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Library of Congress1882

Image 2 of The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.), April 15, 1882

TITTC PRESS SATURDAY MORSINU APRIL 15 We lo not read anonymous letter and comman etioti Tbe name and addref of the writ are It all caee indtfpensable not ueoeeearily for ibllcs t Jb but a a guaranty of good faith Ve cannot undertake to return or preferr con UsXPioatln that are not ued Following the Fashion U is a favorite diversion with writers to broadly divide mankind into two classes The classifications made by Lamb Byron Mill and later humorists poets and pedants will be readily Recalled Newspaper leaders may be divided by publishers and journal ists in the same very general way There are those who are too busy and those who are too lazy to unfold a paper Both wish to take in the news of the great outside world at a glancethe one because he thinks he cannot spare the time to turn a page the other because he knows he lacks the energy These make up the larger number of news pa ter readers and to their needs and ca prices the publisher must yield Many jour nals have others will we do now Unlike the old guard the Punas never dies but sometimes surrenders its

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Library of Congress1892

Image 3 of The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.), November 28, 1892

FIRED SANS CEREMONY One of the Peculiar Phases of Jour nalistic Life No Claw of Worker Treated with as Lit tie Regard as Washington Corre spondents The Tyranny of Managing Editors Special Washington Letterl Margherita Arlina Hamm in a recent article printed in the Journalist com mented very truthfully upon the treat ment which newspaper workers usual ly receive from the managing editors of great daily papers Among other things she said that the average newspaper re porter and society writer as well as the editorial writer were regarded by the managing editor and the business de partment of the paper as the farmer re gards his horses and cattle As long as they are fast upon the track and able to win money for their owners or as long as they are good hardworking plodders along the field they receive compensation sufficient to keep their souls and bodies together and to dress themselves sufficiently well to appear to advantage in the company in which they must necessarily go according to the assignments given them by the managing editor But when they cease to be ol nrstciass value weir salaries are reduced or else they are immediately discharged without having

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Library of Congress1893

Image 3 of The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.), January 2, 1893

WORTH OF YET TO BE SOLD We shall continue the sale until the Goods areall closed out Among the rare bargains that we have left in Mens goods are the following 1 lot of Mens French Calf Con gress narrow widths niedi uni toe stylish price 300 regular price7 1 lot French Calf Button the very finest regular price 7 will be sold at 300 1 lot gentlemens Dress Con gress French Calf mostly new and fresh lr 450 worth 7 1 large lot o Mens medium weight Confess and Balmoral cap toe all ew not before in the sale wi be now put in and sold a 500 cannot be bought elsewhere for less than 700 Tine goods MUSI BE SOLD and now is our opportunity Hundreds olood bargains that we have not entioned COME AND S FOR YOURSELVES Wyer to 5 Co 539 COMSS STREET decl9 _eodtf MARK JWN SALE OF HUH GOODS We have st ld from our stock a great variety retty and desirable goods for pres and put them on our 510 andts Counters They are wothree times as much but we want td them before Christ BIfo reasonabffer will be refused for Holiday 0

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Library of Congress1893

Image 3 of The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.), June 15, 1893

WOE AND WIT r _ Gath Tells ai a Chicago Banquet lor journalists Some Kemlnioenoe of Newspaper Work fa War DayPublisher Scott and Kohlsuat a ComradesSomething About French Papers COPTBIGHT 1893 After the worlds fair had been well under way I was invited to a dinner at the Union club in North Chicago by Moses P Handy to meet some persons of the foreign press and in the art de partment and as we mingled together from halfpast seven oclock until one in the morning and I may not have leisure soon for another such bout I will narrate the appearance and ad ventures ofsomeof these persons We had of foreign journalists Mr Villiers Mr Senior and My Millet Mr Millet is also an artist who resides about equally in England and the United States He is the author of an adven turous trip down the Danube river in to the Turkish regions Then we had Mr Atwood the chief architect of the worlds fair and the only author of the magnificent Art building which is the admiration of all beholders and turns out to be equally happjy in its in ternal arrangements Mr Atwood is a finelooking man rather

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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 6 of The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.), March 7, 1900

1 i a HHELDOYS EXPERIMENT tk Wan k Will Man a laper a II Tha Ha Ckarlaa M Sheldon who will adit the lapaka Ually Car Hal for a weak trgtnlng March lg la perhaps tsdsy tli bast alssrtlard man ta lbs United Mates preachr or laywao It Is said that Mr Sheldon la peculiarly a Terre to notoriety and that all the greatness whch baa Kiss to bins through bis books hit newspaper schemes and bla renaoos baa bena forelbly thrust upon him bona months ago ha rreelied tfce following telegram from a syndicate w rltsr la New Yolk oltyi I am coming oat to Topeka to slay a week coming fully prepared to treat of your methods of work oburob and yoor bocks This artlols will be syndicated sod published la nearly all tha news papers of ths country lhs minister wired back promptly Ycu area not come 1 will not see you I will not talk to you I bare some rights wbloh even yon are bound to re speot Bat In spite of this shrinking modesty the He Charles hi SneUlon has tobLcd up with grant regularity for assert years past literally pursnsd nud dragged to

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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 Congress1886

Image 1 of The clarion (Jackson, Miss.), April 28, 1886

The Clarion 4 r L A OF H UJtVR I PT I OV i h Yak 11 50 v thi 1 00 vIwtm 2 00 itin tmui l j uiaie br eiofltc onier w tic n obtain fr hj ri sterol rr Whe i ciitnisitl t the mails in the ordinary t iif pubUitiif n wttl out tie runsble or lo MY SCRAPBOOK ith if iliprfl lire and lhr t il iiu Ircin ami valf an1 t ii i il i v yiit tbe a j I ui all arv tli brniit I fnu tii h rituv rltn of fcn I 1 th 1 II at Mil I IilUH lir at M ith tfi ttnr liir VI u ttl f ar 1 htn ii i r t I I l I inn Ute n Ir an ihr hj t color ihTf tj II r l lain hup III rk bkiiiiiitf ibiittii tbr nU rt w i ii iri rjrt shi tiim Var iht itii halo int i i Uinlitf r oiiittniei A Til jiHtmi jiry I i h has 1 I iliii A ii rt bv Ifcf iiit iln yir UlK ttttiH tb v Mi dt by jy f i

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Library of Congress1838

Image 3 of Piney Woods planter and Amite union literary reflector (Liberty, Miss.), September 22, 1838

1 I Tiifl xewspafes raras To tbo sheet of paper which you see on your tables served to you so regularly and studied by you with so much ease the four quarters of the globe colitributo all the treasures 01 tneir intelligence isone mn valuable to mankind discovered by some scholar in the farthest ends of tho earth Ten to one but you will see it first announ ced in ft parigtuph of your newspaper Is there any abuse in your laws it is the newspaper press that drags it trday Is there any invention that will augment your comforts or sharpen your industry it is in the newspaper that it becomes familiar to you nil The newspaper is the chronicle of civilization the common reservoir into which every 6treatn pours its living wa ters and at which every man may come ta drink It is the newspaper that gives to liberty its practical life its constant ob servation its perpetual vigilance its unre axing activity Tho newspaper is a dai ly and a sleepless watchman that reports to you every danger which menaces the institutions of your country and its inter ests at home and abroad The newspaper informs

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Library of Congress1901

Image 13 of The Butte inter mountain (Butte, Mont.), December 21, 1901, (Inter Mountain Saturday Supplement)

u oW Q dga m TW ÔILBÉRT KSfift ÔECREfARYJ jnMWWawv MSHiÊi öhapumw w JH 7acmillam A55 t äecx W N EW TEARS night the new Butte Press club will celebrate its an nual blowout In the spick and span new rooms of the Rocky Mountain club the members of the newspaper craft will gather to en joy a banquet and mingle together In a social way The past year will be reviewed and the proceedings given a tinge of holiday gaiety by congratula tions upon the outlook In the news paper Held in which the clubs members are active today As many as half a hundred newspaper men will attend the lolly gathering There will te a few guests of honor also An honorary mem ber will be taken into the fold and a pro gram of entertaining musical and liter ary selections will be rendered by the members Taken altogether the evenings festivities will be In recognition of the fact that another year has gone on its prosperous way over the heads of Buttes newspaper men and the future is rosy with promise There will be no posted arid ledgered account taken of the years doings In the midst

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Library of Congress1902

Image 16 of The Butte inter mountain (Butte, Mont.), March 22, 1902, (Evening)

1 00000 OCoflOOOOOOO 000000 o009O0of0C4 0Q1 000 8 000 d I 1Vooooooýoooooeoooooooooo4C OQUWWU99sOOOOO 0 W ITH the twentyfirst anniver sary of the Butte Inter Moun tain no subject comes up more pleasantly than the relations of this paper to the press of the state of Montana Since the Inter Mountain was launched kind words have been said of Its efforts to fill the field it served with the news and a debt of gratitude is owed to every newspaper in the state When the Inter Mountain was estab lished newspapers in Montana were not as numerous as they are today and the editors might be easily counted on the fingers of one hand The ield has ex panded since that time and this paper has counted each new recruit and old veteran as its friend Two years ago upon the anniversary of this newspaper the theme that naturally suggested itself for a fullpage illustrated story for the Saturday Inter Mountain was the editors of the various seetlans of the state of Montana They are the salt of the earth the pillars of society and the mainstay of the public spirit which is urging the state on its upward way George

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Library of Congress1903

Image 2 of The Butte inter mountain (Butte, Mont.), January 2, 1903

A Necessity Shoe Sa let 1 A CLEAN SWEEP MUST BE MADE NOW At The Our Immense Holiday Business has made great inroads upon the mammoth stock we had LBR O prepared for your holiday purchasing In every department broken assortments of de HOLRO HiOLBROOK STORE sIrable new uptodate Shoes are left for your choosing at about ONB HALP the usual selling prices These are days upon which the claims of invested capital remain unheard 27 NOrth Main when consideration of actual values Is thrown to the winds With but few exceptions our 27 North Main S Entire Shoe Stock has been reduced in price so as to place it below the profit point Mens Shoes Womens Shoes Childrens Shoes Mens Shoes Womens Kid Shoes either button or lace Childrens Kid Shoes Button or ILce sizes b Sen iir 4ity atin Ces Mns lst quality l cgrin Digging Shoes MiCh neety sale price te tSale wreece er pair s c wquality gris 200 pwair T0he Necessity 0 Fin wrh1 p Nect kind worth 200 10 ile lri is l i Fine K h s with light flexible 59 Pair Childrens Kid Shoes sizes are 5 6 Necessity Price19 Nrsst r

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Library of Congress1890

Image 1 of The Helena independent (Helena, Mont.), June 23, 1890, (Morning)

FI I PUBL GCL THREE LINES OF TYPE R In the Independent dont cost much but in t e For Sale Column the returns have aached into the thousands VOL XXXINO 145 HELENA MONTANA MONDAY MORNING JUNE 23 1890 FAVORITE CHAIRMEN The Men Chosen by Speaker Reed to Preside in Committee of the Whole Mr Oummings Gives a Few Pen Piotures of Bright and Pop ular Congressmen Judge Paysons Courtesy and General Grosvenors Tattoo Accompaniment Allen and ODonnell Special Correspondence of Tax INDLPENDZNT1 WAsmGTroN D C June 19The other day Speaker Reed called Watchdog Hol man to the chair It was the first time that a democrat had occupied the speakers seat since the 4th of March 1889 Mr Carlisle rarely if ever extended this courtesy to a republican Democratic speakers prd tem pore occasionally did so however Julius COesar Burrows was thus honored in the last session of congress and he honored the chair The speaker always selects the chairman of the committee of the whole Mr Car lisle has his favorites and Speaker Reed seems to have his In the Fiftieth congress the prominent chairmen in committee of the whole were Hon Benton McMillin of Tennessee James H

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Library of Congress1891

Image 7 of The Helena independent (Helena, Mont.), June 20, 1891, (Morning)

THE EDITOR OF THE SUN harles A Dana as He Is Known to One of the Craft 7herein He Differs From the Other Men in His Line of Work The run He Has In Life and Out of His NewspaperHis PS Avocations It is difficult to write about Charles A Dana for newspaper men They know a great deal about him think they know a great deal more and all have theories con cerning him which they dont want dis turbed If the newspaper buainoas wore re ligions which it isnt Mr Dana would be the pope and it doesnt do to discuss popes or to theorize about them with their fol lowers Therefore the wisest course is to tell as accurately as possible a few things which perhaps have not been told before Mr Dana will always be known as Charles A Dana That is all right Bus there is no excuse for thes newspaper men who persist in pronouncing the surname as a Frenohuman would instead of giving a broad A sound to the first A Mr Dana can be found at work in his eoffie at any reasonable hour of the day His system of greeting one

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Library of Congress1893

Image 6 of The Helena independent (Helena, Mont.), November 10, 1893, (Morning)

DANA ON JOURNALISM the Countrys Greatest Editor Dis ousses the rrainlng of News paper Makers Abstraot of His Recent Leoture on the Bubjeot at Union 0o1 legea Desas thiak Clleges Very Suesesotal Ia Makilg Jourmaliste What Greeley Bald on the blJbjeot In a lecture delivered at Union college on the education needed in preparation for journalism Chariea A Dana said The number of intellectual young men who are looking at this new profession which for the want of a better name we call the profession of journalism is very great I suppose that I receive myself ev ery day taking one day with another half a dozen letters from men many of them college graduates asking for employment and an opportunity of showing what is in them Of coarse they cannot all get it in the same paper Now and then one obtains a place but generally the rule that is ob served in all well organized newspaper of fices is that the boys who began at the Ie ginning aretakenup stepby step in accord ance with their faculties and their merits The boys w1o begin at the bottom come out at the top At the same time these boys

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Library of Congress1893

Image 3 of The Helena independent (Helena, Mont.), December 28, 1893, (Morning)

A Centleman Who formgrly rellded In Conneoticut but Wbo l re5lde n iRonolult writes 4For SO years pastmy wife and I have used Ayers Hair Vigor and we attribute to it the dark hair whicalh shea id I now have while hun dreds of oour acquaint anoes ten or a dozen years younger than we are elthqr gruyheadod white or bald When asked how our hair has retalited Its color and fullness we reply By the use of Ayers Ialr Vigornothing else In l808 my allmanced was nearly omid and the hair kept full Jlg 1111 Ing out every dal Iy I Induced herto use Ayers Hair Vigor and very soon it not only checked any further loss of hair but produced an entirely new growth which has remained luxuriant and glossy to this day I can recommend this preparation to all in need of a genuine hairrestorer It Is all that it is claimed to beAntonio Alarrun Bastrop Tex AYERS HAIR VICOR SDR GUNIV LIVER PLLS A MILD PHYSIC ONE PILL FOR A DCSE elmoesment oertheab1owel essh day Is neeesmary O usalth These pills spply what the usltem laos t_ Ie It r gular The e cure Headahe brhishte

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Library of Congress1883

Image 5 of Rocky Mountain husbandman (Diamond City, Mont.), September 27, 1883

MY BONNIE BARK My bonnie bark oer the waters dark Floats with a dreamful motio Toward the west where the billows crest In the sunset gilds the ocean Like wings of snow the white sails glow Within the gorgeous splendor That fills the skies with brilliant yes Half sorrowful half tender The waves leap high and fret and sigh With soft regretful droning The fitful Wind lags far behind Now laughing and now moaning Yet on and on and ever on My bonnie bark keeps gliding Toward the mart my dreamful heart Holds sacred and abiding For staunch and true my gallant crew Undaunted pull together Neath skies of light or shades of night In foul or Annny weather Hopes watchful eyes scan waves and skies In loving patience ever What tho the storm bring dire alrm She faints or falters never Love bravely atwjds with steady hand Her trackless pathway steering And true always the helm obeys My bark bounds on unveering I Faith turns her eyedswthirestftl sighs Toward the fields lyesian That stretch away in endless day Hopes sweet and sure fruition Ier eyes diseern the lights that burn Beyond the hills terrestial To guide us oer lifes

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Library of Congress1908

Image 2 of Judith Gap journal (Judith Gap, Mont.), December 18, 1908

THE JUDITH GAP JOURNAL S J SMALL Published every Friday in the Journal building J u d ith Gap Meag he r county Mohtana i l htfctriptioO ate a ifcr in advance other wise J 50 VearUvadvertiaMiK rate jaceuts an inch Short jftnfilj jcfi insertion pe pri tw ler ariox Small BVSIWESS Manakek Williams was ionetl by tlie business men of li fTtjô appftll ileputy sheriff iliistotrfl xl nsa tfPoine as a sut totftlf tAmemsv teere to know Jurlith Japs deputy sheriff drew of Decern The Journal started an investi gation to ascertain who the individual is and where lie habeen keeping him self all this time tname is Wil liam Doores and fabui reliable infor mation at hand it is learned that he is a saloon keepqf at Garneill in Fer gus couyrju nnl litieen living there pract icaijjp fffjfceha s appointment Mr Doores may be all right but what Judith Jap wants is a deputy sheriff who will reside in this place and attend to the duties of his office Surely Sheriff Williams can find plen ty of good men inMeagher county to till this position men who will be willing to live in the town over which

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