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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 11, 1902

CAPTAIN JOHN M HARDY Master of Schooner Kadlant 28 Tears Aye said skipper John M Hardy as liewhipped over the end of a piece of rope he was splicing on board the trim little schooner Radiant I have been 28 years in the coasting trade from ISoston arid New York ports east Yesn thats better than the average says be and he turns the rope over and looks longingly over the deck of the old schooner which has so long been home to him The old schooner Radiant and her jovial old commander past three score years have few equals in points of con tinuous service and the companionship of the two has been both pleasing to the shipper and the goodhearted old captain t apt lonn ju iiaruy now nearing three seor and ten years was born in Peer Isle the son ot Joseph P and Polly llaskell Hardy and until the age of 4 years resided there when the fam ily removed to Winterport where they had a little home and did a bit of farm ing in connection with their seafaring His father followed the sea but little yet there was in Capt Hardy the love of

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 17, 1907

womans experience 11 in After Year May Be Safe Jt H r William Pink Pill a Boon j trUsed to Keep the Blood j al I They Will Prevent Much I rni 1111 Mi8er approaches the age of forty he should pay particular v health The hard work j s lmve been accustomed to do aid excitement of her daily lessened or avoided as much s her health after she passes depend in a large measure j unman owes it to herself to i 11 n during these years It I Assary that the blood be ruh thereby enabling all 1m body to perform their Cor this purpose Dr Wil s have long been recognized medicine because of their hug and tonic properties Hannah A Lozier of 1151 Detroit Mich well illus i just been said Mrs Lozier the Auxiliary of the Masonic the Pullman Relief Corps igh Iftice in each The au statemeut may beabsolute be says king Dr Williams Pink Pills i ago after I had been suf vears from dizzy spells and s liicli were brought on by ied several medicines with Hie time became more irri m l weak At times I had iii could eat

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 28, 1907

Maines herbalist Abandoned Farm Made to Pay Good Money You Can Smell His Catnip Crop Half a Mile Away Boston Sunday Globe The story of how William K Burgess of East Bucksport has managed one of Maines famous abandoned farms aud won prosperity and considerable fame from land that was cluttered with loose stones and iufested with pernic ious weeds deserves to be elevated into a treatise on agricultural economics and a place in the libraries of agricultural colleges Less than 20 years ago when Mr Burgess went to East Bucksport from a farm in Monroe Me he was rich in health and hope though poor in finan cial resources so when he had bought two adjoining tarms on the shores of Long pondboth of which had been cropped clear down to hard pan and undergone the process which Maine farmers term skinning until there was nothing left to skinhe found himself at 35 years of age without an available dollar in the world and hitch ed to a barren hillside farm which according to local report was not able to sustain a pair of rabbits The first thing which Mr Burgess needed was ready money Local ways of securing

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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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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 25, 1907

A MESSA6EJE0 MAINE From Vermont and New Hampshire Li cense Making More Drunkards and Criminals At the recent New England Institute of the AV C T U at Hampton Beach N II Rev J H Robbins superin tendent of the Nea Hampshire Anti Saloon League spoke on the Dangerous Possibility He said There are in Maine calling for re submission the same two classes that we had in Vermont and New Ilamp shire five years ago calling for license laws 1 The men who want the liquor traffic licensed for their own profit or convenience men who are interested in the traffic as dealers or patrons For that class we have no message There is no common ground from which to start Between this classthe various allied liquor interestsaud the real temperance forces of the entire coun try there is uncompromising war The whole liquor problem and fundamental temperance principles are involved in this war The true temperance forces make no concessions and enter into no alliances with the liquor interests in town city tate or nation On the one hand it is a fight to give the bever age liquor traffic legal standing rights permanency and power On the

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 29, 1907

MY MISSION I live for those who love me Whose hearts are kind and true For the heaven that smiles above me And awaits my spirit too For all human ties that bind me For the task my God assigned me For the bright hopes left behind me And the good that I can do 1 live to learn their story Who suffered for my sake To emulate their glory And follow in their wake liards patriots martyrs sages The noble of all ages Whose deeds crown historys pages And times great volume make 1 live to hold communion With all that is divine To feel there is a union Twixt natures heart and mine To profit by affliction Reap truth from fields of fiction Grow wiser from conviction And fulfil each graud design I live to hail that season By gifted minds foretold When man shall live by reason And not alone by gold When man to man united And every wrong thing righted The whole world shall be lighted As Eden was of old I live for those who love me For those who know me true For the heaven that smiles above me And awaits my spirit

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 17, 1908

THE CALL OF THE SEA Capt John Hill a Native of Maine After 25 Years of Ranch Life Returns to Salt Water Spokane Wash November 27 After a quarter century of struggle against the never ceasing call of the sea during which he was a rancher at Wardnerin the heart of the Coeur d Alene mining district in northern Idaho east of Spo kane Capt John Hill 76 years of age has decided to pass the evening of his life on salt water He is going to Puget Sound thence down the coast to southern California back to San Francisco sail ing thence around the Horn to the north Atlantic coast where he put out of Port land harbor for the gold camps on the Pacific 57 years ago Captain Hill sailed on foreign waters and on the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans 36 years before coming to the Spokane country and he knows every rock and inlet reef and shoal between Halifax N S and the northern straits of Alaska and now that he has plenty of money as the result of a satisfactory settlement out of court with a mining companyafter seven years litigationfor damages to his ranch

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 29, 1910

obituary her 16 1916 William J I NoTVorthport Maine passed i f peacefully to his reward fc siwi le months and 27 days KC Mr Greenlaw North fjhe death _f js most highly re Vind the sympatny of ll it entire ccmmunity is ff V Waved family Mr 1 third son of the late fc v Ktherine Staples Green IW irn in the town of Waldo 1 vs where the E 1 until he was grown to 1 ge was educated in native town and at the f minary Kents Hill J iving the seminary he veral years When J was 21 years of age the Knox Maine It was fii r hat the West appealed spirit and accordingly in Sacramento California 0r wiated in business for 1 rothers Alonzo and tin gone there several years went to Nevada and M miik business first at 0C veral months later vs h n he remained un 1865 he came back to ji nr Gy to Northport moved during his r decided to settle it nil bought the farm v as part owner and the ianiel A Wad 1S68 he was unit Miss Clara J Pres ide Joel and Kath same town

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 30, 1918

THAT CHANGE IN WOMANS LIFE Mrs Godden Tel How It May be Passed in Safety and Comfort Fremont OI was passing through the critical period of life being forty six years of age and had all the symp toms incidenttothat changeheat flash es nervou iess and was in a gt eral run down condition so it Was hard for me to do my work Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Com pound was recom mended to me as the best remedy for my troubles which it surely proved to be I feel better and stronger in every way since taking it and the annoying symptoms have disap peared Mrs M Godden 925 Na poleon St Fremont Ohio Such annoying sympton as heat flashes nervousnsss backache head ache irritability and the blues may be speedily overcome and the system restored to normal conditions by this famous root and herb remedy Lydia E Finkhams Vegetable Compound If any complications present them selves write the Pknam Medicine Co Lynn Mass for suggestions how to overcome them The result of forty years experience is at your service and your letter held in strict confidence The California Maine Society Celebrates VCaido County Night Hamlin F Eaton a

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 19, 1918

asforii i a harmless substitute for Castor Oil Pare goric Props and Soothing Syrups It contains neither Opium Morphine nor other narcotic substance For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation Flatulency bind Colic and Diarrhoea allaying Feverishness arising tliciefrom lV rmating the Stomach and Bowels aids the as siinilatioif of Food giving healthy and natural sleep The Childrens PanaceaThe Mother s Friend Piirge Uur Population By H H Windsor in the October Popular Mechanics Magazine Last month we considered the advant age of sending back bodily to Germany those willful spirits whose actions and utterances were so flagrant our govern ment has been forced to intern them for the duration of the war It might be ad ded that failing to do so and turning them loose again in our midst they im penitent will still cherish those same un American ambitions with a resentment added by reason of their imprisonment But why should we single out or re strict ourselves to these few hundreds who have been found guiltyr in our courts of justice For each one so convicted there are a thousand whose hearts are bitter against American principles

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 23, 1919

CELEBRATING POOR RICHARDS BIRTHDAY Government Has Pictures Ready for Every Member in the Family Benjamin Franklin Gave Us Gifts We Shall Never Cease Using Benjamin Franklin whose picture adorns the 1919 or Franklin issue of War Savings Stamps receives unique recognition from the country which gae him birth and which he in turn helped to make a nation Born in Boston on January 17 two hundred and thirteen years pto he began his career at the age of ten in bis fathers trade of tallow chandler and scan boiler Dissatisfied he later h one an apprentice in his brothers printing office and such was his character that he quickly rose to an influential position and subsequent ly became one of the most illustrious figures of all times He not only amassed wealth through wise spending sane saving and secure investment but saved time to give himself a complete edu cation developing his gifts to the ut most as a writer philosopher scien tist and statesman He founded the Philadelphia library the American Philosophical Society and the Uni versity of Pennsylvania he discov ered that lightning is a discharge of electricity he was Postmaster of Philadelphia and later on Deputy Postmaster

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 4, 1919

h Sees No Reasonable ion to Reservations uncerning League vER AT WHITE HOUSE lit Asserts United States iders No Powers and Withdraw at Wiil President Wilson and of the Foreign Ue 1 iimiitee ot tlit ocudie luet i ic House Tuesday to dis ace treaty idl opened the discus mpressing on the Senators of prompt ratification of without amendments and nations that would n mission of the treaty to mnatories csp many tier i uent said that the inter v class of people the larm rial workers and employ Med prompt ratification to j at stable conditions of in uiculture and employment iblished The Presidents bicli was in effect an ad country follows hat this conference will vpedite your consideration aty of peace 1 beg that pardon and indulge me if 1 that practically the whole aging the country back to litions of life and indus pon the decision of the i regard to the terms of fiu again to urge my ad the act u ol th Senate to tlu p ahi tuHen at 1 f practicable moment be face in the readjustment onai life are uf the most ai erit cal character will r iheir proper solution the

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Image 4 of The Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, La.), March 24, 1875

ALEXANDRIA PEOPLES INEW ORLEANS and Grand Ecore Packet Oompy Weekly Tuesday Packet TiE FIKE AND FAST PASSENGER STEAMER B ISII JOHBNSON JOHA HIF at aster ED BURK1 Clerk T ILLN11fAKII REGULAR TRIPS taking freight for Fort DeRussy Barbins Normans Pineville Alexan dria Grand Ecoreand all intermediate landings For fraght ot passage hav ing superior accommodations APPLY ON BOARD ECLIPSE STABLE AGES TAILOR Proprietor fSRKER OF THIRD and DESOTO STREETS ALVXANDRIA 1A c t s A BUGGIES and a HORSES TO LET HOlSES IEPT by the DY WEEK MONTH The STABLE Is the LARGEST and MOST COMFORTABLE in the STATE ltPPttcular attention paid to HORSES left on KEEP or for SALE To Drovers SPLENDID MUZE PEJS Will rent STALLS by DAY or WEEK FOR HORSES HORSES CARRIAGES BUGGIES and HARNESS AL 7Y r8 on JHAV9 P022 AZE MILLINERY STORE Ila i MAlI t OMAIT JJAVING PURCHASED THE MIL linery Store of the late Mrs C Sullivan situated on SECOND corner of JOHNSTON St respectfully inform the public and pa trons of the establishment that they will continue to carry it on in the same style and line of business They have already replenished the stock of goods Id materials and continue

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Image 9 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), July 13, 1912

Use Glenns Sulphur Soap For Heat Rashes Kczema Pimples 1 lives Oily Skin Blackheads Itchy Skin Ivy Poisoning Sold by druggists generally I Hills Hair and Whisker Dye Dlac or Brown 50c Against Against Substitutes Imitations Get the WellKnown Round Package HORUCKS MALTED MILK Made In the largest best equipped and sanitary Malted Milk plant In the world We do not makemilk products Skim Milk Condensed Milk etc But the OriginalGenuine HORLICKS MALTED MIIK Made from pure fullcream milk and the extract of select malted grain reduced to powder form soluble in water Best fooddrink for all ages MTASK FOR HORUCKS Used all over the Globe JimieciOcdafcitnfain ffio Cto sf trM Mo Cii in if Hot Wave HAS NO EFFECT ON THE White Mountain Refrigerator THEREFORE THE APPRECIAT IVE HOUSEWIFE BUYS THE SANI TARY WHITE MOUNTAIN ALL SIZES AND PRICES Couch Hammock 595 KHAKI CANVAS WIND SHIELD NATIONAL SPRINC BOTTOM KHA KI DENIM COVERED MATT CHAINS AND HOOKS OVER 25 SOLD THIS LAST WEEK A FEW MORE AT THIS PRICE I Ice Cream Freezers Porch Chairs Tables Lawn Swings Grass Seats Bamboo Porch Shades Settees OUR STOCK OF SUMMER FURNISHINGS IS QUITE COMPLETE RWSoule Emporium DEPOT SQUARE We Pay the

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Image 10 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), December 12, 1915

SIXTYFIVE MEN IN CONGRESS HAVE WORKED ON NEWSPAPERS Of These Twelve Are Senators and Fifty three Are Members of the House of Representatives Sixtyflve members of Congress have served as newspaper men in one ca pacity or another according to the Congressional Directory Of these twelve are senators and fiftythree are members of the House Their newspaper jobs have ranged from typesetter to editor and owner Senator Henry F Ashurst of Arizona served as a reporter on a Williams Arizona newspaper Ever is A Hayes of the eighth Cal ifornia district with his brother is publisher of the San Jose Daily Morn ing Mercury and Herald and Charles H Randall the new member from the ninth district was a newspaper editor and publisher Edward Keating of the third Colo rado district started in at the age of fourteen as copyholder in a proofroom He served on Denver newspapers for twenty years as reporter city editor and managing editor In 1912 he pur chased the Pueblo Leader P Oakey Davis of the first Connecticut district for four years was connected with the Hartford Courant Senator James H Brady of Idaho acknowledges that he edited a paper for two years Clyde H

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Image 28 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), May 25, 1959

C2 THE EVENING STAR W aihinftn 0 C MWf Mey 25 IMS tffK v kMp tK 3H DISTINGUISHED PRESSMANSamueI H Kaifffmann left president 5 of The Evening Star Newspaper Co holds a plaque naming him an 9 honorary member of the International Wessmens Union after it was presented him by Anthony J DeAndrade the union president at the microphone Robert Callahan right vice president of the Washington pressmen is holdng a traditional pressmans paper cap also presented to Mr Kauffmann Edward Meyer president of the Washington press men is second from rightStar Staff Photos by Francis Routt and B Arnold Sachs Family Day at The Star Draws Crowd of 4000 Four thousand festive em ployes and guests of The Eve ning Star satisfied their curios lty yesterday at a premiere sho wins of the new Star Building Ranging in age from 4 weeks to 87 years employes ex employes and their families embarked on hourlong tours of the big modem plant at Sec ond street and Virginia avenue SJE which has housed The Star since March Probably the oldest visitor to the Family Day Open House was Charles Powers 87 of 7402 Arden road Cabin John Md A former street

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Image 6 of The Lexington advertiser (Lexington, Miss.), July 11, 1963

Dorsey McCay Is Candidate For lieutenant Governor Of Mississippi Dorsey McCay of Water Valley candidate for Lieuten a n t Governor today an nounced the formal opening of his campaign and the ap pointment of his state cam paign manager Named by him is Clinton T Howell of Jackson Howell was the editor of the Missis sippi Methodist Advocate Of ficial weekly NewsMagazine of the Methodist people in Mississippi for eight years and is now in the printing business He is the author of several books the latest Lines to Live By is an inspirational volume of poe try philosophy and sayings He was a member of the Campaign Staff of Ross Bar nett in his successful race four years ago McCay a former lay prea cher of the Methodist Church is 42 years of age He was educated at Northwest Jr College and Jackson School of Law He is married to the former Mary Helen Rankin of Nettleton niece of the late Congressman John Rankin The McCays have five sons He says he will wage a vigorous campaign based up on his stand for 1 Economy in State Government 2 A balanced state budget 3 Increased pay for our

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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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