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Map of the European and North American Railway, showing its connection with the railways of the United States & Canada; made by direction of His Excellency John Hubbard, Governor of Maine under the resolve of Aug. 20th 1850
Shows New England, eastern New York, and the Maritime Provinces. Gives completed, in progress, and proposed railroads. Indicates drainage, state boundaries, and larger cities. Slightly different edition, engraved by B. W. Thayer & Co., Boston, accompanies Morton's Report on the Survey of the European and North American Railway ... in Documents in Relation to the European and North American Railway Company ... (Portland, Harmon and Williams, 1851)
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Map showing the proposed Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia Railroad
Map of the southeastern states showing drainage, cities and towns, and railroads with relation to consolidation, and connections to other lines in the south.
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Life of Charles Henry Davis, rear admiral, 1807-1877;
Chapters 7-13 (p. 114-314) relate to the Civil War.
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Map of the state of Virginia : containing the counties, principal towns, railroads, rivers, canals & all other internal improvements.
"Copyright secured by W. & J. March 1862." Accompanied by cover: Map of Virginia. Richmond: West & Johnston, Publishers. 1862; 15 x 10 cm. Inset: View of Capitol Square, Richmond, Va.; includes list of railroads. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by isolines. This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 475.5 Parrish & Willingham. Confederate imprints, 6204 Swem, E.G. Maps relating to Virginia, 971 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. c. 1, May 2002, source unknown; c. 3, source unknown; Map Cataloging Team. Civil War Map Proj. no.: LVA00038. Conservation: copy 1 restored April 17, 1947; copy 1 and 3, Etherington Conservation Center, Jan. 2002. Copy 1 has no cover; c. 3 has blue cardboard cover and is 58 x 87 cm on sheet 66 x 96 cm. Copy 1 map accession no. 5177ax; copy 3 map accession no. 5177bx. Digital image available: 26 x 37.5 in. Previously filed as: 755 1862(3) copy 1 & 3
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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 21, 1901
LITERARY NEWS AND N0TE8 The New England this month has its usual variety of stories and poems Mr Meads Editors Table is devoted to im pressions of Chicago taking up various phases of the citys life as they appear to a New Englander after some years absence In the March issue of McCalls Mag azine there are given dozens of illustra tions of the most attractive styles accompanied by articles reviewing the latest in dress Much matter bearing upon subjects of interest to the house wife is also given including the follow ing articles Concerning Marketing Make the Best of Yourself About the Newr Shirtwaists Life in a New York Flat How to Make a Good Pud ding and Wedding Anniversaries Miss Ethel Parton contributes a bright paper to the March number of the New England upon Fanny Fern at the Hart ford Female Seminary This famous boardingschool was kept when Sarah Willis afterwards so widely known as Fanny Fern was a student there by Miss Catherine Beecher and Harriet Beecher a younger sister of the princi pal w as a pupilstudent The relations of the two girls destined to be such famous women were most interesting and Miss Partons
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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 27, 1902
1 hei SECRET DIDNT KEEP lU Married on le Sly Helen 4ity Hud Wedded to Herbert Stmiellt Calif Times Feb S 11102 like ot Los Angeles loved ukei ot Pasadena and so married but they didnt tell and relatives about it and it they would keep their i lev months Like other Lis however love will out I ime known yesterday that daughter of 1 B Duke pro the Vestlake Hotel in this allied January goth under iNtte circumstances to Iler Karl Barker a student at st itute w ho iives w iUi his ei Mrs James Barker on 1ohtes avenue Pasadena I Hikes mother and father are mi and lited having come to fourteen years ago from Term and Helen who was Kentucky lias the inherent d dash of the typical Sputh Inited with that beauty is a antic adventure which site confessed to her close marking on different oeca he would do something some day standing this warning how prised Iter friends and firm it g the young man who is mrse in mining engineering uts polytechnic school ui tier attractive appearance duly possesses ipiaiities of heart that have made her one st popular in her set and
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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 7, 1903
The Belfast Club of Boston THE FIRST ANNUAL MEETING APRIL 24th A SUCCESS A LIST OF THtSE PRESENT Friday evening April 24th at Hotel Vendome the first meeting of the Bel fast Club of Boston was held The event proved a far greater success than any one anticipated There were about 115 people present and many came hun dreds of miles for the sake of renewing old friendships and of joining the club There were representatives from Spring field Worcester New Bedford Provi dence It I and a few were from Bel fast Ninetyfive people were enrolled as members of the club The recep tion began at 030 the receiving group comprising these ladies Mrs Annie I McKeen Mrs Henry C Daniels Mrs Annabel Knight Mrs Mary K Dahl Miss Cora A Fames Miss Mary E Pierce Miss Flora A Burgess and Mrs John A Savage It was pleasing to see some of the older members of the party renew old friendships made 40 or 50 years ago and to hear them relate anec dotes of their younger days spent in Belfast The reception was very in formal and not much time had elapsed before both old and young were
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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 4, 1903
founty Correspondence Deferred from last weekJ 1 Thayer of Belfast ere idayState Lecturer oliire at Victor Grange buiar1 veiling June 3dMiss i as arrived home for the lieasant reception was 1 Mrs Beebe at the par lay evening About one resent The evening was ntercourse and singing r mi were servedMrs seriously ill Mrs It i t last is in town Memo 1 observed at the M E miber of veterans were f ip u m arrived home from 1 i siia_Iapt W CHard days last week with his ids barge the George charging coal in lrovi J lieagan and Mrs ted relatives in Winter i Mrs Mary Smith enter i nb May 20thGeorge me sick with asthma 1 the Misses Maud and uikfort were the guests last Saturday and Suu i rusts here last Saturday did a lot of damage to frud trees Mrs Mary Ilufns I land man called in Stockton Springs II Clarke have gone to j _selden Clarke has l where he lias employ i Clarke visited her j 1 in Butter City Sun il and Raymond How n Bucksport last week j i has returned home j he lias had employ rant visited friends p
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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.), November 28, 1907
WEDDING BELLS ClementChilds In the presence of immediate relatives Mary Adeline only daughter of Mrs Hiram Veazey Childs of East Hampdeu was mar ried to Irving Owen Clement of Seal Harbor Ale at the home of the bride on Bevin Hill at 6 p m Aov 14th Rev Hugh E Brown pastor of the Congre gational church of which the bride is a member performed the ceremony the Episcopal service being used the bride being given in marriage by her mother The v marriage took piace beneath a bower of hemlock smilax and yellow chrysanthemums in the drawing room to which the bridal party proceeded from the rooms above coming down through the hall which together with the other rooms below was prettily decorated with laurel ferns aud chrys anthemums the color scheme being yellow and green Professor aud Mrs R R Cone played the weddiug march from Lohengrin as the bridal party moved forward also playing during the evening The order was as follows Rev Hugh E Brown the groom ac companied by the best man his cousin John C Clement of Belfast Me ma tron of honor Mrs Edward C Childs of Manset Me sisterinlaw of the bride
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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 31, 1908
MRS BLAINE S LETTERS Edited by Her Daughter Mrs Harriet S Blaine Beal Mesgrs Duffield Co published last Saturday The Letters of Mrs James G Blaine edited by her daughter Mrs Harriet S Blaine Beal As excerpts from familiar letters that passed be tween the wife of one of the great his torical characters of America and her children and relatives and friends they have a peculiar and intimate charm For Mrs Blaine as this book proves was an excellent letter writer vivacious keen wilted and humorous She draws excel lent little vignettes of Mr Blames fa mous contemporaries his friends and his enemies She makes passing allusions to the great events of the day which are full of insight and acumen Unfortunately she and all her family were in Augusta dur ing Mr Blaines successful candidacy for the Republican nomination in 1884 and the unsuccessful campaign for the presidency that Vilowed Consequently this exciting period goes unchronicled There is very little about Benjaman Har rison that little only indicating that she did not like him The letters begin in 1871 when Blaine was at the height of his popularity as the Speaker of the House and end in 1899
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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 7, 1910
County Correspondence 1 Deferred from last week HALLDALE The school here closed June 24th The pupils net absent during the term wese Maynard Susie and Asa Hall Absent onehalf day Hazel Hall and Hattie ClarkMiss Eva Hop kins of Lowell Mass is visiting her aunt Mrs E 1 Hall There is much complaint of pota toes rotting in the ground Many have planted their ground over NORTH STOCKTON SPRINGS Mr and Mrs Henry Littlefield and family Mr and Mrs Howard Littlefield and Mr and Mrs Fred Lane and son Amos attended the wedding reception of Mr and Mrs Charles Kenney at the home of the brides parents Mr and Mrs Daniel Dunaver Sunday Mrs Linda Partridge Miss Bertha Partridge and Mr Herman Partridge visited relatives in Swanville last week_ Miss Beatrice Eames is visiting her brother Mr Jacob Eames and wife at the villageMrs William Smith and Miss Helen Calderwood left Friday for a weeks visit in Unity and ThorndikeMrs Alberta Kenney and children of Hallowell vis ited her sister Mrs Blanche Littlefield last weekMrs Flora Marden visited Miss Amy Lane recently PROSPECT FERRY Mrs L D Berry and son Harry and Mrs C G Carley and daughter Hazel went
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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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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 1, 1910
rOOK TROU of this Popular Game Fish items superintendent of k ih hatchery Orland t and trout No less ct species in twentyeight t vn as trout among the America There are great lake trout the ne lollyvarden trout and so on arid in Eu 1 arc many other spe head of them all in V and renown stands iut of North Amer that inhabits every and nearly or quite ponds and lakes rally a diminutive a few ounces in of pounds but it is tli cases known to Salvelinus fontinalis or charr of the me charr is one u has escaped by some i those trout of the most closely related not called trout some of the old are fussy about rish should be call in charr line To us this iys been a trout nain whether we ok or in Pattens and when any from Moosehead t we will say name trout i alittle round yellowish egg u h in diameter ible and elastic sc eggs are de al in autumn in brooks and left t hey have lain weeks say about got one out and i it tenanted by inmense staring r body coiled up aing heart
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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 5, 1911
County Correspondence NORTH ISLESBORO Mrs I M Burgess is the guest of Mr and Mrs Charles Rose in Rockland Mr Jesse Bates is attending the M C I in Pittsfield Mrs William Farrow left last week for a visit with her husband in BostonMiss Caro Heal arrived from Brockton Mass last Satur day to spend a week with her parents Mr and Mrs B F Heal Miss Elizabeth Bates who is teaching in Unity was at home over Sunday Miss Eunice Keller a student of the Cas tine Normal school spent the weekend at home MrsHelen Ryder and daughter Gay lie were in Belfast over Sunday Mrs H M Coombs visited in Camden and Rockland last week_Mrs Jason Greenlaw who spent the summer at her home in Deer Isle arrived last week for the winterMrs Isabel Sprague is the guest of Mrs Velocia E Coombs LIBERTY Mr and Mrs Earle P Maloney have return ed from a two weeks visit with Mr Maloneys relatives in Thomaston MeSherman Cram and Earl Reynold are digging potatoes in Freedom_The corn factory has closed hav ing done a very successful falls workDr S W Johnson of Belfast was in town last week on business
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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 18, 1912
ouniy vviipvuuuv Deferred eHlLL Swanvllle 04K york and Frank Ordway are sawing his vicinity with their gasolene en i ff0 iviiss Helen Knowlton is in Lynn Sir _t veral weeks visiting relatives and Mr and Mrs Bert Lenfest who aii employment in New Jersey for the ve returned to their home for the Mrs Bertha Burdeen of Thomas utDine ecj her parents Mr and Mrs Levi recentlyMr and Mrs Jonathan Belfast are with their daughter ekins for several months i5i5BOR aide Hatch has returned to Milli resume her school duties_Mrs ue has gone to East Millinocket Pjn ini a month in Islesboro_Miss iams has gone to Brewer for the Mr Charles Dana Gibson and ere in town for a few days recently v her C Hatch was at home from Dart r iue Kaster vacation also Mark Pen hi the C of MMiss Marie Coombs lined to Bingham Me to finish the pgpSPFFT FERRY e M Ginn arrived from Worcester I d 6th and will spend a week with Mr and Mrs P M Ginn_J D isi ted in Bangor several days re Vr and Mrs W H Ginn called on ce 1 Sandypoint April 4thMrs Vira turned from Boston
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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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