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Library of Congress1887

Image 5 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 10, 1887, (Supplement)

Republican J ournal Supplement VOLUME 59_ BELFAST MAINE THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10 1887 NUMBER 45 CHAT FROM WASHINGTON GOSSIP ABOUT MEN AND THINGS AT THE CAPITAL Frank Hattons New PaperGossip About Robert P PorterBancroft and Cor coran ComparedSome Newspaper Cos ipA Sensation Which ailed Special Correspondence Washington Nov 8It was tho hour in tho afternoon at which the great government departments vomit forth their mass of work ing humanity Crowds of men and women 1 mured by tho thousands out of tlio cavernous jaws of tho United States treasury Tho maws of the state war and navy building vcro black with tho human stream and tho clerks of tho attorney generals office wore leaving their department for their homes Thcaveuuo between Seventeenth street and the Higgs house was black with people and BANCROFT AS A PEDESTRIAN ft was the liveliest hour of the clay in Wash ington Just at this time clown the avenue and through this moving throng walked a straight old man He was six foot tall and as thin as a devils darning needle but his flesh apjiearcd to Ik as solid ns jerked beef and his slop was a springy one lie wore a tall silk hat

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Library of Congress1862

G. Woolworth Colton's new guide map of the United States & Canada, with railroads, counties, etc

"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861, by G. Woolworth Colton." Insets: Plan of the southern portion of Florida. 16 x 13 cm.-Western portion of the United States. 18 x 20 cm.-The southern portion of Texas. 9 x 10 cm. Includes tables of "Cities and towns with a population of 10,000 and over" and "Population of the United States." "Drawer 47, portfolio 1, no. 28" written in the right margin. General map annotated in red and blue to show military departments. Description derived from published bibliography. Scale 1:3,168,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 25.3 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.

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Library of Congress1911

Arrears of pay, bounty, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting estimates for an appropriation for the current fiscal year to pay arrears of pay, bounty, etc., to soldiers of the Civil War, their widows ... and for payments of arrears of pay to officers and men for services rendered in the war with Spain. August 15, 1911. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed

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