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Library of Congress1912

Image 2 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 21, 1912

Letter from San Francisco To the Editor pF The Journal Thinking that a few lines from the Me tropolis of the Pacific coast might be in teresting to your many readers I will give you some of my impressions of the city There has been but little rain here for the rainy season In January only about two inches of rain fell Last year in January the rainfall was thirteen inches Sometimes there will be a week at a time of pleasant sunny weather I was surprised to see it so pleasant in the rainy season as I had an idea that it rain ed nearly every day They tell me it is about as pleasant here now as at any time of year In the summer there is much more wind ard fog The nights are all cool here in the summer and you want plenty cf bedclothes There are no hot nights as we have them in the east The papers say there are forty thousand men here out of work Thou sands have come from the east this win ter expecting plenty of work and big pay but they have been grievously disappoint ed and are stranded

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 18, 1912

ouniy vviipvuuuv Deferred eHlLL Swanvllle 04K york and Frank Ordway are sawing his vicinity with their gasolene en i ff0 iviiss Helen Knowlton is in Lynn Sir _t veral weeks visiting relatives and Mr and Mrs Bert Lenfest who aii employment in New Jersey for the ve returned to their home for the Mrs Bertha Burdeen of Thomas utDine ecj her parents Mr and Mrs Levi recentlyMr and Mrs Jonathan Belfast are with their daughter ekins for several months i5i5BOR aide Hatch has returned to Milli resume her school duties_Mrs ue has gone to East Millinocket Pjn ini a month in Islesboro_Miss iams has gone to Brewer for the Mr Charles Dana Gibson and ere in town for a few days recently v her C Hatch was at home from Dart r iue Kaster vacation also Mark Pen hi the C of MMiss Marie Coombs lined to Bingham Me to finish the pgpSPFFT FERRY e M Ginn arrived from Worcester I d 6th and will spend a week with Mr and Mrs P M Ginn_J D isi ted in Bangor several days re Vr and Mrs W H Ginn called on ce 1 Sandypoint April 4thMrs Vira turned from Boston

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Library of Congress1912

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 2, 1912

fortune in Hens and Apples v Hampshire Man Realizes 16000 4 1 cpfi 000 a Year from Fruit and to u rfiiicious mingling of hens and ap Lj inabled C E L Haywood of Ee ik M H to develop a rough sl Vnl uneven bit of runout soil into rr c5t fruit and poultry farm in md and to earn a profit which 11 16000 to 26000 a year i has been brought about by a a century of unremitting la h evolution of a successful trictly business management is today the land supports an 10000 trees and more than At first sight it looks like a tmvn with its long streets of tses which now number 720 iions were merely incidental growth of the industry both ive been placed upon a paying i both hens and apples contri general success of the under go Mr Hayward first started in had only a property of 250 a i idi had no more promising fea liundreds of neglected places other States To work upon orchard of some 400 trees in ss promising condition He av hundred hens soon after tak en and by elaborating his own I the groundwork of

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Library of Congress1912

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 26, 1912

Nora Goodwin Little Heroine Nora Goodwins home was on the sandy beach overlooking the reat sea I dont mean that she lived right down on the very beach itself but a1 safe distance above the hightide mark The Goodwin house stood on a high point of land which jutted out well into the water Thus they had a fine view of the sea from three sides of the house and al ways a sea breeze blowing about them Noras father owned a boathouse and let out fishing smacks rowboats and motor boats to the tourists and summer boarders who thronged the village near by from early May to late September And Nora being the only child was her fathers chum as well as her mothers comrade On long afternoons Nora and her father would row far out to sea and soon the 15yearold girl was considered one of the finest oarswomen on the coast for many miles One fine August morning Mrs Good win was obliged to go to the village to do some marketing and shopping After she had finished her shopping she drop ped in to see a friend for an hours chat While thus socially engaged she

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Library of Congress1912

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 5, 1912

From December Magazines WANTEDA SENSATION To make advertising interesting we need a sensation and advertising forms so large a part of our daily intellectual diet that it seems not too grasping to ask for a change of mental food Kosy Rumfurt Raramels have lost their taste Sharp Snappy Styles for Serious Students have wearied eye and mind Mannish togs of dainty model tug at the feminine pursestrings in vain We could not improve the picture but look what we have done to the frame won us by its complacent satis faction but now tires us by its constant repetition A prominent manufacturer who is going out of business has placed at the advertisers disposal his entire stock which is being offered by us at merely nominal pricesbut for us he has re tired once too often his magnanimity no longer touches us and we wearily thrust aside the lists of his misplaced philan thropiesElizabeth C Billings in the Atlantic WHATS THE USE I am ceasing to criticizeI use the word in its present degenerate sense of faultfinding because my complaints have not been productive of one iota of good Moreover they have always been ungraciously received either by the per

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Library of Congress1915

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 26, 1915

That German Submarine Suspicious Craft Explained as Ol Gramp a Fixed Institution In These Waters boston Globe J Castine Me Aug 18 The Oakum Club which meets every afternoon on the shady side of Spurlings fishhouse and peruses fractional parts of the met ropolitan journals that Sam Strout picks up around the big hotel where he is night watchman has passed informal resolu tions that there has been so much foolish ness printed about German submarines being round Penotscot Bay that it is incumbent upon the club to set the public right ldunno remarked Capt Eph Simp son these newspaper fellers or least wise all I ever run afoul of cant never git nothin right Last week I got out my old chart and showed one of em jest what the perils of navigation was that lay tween Monhegan and Cape Rozier way and how slim the chances of them furriners in a craft that was travelin down close to the bottom and steerin by squintin around the corners of a stove pipe thing that stuck up through the deck of makin White Head to say nothin of the Muscle Ridge channel and all the rocks an bars and sich

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Library of Congress1916

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 6, 1916

The Second Maine Regiment Left Augusta June 29th for Texas Regi mental Flag Presented by City Addresses by Mayor Viles and Hon Frank M Dut ton 15000 People 1 hrong the Streets to see the Start From the Kennebec Journal Through ianes of cheering people wav ine flags teardimmed eyes and flutter mg handkerchiefs the sections of the three long trains bearing our State of Maine soldier boys to Laredo Texas to serve their countrys flag pulled slowly from the Augusta station Thursday afternoon the first at 520 the second and third sections at intervals of 15 min UtBefore the noon hour hundreds of the 15000 people who thronged Water street and Market Square packed the windows of every block at the south of the street and dotted even the roofs and towers of surrounding buildings had begun to take their positions There was a tense un dercurrent of excitement in the whole spirit of the people who gathered to wish our boys God speed it was a different attitude than any crowd has ever mani fested in this city since the days of the SPinhou8oclocK the expectations of those who had for hours waited patient ly on the street

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Library of Congress1917

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 5, 1917

ITEMS OF ALL SORTS Big Wool Cargo Safe A cargo of South African wool valued at 3500000 arrived at Boston last week and underwriters were manifestly elated when the news reached their offices The consignments were purchased for Boston importers by a score of buyers during the past six months some of the bales of scoured wool being worth at least 350 Italian Branch Banks in U S Prompted by the sending by Italy of a commercial and political commission to the United States several of Italys largest banks have decided to open branch houses in New York instead of relying upon American banks to represent them as in the past The purpose of these banks is to compete for the handling of the large war business resulting from the purchases now being made by Italy in the United States for the handling of the funds sent home by Italians and for the general tourist and trading business ex pected to come after the war May Have Deciding Power Charleston hew6 and Courier DemJ It is hard to estimate now the import ance of the weapon which has been placed in the Presidents hand in the shape of this embargo

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Library of Congress1917

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 26, 1917

This is Our War Whatever the President does toward winning this war in the shortest and most effective way has our enthusiastic sup port But to swear unswerving allegiance to his administration is beyond our power For remember this is precisely the same administration which has been at Wash ington since the war began The very men who surround Mr Wilson now are the men who sat still with folded hands while the world was ablaze for two and a half years and never did one solitary thing of any importance to prepare this country for the tremendous burden now thrust upon us These are the men who laughed the idea of universal service to scorn voluntary universal service was their substitute and who now rush to conscription and refuse even for one mo ment to utilize whatever of value the vol untary system possesses These are the men who saw the science of war advanc ing by leaps and strides so that the attack became a terrific combination of force and mechanical skill in which huge guns of all calibers and aeroplanes of all sorts and speeds played the crucial part They built no guns and they built no

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Library of Congress1917

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 30, 1917

HUMPHREYS WITCH HAZE OINTMENT COMPOUND For Piles or Hemorrhoids External or Internal Blind or Bleeding Itching or Burning One application brings relief Price 23c at all druggists or mailed Send Tree Sample of Ointment to Humphreys Borneo Medicine Company 15G William Street Xcw York SICK BEASTS BOOK on treatment of Horses Cowe Sheep Dogs and other animals sen free Humphreys1 Homeopathic Vet arm ary Medicines 156 Wiliiir St N x The Second Maine Regiment The Springfield Union of Aug 21st con tains the following highly complimentary account of the arrival of the Second Maine Regiment at its Massachusetts destination Big Uvent of Day The big event of the day overshadow ing all else was the coming of the Second Maine The Maine boys are about the hardest bunch physically that has ever hit Massachusetts They are larger framed than the Bay State boys they have the Down East expression and are rangy in gait and action Col Humes command Worked like a well oiled machine Due to arrive early this morning the regiment was delayed by hot boxes and other railroad trouble all along the route The command was 17 hours making the journey from Au gusta coming by way

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Library of Congress1918

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 28, 1918

6 _ r NO MOE CATARRH A Guaranteed Treatment That Has Stood the Test of Time Catarrh cures come and catarrh cures go but Hyomei continues to heal catarrh and abolish its disgusting symptoms wherever civilization exists Every year the already enormous sales of this really scientific treatment for catarrh grow greater and the present year should show all records broken If you breathe Hyomei daily as directed it will end your catarrh or it wont cost you a cent If you have a hard rubber Hyomei in haler somewhere around the house get it out and start it at once to forever rid ydbrself of catarrh A A Howes Co or any other good druggist will sell you a bottle of Hyomei liquid start to breathe it and notice how quickly it clears out the air passages and makes the entire head feel fine Hyomei used regularly will end catarrh coughs colds bronchitis or asthma A complete outfit including a hard rubber pocket inhaler and bottle of Hyomei costs but little No stomach dosing just breathe it It kills the germs soothes and heals the inflamed membrane MAINE ITEMS Senator Fernalds Portrait The portrait of Senator Bert M Fer

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Library of Congress1918

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 7, 1918

6__ MAINE ITEMS Killed Under Train The crown sheet of engine 141 hauling a freight train northbound in charge of Conductor P N Clark Engineer L F Bishop blew out when within about five miles ofVanBuren at 10 oclock Monday evening Feb 25th slightly burning En gineer Bishop and Fireman J H Corey Brakeman Harry H Tidd who was rid ing in the engine jumped off into a snow bank rolled under the train and was kill ed His home was in Island Falls where his parents reside He was unmarried They Are After the Slackers The inspectors connected with the Au tomobile Registration Bureau depart ment of State are already rounding up numerous parties who have neglected doubtless on account of the deep snow and severe weatherto register their au tos for 1918 and are using their 1917 plates and numbers The bureau officials hope it will not be necessary but will take measures to induce all such offenders to step up and settle The government will have a job to do in Lubec as a result of the big ice embargo that existed there last week When the brokenup floes were passing out through the Narrows in the

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Library of Congress1918

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 27, 1918

ATffFlfFoF THREE YEARS Helpless In Bed With Rheumatism Until He Took FRUITATIVESo I 1 MR ALEXANDER MUNRO ItR No 1 Lome Ont For over three years I was Confined to bed with Rheumatism During that lime I had treatment from a number of doctors and tried nearly everything I saw advertised to Cure Rheumatism without receiving any benefit Finally I decided to try Fruitativcs or Fruit Iiver Tablets Before I had used half a box I noticed an improvement the pain was not so severe and the swelling started to go down 1 continued taking this fruit me dicine improving all the time and now 1 can walk about two miles and do light chores about the place ALEXANDER MUNRO 50c a box6 for 250 trial size 25c At all dealers or sent on receipt of price bv FRUITATIVES Limited OGDEXSBURG N V BRIEF HISTORY Of the First Parish Church Building Bel fast 100th Anniversary June 25 1918 BY A E WILSON MINISTER If we could have looked in one hundred years ago today where we are now gath ered we should probably have seen this building in all its gaunt strong frame work inside the outside just hoarded in

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Library of Congress1918

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 4, 1918

o __ HOW TH1S NERVOUS WOMAN GOTJVELL Told by Herself Her Sin cerity Should Con vince Others Christopher 111For four years I Buffered from irregularities weakness nervousness and was in a run down condition Two of our best doctors failed to do me any good I heard so much about what Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Com pound had done for others I tried it and was cured I am no longer ner vous am regular and in excellent health I believe the Compound will cure any female trouble Mrs ALICE Heller Christopher 111 Nervousness is often a symptom of weakness or some functional derange ment which may be overcome by this famous root and herb remedy Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound as thousands of women have found by experience If complications exist write Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Mass for suggestions in regard to your ailment The result of its long experience is at your service Letters From Camp Devens Horace Baker Atkinson of Searsmont writes interestingly of a recent trip of Battery Commanders details from Bat teries C and D and Headquarters Com pany to the drilling range They were equipped with shelter tents rifles cloth ing and

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Library of Congress1918

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 24, 1918

The best time to get the full benefit of a laxative or cathartic medicine that also stimulates the digestive organs as this one will do is to take a teaspoonful an hour before breakfast and drink a glass or two of waP water at the same time The stomaeh is then entirely empty andthe cleansing action of this good homo remedy the LF Atwood Medi cine will give you a fiue appetite Take another dose at bedtime with more water if you feel the need of greater action or wish to over come a constipated condition of the bowels Prevent colds and rheu matic tendency with this moneysaving remedy the genuine L F jrice 50 cents made only by the L F Medicine Co Portland Me s 10c and 15c ARE FOR SALE IN BELFAST BY ESSIE P CARLE Who by special arrangement has all the patterns all the time jNO WAITING TO SEND Saving on Dress to Buy Bonds A Few Just Right Things Rather Than Many Mistakes Correspondence of The Journal NEW YORK Oct 21 One of our prom inent fashion magazines advertises that a couple of dollars invested in its purchase will save hundreds spent in bad

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Library of Congress1918

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 26, 1918

V DONT NEGLECT A RHEUMATIC PAIN Go after it with Sloans Liniment before it gets dangerous Apply a little dont rub let it pene trate andgoodby twinge Same for external aches pains strains stiffness of joints or muscles lameness bruises Instant relief without mussiness or soiled clothing Reliablethe biggest Belling liniment year after year Eco nomical by reason of enormous sales Keep a big bottle ready at all times Ask your druggist for Sloans Liniment 30c 60c 120 WEDDING BELLS ELLIS REYNOLDS a very pretty and simple wedding occurred Saturday even ing Dec 14th at the home of Mrs Mit tie M Reynolds 39 Capitol street Au gusta when her only daughter Alice Mae Reynolds was united in marriage to Herbert Lester Ellis of Augusta with only the immediate families present Rev W J Layton officiated and the double ring service was used The wed ding march was played by her college friend Miss Eleanor Kelley of Gardiner The bridesmaid was her college chum Miss Leo E Jcnes of Augusta and the grooms best man was his boyhood chum Mr Ottie McCullum of Augusta The bride was very prettily gowned in white nuns veiling trimmed with lace and carried a

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Library of Congress1919

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 30, 1919

HOME TOWN HELPS BUILD WITH EYE TO BEAUTY Duty of All Who Plan Home to Con sider Well How Structure Will Appear to Beholder The beauty that may bo had out of the common things of the earth is well illustrated by the homes that one sometimes sees a beauty that is all the more emphasized by the contrast in the hideous result of the use of the same common things by others You will see in the country places as you go about how one man will take the things that are to his hand and build from them a beautiful house He took the rock and stone the wood the sand and the earth that were un der his feet Out of these he framed a rooftree that is a kindness to the j eye Another man with the same mate rials threw them together crudely makiug a thing that had to go by the name of a house but which offends the eye that beholds it The one house cost no more in either labor or money than the other yet the results are as different as day aud night The most striking as well us the

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Library of Congress1919

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 6, 1919

Looking their Best all the Time is the Chief Business of the Blue Grass Belles 410 The Secret of Their Beauty It is health robust health that is responsible for the Kentucky girls good looks It she gets sick she proceeds to get well Possessed of health she knows that personal charm and attractiveness need not worry They are hers That is the secret Tne story or Mrs natue Hamil ton Myrtle Avenue Latonia Kentucky is typical She says I have never in all my life until re cently weighed over 102 pounds Finally I began to take Peruna My weight now is 120 While I didnt really need it 1 have started on the third bottle leruna has certainly dor me a great deal of good and 1 recommend ii to my friends Several are taking it It is surprising the amount of de pendence placed by women every where upon Dr Hartmans World Famous Peruna For fortyfive years it has been a householdrem edy for coughs colds catarrh and all catarrhal inflammation whether ui me respiratory system stomacn or other organ or part of the body The record of Peruna for nearly a half century is a startling

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