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Library of Congress1910

Image 3 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 21, 1910

UTAH WAR The Mormon Rebellion RienCeS 1 1858 Atlantic Monthly for July Harvey tells The Story of Trail It is a summary Mormonism dating iiscovery in 1827 of the which were inscribed on in characters which ed the reformed nrst Mormon settle K rtiand Ohio in 1831 v they went to Inde ni then to Illinois Llt a town which they on February 1 1S46 irth and last of the this time into the to found their pres the shores of the It is not our purpose this journey or give their undertakings ash with the United through the adoption had been secretly but was then for an article of the made compulsory from the beginning in Kirtland that the Mormon prophets thority than the con futes of the United nulsion of some of the is and the murder of what was known at ah war On this point the Mormons were in ne government Presi few months after he fsV7 removed Young ship appointed in his mining who had been f Indian Affairs on the and sent 1200 soldiers rt Sidney Johnson to ed States authority in vas inglorious Start avenworth in July the ei to move slowly be

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Library of Congress1912

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 29, 1912

A REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION WILL HE HELD IN CITY HALL BANCOR Wednesday April 10 1012 AT 2 OCLOCK P M For the purpose of selecting six candidates for electors of President and Vice President of the United States and four delegates at large and four alternates to attend the National Re publican Convention to be held in the City of Chicago in the State of Illinois on Tuesday the 18th day of June 1912 Also to formulate and adopt a declaration of i principles or platform for the election next en suing to elect a State committee a district committee for each Congressional district and a county committee for each county Also to transact any other business which may properly come before it The basis of representation will be as fol lows Each city town and plantation will be entitled to one delegate and for each 75 votes cast for the Republican candidate for Governor in 1908 an additional delegate and for a frac tion of 40 votes in excess of 75 votes an ad itional delegate Vacancies in the delegation of any city town or plantation can only be filled by a resi dent of the county in which

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Library of Congress1912

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 7, 1912

A REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION WILL HE HELD IN CITY HALL BANCOR Wednesday April 10 1912 AT 2 OCLOCK P M For the pm pose of selecting six candidates for electors of President and Vice President of the United States and four delegates at large and four alternates to attend the National Re publican Convention to be held in the City7 of Chicago in the State of Illinois on Tuesday the 18th day of June 1912 Also to formulate and adopt a declaration of principles or platform for the election next en suing to elect a State committee a district committee for each Congressional district and a county committee for each county Also to transact any other business which may properly come before it The basis of representation will be as fol lows Each city town and plantation will be entitled to one delegate and for each 75 votes cast for the Republican candidate for Governor in 1908 an additional delegate and for a frac tion of 40 votes in excess of 75 votes an ad itionai delegate Vacancies in the delegation of any city town or plantation can only be filled by a resi dent of the county in which

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Library of Congress1896

Image 12 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), May 7, 1896

JUST A GLIMPSE Of the Early Editorial Writers of Kennebec Valley Storng Characters That Left a Deep Impress Upon Those Who Came Within the Sphere of Their Pow erful Influence Head before the Kennebec Historical Society To give this subject the range ami fulness of detail that it merits would be to furnish material for a good sized volume I shall therefore undertake at this time merely to touch briefly upon the more salient characteristics of a small group of men whose names are prominently identified with the earlier newspaper history of Central Maine and who exerted a power for progress that will extend far beyond the narrow limits of their own day and generation I shall also consider only the work of those writers who attained distinction in the newspaper work of the Kennebec valley prior to the Civil war and shall not undertake to pre serve any chronological order In the very nature of things the best work of the editorial writer is largely of an impersonal character and he so frequently sees the children of his brain adopted and reared as the natural off spring of others that the experience has nothing of novelty for him It

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Library of Congress1934

Image 57 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), November 4, 1934

Electrical Transcription Woe Haunts Commission Broadcasters Ask That Announcement Ruling Be Eliminated AltogetherProducers Want Whole Status Reviewed BY THE RADIO EDITOR ONE of radios bewhiskered squabbles gingerly side stepped by the old Federal Radio Commissionthat of announcing of electrical transcriptions as suchhas arisen to haunt the new Federal Communica tions Commission The F C C when it took over the functions of its predecessor last Summer found this issue on its door step but it was so engrossed in other more important matters that it gave the matter no attention Now how ever three formal steps have been taken which bring the matter forcibly before it The first was the adoption by the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters last Sep tember of a resolution petitioning the F C C to eliminate the requirements that electrically transcribed programs be announced as such and that they be treated in the same fashion as network or other live talent fea tures Promptly came the opposition of the American Federation of Mu sicians perennial objector to past efforts along this line It charged the broadcasters with trying to deceive listeners into believing that living rather than canned music was being performed

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Library of Congress1917

Image 14 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), June 27, 1917, (Editorial Page)

fWPt EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE WASHINGTON TIMES JUNE 27 19T7 WASHINGTON EDGAIt D SHAW Publisher Entered m econd tlui matter at the Postofflce at Washington PiQ Published Every Evening Including Sundays By the Washington Times Company Munsey Building Pennsylvania Ave Ona Year Including Sundays J3B0 Sir Months J17S Three Months SOc WEDNESDAY JUNE 27 1917 What Is a Good Newspaper Here Is One Answer There Are Forty Others The ablest editor in the United States said There are forty ways of making a good and successful newspaper All I ask is tlrat you adopt and follow ONE of the forty ways Dont try to work forty ways at once A reader asks this newspaper to define GOOD newspaper work Here is one of forty possible definitions A good newspaper attends first to the most im portant work at hand Today that work consists in earnest support of those that must get us honorably out of this war Earnest support and friendly constructive criticism but earnest SUPPORT above all and the less criticism the better A good newspaper feels toward its readers the great body of them not a chosen few who can repay favors as an honest lawyer feels toward

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Library of Congress1919

Image 1 of The Montana nonpartisan (Great Falls, Mont.), September 13, 1919

OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THe NATIONALNONPARTISAN LAAGUe IHU T5 TATr OF MOF A IOLUMU 8 GREAT FALLS MONTANAATURDAY SEPT 13 1919 NUMBER 38 C oa A U NUMBER 38 LABOR LEAGUE JOINS HANDS WITH FARt RS IN DETERMINED FIGHT TO FREE MONTANA REPRESENTATIVE GATHERING OF LABOR AT GREAT FALLS EFFECTIVE PLANS OUTLINED Platform Adopted and Nonpartisan League Program Endorsed Organization of Labor League Forces To Be Started At Once and Vigorously Pushed Means Defeat for Copper Crowd Montana Labor has officially joined hands with the Nonpartisan League At a representative gathering of labor men who met at Great Falls two days last week pursuant to resolutions passed at the re cent conference at Billings the committee named to find ways and means gave birth to the Montana Labor League The men who met are well known throughout the state and in cluded Hugh Jones of the Railroad Brotherhood of Great Falls Jack Mangus of the Mineworkers Lehigh Harry Hudson of the Railway Federation Don McLeod of the Havre Machinists Mike Holland of Sun River Bench representing the farmers Hon W F Dunn of Butte and A T Woodruff of the Smeltesmen and Alf Budden president of the Cascade Trades and Labor

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Library of Congress1933

Image 10 of Montana labor news (Butte, Mont.), August 31, 1933, (LABOR DAY EDITION)

Howard Hits Child Labor in News Code Continued from Page One the rights of the employes or their representatives Opposed the Code Originally The printing trades unions have enjoyed harmonious relations with the Daily Newspaper Publishers for more than 30 years In all that period there has been but few major con flicts When the NIRA was adopted an invitation was extended to the rep resentatives of the American News paper Publishers Association to enter into conferences for the purpose of formulating a code by mutual agree ment This invitation was not ac cepted and the spurious plea was made that to apply a code to the newspapers would interfere with the freedom of the press It was apparent the newspaper publishers intended to use their great influence to escape rules and regula tions which were to be applied to every other industry in the nation Exemption was to be secured if pos sible and if not exempted the attitude of the publishers was one of silent re sistance Insincere Support of NRA When the President endeavored to lift the country out of the depression by evolving the individual agreement plan through which employers could Safeway Stores MACMARR Price Effective

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Library of Congress1921

Image 5 of The North Mississippi herald (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.), May 13, 1921

CHARLESTON GETS BANKERS NEXT TIME D D Davis of Brookhaven President Geo B Power Jackson Secretary VICKSBURG Miss May 11 Charleston will get the 34th annual convention ofMhe Mississippi Bsyik ers Association in 1922 provided the members of the executive com mitte are satisfied the hotel accom modations there will be sufficient for the needs of the members who will at tend TTie officers elected today and in stalled who will serve throughout the yea are as follows W D Davis Brookhaven presi dent E P Peacock Clarksdale vice president George B Power Jackson secretary A L Jagoe Okolona treasurer H C Herring Moss Point chairman executive committee Members executive committee whose terms expire in 1924 R A Ball Greenwood R B Clark Tupe lo A B Furloy Brookhaven Other members are T W McCoy Vicksburg exofficio A D Simpson Meridian George R Rea Bay St Louis John P Bennet Yazoo City W A Boone Pontotoc A L Rogers New Albany the president vice president treasurer texofficio mem bers Group vicepresidents Group 1 C B Farrish Charleston group 2 Lee Cox Ripley group 3 W A Montgomery Edwards group 4 E G Bond Collins The convention adopted a resolu tion

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Library of Congress1962

Image 6 of The Chronicle (Pascagoula, Miss.), May 16, 1962

f nrruTj_iinnnrumnnrumr SdCtonfaU II WE SEE IT THIS WAY 1 a riiiinnannjLiijumjmju yr i Horn Island For people profit or for the birds Eighth in a series Who is opposed to the countys plan for developing Horn Island and what does the opposition offer as an alternative The Mississippi Wildlife Fed eration last September adopted a resolution opposing the Horn Is land plan and similar plans advo cated by Harrison County politic ians for developing Ship Island W V Robertson of Gulfport president of the federation told the Chronicle that the federations opposition is based on its belief that commercialization would des troy recreational facilities now open to the public on these islands Jackson County supervisor president A P Moran says that as far as Horn Island is concerned more not fewer people would be able to use the island for recrea tion Ample public areas would be available he says And who can get out there now he asks Only the few people who have big boats With the building of the causeway anybody with an automobile will be able to go to Horn Island and iiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimii use those recreational facilities The wildlife federation has an other objection however

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Library of Congress1843

Image 3 of Holly Springs gazette (Holly Springs, Misp. [i.e. Miss.]), February 17, 1843

fuMPH OF TRUTH nrAriz in that branc 3 in that branch of A0 LZ tr which ia the olden time i the olden time the litle of au if it reattaching irs may have observed that Cj last a resolution was proposed fthe Senators from Missouri to jy ce tal the thanks of the couniry are a sV jickson ExPresident of the J t liit h r hia rnnra nn r l i si city m removing the pub Woinihe Bink of the United ii13 and in placing his veto on ved charter of the Bank in 1832 i fiavemment and Pvnl i ctvei i r States from the pucuniary rriica corruption and moral pol J th a longer connexion with that c0lnu3t nave orougoi upon mem of the subject of the glow1 ie y eulogy waiC3 uuaks is iivucu oy to pronounce that nothing ti it imposes upon us sioroi h u Vs have induced us at this mo VCJ V the attention of our readers to a tipJ in tat ueusuapeit iu morius a ifli bCi v rcserveu tor publication future day should occasron require Jlhnt occasion now presents itself Had 7r aon proposed for adoption inthe ifiJifd

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Library of Congress1891

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), July 18, 1891

Endorsing The system of endorsing is all wrong and should be utterly abol ished It has been the financial ruin of more men than perhaps all other causes BoolcKeeping a jour nal devoted to merchants clerks and business men advises our young men especially to study the matter carefully in all its bearings and adopt some settled policy to govern their conduct so as to be ready to answer the man who ask them to sign his note What responsibility does one assume when he endorses a note Simply this He is held for the payment of the amount in full principal and interest if the maker of the note though misfor tune mismanagement or rascality fails to pay it Notice the endors er assumes this responsibility with no voice in the management of the business and no share in the profits of the transaction if it proves profit able but with a certainty of loss if for any of the reason stated the principal fails to pay the note LA GRIPPE AGAIN During the epedemic of Ia grippe last season Dr Kings New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds proved to be the best remedy Reports from the many

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Library of Congress1914

Image 1 of The Caldwell watchman (Columbia, La.), March 6, 1914

Uat_6IZtite IW Ea urna VOL XXVIII COLLTiMBLV LA UWDAY MAJWII 6 1914 NO 11 INTERYENTION NOT DES1RlBLE BUT PRESIDENT WILSON R ALIZ ES THAT GOVERNMENT Y SE FORCED TO ADOPT I SITUATION GROWING GRAVE Determination First to Exhaust Every Peaceful Means for Peace in the WarRidden Republic Western Newssper Union News Service WashingtonPresident Wilson re vealed to those who discussed Mexi can affairs withhim that he realizes the gravity of the situation growing out of the killing td William S Benton a British subject the reported murder of Gustave Bauch and Clemente Va gara American citizens and Gener Carranzas denial of the right of the United States to look after the inter ests of foreigners in Mexico The presldent spoke deploringly of armed intervention but at the same time he referred to the size and power of a country like the United States as being sufficient warrant for a calm and patient course while complian3e with the American demands is being sought Callers came away impressed with the idea that the president is determined to try every peaceful means at his disposal to solve the Mexican problem but that he realizes that a drastic course may become ne cessary He

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