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Library of Congress1909

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 18, 1909

Nearly Three Centuries Of Temperance Agitation and Legislation in Maine16361909 BY FRANK W GOWEN NO 5 At the Grand Lodge session of the Maine Good Templars in Bangor in the spring of 1875 Mr George E Brackett of Belfast was elected Grand Secretary and he served the Grand Lodge in this capacity something over thirty years and at the time he retired from this office two years ago was the oldest Grand Secretary in point of service in the world Bro Brackett was one of the ablest and most popular Grand Secre taries the order has ever had in Maine and his name is widely known and hon ored For many years he has published the Maine Temperance Record and in all his noble work for our order and the cause of temperance he has been ably assisted by his wife In 1881 Hon T R Simonton of Cam den was elected Grand Chief Templar and as he was an able speaker his ser vices were in much demand throughout the State in addressing public meetings in the interest of the order Then came Mr B C Torsey of Winthrop who made a very excellent officer He was also a

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Library of Congress1911

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 23, 1911

FRANK W GOWEN Frank W Gowen widely known in temperance work and as a very active business man left Waterville last week to locate in Southern California Mr Gowen has been one of the most active workers in Maine for Prohibition by voice and pen and from a boy an earnest Good Templar in which organization he became very prominent He has held high office in this order in Maine also in the Supreme Lodge of the world having been Supreme Lecturer and organizer and visited many States in the Union in its interest also Canada and only a few years ago was sent to Europe twice in succession by the Maine Good Templars to represent them in the worlds sessions of the order Mr Gowen has also been engaged in the insurance business for many years and it is understood that he will engage in the same business in Cali fornia He is a gentleman of dis tinguished presence and will be missed in Maine but all of his friends throughout the State will wish him suc cess in his business undertaking on the r acuu tuasi COST OF LIVING THE SAME TODAY AS FORTY YEARS AGO In the

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Library of Congress1911

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 21, 1911

Stockton Springs Trust Company STOCKTON SPRINGS MAINE We have grown in Deposits over 42 and in accounts about 100 since April first last We respectfully solicit your banking business j We offer you the most modern banking facilities and the strongest connections in and out of Maine Deposits or withdrawals may be made by mail as well as in person We can now legally accept acounts in the names of two persons payable to either or the survivor Statement of Condition December 12 1911 of STOCKTON SPRINGS TRUST COMPANY RESOURCES Demand and Time Loans 1197089 Loans on Mortgages of Real Estate 817396 Loans on Collateral 77000 Stocks and Bonds 5410500 Expense Account 174904 Furniture and Fixtures 870C0 Cash Deposited in other Banks 744178 Cash on Hand 237970 Real Estate Owned 100000 8846037 LIABILITIES Capital Stock2500000 SurPlus 200000 Undivided Profits 292571 Demand Deposits 3L23659 Savings Deposits 2729807 _ 8846037 I We pay 4 h per annum on savings accounts Deposits received on or be fore the 12th of any month will draw interest from the first day of the same month Dividends payable on and after the first day of January and July H R HICHBORN President DIRECT0RS FRANK S BENSON

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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 19, 1915

GOuD THINGS From the Good Will Record A very interesting monthly is the Good Will Record published by the Good Will Publishing Co Hinckley Me George W Hinckley editor and we want our readers to enjoy some of the good things from the current issue as follows In Defence of the Old Farmer Said a Boston editorial in June Ap ply early and avoid the rush Not a bit too early to write to that old farmer up in Maine or New Hampshire to secure hat front room overlooking the country h and wide for the two weeks you are to spend in the country Allow us to remark that any old edi tor who will publish an old squib like that in his old newspaper is behind the times If any old quill driver should chance to write to us for a chance to rest his old baldpate in our attic while on his old two weeks rest in the country he would get it we would decline to board him or his old wife or any of his old sons or old daughters or his old sons inlaw or his old daughtersinlaw and all their old babieB until

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Library of Congress1917

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 4, 1917

MAINE ITEMS j Bath Women Knit For U S S ManleyJ j Bath Me Sept 23 The women of Bath are taking great pride in knitting for the U S S Manley which leaves Bath early in October When the ship leaves here she will have on board 110 each of sweaters mufflers helmets wrist ers and twice that number of socks Many people will be interested to know that after equ ppingthe drafted men with the articles there are still remaining 46 sweaters 50 helmets 90 pairs of socks 89 pairs of wristers and 59 mufflers Even with this supply there is demand for many more More knitters are needed at once especially to make the sweaters Portland Diver Finds Ring Robert Chase of Portland deep sea diver packed up his diving suit and went down to Beauchmont Point dived into 24 feet of water and recovered a 3000 diamond ring which had been lost by Mrs Alexander Biddle of Philadelphia a couple of days ago while she was waiting on the wharf for the Rockland boat He was submerged only four minutes When the ring slipped from her finger she ac curately noted the place it hit the

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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 Congress1919

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 2, 1919

Interesting Case of Miss Baird Sick Four Years Red Cross Worker Tells How She Qoi Well The case of Miss G I Baird of 30Glen ville Avenue Allston Mass may bring new hope and health to other sufferers who have stomach worms and do not know what is the matter A letter from this sufferer tells the story I have been sick almost two years had four doctors with little or no relief Some of the doctors said I had enlarged liver nervous indigestion too much acid in my system I i as so tired in the morning it seemed as though I could not get dressed and get to work 1 was grow ing thin every day went from 1311 to 111 1 was so discouraged I didnt know what to do One night about three weeks ago 1 picked up a paper and saw your Dr Trues Elixir family Laxative and Worm Expeller advertised 1 made up my mind 1 had worms and the next day bought a small bottle of Dr Trues Elixir and took rhree teaspoonfuls until 1 had taken the bottle 1 was surprised at the result pin worms some a finger long so much

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Library of Congress1894

Image 6 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), December 3, 1894

NEW AT THE BUSINESS SHE WAS A VERY NICE BUT A VERY FRESH TYPEWRITER GIRL She Wae So Interested In the Reporters Story That She Wanted to Stop Quite Often nnd Talk About ItHad to III Her Hair and Get Her Chewing Gum For n rgjortfT with hut little to write nnd plenof timo in which to write it 1 there is nothing more pleasant than to dictate a narrative to a cheerful type writer particularly If sho he young and have nice soft hair to distract the eye and well formed white fingers and be ex ceedingly pleasing Hut for a reporter with a long yam to write and a limited amount of timo to finish It thing3 some times have a different aspect Near the newspaper cflico is a typewrit ing office which many men frequent A new girl came there ono day last weeka real nice girl and an excellent operator hut she had never done that kind of work Isfore While she was sitting in the main room upon the afternoon of her first day a newspaper man came bustling in and Mrs 1 have you got anybody to take a two column story In a

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Library of Congress1902

Image 9 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), October 4, 1902

funny things How Newspaper Humor Has Grown and Changed The Short Joke is a Product of Recent Years JVlany Good Samples of Wit and Humor in Past and Present In the file room of The Baltimore American are the bound volumes of the paper dating back to 1773 writes W IX Nesbit Josh Wink in the Inde pendent Here the person who feels an interest in the study of the growth and development of newspaper humor In America may spend some musty dusty tjlIt doubtless enlightening hours Con sidered in the light of present day wit there was no newspaper humor a cen tury ago If we will but remember the mental attitude ot the strictly moraled people of those days we shall recall the fact that at that time any mani festation of humor was regarded as in tensely unregenerate if not wholly wicked w see in the historical novel of today much of the sprightly wit and brilliant conversation of the old colonial regime but it was not re flected in the papers of that time To get any newspaper humor to speak of tve mu t on down to about 50 years ago lien it began to

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Library of Congress1916

Image 6 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), July 10, 1916

daily KENNEBEC JOURNAL Entered at the Augusta Post Office a iSecond class mall matter ESTABLISHED 1825 Kaaotlee whatever will be taken of unsigned communications The Journal cannot be held responsi ble for the preservation or return of rejected communications Address all communications relating to subscriptions and advertisements to Kennebec Journal Company Publishers Augusta Maine Monday July 10 1916 Republican Nominations FOR PRESIDENT CHARLES EVANS HUGHES VICE PRESIDENT CHARLES W FAIRBANKS GOVERNOR CARL E MILLIKEN U S SENATOR Frederick Hale REPRESENTATIVES TO CON GRESS 1st DistLouis B Goodall 2nd DistWallace H White Jr 3rd DistJohn A Peters 4th DistFrank E Guernsey STATE AUDITOR Roy L Ward well A Misguided Friend Editor Kennebec Journal The Journal editorial of June 27 entitled the Right Course at Last has been read with considerable surprise by a wide circle of manufacturers and railroad men The editorial in question claims to reflect the publicity attitude of the newspapers to ward American industry In the present wage controversy between the railroads and the brotherhoods for example you say no safe dependence can be placed on the claims of either side and in the public interests you think the contestants that is to say these conflicting and unre

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Library of Congress1922

Image 2 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), October 6, 1922

Interesting Papers Read at the Opening Sessions of the Maine Press Association Continued from Page One feystcm Mr Burleigh spoke at the afternoon session and what hfe had to nav was of high value to hi s aud ience Nichols Chosen President Frank B Nichols of The Bath Times was elected President of the Maine Press Association at the morning session Thursday at the Au gusta House He succeeds Charles H Fogg of Houlton whose term ex pires at this meeting R T ratten of Bkowhegan was reelected secre tarytreasurer in spite of his modest ly expressed belief that SUowhegan had hadthe honor long enough and that It would be for the benefit of the association toelect someone else The first session of tho meeting was called to order shortly after 10 oclock by President Charles H Fogg who Immediately introduced Mayor Hanford L Fogg of Augusta Mayor Fogg said that It was an honor to gfeet such a gathering of represen tatives of the press and as great a pleasure to welcome them upon be half of the citizens of Augusta to the capltol city because when newspaper men gather there Is a spirit of good fellowship and also

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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 Congress1925

Image 12 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), April 27, 1925

STATE HOUSE Governor and Council Will Meet t 10 A M Thursday Mey 7 Comr Thomas Calls Attention To Principals Meet While this annual conference Is really for principals of schools we are pleased to Include an Invitation to superintendents and school com mitteemen says Dr A O Thomas State commissioner of education in a letter being sent out to principals of high schools and academies in re regard to the annual conference of principals of secondary schools which will be held at the State House on Friday and Saturday May o and 9 The program for this conference was recently published in the Ken nebec Journal It Is also hoped that we have a good representation of academy peo ple present as some questions will be up for discussion in which they are vitally interested continues Dr Thomas Our program includes an address bv Governor Ralph O Brewster also by Trof John M Brewer director of the Bureau of Vocational Guid ance Harvard University and Dr Emery N Ferriss Professor of Ru ral Secondary Education Cornell Vnlversitq Each of these out of state speakers will give two ad dresses and will be helpful other wise in the various discussions

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Library of Congress1926

Image 8 of The Washington daily news (Washington, D.C.), March 4, 1926

1 C Industry to Be Shown by Exhibits at Auditorium More Than 90 Firms to Show Washingtons Progress In Manufacturing Production Washington will have a chance to I see itself as an industrial center to yight Our industries will be shown in the exhibits at the Auditorium of the Second Annual Industrial Expo sition 200 Booths Two hundred booths covering 50000 square feet of floor space present a panorama of business life popularly and mis in the Capital takenly supposed to be engaged only in the business of government More than 90 manufacturing con And altho cerns are taking part the industrial side is being stressed 1 there will be displays of the work of Washingtons foremost painter and i sculptors as well The Public library will have exhibit uh will the an 0 e Play grounds Department and the various branches of the military service i Special Programs There will be interesting enter tainment programs nightly Concerts have been arranged by the Army Navy and Marine band Thompson will give a program Lout songs each day Amplifier of will carry the music to all parts of the Auditorium Nine pecial nughts have been designated beginning with Marine Night tonight

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Library of Congress1963

Image 2 of The Sidney herald (Sidney, Mont.), October 16, 1963

NewspaperPeople Affinity By Rosecoe Drummond More Americans are reading newspa pers more thoroughly than ever before There must be a reason Despite the decline in the total num ber of newspapers total newspaper cir culation in the United States today is at an alltime high There must be a reason The reason must have something to do with newspapersand people There is a special affinity between them between newspapers and people People must feel a great identity of interest with their own newspapers One of the reasons may well be that the printed word requires more of its read ers than any other media Readers get more out of newspapers because they put more of themselvesmore of their own thinkinginto their newspapers I do not speak disparagingly of other news media quite the opposite I think that radio and television reporting is a tremendous boon to our democracy Radio and television reporting greatly expands the surface of public know ledge In my judgement most newspapers greatly expand the depth of public know ledge Dictator Diem The latest clear act of dictatorship in South Vietnam where American boys are being asked to die fighting for the regime is the imposition of

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Library of Congress1917

Image 3 of The Daily Missoulian (Missoula, Mont.), September 30, 1917

10 rat ED Elaborate Program Devised for Newspaper Mens Pleasure IMPORTANT SPEAKERS 0 j i Piominent Journalists Will Address Associations Convention All Is In readiness for the annual meeting of the Montana State Press association which will convene in Missoula Wednesday for a fourday session which promises to be one of the best that has ever been held by the state editors From all over the state newspaper men will come to Missoula to attend the meetings From the number Of letters and inquiries received by the Missoula Chamber of Commerce it ap pears that nearly every newspaper in the state will be represented Program Interesting The program which has been an nounced after nearly two months of preparation by the committee in charge of the meeting is filled with addresses by prominent newspaper men of Montana and the northwest Every moment will be occupied by some live event and the editors have been assured a royal entertainment while in Missoula Already some of the delegates have arrived and a number more are ex pected in Missoula before the mect msß begin Many of the editors are dunning to see Missoula and the out yilig vttileys and have made arrange

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Library of Congress1916

Image 19 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), May 22, 1916

AUCTION SALES THIS AFTEKWOO ADAM A WKSCHLER AUCTIONEER TDUTIES SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED REAL ESTATE PREMISE8 419 O STREET SOUTHWEST By virtue of certain deed of truat duly recorded In Liber No 2758 folio 138 et acq of the land record of the District of Columbia and at the request of the party secured thereby we the underpinned truateee will eell at public netion In front of the premises m MOSDDAY THE TWENTY SECOND DAY OF MAY AD 1918 AT HALFPAST FOCR OCLOCK PM the followingdescribed land and premises situate In the city of Washington in the District of Columbia and designated as and being lot M of Benjamin Bradleys subdivision of the east IS feet of original lot 6 in square 503 aa per plat in Book 12 page 149 in the office of the surveyor for said District together with the improvements consisting of premises 419 O St sw Terms of aalc tinethird of the purchase money to be paid in cash and the balance in two equal installments payable in one and two years with interest at six per centum per annum payable semiannually from day of sale rtirei bv ded of trust mton the Dronertv sold

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