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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), May 25, 1895

01 A The Old Friend And the best friend that never fails you is Simmons Liver Regu lator the Red Zthats what you hear at the mention of this excellent Liver medicine and people should not be persuaded that anything else will do It is the King of Liver Medi cines is better than pills and takes the place of Quinine and Calomel It acts directly on the Liver Kidneys and Bowels and gives new life to the whole sys tem This is the medicine you want Sold by all Druggists in Liquid or in Powder to be taken dry or made into a tea SwEVERY PACKAGES N A In wed on wrsIzpg FOR SALE One hundred and sixtyfive ar pents of land Just below Perrys Bridge having a front of 51 arpents on the Vermilion river by a depth of 31 arpents This property is intersected by the public road leading directly to Perry and Abbeville has several beautiful building sites is finely wooded and will make a rich sugar farm It is partly improved having considerable fencing upon it a dwelling house and other buildings Terms Cash or time granted as pur chaser desires Any further information may

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), June 15, 1895

The Old Friend And the best friend that never fails you is Simmons Liver Regu lator the Red Zthats what you hear at the mention of this excellent Liver medicine and people should not be persuaded that anything else will do C It is the King of Liver Medi cines is better than pills and takes the place of Quinine and Calomel It acts directly on the Liver Kidneys and Bowels and gives new life to the whole ys temr This is the medicine you want Sold by all Drggists in Liquid or in Powder to be taken dry or made into a tea a V TRY PACKaUpU Y se z p inr i a wr FOR SALE One hundred and sixtyfive ar pents of land eust below Perrys Bridge having a front of 5 arpents 1 on the Vermilion river by a depth of 81 arpents This property is intersected by the public road leading directly to Perry and Abbeville has several c beautiful building sites is finely J wooded and will make a rich sugar farm It is partly improved having considerable fencing upon it a dwelling house and other buildings Terms Cash or time granted as paor

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), May 11, 1895

The Old Friend And the best friend that never fails you is Simmons Liver Regu lator the Red Zthats what you hear atthe mention of this excellent Liver medicine and people should not be persuaded that anything else will do It is the King of Liver Medi cines is better than pills and takes the place of Quinine and Calomel It acts directly on the Liver Kidneys and Bowels and gives new life to the whole sye tem This is the medicine you want Sold by all Druggists in Liquid or in Powder to be taken dry or made into a tea EVERY PACKAGEi Hu taimth tasp in red on wrapxue SJ QEI LI a p COPhlp aL FOR SALE One hundred and sixtyfive ar pents of land just below Perrys Bridge having a front of 51 arpents on the Vermilion river by a depth of 31 arpents This property is intersected by the public road leading directly toi Perry and Abbeville has several beautiful building sites is finely wooded and will make a rich sugar farm 4It is partly improved having considerable fencing upon it a dwelling house and other buildings Terms Cash or time granted as pur chaser

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Library of Congress1911

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 6, 1911

inhibition Prosperity in the F011 South from the Lewiston Sun iiided out year just before the spent in a small settlement Ieuntv Kv known then as Y In that little village was l ept by a Mr Henderson ready with right hand up i w as an unmitigated curse uding community The i pent was over them all it over the many When was young and lived in rered away his liberty by never to taste touch nor that intoxicates and he tough livingin the shadow neither he nor his boys of whiskey He was still iniquitystill shackled liberty stili wearing the while his neighbors were joyment of the greatest world the unrestricted live those dependent on tl pursuit of happiness e was a veritable death lhe young men I knew good fellows and treated tlier drunk or sober and thoughts of them abide All gone down the tide they shall hunger no more iiv more or if they thirst f the water of life of i old brews and not the rson made many efforts e shackles that bound me 1 into a great and bound t he didnt seem to make it It so happened that I i

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Library of Congress1925

Image 14 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), January 8, 1925, (Centennial Edition, Main News Section)

More Kind Words From Friends on Occasion of Centennial The following Congratulatory Letters in Connection with the Centennial of the Kenn ebec Journal have been received in addition to those received earlier and placed in section B of the Centennial Edition SoninLaw Of James G Blaine New York N Y Jan 7 1025 Charles Flynt Kennebec Journal Augusta Maine Congratulations on anniversary of splendid paper WALTER DAMROSCH I CONGRESSMAN FOR THIRD DISTRICT Washington D C January 5 1925 Honorable Charles F Flynt President and General Manager The Kennebec Journal Augusta Maine My dear Mr Flynt Since boyhood the Kennebec Journal has been a household Institu tion in my family I have seen it through the years faithfully recording the events of my school and college days my early manhood the birth of my children the passing of relatives and friends and the thousand and one happenings large and small Joyous and sad that go into the making up of a full life In later years here in Augusta my boys have all acted as carriers of your paper and every morning in my home young and old read your columns with Interest and with profit Always the paper has been

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Library of Congress1895

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

The Old Friend And the best friend that never fails you is Simmons Liver Regu lator the Red Zthats what you hear at the mention of this excellent Liver medicine and people should not be persuaded that anything else will do It is the King of Liver Medi cines is better than pills and takes the place of Quinine and Calomel It acts directly on the Liver Kidneys and Bowels and gives new life to the whole sys tem This is the medicine you want Sold by all Druggists in Liquid or in Powder to be taken dry or made into a tea sEVERY PACRKAS Has the Z Stamp in red on wrap r J H ZEIL1SI i 00E Piiaddp ja FOR SALE One hundred and sixtyfive are pents of land just below Perrys Bridge having a front of 5 urpents on the Verimilion river by a depth of 31 arpen ts This property is intersected by the public road leading directly to Perry and Abbeville has several beautiful building sites is finely wooded and will make a rich sugar farm It is partly improved having conEiderable feucing upon it a dwelling house and other buildings Terms Cash or time

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Library of Congress1919

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 31, 1919

T0 Build American Prosperity on the Impregnable Rock of Economy Fy THE WIFE OF THE JUNIOR SENATOR FROM NEW YORK How many of the women who worked so ardently for the war are now working with equal ardor for peace A certain service is badly needed just now by our country It is a vital service and can be performed at no loss of time and at a monetary gain While money is needed by the United States to carry out the extensive program of readjustment which peace brings in its train a part of the readjustment program and one which is far more important than just the gathering of money is the great task we have before us of learning what intelligent thrift is and put vwieuge mto such effective practice that we shall not only Ltc during 1919 but shall accustom countless generations ns to build prosperity on the impregnable rock of sensible ivmgs division of the United States treasury is calling upon to model life on the following lines To save intelligently ely to avoid waste and to invest safely It may sound easy d like things jou have heard often before but apply it con fer

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Library of Congress1917

Image 1 of The City itemizer (Water Valley, Miss.), October 18, 1917

The City Itemizer Si A LEi Editor Devoted to the Interest of the Editor Exclusively11 100 Yees VOLUME 23 WATER VALLEY MISS OCTOBER 18 1917 NUMBER fco The Decay of American Man hood History records nothing so won derful as the development and pro gress of this great nation in the last hundred years Amerioan manhood is deoaying We are going down mentally and morally at a terrifying rate We have foes at home more deadly and destructive than our European enemies Davenport has shown that one in every hundred men is men tally defective insane epileptic habitually criminal or feeble minded Eeoent military examinations have brought out most appaling facts Major Orr a medical omoer of the regular army tells us that two to three out of every four appli cants for the army are rejected as physioally unfit Draft examinations show more than half our young men unfit for military training The examinations of the Life Extension Institute show only one man in a hundred wholly free from disease and physically fit The causes are many Among the most potent and direct are the saloon the brothel and the cigar ette These three evils are the greatest causes

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Library of Congress1903

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 28, 1903

jf GODWINS EASTER iiNUIKILOW turknktt 1 i in walked rapidly down Vat h t the street and with i look shut the pate be i was not one to linger at i parting and today Mrs caving ihe borne of fifty vu have heard the sad said a voice at her M i turned and looked into Id friend and neighbor who stood leaning on I mug white hair blown wind lames she inquired vc been so taken up with i sli cares that I have not j ml in the village for the 1 story of a good man bad one left to fill his red lames Wilson Xo ns having dealings with Margaret We know if in sheeps clothing it to tell me that Henry said Mrs Goodwin in He stopped at my a bis way home from and lie told me that lie r in bis life I must see f it I ns laded blue eyes took neighbors confusion now 1 wouldnt Mar i that neerdowell of a re 1 would run my poor drop a tear on his hand ruing Margaret and i ottered off stood where lie let t her ic snow that was

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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 Congress1907

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 5, 1907

Literary News and Notes Holman Day the well known Maine author is getting out a new book en tilled King Spruce which is to be published by Harper Bros The story w liich is appearing serially in the New England Magazine is a most interest ing one and deals with life and doings in the Maine wools and in the opinion of the writer is the best sustained and the highest iu literary quality of any of Mr Days novels The December issue of the Atlantic is a peculiarly interesting magazine There are seven important articles each very brilliant of its kind The leader is entitled The Future of our Navigable Waters and is written by John L Mathews who has been mak iug a special study of the subject An Art Museum for the People by Frank Jewett Mather treats of the best practical arrangement of exhibi tions for public use Agnes Deans Cameron writes on Wheat the Wiz ard of the North a striking article telling of the enormous immigration to the newly utilized fields of western Canada There is abundant fiction of the usual high Atlantic standard and the poetry is of a strictly Christmas character One

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Library of Congress1908

Image 4 of The Harlem news (Harlem, Mont.), November 26, 1908

Finest Assortment EVER SHOWN IN HARLEM The Harlem News ptbijshiu wkeklv nr NEWS PUBLISHING CO Incorporated Application hi ben m f r entry a 1 pct HII e at iiarlvin M ntana n vrjm mail matter KATES OF SI UM UIITION me Year 9200 Six Months lno Three Months 50 THURSDAY NOV 20 loos In your clay and miue the TODAY only day we have the day in which we play our part What our part may Hignify in the great whole we may not understand but we are here to play it and now is our time This we know it is a part of action and not of whining It is a part of love not cynicism It is for us to express love in terms of hu man helpfulness This we know for we have learned from sad experience that any other course of life leads to ward decay and waste David Starr Jordan A WORD IN PARTING With this weeks issue of The News the managereditorprinter who has gotten out the paper for the past nine months will finish his work here and the paper will hereafter be issued by Mr John Collins who has leased

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), September 28, 1895

The Phe ix Wheel nadue of structural steel is 125 feet in diain ere standlirg on Midway Heights seventy five feet above the lake The upper rim rising two hundred feet above the lower part of the grounds cuts a respectable firure against the horiron The wheel carries twelve cars with a capacity of twelve people each On Saturday the concessionaries invited the Ex position Lirectors to take a trial trip on the structure Dont Tobacco Spit or Smoke Your Life Away is the truthful startling title of a book about NoTo Bic the harmlecs gauranteed tobJbacco habit cure that braces up nicotinized nerves clim mnates the nicotine poison makes weuik men gain strength vigor and manhood You run no physical or financial risk as NoToBac is sold by druggists everywhere under guarantee to cure or money refunded Hook free Address Sterling Rem edy Co New York or Chicago As to tho TimnesDemocrat it is a great newspaper It has spent time large money and earnest efforts to make itself that But Burkeism does somehow attach to its skirts and instead of forming and moulding public sentiment and public opinion it seems oftener to have a weather eye to the

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Library of Congress1923

Image 14 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), March 12, 1923

W 1 One of Washingtons Industries So tremendous is the business of running the United States Goverment that Washington even to Washingtonians is considered a Government city as applied to industry It is true the Governments one hundred thousand odd employes with a monthly payroll of some ten millions bf dollars is a tremendous factory yet throughout the city are hundreds of smaller industries giving employment to thousands of men and women and turning back in the business channels millions of dollars each year Such an institution is THE WASHINGTON TIMESHERALD Whose Weekly Payroll for 594 Employes Is in Excess of 24000 These 594 employes are for the most part heads of families or at least breadwinners and probably suppbrt 2000 people which is a small community in itself a community spending for the necessities and many of the luxuries of life over a million and a quarter dollars each year Buying Power to be reckoned witha farreaching influence in merchandising real estate and financial circles THE WASHINGTON TIMESHERALD A National Institution With Washingtons Interest Always at Heart will soon move into its new home One of the largest and most modern newspaper plants in the United States is being

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Library of Congress1901

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 25, 1901

JACKS COAT BY LAURA J RITTNHOUSE Jack Turner looked gloomily out of the window his handsome face disfigur ed by a scowl Its always so Just as sure as I have a chance for a good time some obstacle arises to prevent it Howard has a pass for me and my trip south wouldnt cost me a cent if only I had something decent to wear Mrs Turner dropped her work and sighed It does seem hard Jack but I really dont see how to help it If we should buy4kou a summer suit now youd have to wear your old suit again next winter you know she said plaintively Oh I know that well enough mother so it isnt worth while talking about it It seems to me Ive heard of nothing but poverty all my life Were so poor Jobsturkey wouldnt associate with us he said savagely then stalked from the room with the air of a martyr His sister Doris went on darning steadily for awhile Im ever so sorry for poor Jack she said at last a suspicion of tears in her voice I wish 1 could help him some way but Im afraid I cant

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Library of Congress1902

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 2, 1902

WAIF OF THE OCEAN Bottle Thrown into Indian Sea Found off Cape Cod Floated for Twenty Eight j Year Ceorge T Maddox of Brockton Mass j is closely connected with the tale of a sea drifting bottle that lloated twenty eight years The bottle was thrown overboard in the Indian ocean from the vessel Hattie K Tapley inl74 Mad dox was third mate The bottle was recently picked up off t ape Cod It was intact with its lit tle message still preserved telling the whence what where of the bottle That was twentyeight years ago when Maddox was barely of age The bottle was washed from the In dian ocean to Cape Codfrom the far east to the far west from old world waters to New Ingland shores It has taken Ceorge T Maddox with vivid memory back to his younger life over the Indian ocean from his present days of furni ture selling in Brockton It is a strange story that lias thus come up out of tiie sea Tales have been told and retold ot bottles thrown from sailing vessels and picked til years later in faroff parts of the work These stories have been taken wit

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Library of Congress1905

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 28, 1905

IS COURTESY DEAD AVhen we note the wave of brutal dis regard of the everyday amenities of life shown by the young man of ac knowledged respectable parentage the question naturally arises what is the i isi of this lapse of decency of con t and who is to blame for its begin g and growth ie mother of a family is usually lited with possessing the influence t makes a home what it is and of trolling the drift of action or be or of the children This is to a large measure truebut the dominat ii_ and virile force of the father breaks and overrides especially in his rcible influence with the son who tes listens and absorbs the words acts and general conduct of his male parent Everybody knows that the average young man of today is a careless un mannerly boor both in public aud in society and it is time the root and rea on of this evil should be reached and nearly shown up so that in a glaring limelight of open criticism they will be shamed into takiug up again the normal conditions of true manhood iet us then look at the fathers

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Library of Congress1908

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 23, 1908

JOHN B GOUGH An Address in the Onion Church Brooks by M J Dow Esq In accordance with the arrangements of the National Christian Endeavor or ganization Sunday evening April 12th was observed as the John B Gough night at the Union church in Brooks The meeting was opened with the usual praise service followed by introductory remarks by the pastor Rev J W Vaughan An anthem was then pre sented by Messrs Jones Morrill Brown and Merritt with Mrs W S Jones as accompanist M J Dow then gave an address upon the life and character of John B Gough followed by a solo by W S Jones Remarks were then made by Rev David Brackett and further remarks by the pastor After some what extended remarks upon the life of Mr Gough Mr Dow closed his ad dress as follows John B Gough stands out in bold re lief in the early history of the temper ance reform work of this country as a striking and unique iigure Ilis influ ence in the development of a moral sentiment against the use of intoxicat ing drinks was a powerful one He drew people to him by his attractive personality

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