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Library of Congress1864

Map of the state of Virginia : containing the counties, principal towns, railroads, rivers, canals & all other internal improvements.

"Copyright secured by W. & J. March 1862." Accompanied by cover: New map of Virginia. Richmond : West & Johnston, 1864 ; 18 x 12 cm. Inset: View of Capitol Square, Richmond, Va.; includes list of railroads. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by isolines. This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 501.8 Parrish & Willingham. Confederate imprints, 6206 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. c. 2, May 2002, source unknown; Map Cataloging Team; c. 4 photocopy, LVA. c. 2 has green cardboard cover. Civil War Map Proj. no.: LVA00039. Conservation: Etherington Conservation Center, Jan. 2002. Digital image available: 26 x 37.5 in. Map accession no. 4150 (1974); c. 4 (on 4 sheets, negative photostats, sheets 40 x 46 cm.). Previously filed as: 755 1862(3) copy 2 & 4

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Library of Congress1862

Map of the country surrounding Richmond, Virginia : showing the railroads, principal roads, water-courses, etc.

From: Harper's weekly, August 23, 1862, p. 533-534. Relief shown by hachures. This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. March 1945, Cora Wilson, b; Feb. 2003, Map Cataloging Team. Civil War project no.: lva00094. Conservation: Etherington Conservation Center, Dec. 2002. Digital image available: 16 x 10 1/2 in. Map accession no. 186 (1945). Previously filed as: 755 1862 (5).

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Library of Congress1900

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 22, 1900

NEWS OF THE WEEK Maine Matters The returns for the November election are practically complete and show McKinleys plurality in Maine to be 26200 McKinleys vote 61048 Bryans 35658 Wooleys 2012 ltebs 713The Maineborn congress men in other States are all reelected by big majorities Alexander of New York Fletcher and Stevens of Minne sota and Roberts of Massachusetts are returned by their constituents and there may be some sons of Maine among the new membersThe shoe business seems to be on the boom in Auburn Nearly all of the companies report a rush of work and say that the orders are coming in faster than they can be filledIt was announced that the new monitor to be launched from the Bath Iron Works the latter part of the month would be christened bv Miss Grace H Boutelle Since that time Miss Boutelle who is at present in Boston with her fatherCongressman Boutellehas decid ed that it would be impossible to accept the invitation of the Bath Iron Works and her sister Miss Annie Boutelle will do the christeningThe population of the cities of Maine and some of the larger towns has just been published by the census bureau In

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Library of Congress1901

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 28, 1901

NEWS ROTES James M Smith near Athens Ga sold his cotton crop 2o00 balesfor 100 000 Fourteen women received the doctors degree last year at the University of Zurich Congress has adopted the slowsand system of filtration for the water sup ply of Washington Emeralds have been discovered in Arizona and it is said in North Caro lina They are however very small A few days ago at Littleton N H the mercury changed from 40 below to 40 above inside of twentyfour hours It has been found in India that in oculation against rinderpest will protect an animal for a period of seventy or eighty days Iron lands showing more than 7000 000 tons of ore have been leased in Northern Minnesota by the American Steel and Iron Company Arkansas legislators could not decide whether the State flower should be an apple blossom or passion flower and re ferred the matter to the committee on education A bill is before the Federal Council of Germany providing that the time of study shall be for medical students five years instead of the present term of four years and a half There is a Chinese farm in Florida where the Johns

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Library of Congress1918

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 5, 1918

A Prize Essay for Peace Day Wednesday Nov 27th was observed as Peace Day in all the Massachusetts High schools All the pupils in the Som erville High school were required to writeessays on the theme the best one in each class to be read before a school of 2500 pupils Miss Charlotte B Wads worth a junior wrote the following which was selected from 300 by the spe cial committee Miss Wadsworth is the daughter of Mr Edward A Wadsworth of Belfast and is living with her grand father George W Burkett while attend ing the Somerville High school Americas Part in the War Hundreds of years from now school children all over the civilized world will be carefully memorizing the date April 6 1917 that date which to all of us means and has meant so much We need not memorize it we have lived it It was very still in the great hall of Congress on that sixth of April 1917 Every available seat was filled The galleries were crowd ed the quiet was so intense it was al most visible as President Wilson read those momentous words declaring war on Germany Every possible effort had been

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Library of Congress1950

Image 4 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), May 27, 1950

JACKSON ADVOCATE PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT JACKSON MISSISSIPPI Make all checks payable to the Jackson Advocate Address 406 North Farish Street I hone Office21617 Phone Society Editor 21213 In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the mgers but in all things that affect our mutual progress and develop ment we can be together as the handBooker T Washington Entered as Second Class Matter in the Post Office at Jackson MissT July 13 1945 under Act of Congress March 13 1879 GREENEEditor and Publisher JAMES RUNDLESAdvertising Manager FRANCES REED GREENESockty Editor National Advertising Representative Associated Publishers Inc ob Fifth Avenue New York 19 N Y Telephone LUxemberg 21177 and 166 Washington St Suite 416 Telephone Anoover 6343 Chicago 3 Illinois Subscription Rates One Year 350 Six Months 200 by maTl anywhere in the United States and to Service Men overseas Foreign One ear 600 Six Months 350 SUBSCRIPTION RATES All subscriptions due and payable in advance ONE YEAR 350 SIX MONTHS 200 ADVERTISING RATES UPON REQUEST The Negro Newspaper And Economic And Job Opportunity For The Southern Negro Speaking before the conference of Social Workers the other Day the honorable J Oliver Emmerich the distinguished Editor

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Library of Congress1961

Image 4 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), March 25, 1961

JACKSON ADVOCATE PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT JACKSON MISSISSIPPI A Member Of The Audit Bureau Circulations Make all checks payable to the Jackson Advocate Address 406 North Farish Street Phone Office21617 Phone Society Editor21213 In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers but in all things that affect our mutual progress and develop ment we can be together as the handBooker T Washington Entered as Second Class Matter in the Post Office at Jackson Miss July 13 1946 under Act of Congress March 13 1879 PERCY GREENEEditor and Publisher FRANCES REED GREENE Society Editor Subscription Rates One Year 400 Six Months 260 by mail anywhere in the United States and to Service Men overseas Foreign One Year 600 Six Months 360 SUBSCRIPTION RATES All Subscriptions Due And Payable In Advance ONE YEAR 400 SIX MONTHS 250 INTERSTATE UNITED NEWSPAPERS Inc National Advertising Representatives 145 Fifth Ave New York City Murray Hill 25452 National Negro Newspaper Week March 19 to 26 COME let us sing of the Negro Press Sing of its courage its trials its success Sing of its fight for the right waged so long In defense of our people who suffer much wrong

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Library of Congress1894

Image 3 of The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.), November 15, 1894

H1SGEIXAHBVBO Cut It Out Cut out this advertisement and send it to the makers of with your address and 14c in stamps and by return mail you will receive their beautiful Columbus SouvenirSpoon Address THE J B WILLIAMS CO Glastonbury Ct PREMIUM DEPARTMENT We warrant these spoons made of the best German silver extra plated with pure silver oxidized handles gold lined bowls Am greatly pleased with Souvenir Spoons and con sider them little gems They are almost identical in every respect with some we bought at the Worlds Fair for which we paid 2 apiece We use nothing but Ivorine and cor r WW II MARRY ME JACK And buy the rihg at McKinneys A thousand Solid Gold Rings Diamonds Opals Pearls Turquoise Moon Stones Emeralds aud Garnets in any kind of a setting Engagement and Wedding Rings a specialty Largest stock Low est prices in the city KENNEY THE JEWELER 459 Congress St Monument Sq novldtf PALMER ANDERSON GO 29 Exchange Street AGrEKTTS OF CONTINENTAL Insurance Co OF THE CITY OF NEW YOKE Incoporated in 1852 Commenced business in 1853 F C MOORE President Secretary EDWARD LANNING Capital Paid Up in Cash 100000000 STATEMENT OF ASSETS JAN 11894

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Library of Congress1900

Image 7 of Foster's daily Democrat (Dover, N.H.), March 19, 1900

INSURGENTS JUNTA Responsible For the Continuance of Strife In the Philippines s i ACTIVE REBEL REORGANIZATION Treason and Perfidy of Muni cipal Presidents S Manila March 19General Otis con siders Manila the most troublesome cen tre in the situation today The insur gent junta here in conjunction with that in Hong Kong is growing active The military authorities have been forced to put a stop to Mabinis intercourse with the publie The local and foreign press considers his recent utterances calcu lated ip incite the Filipinos to a con tinued revolt and prejudicial to American control Flores who has just arrived here says he comes trusting to American leniency and that he would not have dared come to Manila if Spain were yet in control He cherishes the hopes and aspirations which actuated him when in the fied and desires to watch congressional ac tion upon the question of the Philip pines The insurgents he says o not expect to vanquish the Americans but are maintaining a resistance with the idea of forcing congress to accord to them the best possible terms A number of representative insurgents from different parts of Luzon have re cently been in conference in Manila

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Library of Congress1930

Image 4 of The Lexington advertiser (Lexington, Miss.), May 1, 1930

PAGE FOUR Lexington Advertiser The Advertiser Pub Co Publishers Entered at the Postoffice at Lexington Miss as Mail Matter of the Second Class SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year___200 Six Months___ Three Months_ 6 Single Copies each 0 B A POVALLManaging Editor TOM SHEPHERD Editor MRS MINNIE LEE REED Local Editor Circulotion Manager M ANNOUNCEMENTS k For Congress Third District WILL M WHITTINGTON of Greenwood For Highway Commissioner First District JOE E FRAZER of Madison County For Marshal W ALLAN RAMSEY WALTER H MOORE OUR GREATEST DUTY Most people speak almost reverently of Our Country We all swig My Country Tis of Thee with great en thousiams What do we mean by such expressions of our supposed patriot ism Are we thinking of the service which we owe our country of the love we have for it r are we thinking only of the protection which our country can afford us only of the personal benefits we may derive from it Are we think ing of what we may do for our country or for what our contry may do for us Our duty to ourselves as well as our country demands positive as well as negative action We must be construct

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Library of Congress1919

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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Library of Congress1899

Image 2 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), February 9, 1899

1053t ct fan W H Scanland Editor and Proprietor BENTON LOUISIANA TlwridayFebruary 91899 A terrific cyclone in Lowndes Co Kiss Friday blew down cabins and injured several negroes In the Missouri House Saturday there was a fierce attack on the school book trust and its lobby Robert P Porter advisee that nearly all the United States troops be removed from Cuba by April By a unanimous vote the Minneso ta Senate has declared in favor of the election of Senators by the people Senator Daniel of Virginia made a strong speech in the Senate Friday against expansion and the ratification of the peace treaty Over 818 bills have been introduc ed in the Arkansas legislature up to date The fool killer is not doing his duty up in that State The House Judiciary has decided that General Wheeler and other Con who volunteered in the late war vsoated their seats in Congress A dispatch of the 5th says Texas cattle are dying by the thousands on aeoount of the chilling rains and long oontinned windstorm of last week Reports of thirty persons killed by snowslides Friday came from Bredkenridge Colorado Train ser vioe was still suspended in the mount ains

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Library of Congress1898

Image 4 of The Grenada sentinel (Grenada, Miss.), September 10, 1898

7 THE SENTINEL GRENADA MISSISSIPPI SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10 ISM now The question is asked organize to DEMOCRATIC TICKET For Congress 4th District HON A F FOX Hay U to plentiful in Connecticut that it sella for 1 00 a ton Contrary to the general belief Connecticut has never ceased to be full of hayseed Three members of the cabinet Day Bliss and Longdo not use tobacco in any form and they therefore prob ably enjoy Bliss all Day Long The Memphis woman who stole her rivals teeth would also have stolen her toenails perhaps if given an opportu nitywould have gone after her tooth and toenail as it were Birds bicycles and balloons have at last been found to be useless or nearly so as adjuncts of war Men money and martial ardor are the stuff of which victories are madethe three Ms against the three Bs An exchange observes that Spain has more sunshine than any other country in Europe3000 hours ayear But nobody will begrudge Spain her sunshine for she has nothing else save honor and her honor haB been shown to be a mere matter of moonshine The war proved that one mule was worth a dozen

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Library of Congress1935

Image 4 of The Eureka mirror (Eureka, Mont.), June 28, 1935

Eureka Mirror E B Sisson Editor Published EurekaLincoln County Montana Entered at the postomce at Eureka Montana as second class matter under the Act of Congress of March 3 1879 on March 15 1932 every Friday at 200 per year 6 months 100 Know Your Community Every resident of a community should know all or at least some thing 1 about the district in which he lives The fact that we live here is evidence that th something about the country we like ere is If this is not the case the j roads are wide and traveling easy making it possible for us to move IS A trip over our district a visit to our farms will convince any one that the Tobacco Valley is on a par with any other district in the Northwest Like all other countries work is necessary to develop and main tain a good farm but show us the place you can make money without work and we will show you a place so thickly populated that there is no room left for you Work is necessary to be sue f 1 Meadow Home Dairy Milk and Cream i Delivered Daily INSPECTED SANITARY PURDY

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Library of Congress1940

Image 5 of The Camas Hot Springs exchange (Camas, Mont.), October 3, 1940

VOLUME IS NUMBER SI HE Camas Hot Springs Exchange HARRY L BILUNGS EDITOR EDNA B GANNAWAY Owner at A Weekly Newspaper published every Thursday I wwm at Gamas Montana Under the Act of Congress of March 3 137 1 YEAR In State 200 6 months in state SIOO 1 YEAR out of state 235 6 Months out of state 135 I wholly disagree with what you say but I win defend to the death jour right to say it Voltaire EDITORIALS carried in the Exchange The Thompson Falls Ledger and a number of other papers In Montana on why the expenses of school districts should be published have started many people to thinking about the matter They reason that if it is proper for incor porated towns and for counties to publish annually a statement of in come and expenses then likewise it is equally proper that school dis tricts also give an accounting This desire for information on board expenditures becomes even greater when people consider that a good ly portion of each state and county tax dollar directly or indirectly finds Its way into our education system That this desire for information by the taxpayers doesnt seem out

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Library of Congress1943

Image 4 of The Camas Hot Springs exchange (Camas, Mont.), November 25, 1943

VOLUME XVIII 1 DUMBER XXXIX Ilie Camas Hot Springs Exchange Edna B Gannaway Editor owner and Publisher A weekly newspaper published every Thursday at Camas Montana Entered at the Post Office of Hot Springe under the Act of Congress HKyiCTORY JKM BUY OHM UNITBD DTATBS iWAR H AND stamps March 31879 Subscription 1 year 200 Six Months 125 Official Paper of Sanders County Member es the National Editorial MONTANAS OLDEST PAPER STOPS ITS PRESSES We take the following from the Sanders County Ledger W G Dun lap publisher The November 5 issue of the Madisonian published at Virginia City carried its wn obituary no tice The Madisonian Montanas oldest weekly newspaper has at last been terminated and merged with the Forum of Sheridan and the V irginia City plant will be clos ed and the paper printed at Sheri dan although the Forum will now carry the old Madisonian masthead to perpetuate its famous tradition ary name The Publisher Alathea Castle Andrews inherited the paper from her father but at last was forced to close cut due he drastic 1 help and business restrictions of war time necessity which are being imposed everywhere upon the rural press Normally the Madisonian

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Library of Congress1950

Image 8 of The Camas Hot Springs exchange (Camas, Mont.), October 5, 1950

VOLOME XXV NUMBER 32 AMORA DEMARS REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR TREASURERSANDERS COUNTY EXPERIENCE IN TREASURERS OFFICE 7 y O6w CAMAS HOT SPRINGS EXCHANGE Edna B Gannaway Editor A weekly newspaper published every Thursday at Hot Springs Montana Entered at Hot Springs Montana as Second Class Matter under the act of Congress March 5 1879 Dorothy VonSegen Hot Springs representative can be contacted at the drug store every morning except Sunday Subscription 1 year 250 Six months 150 1950 EONATORIALS This is newspaper week and I am expected to write an editorialnot sure what to say A communiy without a newspa per lives and dies within itself There is little means of letting the outside world know of its existence and but very little contact among the local people particularly those in the rural districts and adjacent communities Such items as Mrs So So was a dinner guest of Mrs WhatsHer I Name do sound like foolish littla I space fillers but this is by no means true as the publisher never knows into what realms a newspaper may I take flight once it is off the press has been okd by the folder and mailing machine I have many times received

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Library of Congress1955

Image 4 of The Camas Hot Springs exchange (Camas, Mont.), January 6, 1955

VOLUME XXVIII NUMBER XLV THE CAMAS HOT SPRINGS EXCHANGE ESTABLISHED march 4 1926 Edna B Gannaway Editor A weekly newspaper published every Thursday at Hot Springs Montana Entered at the Hot Springs Montana post office as sec ond class matter under the Act of Congress March 5 1879 Alberta Robertson Hot Springs representative may be contacted at the Pay Save Grocery store On Spring St Across street from the Towanda Hotel Hours 8 to 6 Subscription 1 year 230 6 months 150 4 months sl Dorothy Von Sgen Hot SpringsEmma Kittrell Lonepine Reporters NATIONAL EDITORIAL SDNATORIALS Want to Join the Taxpayers Ass n Last week we told you about the need of your membership and the SIOO it brings in if ihe director are tc carry on I did not tell you where to send This was brot to our mind a number of times this week by those who wanted to oin Here is the address Mr Wesley Stearns of Plains is the hair nan of the board of directors cf the Tax payers Association We gave him ur dollar which we had neglected to send in Please do not put this off Not All the Liars are in

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