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Library of Congress1912

Image 13 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), December 14, 1912

BODY AND FACE 1MECZE1 Grew Worse Until Hands and Feet Swollen and Running Sores Skin Would Drop Off in Scales Prac tically a Shutin Cuticura Soap and Ointment Entirely Cured Brownvlllp N YCuticura Soap and Ollit ment cured mo of a stubborn case of bzema which followed a severe caso of scarlet revcr My body and face was a mass of Rores so that I was practically a sliutin It grew worse until my hands and feet were swollen and running sores 1 trieo many remedies One kind which I used fairly burned my skin up so that It would drop off In scales 6s il It was scalded But thanks to good advice I then used Cuticura Soap and Ointment In a short time I was entirely Cured Now my skin is clear as ever and 1 have had no return of the disease I hope this letter will help the suffering ones who are fighting eczema Signed Miss Bdnu Bidwcll Jan 10 1912 TO REMOVE DANDRUFF Prevent dry thin and falling hair allay Itching and irritation and promote tho growth and beauty of the hair frequent shampoos with Cuticura Soap assisted by occasional dresfffngs with Cuticura Oint ment

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Library of Congress1914

Image 6 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), March 5, 1914

Daily Kennebec Journal Entered at the Augusta Post Office as second class mail matter ESTABLISHED 1826 No notice whatever will be taken of unsigned communications The Journal cannot be held responsi ble for the preservation or return of rejected communications Address all communications relating to subscriptions and advertisements to Kennebec Journal Co Publish ers Augusta Maine Thursday March 6 1914 Republican Ticket FOR MAYOR Hon Willis E Swift Ward One AldermanArthur N Soule CouncilmenOscar H Anderson and Burleigh Martin WardenOrlando H Tolman Ward ClerkClarence C Hunt ConstableAlbert E Gardner City CommitteemanClaude W Townsend Ward Two AldermanNorman L Bassett CouncilmenGeorge W Wadlelgh and Wilbert S Wilson WardenCharles J House Ward ClerkFrank V Mendall ConstableWilliam P Fox City CommitteemanBlaine S VUes Ward Three AldermanCharles P Kinsman CouncilmenFred S Daggett and Winfred A Jackson WardenCharles H Dill Ward ClerkWilliam B Fletcher ConstableJohn C Howes City Committeeman Harold A Murchie Ward Four AldermanEdmond Doyon CouncilmenPhilibert Poulin and Joseph Lambert WardenFred Lapointe Ward ClerkC A Miron ConstableArthur Roy City CommitteemanHiram H Weymouth Ward Five AldermanArthur E Percival CouncilmenPercy W Morrill and Charles B Phllbrlck WardenLester G Teague Ward ClerkFrank W Damren ConstableBenjamin Tracy City CommitteemanW S Knowles Ward Six AldermanCharles M Taber CouncilmenAlbert E Folsom

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Library of Congress1916

Image 6 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), July 10, 1916

daily KENNEBEC JOURNAL Entered at the Augusta Post Office a iSecond class mall matter ESTABLISHED 1825 Kaaotlee whatever will be taken of unsigned communications The Journal cannot be held responsi ble for the preservation or return of rejected communications Address all communications relating to subscriptions and advertisements to Kennebec Journal Company Publishers Augusta Maine Monday July 10 1916 Republican Nominations FOR PRESIDENT CHARLES EVANS HUGHES VICE PRESIDENT CHARLES W FAIRBANKS GOVERNOR CARL E MILLIKEN U S SENATOR Frederick Hale REPRESENTATIVES TO CON GRESS 1st DistLouis B Goodall 2nd DistWallace H White Jr 3rd DistJohn A Peters 4th DistFrank E Guernsey STATE AUDITOR Roy L Ward well A Misguided Friend Editor Kennebec Journal The Journal editorial of June 27 entitled the Right Course at Last has been read with considerable surprise by a wide circle of manufacturers and railroad men The editorial in question claims to reflect the publicity attitude of the newspapers to ward American industry In the present wage controversy between the railroads and the brotherhoods for example you say no safe dependence can be placed on the claims of either side and in the public interests you think the contestants that is to say these conflicting and unre

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Library of Congress1925

Image 14 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), January 8, 1925, (Centennial Edition, Main News Section)

More Kind Words From Friends on Occasion of Centennial The following Congratulatory Letters in Connection with the Centennial of the Kenn ebec Journal have been received in addition to those received earlier and placed in section B of the Centennial Edition SoninLaw Of James G Blaine New York N Y Jan 7 1025 Charles Flynt Kennebec Journal Augusta Maine Congratulations on anniversary of splendid paper WALTER DAMROSCH I CONGRESSMAN FOR THIRD DISTRICT Washington D C January 5 1925 Honorable Charles F Flynt President and General Manager The Kennebec Journal Augusta Maine My dear Mr Flynt Since boyhood the Kennebec Journal has been a household Institu tion in my family I have seen it through the years faithfully recording the events of my school and college days my early manhood the birth of my children the passing of relatives and friends and the thousand and one happenings large and small Joyous and sad that go into the making up of a full life In later years here in Augusta my boys have all acted as carriers of your paper and every morning in my home young and old read your columns with Interest and with profit Always the paper has been

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Library of Congress1925

Image 9 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), May 11, 1925

eer wowjyw Umiv iaJLfci 1Day 1tU apml g m jtmmmm i MARK the development of women as economic factors through the centuries From the pale presence of medi eval days ineffectual rare of speech a mere shadow in cloistered recesses to the modern robust participant in world affairs the progress of woman has paralleled the growth of printed knowledge In the 17th Century womans thoughts had little to do with writingsthe Braillelike achievements of the monks She lived as the lily to mind her nunlike face In Revolutionary times the Diary of Samuel Pepys or the plays of Wm Shakespeare were main constituents in womens men tal pabulum In hoopskirt daysGodey s Lady Book and the heartfluttering works of Ouida What of the Women of Today What or the women or today Ur 1 Zella Ford Warner Portland Oregon says Women direct family buying They have improved themselves as homemakers and citizens through newspapers Personally I prefer the morning newspaper Judge Virginia Henry Mayfield of the Domestic Relations Court of Birm ingham Ala says Morning news paper advertising plays an important part in the economics of the home 1 he housewife owes it to her family to pay thorough attention

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Library of Congress1925

Image 8 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), June 16, 1925

W01V M resent the thought that they are concerned chiefly with the Womans Page of a newspaper The interest of a woman of today is certainly not limited to the gossip of fash ions and flippancies A nation and world interest is hers The ENTIRE morning newspaper is a womans newspaper Extract from nationwide interviews with women regarding newspaper influence Daily Kennebec Journal Copyright 1925 EMERSON B KNIGHT lac INDIAN APOUS

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Library of Congress1894

Image 6 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), October 29, 1894

SHE RATTLED HIM For a reporter with but little to write fcmd plenty of time in which to write it there Is nothing more pleasant than to dic tate a narrative to a cheerful typewriter particularly if she be young and have nice soft hair to distract the eye and well formed white fingers and bo withal ex ceedingly pleasing but for a reporter with a long yarn to write and a limited amount of time to finish it things sometimes have u different aspect Near Printing House square is a type writing office which many newspaper men frequent A new girl came there one day last weeka real nice girl and an excel lent operatorbut she had never done that kind of work before V hiie she was sit ting in the main room upon the afternoon of her first day a newspaper man came hustling in and Mrs J have you got anybody to take a two column story in a hurry Yes replied the manager Hero is a young lady who has just como to us Miss BrownMr Smith You can go into that corner room In three minutes the young lady was seated at her machine

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), May 17, 1895

gaitg gcttnrbff gmnwt TERMS 700 Per Tear Ho natlcc whatever will be lakes of bb lBd eommnnicatlOBe Tnloguuoinoi bbid BwroriiiLi or the reeervetloB or retoro ol rejected oom BBleatloBa till nee all oomeiiiBlcatlOBi relatlaf to eob Mrtptloaa and advertisement to Bobibxob ft riTin Pnbltehere Auxosta Main Bismarck thinks female sympathy with existing political institution the safest bulwark against socialism I It Harvards faculty is for football lias Harvard a faculty for football Is the question now stirring the American Athens to its very center The statesmen of tl3 South are not quite all In favor of cheap money Sena or Lindsey of Kontucky is one of the glittering exceptions to the rule American sympathies are with tho Cu ban insurgents and the hope will be gen erally entertained in this country that they may yet achievo their independence California Is being flooded with Japan ese cheap labor while natlvo lalor 1 Idle Wo have a high regard for the Japanese Put that sort of conquest should not be permitted In this country Tho Boston city government has a very pretty fight nfoot as to who shall have the handling of the 12000 appropriated for the celebration of July 4th The

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Library of Congress1902

Image 9 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), October 4, 1902

funny things How Newspaper Humor Has Grown and Changed The Short Joke is a Product of Recent Years JVlany Good Samples of Wit and Humor in Past and Present In the file room of The Baltimore American are the bound volumes of the paper dating back to 1773 writes W IX Nesbit Josh Wink in the Inde pendent Here the person who feels an interest in the study of the growth and development of newspaper humor In America may spend some musty dusty tjlIt doubtless enlightening hours Con sidered in the light of present day wit there was no newspaper humor a cen tury ago If we will but remember the mental attitude ot the strictly moraled people of those days we shall recall the fact that at that time any mani festation of humor was regarded as in tensely unregenerate if not wholly wicked w see in the historical novel of today much of the sprightly wit and brilliant conversation of the old colonial regime but it was not re flected in the papers of that time To get any newspaper humor to speak of tve mu t on down to about 50 years ago lien it began to

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Library of Congress1912

Image 9 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), July 12, 1912

r burgess 0besC PRODUCTS Vtomam WwmMw WFWJNf ruQUpMjwT PORTLAND PORTLAND VARNISH STAINS A paint for every purpose indoors and outof such exceptional quality that it oSMkaitnrf You will practise economy jdiftd acliieve the very best re sults possible IF you will ask 5for POR I LAND goods when you want anything in the paint line Dealers all over Maine carry these QUALITY tfoods Insist on them it is distinctly to your advantage __ J EYES TESTED AND GLASSES FITTED Broken Lenses end other repairs while you wait C H RUSSELL OPTOMETRIST AND OPTICIAN 177 Water St Up Stairs Tel 2434 5 remo cigar Jjaain and oJcain MOTHtfl AM PHiii iJAbi I have oiways used uticura ijoap and no other or my baby and lie has never had a sore of any kind lij does not even hafc an most babies do I f 1 that it b all owing to Cuticiira Soap for he is iny and healthy and when five monilir old on a trizo in f brhy eldest It makes my heart ache to go Into so many lomc3 md see sweet faced baby ruth tin whole top of it b ad a solid niis3 of scurf t

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Library of Congress1912

Image 6 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), September 28, 1912

Daily Kennebec Journa Entered at the Augusta Post Office a second class mail matter ESTABLISHED 18 23 No notice whatever will be taken o unsigned communications The Journal cannot be held responsi ble for the preservation or return ol rejected communications Address all communications relating to subscriptions and advertisements to BURLEIGH FVLNT Publish ers Augusta Maine Saturday September 28 1912 REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS i i For President WILLIAM H TAFT Of Ohio tift i For Vice President JAMES S SHERMAN Of New York The Good and the Bad in New Law With nil its absurdities and its jokers and its nonentities the news paper law we are bound to admit has Its partially redeeming features If a few less lawmakers had been content to keep their mischievous fingers out of the pie and had aimed honestly to produce a law unquestionably consti tutional with the determination to reach the root of acknowledged evils according to tjic intent of the origi natorswell if all these things had been adhered to it might have been a law worth while The decision of the attorneygen eral published Friday morning deals with certain important phases of the law but does not relieve the general contempt

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Library of Congress1913

Image 6 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), September 17, 1913

Daily liennttec Journal Entered at the Augusta Post Offlos as second class mail matter ESTABLISHED 1825 _ No notice whatever will be taken of unsigned communications The Journal cannot be held responsi ble for the preservation or return of rejected communications Address all _subj communications relating tions and advertisements c Jouriltab Co Fublish sta Wednesday September 17 1913 Behind words lie deeds be hind deeds qualities behind qualities intention and the dis tinction between one man and another is the innermost am bition and the chosen attitude of the soulIan Mactaren The Real Situation In a twocolumn editorial heavily attempting to squeeze consolation from the recent election the Water ville Sentinel Tuesday hits upon i fact that has figured in the past and is bound to figure in elections to come Our Waterville neighbor makes th error of treating it as though for the first time such phenomena were now recognized by intelligent observers The Sentinel says A trifling margin of 500 votes separates our total from theirs while between us lies a wide field of 6500 independent voters ready to go where they think they ought and back of us a reserve force of 000 stayathomes who will come

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Library of Congress1916

Image 7 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), September 18, 1916

See Todays Industrial and Mining Age FOR Buying Advice on Emma Copper United Verde Ext Inspiration Needles ArL Copperfield These are Arizona copper and Utah leadsilver issues which have been making won derworking gains in price on the New York Curb and appear clearly headed for very much higher levels The Industrial and Mining Age tells the whole story THE Industrial and Mining Age Has Urged the Purchase of MERCANTILE MARINE pref From 30 up to present quo tations of around 123 MERCANTILE MARINE com From 32c up to present quota tions of around 49 UNITED VERDE EXTENSION From 4 up to present quo tations of around 39 ARIZONA COPPERFIELDS From 25c up to present quota tions of around 3 INSPIRATION NEEDLES From 69c up to present quo tations of around 1372 EMMA COPPER From 18c up to present quota tions of around 63c Etc Etc Etc Advised AGAINST Buying TENNESSEE COPPER From 60 down to present quotations of around 25 Yz MAXIM MUNITIONS From 14 down to present quotations of around 5 TRIANGLE FILM From 7 down to present quo tations of around 2 JUMBO EXTENSION From 4 down to present quo tations of around 35c STEWART MINING From

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Library of Congress1916

Image 11 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), October 7, 1916

Since 1854Quaker Ranges have been rightly termed The Housewifes Friendthere must have been merit as the basis for such success ful range building as The Quaker Sales show ing has been one of gains year after year It is not to be expected that you buy a new range very often but it is absolutely certain that you owe it to yourself and the content ment of mind to enjoy the best baking facili ties that can be furnished Thats where the Quaker Range stands supreme re liable serviceable and eco nomical really you cant afford to risk the choice of a different range Everything that helps Nothing that can hinder Buy Your Quaker Range Today R W SOULE Emporium AUGUSTA a Big Producing Mine Fully finrncrd Ably managed 1 about to enter tho Dividend Paying Class Have been in dote touch with this property nd its development for the last eighteen months and have inves tigated it thoroughly through MY OWN ENGINEERS AND ATTOR NEYS Now selling at 106 to 118 I believe this The Best Buy on whole market both for assured LARGE DIVIDENDS and Speculative PROFITS Get inquiries and orders in early as market is due for

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Library of Congress1894

Image 3 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), November 16, 1894

1 T Jaitu gomriwc journal City and County __ i POLICE BALL Over 1000 Ptople In Alt n iance and Ail Enjoy tlo Event Concert P0ramme Finely Rendered and 200 Couples Join in March The sixth annual hall of the Augusta police was given In Mconian hall last evening anti about loot people were in at tendance The concert by Higgins fnl orchestra from H to i oclock was a d light to the hearers and every irt of Its pro gramme was rccePetl with appreciation some of the selections licing osfxrially fine The Goblins Frolic and The Salvation Army were very catchy At sharp i the directors F W Math ews A V Brooks F I Hersey S S Ha mini 1 Dr K 1 Martin Dr A T Titcomli Horace Cony and Kverett Stone mareiied out with the Isxes of lieauliful dance onlers and then the grand march and circle liegan Marshal Bean and wife led tile march and were followed liy tlie other incmliers of the police force and ladies When the circle had formed over 200 couples were oil the floor and it nettried as though there was hardly room for them to lance The crowd

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Library of Congress1908

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 7, 1908

third District Republicans Henominate Congressman Edwin C Bur leigh by Acclamatien Nomination Speeches Applauded Orlando E Prost of Belfast Stirs the Convention to Cheers The Republican convention of the 3d Maine Congressional district was held at City Hall Waterville April 29th and an enthusiastic and loyal gathering of workers from Kennebec Somerset Hancock and Waldo counties met there in force to enter upon the work of the 190 campaign The convention was marked by absolute harmony and its business was disposed of in business like fashion The convention was called to order at 11 a m by J W Black of Searsport chairman of the district com mittee and after prayer by Rev George Dana Saunders of Waterville the call for the convention as read by Hon W II Wildes of Skowhegan Hon Ellery Bowden of Winterport was elected tem porary chairman and after taking the chair made an able address in which among other things lie said The Republican party during most of the past half century lias enacted the laws which have shaped and mould ed the destinies of this country The periods since 1S61 when the Democratic party was in control were illustrious principally for laws which

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Library of Congress1911

Image 1 of The independent-reporter (Skowhegan, Me.), March 30, 1911

I_ ___ MAINE S BEST COUNTY WEEKLY Canaaliiiatutg tjr 8mnrrart 3lnirprnipttt anil Qlljf fcomprart Hrportfr SWORN CIRCULATION OVER 6000 WEEKLY VOL 72 _ SKOWHEGAN MAINE THURSDAY MARCH 30 1911 NO 13 PATTANGALL MADE GREAT PLEA FDR POWER DEVELOPMENT Scores Newspapermen for Giving Kennebec Dam and Reservoir Company Bad Name In printing below the able defense which Representative Pattangall re cently made of the Kennebec Dam Reservoir charterwe are endeavoring to place the matter before the public just as it appears to the average busi ness man The IndependentReporter has taken no position with regard to this project endeavoring merely to present the facts Mr Pattangall studied the situation with care be came convinced that the proposed de velopment would be a great thing for Maine ana espoused the cause The arguments which he puts for ward seem well nigh unanswerable If there is another side to the ques tion let it be given all possible publi city so that when public opinion be comes finally crystallized the de cision may tie right and for all time The columns of this paper will be op ened for the exhaustive discussion of this matter and we hope for a cor dial response

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