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Library of Congress1901

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 2, 1901

WEATHER PREDICTIONS Hie Work of the C S Weather Bureau Bruttits to Commerce and Agriculture There is no other subject in which the people throughout the civilized world are so generally interested as they are in the weather and there its noth ing that exerts a greater influence on the affairs of men Although the weather has occupied mens minds to a great extent since the earliest days of the race and much scientific research has been made it is only within a com paratively few years that any systematic attempt has been made to record and diffuse meteorological data or knowl edge Since the work was taken up by the leading commercial nations of the world great advances have been made and great benefit has accrued particu larly to navigation and agriculture and allied branches The early Egyptians studied meteor ology as a branch of astronomy and Aristotle compiled a comprehensive work on the weather from their writ ings and his own observations He dis cussed prognostics of rain wind storms and fair weather but made no attempt to explain any of the phenomena Cicero Virgil and others wrote on the subject but they added little to the knowledge

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Library of Congress1922

Image 2 of Stone County enterprise (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi), November 30, 1922

Stone County Enterprise PUBLISHED EVERY THl RSDAY MORNING T P BOND Editor cm Publisher Entered as secondclass matter July 3 1906 at the postoffice at Wiggins M ss under the Act ot Congress of March 3 1879 One Year 150In AdvanceSix Months 75c_ Wiggins Miss Nov 0 1922 v c stcf hhmkbmmi The Proper Course The editorpublisher is au thority for the statement that Frederick I Thompson paid a million dollars for the Birming ham AgeHerald This is proba bly the record price for a south ern newspaper The AgeHerald was founded twenty years ago by the late E W Barrett who made it one of the leading news papers of the countryLaurel Leader Maybe it is worth it but we cant see what any man with a million dollars wants with a newspaperClarionLedger Of course the ClarionLedger was jesting but the average per ron including some newspaper men whose sole ambition is merely to make money feels Ln 4 Ttii i 14 EH AAii vrt a i T o man runs a newspaper with no other idea than to make money there would be no use in spend ing a million dollars to buy a paper It is seldom

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Library of Congress1938

Image 2 of The Durant news (Durant, Miss.), June 9, 1938

f THE DURANT NEWS R PUBUSHED EVERY THURSDAY _ Hazel Brannon Editor and Publisher Subscription in Advance200 Per Year MEMBER MISSISSIPPI PRESS ASSOCIATION Entered as Second Class mail matter in the Postoffice at Durant Mississippi Liquor Dealers Again Three weeks ago we wrote an editorial about the liquor dealers in Holmes county In it we said tha there were 42 places in Holmes county with Federal licenses to distribute liquor and wines According to our record we listed seven places in the city limits of Tchula on the western section side of our county among the 42 Mayor W C Perry of Tchula checked upon the places listed and found that only two of these places were inside the city limits the others being on the out skirts Mayor Perry said that he made an effort to keep up with what was going on in the city and that he didn t believe these two places sold liquor Thus Tchula is cleared up hub actually sell whiskey to the best of our and official knowledge We are glad to make this statement We can only say that we wish we could say the same of the other communities in Holmes

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Library of Congress1903

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 27, 1903

UP IN MAINE SAYINGS AND DOINGS IN THE PINE TREE STATE WIALM IN AN ALDER SWAM A Waldo county man sends the Ban go r News a story about a neighbor of his who is making money from an al der swamp which has an area of no more than ten acres The land was low and mucky and very wet Except for large crops of mosquitoes the prod ucts of this piece had been hardly worth recording The purchaser paid two dollars an acre for the lot or 20 in all and at once took possession by fitting up and moving into an aban doned farm house which stood on a knoll at one corner of the swamp the only dry piece of land in the pur chase He proceeded to map oft his tract in true forestry style planning to cut one acre every year and to proceed in that ratio until at the end of ten years he should come back to his origi nal lot In this manner he has kept at work cutting his alders in June and trimming out and peeling the larger and crooked sticks to be made into rus tic furniture during

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Library of Congress1961

Image 1 of The Hardin tribune-herald (Hardin, Mont.), October 19, 1961

w f VOL 54 NO 42 Denny elected president of state School Boards Sam Denny chairman of the Board of Trustees of School Dis trict 17H since 1953 was elected president of the Montana School Board association at the annual convention of that organization in Havre last Friday and Saturday Denny was vice president of the group the past year When he completes his current term next spring he will have a record of 15 years of service on the local School Board He says he has only missed a meeting or two of the state association since that tmei Last May he was Mon tanas delegate to the convention of the National School Board as sociation in Philadelphia The new state president has been active in many other community affairs in Big Horn county He is Jbl Sam Denny a director of the Big Horn Soil Conservation district and the Fed eral Land Banks Wyola district He is also currently a member of the Federal Home administra tion committee and is a past ASC committeeman He is also a Past Master of Sts John Lodge No 92 A F and A M Mr and Mrs Denny returned Sunday from

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Library of Congress1918

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 21, 1918

NO NEED TO WORRY Despite Croakers Human Race Is Not Deteriorating Facts Brought Out by the War Show That Men Today Are as Strong Physically and Morally as Ever in History The big avernge height of the men dratted into the United States army is being widely commented upon in the press and it appears that the facts Justify the favorable remarks being made observes the Montreal Gazette Records of the quartermasters office show that the Americans who are donning the army uniform today are bigger than the men who fought in former wars The size most in demand for the standard army shoe in the past was 7E while the average size of the marching shoe today is SV2 D and that of the field or trench shoe 9E Two styles are issued for it has been found by experiment that soldiers require a larger shoe for the trenches it being necessary to wear two pairs of socks at a time in cold and wet weather Similarly the presentday American soldier has to be provided with a size larger than his predecessor in coats shirts and breeches He is a bigger man all round which is decidedly sat isfactory

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Library of Congress1843

Image 4 of Holly Springs gazette (Holly Springs, Misp. [i.e. Miss.]), March 3, 1843

THE WIDOWS MITE The tear for others woe thats given Or pitys whispered prayer Ascends like incense up to heaven Ani claims a blessing there When pomp and pride had thrown Their offering to the poor A humble widow stood alone And gave her little store Though small the gift twas a her hoard And angels with delight Did in the Book cf Life record That lonely widows mite II U M 1 L I T Y XY MONTGOMERY The bird which soars on highest wing Builds on the ground her lonely nest And she which doth most sweetly sing Sings in the shade where all things rest In lark and nightingale we see What honor hath humility When Mary chose the better part She meekly set at Jesus feet And Lvdias g rule opened heart Was made for Gods own temple nect Fairest and best adored is he Whose clothing is humility The saint who wears heavens brightest crown In deepest adoration bends The weight of glory bows him down The most when most his soul ascends Nearest the throne itself must bo The footstool of humilitv TIIK KOAT OF LIFE I saw a little fairy boat Glide oer

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Library of Congress1958

Image 40 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), December 29, 1958

C4 THE fVENING STAR Washington 0 C Monday December 29 19St Personals Special 1 Notices Official Notices and Pro posals on Page A3 AUCTION SALES TBOI J OWEN a SON Auctioneer mi t t WFVSW w val M DWELLING WITH BASEMiNT Bj virtue of Deed of Truat re corded lo Über No 10U80 at folio 821 o r the Lend Records of the District of Column we snsll sell n font of the orcmlses on TUE3DAY THE BIXH DAY OF JANUAR AD 1050 At TWO l OCLOCK PM Lot numbered fortrflsht 46 In Square num bered Thtrtysi Hundred end likhtyflve f3M In the sub division mode by Morrk Calritx s i posit of SSOO required et time of C safe Terms of rule to be com piled with within thirty days Iro n date of sele otherwise the trus tees reserve the right to resell the property at the risk sad coet of the defaulting purchaser after five days advertisement of such resale In some newspaper pub _ fished In the District ol Cofiim bla or deposit may be forfeited or without forfeiting depoett trustees may aval themselves ol any legal or equitable rlshta T against defaulting purchaser Further psrticulars

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Library of Congress1918

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 28, 1918

6 _ r NO MOE CATARRH A Guaranteed Treatment That Has Stood the Test of Time Catarrh cures come and catarrh cures go but Hyomei continues to heal catarrh and abolish its disgusting symptoms wherever civilization exists Every year the already enormous sales of this really scientific treatment for catarrh grow greater and the present year should show all records broken If you breathe Hyomei daily as directed it will end your catarrh or it wont cost you a cent If you have a hard rubber Hyomei in haler somewhere around the house get it out and start it at once to forever rid ydbrself of catarrh A A Howes Co or any other good druggist will sell you a bottle of Hyomei liquid start to breathe it and notice how quickly it clears out the air passages and makes the entire head feel fine Hyomei used regularly will end catarrh coughs colds bronchitis or asthma A complete outfit including a hard rubber pocket inhaler and bottle of Hyomei costs but little No stomach dosing just breathe it It kills the germs soothes and heals the inflamed membrane MAINE ITEMS Senator Fernalds Portrait The portrait of Senator Bert M Fer

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Library of Congress1897

Image 2 of The Free press (Poplarville, Miss.), May 6, 1897

Tsffi Free Press A G RussrLl Sr Editor UTOBLISHHD WEEKLY aT POPLARVILLE MISS ffbvrsday May 6 1897 ON L DOLLAR IN_ADVANCE iNTSUKD AT TIIK POST office at POPLAHVIhLK MISS AS SKC oNu class Mail Mattkh Greece ha a new cabinet The streets of Hannibal Mo are now navigated by lioatN The cotton acreage of Texas tins season will he the largest on record Eleven thousand acres of Ala Hiauia gold lands hate been sold to a 8 ndieute for 117000 MG A veroff the Greek million aire of furls France lias subscrib ed 80 000000 to the War fund ot hs country A lire at Newport News on the 17th tilt destroyed 82000000 worth of property Eight persons were injured Levi A nlentine tor many years a Citizen of Enterprise aged 85 years died suddenly a few days ago While enjoying his tinner At Barcelnnia 20 anarchists in addition to those already sentenced have been condemned to heal It lur the bomb outrage June 7th last Fiy hundred houses were swept away and twice as many people rendered homeless by tiie recent lood ot I lie Cottonwood river in Oklahoma Mr Oliver VV Patchings son of Representative T 0 latchings

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Library of Congress1963

Image 8 of The Lexington advertiser (Lexington, Miss.), July 18, 1963

J P Coleman Favors Creating More Good Jobs The time has come for Mississippi to gear its indus trial program to the idea of creating not just jobs but more good jobs former gov ernor J P Coleman said in speeches over the state this week Coleman cited the record of great industrial progress which he said shows our success and accomplishments in the field of industrializa tion HP continued to expand on his plans for boosting the states economy and indus trialization program if he is elected governor for the next four years The key to creating more good jobs for Mississippians is an intensive research pro gram and a modern vocation al training program which will equip Mississippians with the skills they need to qualify for good jobs the former governor said Modern industry can not operate with unskilled work ers Coleman said and when we send our young people out into the world with no skills or specialized training we are condemning them to a mediocre income for the rest of their lives The former governor said he would pattern his program for skilled training after the highly successful program in North Carolina Howell Warner And Billy

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Library of Congress1919

Image 7 of Great Falls daily tribune (Great Falls, Mont.), September 6, 1919

ZONE POSTAL LAW REPEAL OPPOSED BY EDITORS HOLD BREEZY BANQUET Press Association to Name Advisory Board to Act With Faculty of Journalism School The Montana State Tress association now meeting in Great Palls favors the retention of the zone second class post age law which the organization last year at Miles City went on record as opposing To that end a committee was named to draft resolutions to be for warded to the Montana delegation in congress urging theni to work and vote against the repeal of the law The sub ject was brought before the convention by F M Tenney business manager of the ïrent Falls Leader who stated his belief that the vast majority of the men who last year were opposed to the measure had changed their minds and were now in favor of retaining it on the statute books Mr Tenney moved the appointment of a committee to draft resolutions opposing the repeal of the zone law and it was warmly seconded by M L Hutchens editor of the Mis soulian Mr Hütchens declared that the law had been of distinct advantage to the newspapers of Montana and the west and to the local newspapers in

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Library of Congress1907

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 20, 1907

LEST m FORGET Extracts from the Memorial Sermon to the Members of Kenesaw Post G A R in Eastside congregational Church Los Angeles California BY REV F S FORBES An old Hebrew patriot who with his companions was a slave in Babylon made a vow recorded in the 137th lsalm 5th and Oth verses which read as follows If X forget thee 0 J erusalem Let my right hand forget her shill Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth If X remember uot Jerusalem Above my chief joy More than two thousand years have passed since ttiese words were spoken Since that time many nations have risen and perished but no nation has ever died with old age 2s o nation ever died until the forces of patriotism first died in the hearts of its people It was unselfish patriotism coupled with righteousness that made of the He brew people the greatest uatiou of an cient times It is this same spirit of righteousness which has made this na tion what it is today This morning I do uot wish to dwell long on the past The past is the past Let the dead bury the dead

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Library of Congress1917

Image 1 of The City itemizer (Water Valley, Miss.), October 18, 1917

The City Itemizer Si A LEi Editor Devoted to the Interest of the Editor Exclusively11 100 Yees VOLUME 23 WATER VALLEY MISS OCTOBER 18 1917 NUMBER fco The Decay of American Man hood History records nothing so won derful as the development and pro gress of this great nation in the last hundred years Amerioan manhood is deoaying We are going down mentally and morally at a terrifying rate We have foes at home more deadly and destructive than our European enemies Davenport has shown that one in every hundred men is men tally defective insane epileptic habitually criminal or feeble minded Eeoent military examinations have brought out most appaling facts Major Orr a medical omoer of the regular army tells us that two to three out of every four appli cants for the army are rejected as physioally unfit Draft examinations show more than half our young men unfit for military training The examinations of the Life Extension Institute show only one man in a hundred wholly free from disease and physically fit The causes are many Among the most potent and direct are the saloon the brothel and the cigar ette These three evils are the greatest causes

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