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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 6, 1905

The Increased Cost of Living One of the most interesting problems of to day is tlie rise in the cost of liv ing Itaffects everybody and accord ingly there is no one for whom it has not a keen interest While the poor suffer most owing to the great increase m the prices of bare necessaries the rich are likewise made uncomfortable Mr Midas for example does not enjoy paying 50 per cent more for a diamond necklace than the jeweler would have asked for the same article four or five years ago To most people the situa tion signifies in effect a considerable reduction of income and the individual who feels it most perhaps is the sal aried man whose wages remain un changed while their purchasing power is seriously diminished Young Mr lienedick let ns say has just taken the adventurous leap into matrimony He earns only a moderate satorv hut enough as he and his little wTTe have figured it out to maintain a comfortable home on a modest scale Having saved a few hundred dollars sufficient to build a house with a view to the eventual acquisition of full own ership in the propertyon the instal

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Image 3 of The Columbus commercial (Columbus, Miss.), October 3, 1918

I To the Public C F Shcrrod has bought from 1 T Searcy his rutin Milling Outfi and will add a Jom Si Shelhir This wili a f nidl arranMiient for the lMi and ship ping lrad Located in the spacintis wandiniiM formerly occupied by T I Lothe at the M ic Depol All machinery is expeded to be in stalled during the present week HOT SI Gas makes the cold mornings warm A few left at the OLD PRICE COLUMBUS RAILWAY LIGHT POWER CO Commercial Dept Phone 197 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING isiue No advertisement talen first time FOR SALE FOR SALE Another Ford car Practically new L E Lide FOR SALE Two large oflicc desks Apply G S care of this office FOR SALEA nice building lot in front of Second Baptist church Ap ply to this office if OK SAL1SOU0 front roin uu iuiuialitd Jail feet meala doui Apply to iirrt John tfa U loi Seventh street South u2l FOR BAIK 60 Duroe Jeifj y jtiis ten weeks old and older rrce 12 iu up Registered tree J Ii Vaughn Steena Miss MLiKt FOR SALE Two good buy Uorsei weighing about 21 Oo pounu Apply to V

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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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Image 3 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), December 11, 1879

mm K gosßw e 1 belleV ira LA jpSOAV LEW r SHREVEPORT Court very srooil Busnu ou paid your taxes r Have u or Dill Ao i PDCEW BER 11 18yf j Jt is j j 1 Bellevue prior high figures I Bellevue merchants enjoyed a djtradeduring all of the past 1 j Bellevue Masonic Lodge will jUkir officers for ensuing year wtoy __ _____ SfÜniag to people laying in tir supplies our merchants are good jiisiuess IfBeiuember Henry Dreyfuss jonShreveport when you want ef cloHres OEev Mr Ilartfield Kfbed fine sermons hero and Friday nights r Monday was a wet log ni dayone calculated to j rrseii a fit of the blues Kpîhen is a demand for now I i I ässnd dwellings m and around hajMtport merchants in the Ban Aud till the cotton comes in y Bellevue merchants happy jijconUuitctl Everybody is looking for a Christinas is tiie boss cotton SAnnmbcrof legal lights have attendance upon Parish ______ Trance to the Iront and make tart glad when jou sell our i a apt ist Thurs ilfvao Who will build thetnî 1 Our remitrs will do well to id tiie advertisvim nts of t lie Hifis week IFWeljgter

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 17, 1902

I MOUNTAINS OF OREGON tirape and Other Beautiful i u aeade Bane Mounts Hood I Helen Uie Springfield Republican jive passed their lives t i l Washingtons birth iutlissolubly associated i ice with cold winter id naked trees and agen filiation But even in a Naturelover though iay prohibit woodland amis and realizes with eh that life is still there ati tlie snow or ice or1 tae pulsing current still but lelt and realized To iheied ill by a glorious witn the air warm and meadow lark singing pti ol Ins cheery little inspiration to a tender It in mined to climb lort i 11joy tlie mild sunshine limy spring air view the uriy and gather some i e beautiful Oregon ml them 8501 miles to Mass cars landed me at the i t where the long flight the top of the heights evergreen whose dark much delight in this climate Step by step iw ith plenty of resting way the summit was it with the exertion of i step is a delight With f building the long flight has been content to let and the overarching mon 11 rest are there in all their tidiness and beauty Ail cssgrown

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Image 2 of The Western news (Libby, Mont.), February 28, 1946

WESTERN NEWS and Libby times Mont by Western Montana Pub lishing Compan y Inc _ Entered at the postoffice at Libby Mont as secondclass matter W R LITTE LL Editor and Manager T OFFICIAL PAPER FOR LINCOLN COUNTY 1 I j i a I j The following article written by j Staff is of so much worth and ex presses the guiding principles of the well that Subscription Rates S25CT 150 One year Six months NATIONAL DITORIAl_ Ml W ASSOCIATION Only a Thought For the Week fool offers thoughtless criticism wise man uses restraint YOUR NEWSPAPER IS AN INSTITUTION a member of The Western News giving it place n umn reserved for the personal 90 m ment from the editor of thenews At least that is a pleasant way to think of it It is as difficult for community to thrive without a good active newspaper as it would be to dU progress without churches a library Some communities may be res1 ponsible for the building of strong progressive newspapers but in most cases the welfare of the city and the success of the newspaper are more or less interdependent each helping the other to succeed Residents of a community

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Image 2 of Water Valley progress (Water Valley, Miss.), December 26, 1903

THE GOTHAM PRESS New York Journalism and the Men Behind the Papers A NEW NEWSPAPER ROW Editor Reid In Building n ew Home for the TribuneThe Movement Up TownA Comparinon of the Old and Xew New YorkWhitelaw Reid has no fear that Newspaper Row will move H r Reid as a Buildar uptown He has bought 30000 square feet of land next the old Tri bune building and will not only cover it with an addition but will extend the entire structure to the height of 19 stories This reconstruc tion will complete a cycle of building in New York It is a trifle less than one generation since the present moiine Duuamg oi ten siories wus erected It was the marvel of Its day and one of the highest office buildings ever erected in the oldfashioned way before the steel skeleton method was invented of raising skyscrapers Its lower story walls are as thick as those of a castle on the Rhine I remember well reading as a lad in the country the description of the Tribunes new building and wondering if l should ever see it The avid memory of youth reminds me how the architect proved that

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