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Library of Congress1905

Image 4 of Fergus County Democrat (Lewistown, Mont.), November 28, 1905

FERGUS COUNTY DEMOCRAT Subscriptionper Year2SO TOM STOUT Proprietor Published Weekly LEWISTOWN MONT November 28 PAST AND PRESENT About 23 years ago an awkward looking young chap started a news paper in the town of Maiden at that time in Meagher county He sent the paper to about every resident of this part of the state at any rate to every resident of Maiden and vicinity al though very few of them had sub scribed When some of them a year or two later mildly objected to pay ing for something they had not order ed the young man became very indig nant That young man of those days has become a rather patriarchal old gentleman with a very forgetful mem ory In those days with no opposition he spent many a tearful night and w r ailed his discouragement from one end of Maiden to the other and only the material assistance of numerous big hearted men of the camp prevent ed him from turning his face toward eastern relatives One lucky day for him he tossed a penny in the air to determine which his paper should be democratic or republican in politics and it landed tails up That

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Library of Congress1923

Image 1 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), June 25, 1923

WEATHER Partly cloudy and continued warm tonight and tomorrow probably local thundershowers Temperature for twentyfour hours ended at S pm today Highest 93 at 380 pm yesterday lowest 74 at 6 am today Full report on page 7 i Closing N Y Stocks and Bonds Page 20 Vo 9ft 000 Entered as secondclass matter p os t office Washington D C PRESIDENT SERVES NOTICE OF A FIXED DETERMINATION TO ENFORCE DRY LAW Declares in Denver Address Readiness to Assume Bur den If States Continue to Shift It to U S Shoulders CONVINCED PROHIBITION WILL NOT BE REPEALED Cites Spectacle of a State Nulli fying Own AuthorityScores Buyers of Illicitly Sold Liquor as Arousing Resentment of Millions Less Rich BY DAVID LAWRENCE DENVER Colo June 25 President Harding today appealed to the Amer ican people to stop drinking intoxi cating liquors And the President went further than he has ever gone in any prohibition speech arguing that there are literally American millions who resent the lawful pos sessions of the few the lawless prac tices of a few and rebel against the denial to the vast majority Mr Harding made himself 101 per cent dry politically and otherwise in his formal

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Library of Congress1955

Image 27 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), February 24, 1955

David Lawrence Attempt to Regulate the Press Former President Truman and Politics Are Blamed For AntiTrust Conviction of Kansas City Paper Regulation and control of the press despite the protec tion supposed to be afforded by the Bill of Rights in the Constitution has been brought one step nearer to consumma tion in America by the deci sion in the case of the Kansas City Star A Jury obedient to the highly prejudiced instruc tions of a Federal judge now has convicted that newspaper of violating antitrust laws There are some 180 cities in the United States where a single newspaper ownership exists and where conceivably a politically minded admin istration can do what the Truman regime did in an attempt to wreak vengeance on the Kansas City Star for its crusade against the Pen dergast machine of the Dem ocratic Party and its vote getting frauds in that area Harry Truman as Senator helped to bring about the appointment of the judge in the case over the objection of Mr Roosevelts Attorney Gen era Francis Biddle who questioned his fitness for the bench The Star by its vig orous crusade against the political henchmen of Mr Truman earned the

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Library of Congress1856

Kansas affairs. July 2, 1856. -- Ordered, that it be referred to the Committee of Elections, and printed ; and that leave be given to the minority of said Committee to submit a report at any time within ten days, and to take additional testimony ; and when submitted, that the same be referred to the Committee of Elections, and printed

Andrew Horatio Reeder, Governor, Kansas Territory. Census of the Territory of Kansas, p. 72. Eli Thayer, Vice President, New England Emigrant Aid Society. James Whitlock, congressional candidate. Minority report follows p. 67. Notable witnesses include. SERIALSETDELIVERY1

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Library of Congress1877

In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1877. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred a resolution of the Legislature of the State of Kansas, memorializing Congress for the payment of losses sustained by citizens of said state by the invasion of guerrilla bands

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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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Library of Congress1918

Image 2 of Greene County herald (Leakesville, Miss.), October 4, 1918

Greene County Herald PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY AT LEAESVILLE MISSISSIPPI Entered In the phstoffice at Lcakcville Mississippi as secondclass mail mat ter Established Sept 1st 1898 JAKES FAULK Editor subscription RATI One year payabe in advance 8100 1 Five months50 Ten veeks 25 Advertising rates furnished on application Wbiskev and Tobacco ads Tabooed Mississippi Press Association MEMBER FRIDAY Vi 4 1918 WI mm III J EDITORIAL DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES Named in recent August Primary as Partys choice in General Election Nov 1918 For U S Senator B 1 HARRISON n_n ____ diu lv PAUL U JOHNSON For Circuit Judge Ifitb Dist R W HKIPKInERO For Chancery Judge2nd Uist VM DENNY Jit O The encouraging success wh eh is attending the arms of the alliesin which the American forces are play ing no inconspieious partis a source of great gratification to all true Amoricans and while there are some who are not true all over the country yet particularly in this sec tion of it are we persuaded that the vast majority are true There have been differences and sharp ones in our political scraps at home and charges and countercharges made for advantage to the particular side but most folks in these

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