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Library of Congress1903

Image 20 of The White Mountain echo and tourist's register (Bethlehem, N.H.), September 19, 1903

20 THE WHITE MOUNTAINS It Is hard to realize that within the mem ory of men still living the White Mountains were still undiscovered as a summer resort says the Listener in the Boston Tran script To put them on a low plane In the capacity of the producer of millions of dol lars annually for hotels and railroads they are a triumph of newspaper writing up They had of course been noted as natural features of New England ever since the English first settled in the Merrimack Val ley in the 16405 Then that omnivorous seeker of knowledge Rev Manasseh Cut ler of Ipswich and Timothy Dwight of Western Massachusetts and a Boston par ty containing such kindred spirits as Dr J Bigelow Dr Francis Booth F C Gray and Chief Justice Shaw explored them in the last years of the eighteenth century and the first of the nineteenth and the very fact that these journeyings are recorded in history shows that in the first half of the last cen tury it was about as rare for people to visit the White Mountains as it is now to go to Labrador or Greenland Thelr wonders bad been topographically set

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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 Congress1915

Image 4 of The Grenada sentinel (Grenada, Miss.), December 3, 1915

THE GRENADA SENTINEL O P IAWHKCB ECditor and GRENADA MISSISSIPPI r in Ativi ubooription WlOO per V When Subscription not paid in advance or before the expiration of 12 months the price is 125 3 months 35c 6 months 60c ADVERTISING RATES FURNISHED UPON APPLICATION Obituaries In Memoriams and Cards of Thanks 10 cents per line Entered at the Po 9 t Office at Grenada Mississippi as second class mail matter nty iKulct Coi The Offloinl Ord n of C Announcements The Sentinel is authorized to announce the following candidates for City offices all subject to the Democratic Primaries FOR MAYOR B F THOMAS S T TATUM FOR MARSHAL AND TAX COLLECTOR J J HORTON A GERARD FOR CITY TREASURER W R GRANTHAM J H CARTER E C LAMB FOR CITY RECORDER H G TALBERT THE SENTINEL CLASSED AMONG THE BEST Mississippi has published within her borders some weekly newspaper that will rank with the oest of them published in other states of the Union She likewise has some that are a downright disgrace to the state Our exchange list is made up of papers of both classes but when we desire some good substantial reading always pick up such

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Library of Congress1927

Image 4 of The Carbon County news (Red Lodge, Mont.), December 1, 1927

CARBON COUNTY NEWS Publish i Lodge Carbon Thursday at Red natty Montana lin y îr Official Official Paper e City Pa Carl County d Lodge O H P SHEV Editor and Owner L M RLL Manager Entered at tl Montana tinder th 1879 toffioi of th Uongre at Red Lcvdge Second Class of March 5 M Act Per year e months 1 00 All 0 Six SUBSCRIPT N months 150 Tl subscriptions paya e in advance Advertising 1 ra circulation and tion Discount gi biased on guaranteed ished upon applies on contracts i SS33 II jj i 4 TELEPHONE NUMBER NINE c i Driftwood from I the River of Life 15 1 P C ON WELL I I Members of the GermanLutheran j denomination are constructing a new church builditL at Belfry j n GOOD RECORD Eleven hundred ninetyfour cars of coal were shipped out of Bearcreek during the month of October NEW CHURCH COMMUNITY TREE The Bridger Service Club are sponsoring a community Christmas 1 tree this year and committees have already been appointed to carry for he SOCIABILITY A community Thanksgiving dinner i was held at the Rock vale school house 1 last Thursday Every family furnish ed

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Library of Congress1910

Image 3 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 4, 1910

THE old navy JOHN 0 JOHNSON OP LIBERTY bVCAP IV E editor of the Journal T last letter 1 said that our pre k m Vtuation upon the Great Lakes carKUS our borders adjoining Can upon uu the time of the two great naval uon Lakes Erie and Cham r a i ihose victories of much more PS to us than would seem on Before the battle on Lake Hull of the American army Er nously or traitorously and 1 surrendered Detroit and Sir Isaac Brock a major j h il I eng the British forces I can learn but little Af r lt v silenin relation to if Michigan calls it an ler while others call i the military authori alled it a traitorous story records that he ourt martial found ed to death but was nt Madison and sub iovemor of Michigan had published a book to the world that he treason Such was the Erie and it was even hamplain at the time torv for the British force under General hold in Northern New sessions along all the at jeopardy United States had no tin Lakes The only to the government had brocks forces at De cent

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Library of Congress1925

Image 14 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), January 8, 1925, (Centennial Edition, Main News Section)

More Kind Words From Friends on Occasion of Centennial The following Congratulatory Letters in Connection with the Centennial of the Kenn ebec Journal have been received in addition to those received earlier and placed in section B of the Centennial Edition SoninLaw Of James G Blaine New York N Y Jan 7 1025 Charles Flynt Kennebec Journal Augusta Maine Congratulations on anniversary of splendid paper WALTER DAMROSCH I CONGRESSMAN FOR THIRD DISTRICT Washington D C January 5 1925 Honorable Charles F Flynt President and General Manager The Kennebec Journal Augusta Maine My dear Mr Flynt Since boyhood the Kennebec Journal has been a household Institu tion in my family I have seen it through the years faithfully recording the events of my school and college days my early manhood the birth of my children the passing of relatives and friends and the thousand and one happenings large and small Joyous and sad that go into the making up of a full life In later years here in Augusta my boys have all acted as carriers of your paper and every morning in my home young and old read your columns with Interest and with profit Always the paper has been

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Library of Congress1915

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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Library of Congress1901

Image 2 of The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.), May 10, 1901

AWFUL TUMBLE Trcmcndons Fatt in Stocks Thursday One of Severest Short Collapses Known Corner in Northern Pacific Canse of the Trouhie Ruinous Terms Forced on Shorts Situation Expected to Improve in the Morning New York May tBitter stress devel oped in Wail street by the second hour of trading on the stock exchange today The violence of the commotion had spent much of its force at least for the time being when the chairmans gavel fell announcing the close of the days proceedings The casualities were many but no actual fatalities of importance were recorded during the day During the height of the panic there were rumors of many insolvencies but no confirma tions could be had Those to whom the rumors pointed professed themselves ready to meet all obligations In more than one instance the answer tas to go upon the stoak exchange and placs loans to a large amount as indicating the abundance of resoures at hand But not withstanding these and similiar devices for keeping up credit and contldence the fact was too obvious that credits and borrowing power were shrinking at a prodigious rate But the indications at the close of the day were strong that

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Library of Congress1903

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 1, 1903

Literary News and Notes The stories of the worlds great cor porations are so full of interest m every detail that they read like ro mances The greatest corporation in the world is undoubtedly the billion dollar teel Trust and its story which appears in The Cosmopolitan for Octo ber forms one of the most important chapters of American business history John Burroughs is to contribute to The Century for 1904 a number of arti cles on Current Misconceptions in Natural History giving his views as to what he believes to be errors ot ob servation record or deduction on the part of contemporary writers on nature subjects The echoes of Mr Burroughs article on a similar topic which appear ed in The Atlantic last spring are still reverberating and in this series Mr Burroughs will take up the subject more fullv publishing his matured opinions as to instinct the alleged teaching of young animals by their parents tlse play of animals and kin dred themes Thackerays most important Ameri can letters are to see the light in the November and subsequent numbers of The C entury Magazine They cover both the first and second visit of the novelist to

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