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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 29, 1906

NOTES FROM FLORIDA A Good Catch of Bluefish The Razorback Hog Orange Groves Moving South The Season Nearing its Close Correspondence of The Journal Palm Black Florida March 19 1906 A few days ago 1 went fishing with some friends Mr Leroy IIiscock anti his father who own the trim little launch Helen and as it was my first fishing trip in Florida you may he assured that the fact 1 came out high line was most gratifying 1 was awak1 ened from slumbers by my friends in 1 the early morning hours and crawlii g out of bed pulled on my clothes anil was soon breakfasting with them Af ter such a breakfast as befits a good fisherman we left on the little boat for a trip up the lake mid were soon on the fishing grounds The catching of blue fish here is considered a great sport and we landed a good catch We used a bright piece of lead with a bit of red flannel and while the hook was larger j than a mackerel jig it was on similar lines The fish bit readily and as we did all the fishing by trolling we bad to

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 5, 1906

u___ NEW IDEAS FOR HOME DECORATION HOUSEHOLD LETTER FROM JEANETTE VAN REYPEN Vkw York March 31 1906 It is said that the leader of New York society Mrs Astor never permits any change in the furnishings of her homes Once built and suitably fitted they are finished as permanently as the woodwork or walls of the house As wear makes renewals necessary articles are replaced in exact duplicate though to do this often involves fresh importation and great additional expense This is extreme conservatism but itcertainlv makes for repose and no one can be in touch with the best decorators here without realizing that the pendu lum is swinging toward simplicity and permanence in the selection of household belongings _ b 6 fashion harnessed Fashion has been put in harness and made to work not drive the busy women who preside over the household and who are responsible for its well The servant problem which is ever present and the need for time to devote to reading study and to social intercourse have combined to create a demand among intelligent women for furnishings and decorations that are not only pleasing to the eye but permanent and practical as well Even

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 28, 1906

V The Science of Agriculture How it Should be Taught The Work o University of Maine At the last meeting of aklo Conn ty Pomona Grange the topic for clis mission was should Agriculture la Taught in Our Public School Tin discussion was ably opened by Mrs L F Sukcfortb who said Agriculture without doubt is one ol oldest ot Human occupations Pursuer at first in a crude way by the barba rians of distant antiquity who dug holes 111 the ground with a sharpened stiek into which they diopped the seed it has progressed as man has progress ed in the scale of evolution until i has at last reached that plain where il is styled a science Put the science ol agriculture is young very young II is just beginning to lawn upon human knowledge that it K indeed a science and that it includes a knowledge ol man other sciences socalled I have no doubt but the man ot i it future who engages in agriculture toi liis lifes business wiil follow his occu pation in a scientific manner and will prepare himself by proper study and practice as do people ot other trades and professions 1

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 25, 1906

NEW YORK STYLES Fashionable Household Belongings About the Choice of Floor Coverings The Modern Bathroom Equipments House hold Linens A Word about Toilet Table and Couch Pillow Covers Correspondence of The Journal The tasteful woman who likes to make her home look artistic as well as comfortable will be delighted with the choice afforded this season in door coverings Of course fitted carpets are quite ont of date convenience and hygiene have combined to favor the use of rugs and carpets have been gradually discarded or made into rugs which is a practical way of disposing of them Certain firms take old carpets clean them and return them in the shape of rugs very attractive ones too woven of the yarns raveled from the carpets A Wilton rug is a safe invest ment and the most practical choice if the price of the Orientals which last a lifetime is prohibitive A good Wilton rug will last for years if treated with proper care Small geometrical designs are a feature this season and it is pos sible to procure shades of oue tone to match the color scheme of a room it desired Brown or wood color and green is a

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 1, 1906

A MODERN ELECTRIC PUNT The System at Kidders Point a Success It Furnishes Both Light and Power An important auxiliary lias just been completed to the great commercial en terprise inaugurated by the Bangor Aroostook railroad at their seaport ter minala thoroughly uptodate power plant where electricity is generated to supply lights and power for the various needs of the railroad and its allied in dustries at its three great wharves and the intermediate points The power house has been erected and the entire electric plant installed by Charles E Dole contractor of Bangor according to plans made by M H Rideout of Bangor Mr Rideout was also superin tendent of construction and has done the engineering work throughout THE POWER HOUSE The power house itself is situated at the head of the mammoth dock at Kid ders Point It measures 90 by 40 feet is most substantially built of brick with foundation of concrete and roof and door of concrete and steel The chim ney looms up as a sort of landmark to be seen from far and near its neat buffcolored bricks towering 95 feet above terra firma The engine room measures 40x20 feet is high posted and

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Library of Congress1907

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 17, 1907

womans experience 11 in After Year May Be Safe Jt H r William Pink Pill a Boon j trUsed to Keep the Blood j al I They Will Prevent Much I rni 1111 Mi8er approaches the age of forty he should pay particular v health The hard work j s lmve been accustomed to do aid excitement of her daily lessened or avoided as much s her health after she passes depend in a large measure j unman owes it to herself to i 11 n during these years It I Assary that the blood be ruh thereby enabling all 1m body to perform their Cor this purpose Dr Wil s have long been recognized medicine because of their hug and tonic properties Hannah A Lozier of 1151 Detroit Mich well illus i just been said Mrs Lozier the Auxiliary of the Masonic the Pullman Relief Corps igh Iftice in each The au statemeut may beabsolute be says king Dr Williams Pink Pills i ago after I had been suf vears from dizzy spells and s liicli were brought on by ied several medicines with Hie time became more irri m l weak At times I had iii could eat

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 24, 1907

TThnagree with you Probably poe tr Dr Shoops Health Cof doe 1 oifee is a clever conibiua I Ul cereals and nuts Not a Cl 4 P L I coffee remember in Dr VVeilth foffee ye lts ad is Closely Old Java and Mocha use i1vu stomach heart or kidneys 11 ffiv drinking try Health Cof Mime nourishing and satis c even for tlie youngest child f Montgomery Searsport R 11 i liellast I new nurse come that I en 1 Uei mild asked Mr Stiles a eplied Mrs Stiles but she I he had nothing but blue f and blue you know is Chios Iiuks for boys 1 t Because the stomach j f the essential digestants c lives are not properly bal it is this undigested food vss and painful indiges Indigestion should be Kodol is a solution of It digests what you eat t ileticiencies of the diges i nfoims to the National Pure Law Sold here by R H hat make is your automobile 10 JandorfLichenstein I iiownWittenmeyerBur j Billhover Gee Thats 1 I 11 of before Probably the names of the different i lve worked on it since I D Tribune Mtively be stopped in

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 31, 1907

hn o Johnson Continues His CF Reminiscences ist I left the Rebel ram ng for the mouth of the jver the two ships the i the Wyalusing with sig they were sinking and fleet inactive with no flag ship as to what to sii1 some fifteen minutes iv the flag officer seem imself and signaled the ad a long pole attached the outboard end of irpedo to go in and at i ae ram up and for near ae rest of the fleet lay i itched the futile efforts o approach the ram 1 perhaps be proper to er theSassacus nor the in a sinking condition ops were badly cut up i and the action of the improve the situation ri sue either could not or roach tile ram near vpiode the torpedo She arge ship and was known ami did not answer her Vdd to this thedemoral of her commander French who had been the Southfield which v the ram at Plymouth ns before and who evi cotten over his fright was slow she answered mptly and when the itempt to approach she l about to ram and the wardly slink away would again get on her v While

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 21, 1907

THE VETERANS POLL TAX In the Maine House Feb 7th on motion of Mr Skidmore of Liberty an act to amend Chapter 163 Public Laws ot 1905 relating to the exemption of soldiers and sailors from poll tax was taken from the table Mr Skidmore then addressed the House rs follows Mr Speaker in tabling this bill my purpose was to call the attention of the members of the House to the fact that this bill was treading ou dangerous ground that it created a class legisla tion that is it relieved from taxation a certain portion of onr people who were well able to pay The law relat ing to a poll tax by some is considered to be absurd and wholly wrong but as for me I do not think so It gives to those w ho are young and just coming on the held of action and who have not had the privilege that others have had to acquire property ou which to be taxed a better and more thorough knowledge of the plan and conditions of government Now there is a law on the statute books which this law calls attention to which exempted all soldiers

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 28, 1907

Maines herbalist Abandoned Farm Made to Pay Good Money You Can Smell His Catnip Crop Half a Mile Away Boston Sunday Globe The story of how William K Burgess of East Bucksport has managed one of Maines famous abandoned farms aud won prosperity and considerable fame from land that was cluttered with loose stones and iufested with pernic ious weeds deserves to be elevated into a treatise on agricultural economics and a place in the libraries of agricultural colleges Less than 20 years ago when Mr Burgess went to East Bucksport from a farm in Monroe Me he was rich in health and hope though poor in finan cial resources so when he had bought two adjoining tarms on the shores of Long pondboth of which had been cropped clear down to hard pan and undergone the process which Maine farmers term skinning until there was nothing left to skinhe found himself at 35 years of age without an available dollar in the world and hitch ed to a barren hillside farm which according to local report was not able to sustain a pair of rabbits The first thing which Mr Burgess needed was ready money Local ways of securing

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 7, 1907

PEIRCE BROS OF FRANKFORT Thousands of Tons of Granite Quarried from Mt Waldo The supply Inexhaustible Boston Sunday Globe 111 the directorate of the recently or ganized Panama construction company appear the names of John Peirce of New York and George Peirce of Frank fort Me Incase the contract is awarded to Oliver the Peirces will be identified with the heaviest of the subcontractors Their specialty will be the granite stone and construction work There are more Peirces down in Maine Hayward and Albert Peirce making four brothers iu all who have been almost literally brought up on granite representing a business started over half a century ago by their father the late George A Peirce but carefully improved enlarged and nour ished until the Peirce quarries are among the largest and most important iu the country While the Frankfort quarries are operated under several different names and corporate titles the great majority of the stock is all in the family John Peirce of New York who has attained fame as a contractor is the real selling agent of the Peirce granite and paving while George Peirce Hayward Peirce andAlbert Peirce see that the goods are delivered In 1853 while

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 20, 1907

LEST m FORGET Extracts from the Memorial Sermon to the Members of Kenesaw Post G A R in Eastside congregational Church Los Angeles California BY REV F S FORBES An old Hebrew patriot who with his companions was a slave in Babylon made a vow recorded in the 137th lsalm 5th and Oth verses which read as follows If X forget thee 0 J erusalem Let my right hand forget her shill Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth If X remember uot Jerusalem Above my chief joy More than two thousand years have passed since ttiese words were spoken Since that time many nations have risen and perished but no nation has ever died with old age 2s o nation ever died until the forces of patriotism first died in the hearts of its people It was unselfish patriotism coupled with righteousness that made of the He brew people the greatest uatiou of an cient times It is this same spirit of righteousness which has made this na tion what it is today This morning I do uot wish to dwell long on the past The past is the past Let the dead bury the dead

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 27, 1907

COME TO MAINE GOOD WORDS FOR OOR STATE AMD OCR CITY Tlie New England Homestead is pub lishing a series of articles on home industrial opportunities and promoting New England uplift and a recent issue contained the following articles which we take pleasure in reprinting COME TO MAINE DR G M TWITCHELL AUBURN ME Naturally the home seeker wants a good climate healthy conditions a productive and retentive soil naturally adapted to a variety of crops a strong positive moral sentiment and a frater nal sympathetic atmosphere Beyond this the thinking man will look to school houses and school privileges and churches and church attendance No man wants to locate in a malarial at mosphere whether it be physical or moral All these points should enter into the account 1 am convinced there is no State which today offers the substantial at tractions to be found in the State of Maine 1 would not be loyal to my native State did I not declare this I would not be true to myself did I not give good substantial reasons for my faith in the first place a granite soil insures certain qualities of water and peculiarities of disposition not to

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 11, 1907

PENOBSCOT PARK A BANGOR AROOSTOOK SUMMER RESORT The newest excursionist resort in all Maine is Penobscot Park in Stockton tiarbor Nature was wonderfully lavish with her charms and attractions when ahe fashioned the country round about Stockton harbor but it remained for the pushing of the Bangor Aroostook railroad down into that territory to the very waters edge to put all these nat ural delights within easy reach of ex cursionists Last year hundreds of parties great and small visited Stock ton harbor and declared that their out ing was one of the most instructive and enjoyable trips they had ever takeD This year the excursion facilities of the place will be added to considerably and it is safe to say that no other resort in Maine will offer a more genuine good time to its visitors than will Penobscot Park Stockton Harbor Stockton Harbor 33 miles by rail from Bangor is the seaport terminal of the Bangor Aroostook railroad Hera are truly gigantic wharves At Cape Jellison the alongshore dock measures 1750 feet with two others measuring 1600 by 200 and 1100 by SO feet giving a total waterfront wharfage of about 7000 feet Here too is the largest

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 25, 1907

A MESSA6EJE0 MAINE From Vermont and New Hampshire Li cense Making More Drunkards and Criminals At the recent New England Institute of the AV C T U at Hampton Beach N II Rev J H Robbins superin tendent of the Nea Hampshire Anti Saloon League spoke on the Dangerous Possibility He said There are in Maine calling for re submission the same two classes that we had in Vermont and New Ilamp shire five years ago calling for license laws 1 The men who want the liquor traffic licensed for their own profit or convenience men who are interested in the traffic as dealers or patrons For that class we have no message There is no common ground from which to start Between this classthe various allied liquor interestsaud the real temperance forces of the entire coun try there is uncompromising war The whole liquor problem and fundamental temperance principles are involved in this war The true temperance forces make no concessions and enter into no alliances with the liquor interests in town city tate or nation On the one hand it is a fight to give the bever age liquor traffic legal standing rights permanency and power On the

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 1, 1907

Mrs blooms Evanescent bonnet Miss La Fields millineryshop stood a little back frpm the main street in Dorset It held itself aloof as it were from the tinsmiths on one side and the Vienna bakery on the other both of which stood vulgarly close to the walk and to the curious eyes of the passers by But this only lent additional charm a certain mystery to the trim shop be tween them with its gay bonnets look ing demurely from the windows There was a certain delicious French iness about the place that went to the heart of every Dorset womanfrom the La before the little milliners name to the inimitable twist she could give a bow the spirit of France breathed forth As Mrs Bloom said Its like hevin a foreign native livin right long with us But truth must out There was nothing French about Miss La Field in fact it was well known that her father came from a small island west oi England whose inhabitants do not love the English and her mothers maiden name was OConnor the apos trophe being added when she came to the shtates How the La came was no mystery It

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 22, 1907

THE BEST TIMBER TREES How the Government Studies Them for thi Benefit of Forest Owners and the Public Timber owners and manufacturer will be interested in the results of thi detailed studies of commercial timbei trees which the Forest Service of thi V S Department of Agriculture ii making These studies are not confined exclusively to the wellknown trees oi recognized value but owing to thf rapid decrease in the supply of oui valuable woods include those cheapei woods whose properties are imperfect ly known Such studies of the tupelc gum and western hemlock have done much to overcome the common preju dice against these species and have add ea materially to their commercial im portance Commercial tree studies begin with the tree in the forest and follow it all the way to the finished product in the market The intermediate steps are many and complex but a little expla nation of them may not be amiss since they typify the field methods of a forest investigation The selection of a suitable place is the first step in this the aim is to ob tain average conditions as far as pos sible When the range of the species to be

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 29, 1907

MY MISSION I live for those who love me Whose hearts are kind and true For the heaven that smiles above me And awaits my spirit too For all human ties that bind me For the task my God assigned me For the bright hopes left behind me And the good that I can do 1 live to learn their story Who suffered for my sake To emulate their glory And follow in their wake liards patriots martyrs sages The noble of all ages Whose deeds crown historys pages And times great volume make 1 live to hold communion With all that is divine To feel there is a union Twixt natures heart and mine To profit by affliction Reap truth from fields of fiction Grow wiser from conviction And fulfil each graud design I live to hail that season By gifted minds foretold When man shall live by reason And not alone by gold When man to man united And every wrong thing righted The whole world shall be lighted As Eden was of old I live for those who love me For those who know me true For the heaven that smiles above me And awaits my spirit

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