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Library of Congress1929

Image 5 of The Wolf Point herald (Wolf Point, Mont.), February 1, 1929

LOCAL AND OTHERWISE Have Davey clean your clothes 29tf Frank Cusker of Poplar was Wolf Point visitor last aSturday Our Gang comedy Saturday night Feb 9 Mr and Mrs J J Rooney are moving into the rooms formerly occupied by Dr DeWanes offices A baby boy was born on Thurs day to Mr and Mrs Wm Vitt Sand Creek at Mrs Burnisons hospital Miss Pearl Fromdahl left last week for Perham Minn where she was called to serve as witness in a trial Mrs Geo Hagen of Stone Hill ranch came in town Friday and spent several days visiting various friends Mrs Jack Versiegen expects to leave Friday for Buffalo New York where she will remain for some time Stan Laural and Oliver Hardy the screamingly funny comedy team coming again Sunday and Monday in Should Married Men Go Home Miss Ruth L Parker of the Presbyterian Mission service re turned Tuesday evening after tak ing Birdie Pipe to the Santee Indian training school in Nebraska A M Poulson was the low bid der for the electrical contract for the work that is to be done on the rearrangement of the Penney store The Degree of Honor dance last Friday

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Library of Congress1955

Image 4 of Hungry Horse news (Columbia Falls, Mont.), June 24, 1955

s i ii EM ü MI _i Finishing phases at Anaconda Aluminum Co plant include hauling and leveling black dirt for large lawns Here working on the new lawn near the change house and chemists laboratory are L A Meyers Kalispell Otto Y Lang Creston Stanley Benner Columbia Falls P Presneli Whitefish with Harold Si ble rud Kalispell grader operator The change house is where workmen will have two lockersone for street clothes and the other for work clothes There are also showers and an employes classroom School Board Budget Meeting Monday Plum Creek Asks For Log Floating KALISPELLPlum Creek Lo gging Co Columbia Falls has filed a per mit with Flathead National Forest requesting use of Hungry Horse res ervoir to float logs down from their Sullivan creek purchase above the end of the reservoir The logs would be taken out of the water about two miles above Hungry Horse Dam The west side road which leads to the sale of 17780000 board feet is not considered adequate for log hauling An improvement contract is being scheduled that includes wid ening and graveling possibly late this summer Other South Fork timber purchas ers including F K and L and

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Library of Congress1899

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 29, 1899

NEWS OF THE WEEK Maine Matters Lawrence Bros of South Gardiner have sold to Boston par ties Crocker township for 110000 It contains 20000 acres and is said to be one of the best spruce tracts in Maiue today It is particularly well situated being bandy to either water or railroad Law rence Bros bought this tract of land three years ago for 40000 and have therefore netted a profit of 70000 and their original investment has paid them a dividend of over 50 per cent each year Lightning struck and wrecked the roof of Charles J Treworgys lumber mill at Ellsworth Falls June 14 The 15 men in the building were shocked by the electricity three men being unconscious for some hours The lire which followed the bolt was extinguished before much damage was doneThe Congregational clergy men of Hancock county in conference at Bluehill June 14th adopted resolutions condemning the flagrant violation of the marriage contract and the deplorable in crease of divorces iu the State The adoption of the resolution carried with it the agreement that clergymen of the conference should not solemnize marriage where one has or both parties have been divorced_Samuel Bryant a prominent citizen

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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 Congress1937

Image 13 of The Washington daily news (Washington, D.C.), June 30, 1937

Publishers Map Fight on Closed Guild Shop Editors Take Stand After Convention of Editorial Workers Claim Unions Resolutions on Spanish War and Court Bill Menace Freedom of Press By United Press CHICAGO American newspaper publishers are on record today as unalterably opposed to the closed Guild shop or any other form of closed shop for those who prepare and edit news and pictures for news papers A resolution to that effect was adopted unanimously late yesterday at a convention of newspaper pub lishers from all parts of the United States The publishers declared termination not to enter agreement with editorial upon a closed shop basis their de into any employes The convention which was called after the St Louis Guild convention adopted a bargaining code which in cluded mandatory rules calling for a closed or Guild shop in all contracts with newspapers was presided over by JamesG Stahlman president of the American Newspaper Publishers Asso ciation It was announced there were 565 delegates present from 11 newspaper organizations Text of the resolution follows The newspaper editors and pub lishers from all sections of the United States individually and thru their cooperative associations listed below are gathered here to take action

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Library of Congress1915

Image 6 of The Glasgow courier (Glasgow, Mont.), January 29, 1915

TheGlasgowCourier Published very Friday at Glasgow Montana T J HOCKING Editor Entered as second class matter Oc tober 61911 at the postoffice at Glas Cow Montana under the act of March S 1879 f UNFAIR TO NEWSPAPERS There are two proposed measures pending in the state senate and house which are so manifestly unfair to newspapers that every newspaper in the state most heartily should condemn them and what is more the facts re garding them should be made so evi dent that the justice of the newspaper claim as to those measures impropri ety would be sanctioned by the entire state The bills in question relate to the giving of county printing contracts their purpose being to make it pos sible to award such contracts to job printing offices not connected with newspaper establishments There are a thousand arguments that could be offered against such measures as those When a new community begins its career is it the newspaper or the job printing office that first establishes itself in that new locality being will ing to share the towns ups and downs and lend its best efforts toward the upbuilding of the place It is the newspaper of course

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), October 12, 1895

Coutona During the week under review the only signi ication change in the con dihlns surrounding the cotton market has been the appearance of Eiglish and Continental spinners as large buyers of actual cotton Sales of spot cotton in Liverpool since Friday the 13th inst are estimated at 54000 bales as against 43000 bales for the preceding week This icreaie in the demand for actual cotton is attributable to a disposi tion on the part of spinners to give inore credence to the reports of crop damage on this bide the water The result of this increased demand for cotton has been to stimulate pri ces and yesterday the high water mark for the week namely 8 27 for January was reached On Friday last January contracts sold at 8 19 but mnder liquidating sales induced by the lack of speculative demand jfr cotton prices gradually receded until on Monday the 16th inst enlee were made at 796 Snite that time however Europe appears to have awakened to the fact that perhaps after all there is more truth in the reports of crop damage then they have heretofore be willing to acknowledge This fact is evidenced by their increased purchasea

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Library of Congress1931

Image 2 of Plentywood herald (Plentywood, Mont.), June 11, 1931

The Plentvvvood Herald t THF PLENTY WOOD HERALD Inc Publishers J LAWRENCE 8 OLSEN Manager and Editor ndcnt for Associated Press h Authorized Torresp Mi Jvt National Editorial Association i uiil 1 every Thursday at Plentywood Mon h tan where it la entered in the United States 1 pas secondclass mail matter 5 K 4 mH A ï v 5 TIIIMi IT OVIill The following communication was written by Hur 1 Hov 1er publishr and editor of the Daniels mint l eader and formerly Herald stockholder in the Plenty wood awarded The contract was ithout bids and without calling f the different a the representatives o before the board or in other ithout the exercise of any t ion whatsoever 1 find the above comment in the Pro ducers News edited by Chas E Taylor ho like Brother Crawfords wife is very papers s wi we i Use W unhappy While not concerned in the least about hat Editor Taylor publishes about myself or one of my business partners Harry E Polk who with S Th Westdahl and Mrs Anna Nelson own all of the stock in the Plentvwood Herald corporation it might in ten 1 1 1 k raid

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Library of Congress1915

Image 6 of The Glasgow courier (Glasgow, Mont.), November 19, 1915

ÈS f s A o 5 V 6 2 Êk V m Now is the time to buy your Thanksgiving Togs at the Big Removal Sale Still going at 2 R A Store for Men m m j c s V M The Glasgow Courier Published Every Friday at GLASGOW Jf ONT AN A jcceediQg the Valley County Independent T J HOCKING Editor Official Officiât County City Paper Paper Entered at the Postoffice at Glasgow Montana as second class matter October Mh 1911 TELEPHONE Subscription 44 200 per year Advertising rates for weekly monthly and yearly contracts furnished upon application I j THE CHARACTER ASSASSIN Glasgow is blessed with what is known in the old school as an habi tual character assassin Never an is sue of his paper passes that some poor mortal doesnt have the very hide ripped off his back with the slander ous scurrilous defamatory articles i which ernannt from the pen of this 1 misguided republoprogressocrat We know that the lot of the average edi tor is a hard one Scarcely a day passes that tlie newspaper man is not stopped on the street by some one who wants somebody or something roasted to a

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Library of Congress1899

Image 2 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), February 16, 1899

mt mmt W H Scanland Bditor and Proprietor BENTON LOUISIANA Thureday t February 16 1899 Cleveland Ohio will model her school system after that in vogue at St Louis________ Friday the Senate passed the House bill to establish a national military park at Vicksburg Miss Baltimore has about twofifths of the population of Maryland and pays about twothirds of the taxes The report of the United States treasury for January shows a deficit of about 9500000 for that month The North Carolina Legislature has passed a law making all contracts made by or with trustt null and void An epidemic of spotted fever or cerebro spinal meningitis was re ported raging at Morgantown Ky last we ek _ The Amerioan forces in front of Manila made an attaok on Calooean village last Friday and reduced it in short o rder _ It was so cold in Pittsburg Penn Friday that the ears of bogs in stock oars were frozen so stiff that they dropped off William Laird of the shipbuilding firm wbieh built the Confederate war Teasel Alabama died at Liverpool on the 7th inst The cost of the addmistration of the affairs of Cuba during the month of January

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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 Congress1912

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

KITTYS RETURN She trailed slowiy uown the stairway in her velvet gown It was peachy hued with old lace at throat and wrists She moved with an indolent grace and held her head with its heavy masses ol dark hair a trifle haughtily The crim son lips were unsmiling and the eyes deeply blue under the long lashes looked distantly coid Sherrod watching her as she came slowly down to him felt a contraction of his throat and a sense of disappoint ment vaguely accusatory She re minded him in her new stateliness of an old painting he had seen in an art gallery in Florence The Marchioness the velvet gown with its clinging folds j accentuated her graceful slenderness and the long train lent dignity to her little figure Sherrod caught his breath 1 as he watched her hungrily He had 1 not remembered that she was so beauti ful She had always been to him the very essence of all that was lovely and gracious anil sweet and he had known her beautiful But he had never pic tured her with this regal air He felt i bewildered and somehow defrauded And then just as she reached the

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Library of Congress1880

Image 4 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), October 14, 1880

Matrimonial Aeneies in Paris Under an assumed name my friend went to the Paris residence of M deF the celebrated marriage broker and having paid the preliminary fee of 40 explained that he came on behalf of a cousin who although possessed of a handsome fortune and good title was anxious to increase his worldly goods by contracting a wealthy marriage My friend further asserted that he acted in his own name and without the authority of his cousin but that the consent of the latter should anything acceptable be proposed he could answer for M de F at first demurred and asserted that he was not in the habit of dealing with less than at least one person di rectly interested in a matrimonial pro ject but my friends eloquence not to speak of the thousandfranc note at length prevailed and the great matri monial agent unbosomed himself His terms were eight per centum on the dot and this to be paid within the first year after the celebration of the marriage Of course my friend con sented Then M de F explained that should nothing be definitely decided on and the attempt fail nofurther expenses would be incurred

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Library of Congress1935

Image 2 of Montana labor news (Butte, Mont.), January 17, 1935

MONTANA LAHOR NEWS UARTZ ST COUNCIL PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT 21 E BY THE SILVER BOW TRADES AND LABO QL DR A Fearle Champion of Human Rights Devoted to the In terests and Voicing the Demands of the Movement Trade Uni S200 PER ANNUM SUBSCRIPTION PRICE The publisher reserves the right to reject tising contracts at any time Copy of the paper will be sent to the advertiser revoke adver solicit side of paper Trades Unionists Communications of interest ed They should be briefly written and must reach this office not later than Tuesday noon of The right of revision or rejection of all munlcations is reserved by the publisher The Montana Labor News Address all communications Box 1989 Butte Montana Names must be signed quested as a guarantee of good faith We do not hold ourselves responsible for the views ions of correspondents Subscribers who change their addresses or fail to get their paper should immediately notify this office giving both nev end old addresses items not published if opin Entered ns second class mail matter May 23rd 1925 at the Post Office Butte Montana under the act of March 3 1879 NdA w Social Security On The Way

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Library of Congress1907

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 7, 1907

PEIRCE BROS OF FRANKFORT Thousands of Tons of Granite Quarried from Mt Waldo The supply Inexhaustible Boston Sunday Globe 111 the directorate of the recently or ganized Panama construction company appear the names of John Peirce of New York and George Peirce of Frank fort Me Incase the contract is awarded to Oliver the Peirces will be identified with the heaviest of the subcontractors Their specialty will be the granite stone and construction work There are more Peirces down in Maine Hayward and Albert Peirce making four brothers iu all who have been almost literally brought up on granite representing a business started over half a century ago by their father the late George A Peirce but carefully improved enlarged and nour ished until the Peirce quarries are among the largest and most important iu the country While the Frankfort quarries are operated under several different names and corporate titles the great majority of the stock is all in the family John Peirce of New York who has attained fame as a contractor is the real selling agent of the Peirce granite and paving while George Peirce Hayward Peirce andAlbert Peirce see that the goods are delivered In 1853 while

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Library of Congress1950

Image 2 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), June 26, 1950

Printers Given Raise Of 150 and Control Of Teletypesetting Contract terms for a 150 weekly wage increase and a joint committee to gather information about teletypesetting procedures have been accepted by Columbia Typographical Union members employed by Washington djdly newspapers The oneyear contract effective May 1 was ratified by a 178to 152 vote of union members at Turners Arena yesterday Nego tiations have been under way since last September Represen tatives of publishers and Local 101 had 35 collective bargaining sessions before reacing an agree ment last Tuesday It gives the union jurisdiction over operation of any teletype setting equipment that may be in stalled in newspaeper plants here It sets up a Joint Experimental Committee including two man agement and two union represen tatives to work out procedures and conditions covering the in troduction of training for proper manning requirements standards of competency scales of wages and other matters pertaining to their use and operation Tape Perforated by Keyboard Newspaper plants in Washing ton set type by manually operated linotype machines Teletypeset ting equipment consists of a type perforating machine operated by a keyboard similar to that of a typewriter and an operating unit attached to the standard type

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Library of Congress1908

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 29, 1908

Literary News and Notes President Roosevelt has signed a con tract with The Outlook to act as an asso ciate editor after his retirement from the Presidency in March next This is made subject to the existing contract to write the story of his African travels tor Charles Scribners Sons His work in connection with the Outlook is to cover political and economic topics William Dean Howells Mary E Wil kins Freeman John Kendrick Bangs Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews Mary StewartCutting Alice Brown Henry van Dyke Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Elizabeth Jordan Edith Wyatt Mary Heaton Vorse and Henry James have written a composite novel The story is entitled The Whole Family and will be published next week after having run as a serial in Harpers Bazar where the puzzle was to find which author wrote what chapter The plot hinges on the engagement of pretty Peggy the daugh ter of the house to a fickle youth who is in love with her aunt and the whole family gets delightfully tangled up about it As a literary device this book is bound to create a pleasant little stir The November Everybodys is an elec tion number That is three out of

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