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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 Congress1925

Image 3 of The Carbon County news (Red Lodge, Mont.), April 9, 1925

READ YOUR NEWSPAPER TO GET THE TRUTH SAYS COLLEGE PROFESSOR Prof Joe Ashlock of the Journalism Department of the State College of Washington Tells Over Radio in Interesting Speech How to Read Your Newspaper For Best Results Reading Your Newspaper to Get the Whole Truth Every day the newspaper presses of the country put out enough papers to enable each person in the land to read the news of the whole world said Prof Joe Ashlock of the State College of Washington journalism de partment speaking over radio K F A E the other right on How to Read Your Newspaper You may read the news of your heme town of the state nation or foreign nations This news coming from round the earth is tossed on your doorstep morning and evening Since the earth is large the news of the earth its nations and people is vast in quantity and variety No one person can read it all One who tries is apt to become bewildered couraged he may quit Dis Ill almost every neighborhood a few will be found who practically never look at the newspaper Several s for this might be suggested reason A prevalent one is

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Library of Congress1876

Bureau of Refugees, Freemen, and Abandoned Lands. (To accompany H. Res. 128.) Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Assistant Adjutant General of the Army in charge of the late Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, and recommending such legislation as will enable the officers of the Treasury Department to make new settlements in favor of certain colored claimants. June 9, 1876. -- Referred to the Select Committee on the Freedman's Bank. June 20, 1876. -- Recommitted to the Committee on the Freedman's Bank and ordered to be printed

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Library of Congress1858

Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean : ordered by Jeff' Davis, Secretary of War to accompany the reports of the explorations for a railroad route

Very detailed map of the United States west of the Mississippi River indicating drainage, relief by hachures, cities and towns, forts, trails, wagon roads, and routes of exploration. An important map of western expansion, it utilized and lists 45 major exploration and mapping reports from the Lewis & Clark to the U.S. General Land Office Surveys.

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Library of Congress1873

Territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean; originally prepared to accompany the reports of the explorations for a Pacific railroad route

Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. "Railroads corrected June 5th 1873." This printing of the map includes the extension showing a portion of Canada compiled and drawn in 1871. Shows routes and dates of expeditions and surveys. Includes list of "Authorities" and inset "Territory of Alaska." Scale 1:3,000,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Designed to show "Milt. posts underlined in red color." LC copy not colored. Vault AACR2

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Library of Congress1858

Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean; ordered by Jeff'n Davis, Secretary of War to accompany the reports of the explorations for a railroad route

Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Second bar scale glued on. Shows Indian tribal locations, military posts, routes and dates of expeditions and surveys. Includes "Authorities." Scale 1:3,000,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in color to show boundaries, in red and blue ink and pencil to show place names, base lines, railroads and railroad exploration routes. Vault AACR2

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