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Library of Congress1903

Image 8 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 20, 1903

County Correspondence SEARSPORT LOCALS Albert Nichols is visiting friends in town Mr Harry Blake left Wednesday for Bos ton Miss Addie Hubbard left for Boston Sat urday Mr Bert Morrison is spending a short va cation in town Mr William Putnam and son Will left Wednesday for Boston Miss Eva Clement left Saturday for her home in Boston Rev Charles Whittier of Bangor spent Sunday in town Miss Jennie Salvage left for New York by boat Saturday Mr Maurice Dolliver was in Bangor for a few days last week Edward Porter left Saturday for a short visit in Providence R I Miss Rose Roulston of Boston is visiting Mr and Mrs N Roulston Dr S Calderwood of Boston was in town for a few days last week Mr Amos 1 Carver of Brooklyn N Y is in town for a few days Miss Emeliue Nickels is ths guest of Lap ami Mrs E D 1 Nickels Albert Fowler of Ames Iowa is visiting Ins aunt Mrs Geo Sargent Mr Charles Nichols ami family of Port land spent last week in town Mrs Nina Hadlock and son of Boston are the guests of Capt D S Goodell Will Prescott ami his

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Library of Congress1904

Plans showing deed and old location lines of the Western Railroad in the county of Worcester and state of Mass

"Compiled from locations filed in 1837-8 at the office of the county clerk, Worcester, Mass. from original deeds and plans on file at the Boston & Albany Railroad Engineer's Office. Green Lines compiled from grade crossing and other plans. Note: in 1867 the Western R.R. Corp. and the Boston & Worcester R.R. Corp. were consolidated to form the Boston & Albany R.R. Co." Pen-and-ink and colored ink. Annotations in pencil and colored pencil on some maps. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vendor: John Carbonell Acquisitions control no. 2009-023

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Library of Congress1903

Image 8 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 21, 1903

the old reliable r J w rvjm POWDER Absolutely Pure r is NO SUBSTITUTE SEARSPORT LOCALS Miss Nancy Ford of Boston was in town Tuesday Mrs Frudence Putnam is in town for the summer Mrs Ned Meyers left Saturday by boat for New York Mrs Harry Perry left Saturday by boat for New York Miss Hope Curtis is spending a few weeks vacation in town Miss Blanche Harding of Lowell Mass is at home for a few weeks Capt Nathan Carver of Boston arrived by steamer Tuesday morning Mrs Clara Leonard of Boston is visiting her parents Mr and Mrs J Hamilton Miss Lora Cyphers and Mr W Clark of Frankfort called on friends in town Sun day Frank Curtis is spending a short vacation with his parents Capt and Mrs Frank Curtis Sell Kittie Lawry Capt Charles Closson sailed Tuesday morning for Kockland w ith kiln wood A party of our young people attended the promenade concert in Belfast Wednesday night May loth Miss Inez Dolliver arrived Friday called here by the illness of her grandmother Mrs Emily simonton Kev and Mrs T I Williams are attend ing the commencement exercises at the Theological Seminary Bangor We notice the

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Library of Congress1905

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 30, 1905

Maine FolfcsAbroad A Word for the Belfast Club of Boston Maine Reunions in Brockton and Worces ter Mass To all Belfast People Abroad and at Home The reunion of the Belfast Club of Boston March 10th was a most delightful affair and while it is still fresh in our minds I wish through the medium of The Journal to catch the ears and hearts of some of our older Belfast people who have res ided in Boston and its suburbs for 25 years or more and no doubt have in some instances lost interest in the old home on the shores of the Penobscot As a general thing as we grow older our thoughts turn to the home of our youth and we become more or less ret rospective and live over the good times and happiness we enjoyed there We feel now that the club member ship is on a sound foundation that we can hold what we have but we want to see a generous increase before another year The older ones probably reason something like this there would be few if any that they know and that they are too old etc We are never too old

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Library of Congress1910

Image 2 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 20, 1910

AN AUTO RIDE I To Boston and Back in a Packard Cr The writer recently enjoyedhere may be added all the superlatives to be found in the dictionarya trip to Boston and return in a Packard touring car The ride was one for pleasure and the rough places in the Maine roads of which there are many were gone over at low speed and at no time was the rate too rapid to prevent full enjoyment of the scen ery So parts of two days were taken each way to cover a distance that could easily have been made in one The route both going and com ing was through the towns and cities of Bel mont Searsmont Appleton Union Waldoboro Damariscotta Newcastle Wiscasset Bath Brunswick Freeport Yarmouth Portland Scarboro Saco Biddeford Kennebunk Wells York Kittery Portsmouth Newhuryport Lynn Cambridge and Boston I may have skipped a town or two but those named will indicate the route taken The start was made from Belfast at 7 a m on the coldest morning of the coldest day of the season The party were clad in winter clothing but fur coats would not have been amiss The wind was blowing a gale

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Library of Congress1922

Image 4 of Great Falls tribune (Great Falls, Mont.), January 10, 1922

GREAT FALLS DAILY TRIBUNE W M Bok Editor a Wanitn Managmr UenardC DMti Bustrws Managt IDITORIAL PACK r A Daily Bible Thought A LOVE FEASTBetter is a dinner of herbs love is than a stalled ox and hat r red therewith Proverbs 1517 J THE IDEAL NEWSPAPER A GREAT many persons know how a newspaper should be run much better than any newspa per editor can know it And they are free to make a present of their advice without money and without price to the newspaper men Thé latter receive such advice gratefully and generally ignore it We judge from a recent article in the Boston Herald that Monfield Storey a well known public writer and speaker of that city has been tell ing the public and the newspaper men just what sort of a daily news paper they ought to have and have not got in the city of Boston and the Boston Herald takes him to task about his opinions as follows He would not waste paper now so dear upon senselesscolored vulgarities This is the old issue of the colored comic in the Sunday newspaper What has been our American experience with it Time was when

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Library of Congress1850

Map of the Old Colony Rail Road with its branches & connecting roads, prepared under the direction of the Committee of Investigation, Jany. 1850, S. Dwight Eaton, Engr

Map of eastern Massachusetts covering the area from Boston to Wood's Hole and west to Providence, R.I. Shows drainage, place names and counties, and indicates mileage between stations. The Old Colony Railroad is double-tracked from Boston, south to South Braintree. The line was incorporated in 1844.

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Library of Congress1903

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 7, 1903

The Belfast Club of Boston THE FIRST ANNUAL MEETING APRIL 24th A SUCCESS A LIST OF THtSE PRESENT Friday evening April 24th at Hotel Vendome the first meeting of the Bel fast Club of Boston was held The event proved a far greater success than any one anticipated There were about 115 people present and many came hun dreds of miles for the sake of renewing old friendships and of joining the club There were representatives from Spring field Worcester New Bedford Provi dence It I and a few were from Bel fast Ninetyfive people were enrolled as members of the club The recep tion began at 030 the receiving group comprising these ladies Mrs Annie I McKeen Mrs Henry C Daniels Mrs Annabel Knight Mrs Mary K Dahl Miss Cora A Fames Miss Mary E Pierce Miss Flora A Burgess and Mrs John A Savage It was pleasing to see some of the older members of the party renew old friendships made 40 or 50 years ago and to hear them relate anec dotes of their younger days spent in Belfast The reception was very in formal and not much time had elapsed before both old and young were

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Library of Congress1905

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 7, 1905

MONTREAL AND QUEBEC Impressions of These Canadian Cities by an American Tourist Leaving Belfast on the 120 p m train Sept 27th we arrived in Portland at 635 and after a short stop there took a sleep er for Montreal over the White Mountain Division Well now a sleeper is all right but it proved to be a waker for me and I had a good chance to study the sky all night as I laid beside a window In the mean time others were sleeping 1 could tell this by a peculiar sound coming from some of the berths near me We were sidetracked at St Johnsbury Vt for a while waiting for the through train from Boston to Mont real We had been riding head towards the engine but after we were coupled on to the Boston train and started 1 said to my wife good Lord they are taking us to Moutreal feet first and so it was Well we were up and dressed early and had a good view of the country as we went speed ing along toward our destination We noticed that it was good farming land and very level for miles before we

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Library of Congress1911

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 3, 1911

jSEP TO LEAVE HIS VESSEL Mazerill Stays by the Dismasted r E Ayer His Wife and Baby ueJ ff Cape Cod The Schooner Ited into Boston Sunday 1 rJight of terror on a waterlogged iflt7 iTed vessel Mrs Jennie Mazerill jo of the twomasted schooner ife I n f Bangor and her 14monthsold i A Albert were brought to Boston iby tie steamer Bunker Hill which M the schooners boat off Cape I bert Mazerill and the crew of turned to the lurching craft after b 1 inferred the woman and child to l r Mrs Mazerill lost most of her when she reached the deck of the Eie t and her baby were drenched iit It was a terrible night and we choner would capsize any mo hl M Mazerill She was given hot t ourishing food and was placed k ts in one of the staterooms eatt in bed when the Bunker Hill her berth on the south side of T ar at 1030 a m was caught in the furious north Friday and the lurching and t he seas caused her to spring a he was wallowing about in a wild ght when the mainmast toppled it

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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 Congress1957

Image 8 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), March 9, 1957

Los Angeles Continued from Page One believe in them for several reasons For one thing the Rev White said I want to know what is hap j pening among my own people I do not find this in other papers For another thing I believe the Ne j gro newspaper is the articulate voice of the Negro in ways no other j paper at the moment can be For another thing the Negro newspaper is a Negro business I believe in supporting Negro busi ness Finally the Negro newspaper has been the instrument for pro ducing some great newspaper peo ple and they never would have de veloped otherwise The Rev White advised his con gregation that it can take any one of the reasons mentioned above as valid for your support of the Negro press Patronize Our Advertisers This man con give you dependoble delivery of THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE VMONITOR 4 an international daily newspaper Housewives businessmen teachers and students all over the world read and enjoy this international newspaper pub lished daily in Boston World famous for constructive news stories and penetrating editorials Special features for the whole fomily ___i The Christian Science Monitor One Norway St Boston

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Library of Congress1916

Image 10 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), July 7, 1916

AN OVERTURNED CANOE FOUND IN RALD MOUNTAIN POND TELLS STORY OF THREE MISSING ROYS Searching Party Organized to Ascertain the Truth of Their Dis appearance from their Homes in Blanchard on July Fourth Monson Me July 6Three Blanch ard boys Colby Fox Emery Packard and Parley Whitman are believed to have been drowned In Bald Mountain 1 pond at Blanchard on the Fourth of July Searching parties were out look ing for them today An overturned canoe in which Packards coat was found but otherwise no trace of them was found HEAVY SUIT BROUGHT AGAINST PROMOTER IN REORGANIZING UNITED STATES WORSTED CO Claimant of Maine Company Alleges Boston Banker Failed to Furnish Capital and Unsuccessful Concerns Were Unloaded on Ne w Organization Boston July 6A suit for J200000 agilnst Neal Rantoul a local banker for losses alleged to have been sustain ed through reorganization of the Unit ed States worsted Co of Maine was fil ed in the superior court today by E J Ilylan The claimant who is a manu facturer of woolen goods founded the United States Worsted Co of Maine In connection with the expansion of its working capital he alleges a plan of reorganization was agreed

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Library of Congress1903

Image 20 of The White Mountain echo and tourist's register (Bethlehem, N.H.), September 19, 1903

20 THE WHITE MOUNTAINS It Is hard to realize that within the mem ory of men still living the White Mountains were still undiscovered as a summer resort says the Listener in the Boston Tran script To put them on a low plane In the capacity of the producer of millions of dol lars annually for hotels and railroads they are a triumph of newspaper writing up They had of course been noted as natural features of New England ever since the English first settled in the Merrimack Val ley in the 16405 Then that omnivorous seeker of knowledge Rev Manasseh Cut ler of Ipswich and Timothy Dwight of Western Massachusetts and a Boston par ty containing such kindred spirits as Dr J Bigelow Dr Francis Booth F C Gray and Chief Justice Shaw explored them in the last years of the eighteenth century and the first of the nineteenth and the very fact that these journeyings are recorded in history shows that in the first half of the last cen tury it was about as rare for people to visit the White Mountains as it is now to go to Labrador or Greenland Thelr wonders bad been topographically set

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Library of Congress1851

Skeleton map of rail-roads between Cape Canso and St. Louis,

Shows railroads in operation or under construction and projected railroads in the northeastern United States and part of Canada.. Includes distance chart and insets "Map of rail roads in Massachusetts" and "Boston harbor & rail road termini." Scale ca. 1:3,375,000. LC Railroad maps, 79 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Same as G3711.P3 1851 .B6 (81-692879) AACR2

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