officer of the day or Augusta officer of the Lennan Gardiner aide Waterville sentinel M South Portland picket Warley Gardiner afternoon June 13th Rev a ith of Bangor grand mas nH InHiro F anH A TV1 iis suite convened a special grand lodge at Livermore icated the new quarters of i lodge The quarters are in building the finest brick 1 section in the third and and are believed to be the in that part of Maine lodge antedates the setting State ol Maine by Massa out

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Library of Congress1911

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 5, 1911

fAPT OKUM I Tarry Topsides of Th ropsm in the Boston Globe through the cabir schooner Tarry Top Von Siind Me at anchoi I ti hist evening wher cth o r tin quarter rai 3jeIial eurwav J G untenance of Captain fc celebrated marinei charioted by the a red in the gangway cring hail and a nc below glad t see m the reporter who it Captain Okum at these many years tde looking old lady knitting said Captain Okum Globe man Ive told tin one that puts of me in th paper hat no anger dwelt f the pictures said he Sorry I Ye see mothers It a aboard Women i at his joke and the locker a finely j s a sundried fish one you never set pr duced a jug of th old place at f said on the table and in a mood for an n The reporter at the comfort the table whose ed in the lamp i t earins asked grin Never 1 Tarry afore did i it this way We iinr and mother So when one lives out some lied Wabanin went slowly over traveler over a ii 11 says Come turkey with

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Library of Congress1910

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 29, 1910

obituary her 16 1916 William J I NoTVorthport Maine passed i f peacefully to his reward fc siwi le months and 27 days KC Mr Greenlaw North fjhe death _f js most highly re Vind the sympatny of ll it entire ccmmunity is ff V Waved family Mr 1 third son of the late fc v Ktherine Staples Green IW irn in the town of Waldo 1 vs where the E 1 until he was grown to 1 ge was educated in native town and at the f minary Kents Hill J iving the seminary he veral years When J was 21 years of age the Knox Maine It was fii r hat the West appealed spirit and accordingly in Sacramento California 0r wiated in business for 1 rothers Alonzo and tin gone there several years went to Nevada and M miik business first at 0C veral months later vs h n he remained un 1865 he came back to ji nr Gy to Northport moved during his r decided to settle it nil bought the farm v as part owner and the ianiel A Wad 1S68 he was unit Miss Clara J Pres ide Joel and Kath same town

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 22, 1910

VearforFarmProduCtS 0 KdT3926000000 lUlUe f omniscience can gras ilnffho farm products of thii lf statement of the U S is pe agriculture in his annua gttf otiqVo At no time in th for a country produces b lS within one year with i lit cOiOOO which is the f nciiltural products ol iiii The total value for i lie last 12 years ii MiiPnjj f 121381000 busheli rpcord year 1906 anc itfs he average crop of the yars by 14 per cent of this corn crop ii any and also of 1908 il ckoned as less thar I crop of this year maybe It j seed a round 900000 ir r more than the corr s r on year prior to 1901 if r ce nt above the five value i i it o the hay crop is aboul unt which has beer i ce and that in 1907 it if i v the average of the per heat crop is dividec atumn and spring sc ft subject to differ ts as was the case notion of spring anc 1767000 bushels oi rage of the preced f ioas the value is i 76 per cent above in point of value

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 1, 1910

fgS injrohibitton Portland Business Man Ad a Urge Audience in Dover V6 Jw cne of the prominent j K Ll of Portland addressed a jni Methodist Episcopal ednCver on the subject Shall r ti a License System eReturis a forceful speaker and Jk tion hi such a manner as t at ion of his hearers scourse A man of Otif nd opportunity to j va t of prohibition as a liaise or local option in mpu a not hesitate to state nns that he thorough ly i i hit ion for Maine native of this State J v t the great men from if cfOti high in the coun on in the past fifty years so pressmen and giants gov j Maine has furnished ii md many other States SI standing well every seeking employ Jer r great commercial t that he was reared if j rt to success in find f Hi That no State has t ns more comfort es and he earnestly i prohibition is not list ii h very much to do P iii our State id ist between former If aker said that in if where he was rear t irj law was enact ij

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 17, 1910

The Hoop Pole Man the Maine Forests tor Materia HeVot W anted by Others hoop pole man makes ever than his brother the gunr T1 hoop pole man follows f of the loggers 0ci growth as the young called These spring j tting stumps of great tP man takes a horse with He cuts the poles and them to camp by day the pole man fashions aw shave sitting he re and pulling at his poles are sold round who trims his own the hoops receives two it for the finished prod The hoop pole busi ady work but the even after all with the the crackle of the ble of story telling pending outside looks lows at the light and is ears and wishes he r up 1 poles are sold each h red chalk a little some time in certain ns did a snug busi es But nowadays any that have been sometimes the canny ends that bear the man sold his hoop marked them and Then the seller it stole the poles them to another iif barrels It may that the city man tricks If this en nan could have got n re he would have and

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Image 2 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 20, 1910

AN AUTO RIDE I To Boston and Back in a Packard Cr The writer recently enjoyedhere may be added all the superlatives to be found in the dictionarya trip to Boston and return in a Packard touring car The ride was one for pleasure and the rough places in the Maine roads of which there are many were gone over at low speed and at no time was the rate too rapid to prevent full enjoyment of the scen ery So parts of two days were taken each way to cover a distance that could easily have been made in one The route both going and com ing was through the towns and cities of Bel mont Searsmont Appleton Union Waldoboro Damariscotta Newcastle Wiscasset Bath Brunswick Freeport Yarmouth Portland Scarboro Saco Biddeford Kennebunk Wells York Kittery Portsmouth Newhuryport Lynn Cambridge and Boston I may have skipped a town or two but those named will indicate the route taken The start was made from Belfast at 7 a m on the coldest morning of the coldest day of the season The party were clad in winter clothing but fur coats would not have been amiss The wind was blowing a gale

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 1, 1910

rOOK TROU of this Popular Game Fish items superintendent of k ih hatchery Orland t and trout No less ct species in twentyeight t vn as trout among the America There are great lake trout the ne lollyvarden trout and so on arid in Eu 1 arc many other spe head of them all in V and renown stands iut of North Amer that inhabits every and nearly or quite ponds and lakes rally a diminutive a few ounces in of pounds but it is tli cases known to Salvelinus fontinalis or charr of the me charr is one u has escaped by some i those trout of the most closely related not called trout some of the old are fussy about rish should be call in charr line To us this iys been a trout nain whether we ok or in Pattens and when any from Moosehead t we will say name trout i alittle round yellowish egg u h in diameter ible and elastic sc eggs are de al in autumn in brooks and left t hey have lain weeks say about got one out and i it tenanted by inmense staring r body coiled up aing heart

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