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Library of Congress1909

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 18, 1909

Nearly Three Centuries Of Temperance Agitation and Legislation in Maine16361909 BY FRANK W GOWEN NO 5 At the Grand Lodge session of the Maine Good Templars in Bangor in the spring of 1875 Mr George E Brackett of Belfast was elected Grand Secretary and he served the Grand Lodge in this capacity something over thirty years and at the time he retired from this office two years ago was the oldest Grand Secretary in point of service in the world Bro Brackett was one of the ablest and most popular Grand Secre taries the order has ever had in Maine and his name is widely known and hon ored For many years he has published the Maine Temperance Record and in all his noble work for our order and the cause of temperance he has been ably assisted by his wife In 1881 Hon T R Simonton of Cam den was elected Grand Chief Templar and as he was an able speaker his ser vices were in much demand throughout the State in addressing public meetings in the interest of the order Then came Mr B C Torsey of Winthrop who made a very excellent officer He was also a

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Library of Congress1922

Image 6 of Great Falls tribune (Great Falls, Mont.), July 28, 1922

FARMERS HARVESTING GOOD WHEAT CROPS NEAR GREAT FALLS s 35V j v jf A x V x v S WSMkv vw iy t v AV VÄVAÄ XV V yiMX t y ii s V s V î v Ä m WM y m 3 xm y j8 y K pr myï WWm mmm mœtm gmftfcs Photo by Heyn A A 480ACRE FIELD OF WHEAT FOUR MILES EAST OF GREAT FALLS ON THE HIGH WOOD ROADE COOPER OWNER INDIAN NAMES ARE CONFERRED ON 14 EDITORS Members of Editorial Adopted by Cheyennes and Blacftfeet Paring their travels through Mon tana 14 members of the National Edi torial association party have hern adopted into Indian tribes of the sen Partv J 1 U u J h ihr ton two having had that honor thrust upon them by the Cheyennes at Miles City while Indian names were attached i to 12 at Glacier park where they were taken into the Rlackfeet tribe At Miles City Chief Spotted Hawk conducted the ceremonies wherebj Mrs H i Hot a linp of Mapleton Minn wife of the executive and recording sec retary of the association was made waTgiven the nnmïManwn Benï woman while 1 B Brimblecom of

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Library of Congress1961

Image 7 of St. Ignatius post (St. Ignatius, Mont.), August 10, 1961

Dixon Mrs A C Paul and daugh ters attended the wedding of her niece in Missoula Saturday Mr and Mrs Gene Pitts and family attended the Great Falls fair last week Mrs Tom Carter of Spokane Babe Ruths have B2 season In its final game of the sea son the Mission Babe Ruth team won over Dixon by a 133 score Tom Orr with a single and a double drove in three runs while Gary Blackman with a homerun drove in two runs The locals ended with an 82 record for the season New records were made by Gary Blackman in the R 81 department as he knocked in 21 to break a record that had stood since 1957 Gary also set a rec ord with three homeruns and by striking out 57 opponents knock ed the old record of 46 set by Merle Matt in 1955 by the way side Gary tied with Alvin Mc Lure for the record of hitting six doubles Steve Atkin swiped 17 bases to establish a new record in that department Missing from Next years team will be Gary Black man Gene Sorrell Raymond Cordier and Larry Bicha The final statistics are as fol

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Library of Congress1932

Image 1 of The Harlem news (Harlem, Mont.), November 4, 1932

A Constmctive Newspaper TWENTYNINTH YEAR BELKNAP HERD FIRST IN MILK PRODUCTION BOARDING SCHOOL DAIRY HERD RANKS HIGH IN INDIAN SER VICE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIA TION COMPETING WITH 73 OTHER HERDS The herd of Holstein cows at Belknap Boarding School ranked first in the Indian Service Dairy Herd Improve ment Association for milk production last month There are 73 herds in this association located at various Indian Agencies schools and hospitals thru out the United States Belknap herd topped the list for Sep tember with an average production of 11044 pounds of milk per cow This average is based on the entire herd of 24 cows three of which were dry dur ing the month Myrtle a registered cow gave 2131 pounds of milk which is an aver age of over 71 pounds per day or nearly nine gallons Pauline another registered cow produced 1894 pounds during the month The herd has been closely enllcd the past year to eliminate the poor pro ducers By keeping accurate records of production and feed costs the un profitable cows were soon weeded out which resulted in fewer cows needed and less feed cost for the same amount of milk Many Montanans Expected To Register

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Library of Congress1903

Image 20 of The White Mountain echo and tourist's register (Bethlehem, N.H.), September 19, 1903

20 THE WHITE MOUNTAINS It Is hard to realize that within the mem ory of men still living the White Mountains were still undiscovered as a summer resort says the Listener in the Boston Tran script To put them on a low plane In the capacity of the producer of millions of dol lars annually for hotels and railroads they are a triumph of newspaper writing up They had of course been noted as natural features of New England ever since the English first settled in the Merrimack Val ley in the 16405 Then that omnivorous seeker of knowledge Rev Manasseh Cut ler of Ipswich and Timothy Dwight of Western Massachusetts and a Boston par ty containing such kindred spirits as Dr J Bigelow Dr Francis Booth F C Gray and Chief Justice Shaw explored them in the last years of the eighteenth century and the first of the nineteenth and the very fact that these journeyings are recorded in history shows that in the first half of the last cen tury it was about as rare for people to visit the White Mountains as it is now to go to Labrador or Greenland Thelr wonders bad been topographically set

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Library of Congress1912

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 22, 1912

Washington Whisperings Washington D C August 19 1912 Taking the items carried in the Sundry Civil bill for waterways on which there is absolute agreement between the Sen ate and House and these added to the several amounts appropriated in the River and Harbor bill which is now a law the total sum set aside for improv ing the rivers harbors and canals of the county for the fiscal year ending June will reach in the neighborhood of forty three millions within seven millions of the amount set by the National Rivers and Harbors Congress as a proper an nual appropriation to put the water ways of the United Sates in a condition to do their proportion of the work of transportation For the past two years the biggest of the waterway organizations the National Rivers and HarborsCongresshas been on record in favor of a yearly appropriation of fifty million dollars It has bent every energy to the accomplishment of the principle for which it stands and now with the present appropriation of nearly fortythree millions and a like sum prob bly at the short sessions of Congress next winter it looks as if the campaign of education conducted by

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Library of Congress1915

Image 4 of The Grenada sentinel (Grenada, Miss.), December 3, 1915

THE GRENADA SENTINEL O P IAWHKCB ECditor and GRENADA MISSISSIPPI r in Ativi ubooription WlOO per V When Subscription not paid in advance or before the expiration of 12 months the price is 125 3 months 35c 6 months 60c ADVERTISING RATES FURNISHED UPON APPLICATION Obituaries In Memoriams and Cards of Thanks 10 cents per line Entered at the Po 9 t Office at Grenada Mississippi as second class mail matter nty iKulct Coi The Offloinl Ord n of C Announcements The Sentinel is authorized to announce the following candidates for City offices all subject to the Democratic Primaries FOR MAYOR B F THOMAS S T TATUM FOR MARSHAL AND TAX COLLECTOR J J HORTON A GERARD FOR CITY TREASURER W R GRANTHAM J H CARTER E C LAMB FOR CITY RECORDER H G TALBERT THE SENTINEL CLASSED AMONG THE BEST Mississippi has published within her borders some weekly newspaper that will rank with the oest of them published in other states of the Union She likewise has some that are a downright disgrace to the state Our exchange list is made up of papers of both classes but when we desire some good substantial reading always pick up such

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Library of Congress1927

Image 4 of The Carbon County news (Red Lodge, Mont.), December 1, 1927

CARBON COUNTY NEWS Publish i Lodge Carbon Thursday at Red natty Montana lin y îr Official Official Paper e City Pa Carl County d Lodge O H P SHEV Editor and Owner L M RLL Manager Entered at tl Montana tinder th 1879 toffioi of th Uongre at Red Lcvdge Second Class of March 5 M Act Per year e months 1 00 All 0 Six SUBSCRIPT N months 150 Tl subscriptions paya e in advance Advertising 1 ra circulation and tion Discount gi biased on guaranteed ished upon applies on contracts i SS33 II jj i 4 TELEPHONE NUMBER NINE c i Driftwood from I the River of Life 15 1 P C ON WELL I I Members of the GermanLutheran j denomination are constructing a new church builditL at Belfry j n GOOD RECORD Eleven hundred ninetyfour cars of coal were shipped out of Bearcreek during the month of October NEW CHURCH COMMUNITY TREE The Bridger Service Club are sponsoring a community Christmas 1 tree this year and committees have already been appointed to carry for he SOCIABILITY A community Thanksgiving dinner i was held at the Rock vale school house 1 last Thursday Every family furnish ed

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Library of Congress1910

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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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 Congress1915

Image 14 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 2, 1915, (INDUSTRIAL SUPPLEMENT)

Notes on a Trip to Toddy Pond Late in August about thirteen years ago a party of four of us two ladies and two gentlemen drove to Toddy Pond from Searsport and spent the day there On the way up and back and while at the pond we endeavored to find as many wild flowers as possible and the number we were able to collect surprised us On July 24th this year three of the original party with another amateur botanist determined to repeat the trip and to see if we could equal of surpass our former record We were not quite certain what our record was as the list bad been misplaced but from our best recollection we had to find either one hundred and fifteen or one hundred and thirtyfive varieties This time we made the trip up by auto mobile and the return trip by walking and it was unanimously decided that a horse and carriage is a much more desir able vehicle for botanizing than an auto mobile After arriving at Mr Whites and get ting the key to the boat we began mak ing the list of the flowers we had noticed on the way

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Library of Congress1901

Image 2 of The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.), May 10, 1901

AWFUL TUMBLE Trcmcndons Fatt in Stocks Thursday One of Severest Short Collapses Known Corner in Northern Pacific Canse of the Trouhie Ruinous Terms Forced on Shorts Situation Expected to Improve in the Morning New York May tBitter stress devel oped in Wail street by the second hour of trading on the stock exchange today The violence of the commotion had spent much of its force at least for the time being when the chairmans gavel fell announcing the close of the days proceedings The casualities were many but no actual fatalities of importance were recorded during the day During the height of the panic there were rumors of many insolvencies but no confirma tions could be had Those to whom the rumors pointed professed themselves ready to meet all obligations In more than one instance the answer tas to go upon the stoak exchange and placs loans to a large amount as indicating the abundance of resoures at hand But not withstanding these and similiar devices for keeping up credit and contldence the fact was too obvious that credits and borrowing power were shrinking at a prodigious rate But the indications at the close of the day were strong that

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Library of Congress1903

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 1, 1903

Literary News and Notes The stories of the worlds great cor porations are so full of interest m every detail that they read like ro mances The greatest corporation in the world is undoubtedly the billion dollar teel Trust and its story which appears in The Cosmopolitan for Octo ber forms one of the most important chapters of American business history John Burroughs is to contribute to The Century for 1904 a number of arti cles on Current Misconceptions in Natural History giving his views as to what he believes to be errors ot ob servation record or deduction on the part of contemporary writers on nature subjects The echoes of Mr Burroughs article on a similar topic which appear ed in The Atlantic last spring are still reverberating and in this series Mr Burroughs will take up the subject more fullv publishing his matured opinions as to instinct the alleged teaching of young animals by their parents tlse play of animals and kin dred themes Thackerays most important Ameri can letters are to see the light in the November and subsequent numbers of The C entury Magazine They cover both the first and second visit of the novelist to

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Library of Congress1901

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 2, 1901

WEATHER PREDICTIONS Hie Work of the C S Weather Bureau Bruttits to Commerce and Agriculture There is no other subject in which the people throughout the civilized world are so generally interested as they are in the weather and there its noth ing that exerts a greater influence on the affairs of men Although the weather has occupied mens minds to a great extent since the earliest days of the race and much scientific research has been made it is only within a com paratively few years that any systematic attempt has been made to record and diffuse meteorological data or knowl edge Since the work was taken up by the leading commercial nations of the world great advances have been made and great benefit has accrued particu larly to navigation and agriculture and allied branches The early Egyptians studied meteor ology as a branch of astronomy and Aristotle compiled a comprehensive work on the weather from their writ ings and his own observations He dis cussed prognostics of rain wind storms and fair weather but made no attempt to explain any of the phenomena Cicero Virgil and others wrote on the subject but they added little to the knowledge

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Library of Congress1922

Image 2 of Stone County enterprise (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi), November 30, 1922

Stone County Enterprise PUBLISHED EVERY THl RSDAY MORNING T P BOND Editor cm Publisher Entered as secondclass matter July 3 1906 at the postoffice at Wiggins M ss under the Act ot Congress of March 3 1879 One Year 150In AdvanceSix Months 75c_ Wiggins Miss Nov 0 1922 v c stcf hhmkbmmi The Proper Course The editorpublisher is au thority for the statement that Frederick I Thompson paid a million dollars for the Birming ham AgeHerald This is proba bly the record price for a south ern newspaper The AgeHerald was founded twenty years ago by the late E W Barrett who made it one of the leading news papers of the countryLaurel Leader Maybe it is worth it but we cant see what any man with a million dollars wants with a newspaperClarionLedger Of course the ClarionLedger was jesting but the average per ron including some newspaper men whose sole ambition is merely to make money feels Ln 4 Ttii i 14 EH AAii vrt a i T o man runs a newspaper with no other idea than to make money there would be no use in spend ing a million dollars to buy a paper It is seldom

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Library of Congress1938

Image 2 of The Durant news (Durant, Miss.), June 9, 1938

f THE DURANT NEWS R PUBUSHED EVERY THURSDAY _ Hazel Brannon Editor and Publisher Subscription in Advance200 Per Year MEMBER MISSISSIPPI PRESS ASSOCIATION Entered as Second Class mail matter in the Postoffice at Durant Mississippi Liquor Dealers Again Three weeks ago we wrote an editorial about the liquor dealers in Holmes county In it we said tha there were 42 places in Holmes county with Federal licenses to distribute liquor and wines According to our record we listed seven places in the city limits of Tchula on the western section side of our county among the 42 Mayor W C Perry of Tchula checked upon the places listed and found that only two of these places were inside the city limits the others being on the out skirts Mayor Perry said that he made an effort to keep up with what was going on in the city and that he didn t believe these two places sold liquor Thus Tchula is cleared up hub actually sell whiskey to the best of our and official knowledge We are glad to make this statement We can only say that we wish we could say the same of the other communities in Holmes

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