Railroad & express map of the middle states
Shows drainage, cities and towns, express lines and offices, and the major railroads.
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From the Pimas villages to Fort Fillmore : from explorations and surveys
At head of title: Route near the 32nd parallel of north latitude. Map no. 2. Relief shown by hachures. From U.S. War Department, Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Topographical Maps ... to Illustrate the Various Reports ... (Washington, 1859) "The Gila River, from the mouth of the valle del Sauz eastword, is laid down from the reconnaissance of Maj. W. H. Emory, U.S.T.E. in 1846--the remaining portion of the Gila; the positions of Frontera, El Paso, Ft. Fillmore and Tucson, and the topography along the Mexican Boundary Line were furnished by the office of the Mexican Boundary Commission, Maj. W. E. Emory, Commissioner. The heavy dotted line indicates new trails were made by Lt. Parke's Parties." Description derived from published bibliography. Scale 1:760,320. LC Railroad maps, 159 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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Colton's railroad & township map of the state of Ohio, drawn by George W. Colton, engraved by J M. Atwood
Detailed map showing drainage, railroads under construction and completed, canals, post roads, towns, townships, villages, post offices, and county boundaries.
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Indexed map of Utah with a new and original compilation and index
Shows relief by hachures, drainage, post offices, stations, counties, cities and towns, roads, and railroads with names.
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Indexed county and railroad pocket map and shippers guide of West Virginia, accompanied by a new and original compilation and ready reference index, showing in detail the entire railroad system
Shows relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, stations, post offices, and the railroad network keyed to list by number.
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Cleveland and Toledo Rail-Road 1856
Sketch map of northern Ohio showing the railroad lines. Below the neat line is a list of officers and directors of the company. Chartered as the Junction Rail Road, March 2, 1846.
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Lloyd's map of the southern states showing all the railroads, their stations & distances, also the counties, towns, villages, harbors, rivers, and forts
"Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1861 by J. T. Lloyd." Copyright no. 290, July 12, 1861, written in right margin. Stamped: Deposited in U.S. District Clerk's Office, Southern District of New York. General map. 1862 edition listed as item no. 29, and 1863 edition as no. 41.2 Description derived from published bibliography. Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 14.2 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
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Rail road map of the southern states shewing the southern & southwestern railway connections with Philadelphia
"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862, by Thomas Kimber Jr." Inset: Southern part of Florida. 25 x 18 cm. Map depicts rail lines, roads, cities and towns, state and county boundaries, and rivers. 1863 edition published by Willis. P. Hazard is listed as Civil War Maps entry no. 44. Geography and Map Division also has an uncolored issue with annotations made by the Topographer, U. S. Post Office Department. Another uncolored copy, in covers, is in the Samuel P. Heintzelman papers, Manuscript Division, LC, container no. 11. Cover title: Map of the southern states. Map is in 29 parts, 16 x 12 cm. Description derived from published bibliography. Scale ca. 1:1,880,000. Library of Congress. Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 31.5 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
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Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean : ordered by Jeff' Davis, Secretary of War to accompany the reports of the explorations for a railroad route
Very detailed map of the United States west of the Mississippi River indicating drainage, relief by hachures, cities and towns, forts, trails, wagon roads, and routes of exploration. An important map of western expansion, it utilized and lists 45 major exploration and mapping reports from the Lewis & Clark to the U.S. General Land Office Surveys.
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Rand McNally & Co's new railroad and county map of the United States and Canada. Compiled from the latest government surveys, and drawn to an accurate scale
Very detailed map of the continental United States and parts of Canada and Mexico including drainage, international, state and county boundaries, cities and towns, canals, roads, trails, railroads, and railroads under construction. This map is very similar in cartography, content and scale to the maps which make up Rand, McNally & Co's Business Atlas containing large scale maps of each state and territory of the Great Mississippi Valley and Pacific Slope, Accompanied by a New and Original Compilation and Ready Reference Index, Showing in Detail the Entire Railroad System...Together with all Post Offices, Railroad Stations and Villages...(Chicago, 1876-77). [From published bibliography]
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Young Wolverine (Gramd Rapids, Mich.) 1857-18??
qu er o YOUNG WOLVERINE CITY MATTERS wes The Younc WouverineE is for sale at Gro P Sextons News Room in the Post Office Price four cents ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS c We have omitted our Enigmas Charades e in this No but here give the answers to those in the April No Enigma No 10Hay Charade No 10StriKing Con 1stN Con 2dBecause she tries to get rid of her weeds Con 8dBecause he fingers the keys OUR CONTRIBUTORS With this number of our unassuming and we trust not uninteresting sheet will complete its first year We thought that a hasty glance at some of our contributors would not be amiss and so we photograph them for our readers Wayland Morris is the designation chosen by our Mishawaka Ind friend over which or under which as the case may be we haye been favored with many poetic favors The lines My Sisters Grave in the January number and the fine Poem The Pilgrim Fathers in the Febru ary number have been much admired The lat ter Rep says is capital His real name is Fouiuer and he was once a resident of this city Byron M Brown is a young gent
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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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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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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 7, 1901
TRYING SPRING WEAT0ER __ Is Your System In Shape to Carry You Safely Through The Practice of Taking a Tcnic in the Spring is descended from Our Wise Forefathers and Has Good Medical Endorsement A Few Suggestions Regarding Health The practice of taking a tonic during the inclement weather of early spring is one that has been bequeathi d to us by our fore fathers who lived in the days when a sturdy constitution and vigorous health meant even more than they do today times when brawn and muscle were necessary for advancement in almost any calling The custom has good medical endorsement and the healthiest people are those that follow it Thousands not really ill need a tonic at this season Close confinement in badly ventilated houses offices shops anil schoolrooms during the winter months makes people feel depressed and out of sorts Nature must be assisted in throwing off the poison that has accumulated in the sys tem else people fall an easy prey to disease andare subject to many discomforts from boils eruptions and similar troubles Hr Williams Iink Pills for Pale People are the greatest tonic medicine known these pills comes a cheerful letter the writer
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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 20, 1902
ADDRESS OF WELCOME j To Waldo District Lodge of Good Templars at Brooks Feb 8 190 BY MARCELLlS J BOW Officers and Members of Waldo District 1 odge of Good Templars Brothers and Msters By virtue ot official request it be comes my pleasant duty to welcome you m visitors upon this occasion to the home f Brooks lodge It is well known that for many years w e have sustained here one of strongest and most enthusiastic lodges to be found not only in the county but in the Mate ui members are alive and interest ed in the success of our own lodge and that ot Good Templarism wherever dispensed They are anxious to advance the order and t uphold the principles upon which it is founded They are read to unite almost as one person upon any subject of vital im portance Uur meetings are largely attended and harmoniously conducted and you may rest assured that it is with the greatest pleasure that we welcome you our neighbors and friends to our pleasant lodge home which has become endeared to us by the many pleasant associations of the past While i w ih that the honor of
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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 28, 1902
JOHN DOYLEMATCHMAKER When Louise Doyle entered the office ol Delancey A Griffin architects in the humble capacity of copyist the soul of her lather rosein angry rebellion Two years previous John Doyle had retired from the grocery business with a tidy income a substantial brick resi dence and chronic rheumatism When ever the malady loosened its grip Doyle wandered back to the scenes of his com mercial achievements IIis successor always gave him cordial welcome and a comfortable chair back of the cash iers booth was at bis disposal When too lame to walk as far as the store be consoled himself by playing innumer able games of pinochle in the lear of simpsons cigar store just across the street It was from a disastrous defeat at pinochle that he came home to hear that Louise was going to business I hc moment was inauspicious 1 never heard tell of such tonifool isIums My girl going to chase down town mx days in the week like the daughters of that noaccount Tom aundciv People will be questioning m credit next And she wont make enough to pay for the new feathers and fixings shellwant to say nothing of the shoe
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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 3, 1904
Relative Strength of Russia and Japan Now that hostilities have actually be gun in the Far East it may be of in terest to compare in a general way the resources of the two countries involved If this comparison be made without reference to the probable theater of war and the conditions hedging about the movement of forces thither the combatants seem very disproportionate ly matched The Russian empire com prises about oneseventh of the land surface of the globe Including intern al waters it covers an area of 8660305 square miles and its population is esti mated at about 120000000 inhabitants ot which 2005016 square miles and 106 264166 inhabitants were in 1000 com prised in European Russia It lias an annual revenue amounting to about 000000OOO and expenditures some what in excess of that sum The Rus sian army on a peace footing numbers about 1100000 men and oil a war foot ing about 0600000 men The navy is understood to comprise about 40000 officers and men 1 apan the island empire comprises an area of liil10s square miles including Formosa and tlie Pescadores Its popu lation including the islands specifical ly named numbered 47000Ono inhabi tants Its
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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 23, 1905
A RACE THAT WAS NOT TO THE SWIFT Capn Joshua Grindle Spins a Yarn to Show That It Doesnt Alters Pay to Be So Darned Fast When a group of downeast coaster captaius begin to brag of the fast pas sages they have made steamboats seem slow for while some of the old lumber bookers can sail like pirates the skip pers love to exaggerate and in a brag ging match none will he outdone by the others In a shipbrokers office in Ban gor the other day the chairs were all occupied and the convention was ready to discuss anything from freights to the Bibleand settle it too No set of men possess such a wonderful fund of mis information on subjects generally out side their calling as these mariners of Maiue and nothing could be more en tertaining than one of their smoke talks where the most astonishing state ments and fantastic theories are launch ed with tremendous emphasis into an atmosphere redolent of tobacco and tar Someone had been telling of bow the old schooner John T Williams had run away from the whole eastbound fleet and made the passage from Boston to Bangor in such and
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