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Library of Congress1891

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), June 20, 1891

There is considerable excitement among the Louisiana oystermen on account of the unnecessary and un justifiable destruction of the oysters along the Gulf coast by parties who come from elsewhere to collect the bivalves Near the Balize the citi zens threatened to take their shot guns and use them upon these de predators bult they took the hint and left It is an outrage that should not be permitted The oys ters shoeld not be foolishly or imaliciously destroyed and such vandalism should be stopped in some wayThlibodeaux Sentinel GOOD LOOS Good looks are more than skin deep depending upon a healthy condition of all the vital organs If the Aiver be inactive you have a Bilious Look if your stomach be disordered you have a Dyspeptic Look and if your Kidneys be affected you have a inched Look Secure good health and you will have ood looks Eleetric Bitters is the great alterative and Tonic act directly on thesevital organs Cures Pimples BlotchesBoils and gives sood com plexion Sold at Ni C Young and A J Godard Drugstore 50c per bottle Oa If you know of any man who has sold his vote or his influence to the lottery

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Library of Congress1919

Image 5 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), July 18, 1919

r National Newspaper Advertising How When and Where to Use It BY WILLIAM H RANKIN President Wm H Rankin Co New York Washington Chicago COMPETITION to secure na tional markets has become so keen that individual business firms are eagerly searching for new methods by which to domi nate the attention of the public and to dominate it first searching for methods that will give more intensive sales results that can be obtained by any usual form of advertising This method has been found it is National Newspaper Advertising As is invariably the case the new method was found not only to be an acceptable substitute for the old but to have certain superiorities over the old meth od of magazines plus newspa pers The ability of National news paper advertising to create large volume national sales has al ready been demonstrated Many million dollars have already been spent for the United States Government in this way helping to bring to the Government bil lions of dollars in return Mil lions more have been spent in this sort of advertising by com mercial firms and the results they have obtained have been highly remunerative The thing has been tried out

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Library of Congress1927

Image 3 of The Wolf Point herald (Wolf Point, Mont.), April 22, 1927

Official Proceedings Of The County Board Adjourned Regular Board Meeting December 28th 1926 The board met at 10 SO a m with all members present The board spent the forenoon discussing county business At 12 p m the hoard recessed to meet at 130 p m At 130 p m the board resumed Motion made by Weinrich seconded by Leeson that Wm Powers of Rainville be appointed as agent to represent the county in trying to get Senate bill No 4825 and amendments r substitution passed by Congress All members voting Aye Motion made by Leeson seconded by Weinrich that the county superintendent of schools be granted thirty days leave of absence from the state after January 1st 192V Motion made by Leeson seconded by Weinrich to approve of the security bonds of Behlan Bros ferry men at Culbertson Montana amount of 200000 Motion made by Leeson to allow Mrs Hannah Carter of Froid 500 per month additional aid until May 1st Seconded by Weinrich The clerk read the proceedings of Nov 15th Dec 678 Motion made and seconded to approve of the proceedings as read by the clerk Motion made and seconded to recess until 1030 a m Dec

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), October 5, 1895

dome unfounde i reports have spread misinforination ab nt the rites to he charged by hoteis and boarding houses at Atlanta during the Cotton States and International Exposition Mr Alex W Smith Chief of the Public Comfort Depart meat makes this statement tor pub lication Atlanta Ga ug 25 1895 Mr Walter G Cooper Chief De partmcutlf Publicity and Prom otion Atlanta Ga DEAR inReferring to the ed itorial comment of the Savannah Morning News to the effect that boarding house keepers have an nounced an increase in their rates I beg to state that this department has received no intimation of any such intention and not one single person who has registered accom wodation with the department has given any notice of an increase I take pleasure in announcing through you to the public at large that sufficient accomodations have been secured through the efforts of the Public Comfort Department to adequately and comfortable care for the average attendance upon the Exposition The rates for such accommodation at the regular hotels will be from one dollar to three dollars per day European plan and from two to five dollars per day American plan In the lodging and boarding houses

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Library of Congress1900

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 24, 1900

NEWS OF THE WEEK Maine Matteks A great section of the estate of the late Jen SamuelF i Hersey was w illed to the city of Bangor for edr rational use Eighteen years before the testator had made his will a committee of the city council called upon totix tiie valuation fixed the value of the timber lands which he devised in trust to Bangor at 810108842 Six teen years later and two years before by the terms of the will the property could be divided the state assessors placed tiie valuation at 835378187 or 31200343 more than tiie valuation lixed by tiie trustees of the estate and the city council committee It is not surprising that the city is taking steps to secure its right to tin timber lands At tiie annual meeting of tiie Wo mans Aid Society of the Eastern Maine General Hospital at Bangor May 13th these officers were elected for tiie com ing year Pres Mrs Henry Lord 1st vice pres Mrs IN B Denio 2d vice pres Mrs K W Sawyer treas Miss Mary 11 Men ill sec Miss Jennie 1 Pickering The reports of tiie officers showed the hospital to he in a

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Library of Congress1911

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 21, 1911

The Story of a Man Who Made Good BY HARRY LEE SNYDER From the National Magazine About ten oclock in the morning of the first day of April the high cost of living landed h solar plexus blow I had just paid my good German landlady for my preceding weeks board and lodging and she had remarked apologetically Pota toes costs so much an meat is so high once that it is 1 must ask you for ten dollars every week already And I had been paying only seven I went to my office and sat down at my desk to think things overa not alto ether pleasant or wholly profitable task was a lawyer My honest old black smith fatherhaving in mind nothing but the thought of securing my futurehad made numberless sacrifices that I might be educated and his dearest wish had been to see me cozily established in my chosen profession Within a week after my admission to the bar he died and I found myself alone in the world for my mother had passed away some years be fore As I sat at my desk that morning 1 fell to thinking of my fathers last words

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Library of Congress1910

Image 7 of The Birmingham age-herald (Birmingham, Ala.), May 16, 1910

I NEWSPAPER ENDOWMENT DISCUSSED BY EDITORS New York May 15Is there a place in the United States for an endowed news paper Is there need for such a paper Recent reports that Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller are at least contem plating the provision of funds for the establishment of a national newspaper or newspapers which are to be conducted on i fin absolutely nonpartisan and nonsec tarian basis uninfluenced by any other consideration than the public good has aroused much public interest in this sug gestion With a view of ascertaining the viewn of the newspapermen of the country men who are peculiarly fitted to express an opinion on such a subject which will be worth listening to the Publishers Press has secured the opinion of some of the leading editors of the United States as to the necessity for or possibility of suc cess of a newspaper endowed either by private or public money Some of the fnoet Interesting opinions expressed fol low By Harrison Gray Otis editor and pub lisher of the Los Angeles Times and Mirror j I have your letter of the 1st inst stat ing that the suggestion has been recent ly made

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Library of Congress1891

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), June 6, 1891

4GENTS for Dr TALMAGES 4 i New Book coveriag ANTED his lifes woe Ahro San From the ChristLaud en tleod ho FROM MAN4ER TO TIHltDE E Embracing a new Life of Christ and a Story of Palestine and its People illus trated with over 400 wonderful engrav ings of scenery in Holy Land copies of old masters and famous pictures from the Land and 1imes of the Savior also a grand picture of Jerusalem on the day of the crucifixion in 12 colors and ton feat in length This is Dr Tslmages life work and his greatest book Orders are now pouring in from all parts of the civilized world You will never havean other like it 1000000 copies will be sold the first year Agents should drop allelse and secure terriVory Such chanceseome only once in a life time Exclusive ter ritory givenfull protection The most remarkable and wonderful of all books about the Land Time and People of the Bible Go to work Now and von will make hundreds of dollars Territory goirg with a rush act now no capital needed Name territory ymi want and write at once for particulars to ND McDONALD CO 81 Oarondelet Street

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Library of Congress1906

Image 4 of Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.), February 20, 1906

ALMOST AS GOOD AS A DAILY NEWS PAPER The NewYork TriWeekly Tribune is a metropolitan newspaper or busy people almost as good as a daily and your Rural Free Delivery Carriei brings it to your door three times every week It is published on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays and contains all the most important news of The Daily Tribune whioh is a guarantee of its value If you live in the village or on a farm and have not time for a daily newspaper you may be kept in olose toueb with all important news of the world at a very small cost The regular price of THE NEW YORK TRIWEEKLY TRIBUNE is only 160 per year butyou can secure it with your own favorite local newspaper The Oxford Democrat Both Papers One Year for 225 Send your order anl money to The Oxford Democrat South Paris Maine Tour name and address on a postal card to THE NEW YORK TRIWEEKLY TRIBUNE NewYork City will bring you a free sample copy A LOW PRICE ON Wool Carpets to close out odd patterns and clean up stock Chas F Ridlon Corner Main and Danforth Sts NORWAY MAINE Soup Stomach No appetite

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Library of Congress1921

Image 21 of Great Falls tribune (Great Falls, Mont.), September 11, 1921

OLD OAK TREE TO STAND SENTINEL AT WOMENS CLUBHOUSE m mm m m m mm JlÜHjjiU j This giant oak declared by expert t o be KÎO years old stands sentinel on the west side of the historic home now used as headquarters by the Womans National foundation Regarded by members as symbolic of the enduring strength which the infant foundation already shows signs of attaining it will be preserved as an emblem and a landmark even when the foundation be gins to build its 3500000 civic home Though basie membership in the foundation costs only 1 for nonresi dents such are the advantages and op portunities offered by its program that it is expected enough individual fees will be secured to finance this great äotitiv Return From Summer Outing Mr and Mrs Charles Lowery and children returned the first of the week from Lake McDonald where they passed the summer at their cottage Mrs Birch Entertains Maids and Matrons Wednesday afternoon the Maids and Mptron were entertained at the first meeting since last June at the home of Mrs Fred Birch 924 Third avenue north Mrs Roy Clary and Mrs Otto Gerth attended as guests Next week the club

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Library of Congress1932

Image 4 of The Lexington advertiser (Lexington, Miss.), November 3, 1932

TREE I S 3HI BY THE LEX1 ADVERTISER XI 1 i1TV RULES AND REGULATIONS 1 Any reputable man woman or child residing in this vicinity or sur rounding territory is eligible to enter this election and compete for a prize i Nominations may be made at any time during the election 2 No employee in this NEWSPAPER office is eligible to enter this distribution This newspaper reserves the right to reject any nomination 3 The winners of the prizes will be decided by their accredited votes aid votes being represented by ballots on subscriptions 4 Candidates are not confined to their particular section or commun ity in which to secure votes and subscriptions but may take orders anj where in this section or for that matter anywhere in the State or United States 5 Cash must accompany all orders where votes are desired There will be no exceptions to this rule Candidates will be allowed to collect subscriptions and renewals as well as entirely new subscriptions and a otes will be issued on both alike 6 Votes are free It costs the subscribers nothing extra to vote for their favorite Subscribers should ask for votes when paying their sub scriptions

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Library of Congress1921

Image 6 of The Wolf Point herald (Wolf Point, Mont.), November 17, 1921

I l V HC mi I 4 JL w opyrigK 1921 by the BtiU Stjnclicûts Inc m PART ONE place of resilience she found their im bear By the end of October with the dis persal of that foliage which has served all summer long as a pleasant screen for whatever small privacy may exist between American neighbors we begin to get our autumn high tides of gos sip At this season of the year in our towns of moderate size and ambition where apartment houses have not yet condensed and at the same time sequestered the population one may secure visual command of back yard beyond back yard both up and down the street especially if one takes Hie trouble to sit for an hour or so dally upon the fop of a high board fence at about the middle of a block Of course an adult who followed such a course would be thought pe culiar no doubt he would be subject to undesirable comment and presently might be culled upon to parry severe If Indeed not hostile inquiries but boys are considered so inexplicable that they have gathered for them selves any privileges denied their parents and

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Library of Congress1915

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 19, 1915

GOuD THINGS From the Good Will Record A very interesting monthly is the Good Will Record published by the Good Will Publishing Co Hinckley Me George W Hinckley editor and we want our readers to enjoy some of the good things from the current issue as follows In Defence of the Old Farmer Said a Boston editorial in June Ap ply early and avoid the rush Not a bit too early to write to that old farmer up in Maine or New Hampshire to secure hat front room overlooking the country h and wide for the two weeks you are to spend in the country Allow us to remark that any old edi tor who will publish an old squib like that in his old newspaper is behind the times If any old quill driver should chance to write to us for a chance to rest his old baldpate in our attic while on his old two weeks rest in the country he would get it we would decline to board him or his old wife or any of his old sons or old daughters or his old sons inlaw or his old daughtersinlaw and all their old babieB until

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Library of Congress1912

Image 11 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), May 18, 1912

AUCTION SALES THIS AFTBRXOOM AT Ai A WESCHLER AUCTIONEER TmiUTEFJT SALE OF LOTS 11 AND 43 IN BLOCK 2 WHITNEY CLOSE AND IM PROVEMENTS KNOWN AS 436 KENTON STREET NORTH WEST Bv virtue of a certain deed of trust duly re corded In Liber No 3417 at folio 2VJ of tho and records for tke DNtrtct of Columbia and at the request of the party secured thereby we the undersigned trustee will sell a public auction n front of the premises on WEDNESDAY MAY FIFTEENTH 1012 AT HALF PAST FIVE OCLOCK PM the following described hind and premises situate In the county of Washington Tistrlct of Columbia known and diatlnguMicd a lot eleven 111 In B H Warners subdivision f block two i2 Whitney Close as per plat re rded In County Book 6 pages 2 and R3 In the surveyors office for the piitrlft of Columbia and lot fortyfive i43i Id Elizabeth W Voorheea subdivision of lota In Mock two 2 Whitney Ciose us per plat recorded In Book 40 pipe i2 In said surveyors office together with Improve ments known a No 438 Kenyon t nw Terms of ssle All cash above first trust of j 2350 A

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Library of Congress1917

Image 17 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), April 23, 1917

AUCTION SALES THIS AFTERNOON THOS J OWEN A SON AUCTIONEERS inromcEs sale of valuable improved REAL ESTATE NOS 319 321 323 323 AND 327 14H STREET NORTHEAST By virtue of a certain deed of trust duly re _ urili il In Liber No S401 folio 322 et seq of tlM land record of the District of Columbia and al the request of the party secured thereby the BBdertlgBed trustee will sell at public auction tat front f the premises on MONDAY THE TWENTYTHIRD DAY OF APRIL AD 1917 AT HALTTAST FOUR OCLOCK PM the fol lowingdescribed land and premises situate in tha city of Washington District of Columbia and dsalfnated as snd being lots numbered one hun dred and twenty Are 125 to one hundred and twentynine 12 inclusive In Mayse and Clark trustees subdivision of square numbered ten hundred and fiftyfour 104 as per plat re corded la Liber IS at folio 27 In the surveyors office for the District of Columbia together with the Improvements consisting of five twostory brick dwellings Soa 319 321 323 325 and 327 144 street northeast Tarns of ssle Onethird of the purchase JMney to be paid in cash balance in two equal

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Library of Congress1916

Image 19 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), May 22, 1916

AUCTION SALES THIS AFTEKWOO ADAM A WKSCHLER AUCTIONEER TDUTIES SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED REAL ESTATE PREMISE8 419 O STREET SOUTHWEST By virtue of certain deed of truat duly recorded In Liber No 2758 folio 138 et acq of the land record of the District of Columbia and at the request of the party secured thereby we the underpinned truateee will eell at public netion In front of the premises m MOSDDAY THE TWENTY SECOND DAY OF MAY AD 1918 AT HALFPAST FOCR OCLOCK PM the followingdescribed land and premises situate In the city of Washington in the District of Columbia and designated as and being lot M of Benjamin Bradleys subdivision of the east IS feet of original lot 6 in square 503 aa per plat in Book 12 page 149 in the office of the surveyor for said District together with the improvements consisting of premises 419 O St sw Terms of aalc tinethird of the purchase money to be paid in cash and the balance in two equal installments payable in one and two years with interest at six per centum per annum payable semiannually from day of sale rtirei bv ded of trust mton the Dronertv sold

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Library of Congress1912

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 3, 1912

RHEUMATIC SUFFERER Throws Away Cane When Rheuma Ban ishes Swelling From Knees and Ankle Every reader of Th Journal who is op pressed or tortured with Rheumatism Sciatica or aiiiiniiB is iuvhcu w gu to A A Howes Cos and secure a bottle of RHEUM A the remedy that made Mrs Knox happy and healthy If it doesnt drive the poisonous waste matter from your sys tem and end your agony you can have your money back A bottle costs but 0 cents For 14 months I was so badly afflicted with Rheu matism that much of the time I was obliged to use a cane 111 wanting vii me rccum mendation of your druggist in Glens Falls I used one bottle of RHEUM A and THE CANE IS IN THE CORNER NOW No one could be happier than I am to be rid of the pain swollen knees contracting muscles under the knees and badly swollen ankles When I tell you my weight is 238 pounds you will understand what the use of RHEUM A for Rheumatism means to me 1 certainly believe there is no remedy for the disease like RHEUM A Signed Mrs Daniel S Knox Severance

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Library of Congress1926

Image 24 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), January 19, 1926

24 ne h msi Hl fIECTS Stockholders of the American Security and Trust Company at their annual meeting today elected the following directors Clarence A Aspinwall Charles J Bell Harry K Boss John C Boyd George W Brown William M Coates William S Corby William V Everett Wil liam J Flather Jr M G Gibbs Cary T Grayson James M Green Gilbert H Grosvenor J Philip Herrmann James F Hood Joseph Leiter G Percy McGlue Edward B McLean Howard Moran Clar ence F Norment Newbold Noyes Howard S Reeside B F Saul Wll E Shannon James F Shea Charles A Spalding Corcoran Thom John E Wilkins The board was organized by tne election of the folowing officers Charles J Bell president Corcoran Thom vibe president B F Saul vice president Howard Moran vice president James F Hood secre tary Charles E Howe treasurer Alfred B Leet trust officer Wil liam L Beale real estate officer 3 Dann Faber auditor David N Houston T Stanley Holland J Eliot Moran Arthur G Nichols b and Earl G Jonscher assistant trust officers Frederick P H Siddons and Albert H Shillington assistant secretaries William W Keck Edward E Swan Hans W Ireland Richard E

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