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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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 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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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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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 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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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.), 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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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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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 3, 1916

I Letters From Tne Border Official Statements from Officers of the 2nd Maine as to Conditions at Laredo Laredo Texas July 17 1916 The Second Maine as you know left Au gusta with the men in day coaches of good type three men to a double seat which we consider was the best that could be furnished under the circum stances and great was the delight of the men and the satisfaction of the offi cers when Sunday noon at Kansas City we were furnished with tourist sleepers thus affording the men two good nights of sleep before reaching Laredo The attention of the railroad men was all that could be desired Mr Doane of the M C K R who accompanied the Regiment to the end of the trip was un tiring in his efforts and representatives of every road over which we passed ac companied to the end of their road We believe we have a great deal to thank Mr Doane for in smoothing out all the little difficulties that would have occur red At no time were we lacking for water or ice a very pleasing change from all past experiences The Regiment reached here in

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Image 3 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 26, 1916

Prince Albert gives smokers such delight because 7t8fiaT different and so delightfully good it cant bite your tongue t cant parch your throat f you can smoke it as long and aa hard as you like without any comeback but real tobacco hap piness On the reverse side of every Prince Albert package you will read PROCESS PATENTED JULY 30th 1907 That means to you a lot of tobacco en joyment Prince Albert has always been sold without coupons or premiums We prefer to give quality prince Albert j he naliol joy mioke _litiiHliilllljl Bl goodnessand IHlflAHiM Albert is right there at the first place you ZrlylHJlElMli i pe satisfaction S PaLLhanaeJS tobacc Thetoppyred N iiPilpWlf IlflMlWlI 1 W I ba sells for a mckel and the tidy red f TOBACCO IS PREPARED 3 i t t yt it C tinVn bn for a dime then theres the hand CiMi rUAitnr nLinrnrur yjj ve Of Its entnusi some pound and halfpound tin FOR SMOKERS UNDERTHE i r humidors and the pound i PROCESS DISCOVERED IN I 1C friends ever claimed 1 making experiments to that keepa the to U PRODUCE THE MOST DE i bCanJnuP7rfm LI GHTFUL AND WHOLE answers

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