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Library of Congress1903

Image 2 of Water Valley progress (Water Valley, Miss.), December 26, 1903

THE GOTHAM PRESS New York Journalism and the Men Behind the Papers A NEW NEWSPAPER ROW Editor Reid In Building n ew Home for the TribuneThe Movement Up TownA Comparinon of the Old and Xew New YorkWhitelaw Reid has no fear that Newspaper Row will move H r Reid as a Buildar uptown He has bought 30000 square feet of land next the old Tri bune building and will not only cover it with an addition but will extend the entire structure to the height of 19 stories This reconstruc tion will complete a cycle of building in New York It is a trifle less than one generation since the present moiine Duuamg oi ten siories wus erected It was the marvel of Its day and one of the highest office buildings ever erected in the oldfashioned way before the steel skeleton method was invented of raising skyscrapers Its lower story walls are as thick as those of a castle on the Rhine I remember well reading as a lad in the country the description of the Tribunes new building and wondering if l should ever see it The avid memory of youth reminds me how the architect proved that

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Library of Congress1907

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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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 9 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), July 12, 1912

r burgess 0besC PRODUCTS Vtomam WwmMw WFWJNf ruQUpMjwT PORTLAND PORTLAND VARNISH STAINS A paint for every purpose indoors and outof such exceptional quality that it oSMkaitnrf You will practise economy jdiftd acliieve the very best re sults possible IF you will ask 5for POR I LAND goods when you want anything in the paint line Dealers all over Maine carry these QUALITY tfoods Insist on them it is distinctly to your advantage __ J EYES TESTED AND GLASSES FITTED Broken Lenses end other repairs while you wait C H RUSSELL OPTOMETRIST AND OPTICIAN 177 Water St Up Stairs Tel 2434 5 remo cigar Jjaain and oJcain MOTHtfl AM PHiii iJAbi I have oiways used uticura ijoap and no other or my baby and lie has never had a sore of any kind lij does not even hafc an most babies do I f 1 that it b all owing to Cuticiira Soap for he is iny and healthy and when five monilir old on a trizo in f brhy eldest It makes my heart ache to go Into so many lomc3 md see sweet faced baby ruth tin whole top of it b ad a solid niis3 of scurf t

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Library of Congress1893

Image 6 of The Progress (Shreveport, La.), December 23, 1893

C D BICES Ed and Prop SREVEPORT A KAISIR WILLIAMS preposterous egotism provokes univeal aw v among foreigners but to the German nation it is rather too serious a mat ter to laugh at A capital of 52000000 is invested W in the nursery interest in 172000 acres of land In all horticultural a pursuits the entire capital is esti bi mated at over 100000J0 by the tt sensus of the agrioulturai depart is mont P1 A registered letter that was re w ceived at the Portland Maine post ii office the other day bore a stamp ofi the 4 denomination It would have gone for the usual ten cent fee and t postage The stampcollecting fad H was suggested as an explanation the tl stamp that had been used being re garded by enthusiasts as more valua m ble than an uncanceled one b TILE smokeless powder is not prov o01 ing such an unadulterated success in tc Europe as was looked for It is said a that at least 500 Italian steel field j pieces have been ruined by the d use of this new explosive If field n piece are thus destroyed in ordinary if practice with

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Library of Congress1899

Image 19 of The Anaconda standard (Anaconda, Mont.), April 30, 1899, (Morning)

BURIED CITIES LAYER UPON LAYER Rev J L Thomas M A F R G S Describes the Remarkably Interesting Discoveries Made by Explorations in Palestine London April 20The search for the hidden archaelogical treasures of the Holy Land goes on with unflagging en ergy and with the earnest support cf the sultan who so far from opposing the work that Christians are prospect ing in his territory regards them with favor Since the issue of the last fir man the agents of the Palestine explo ration fund have continued with fresh vim the work that they have so muc cessfully carried on during the past few years Their explorations have proved conclusively the important fact that a great mound that has been un der cultivation for centuries and which is called TellelHesv is identical with the Amorite city of Lachish Dr Bliss has demonstrated that TellelHesy consists of the debris of several cities many times destroyed and rebuilt The first town was built it has been proven as long as 2000 B C and the last it is supposed was erected in the fourth cen tury before the birth of Christ The remains of some nine cities in all exist

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Library of Congress1875

Image 4 of The Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, La.), March 17, 1875

S ALEXANDRIA and Grand ore packet Coompy Weekly Tuesday Packet T I FINq ND PAST PASSENGER JOHN ITTENNMaster ED FU K Clerk UTTILLr AKE REGULAR TRIPS V taking freight for Fort DeRuasy IBarbins Normass Pinelille Alexan dria Grand Ecore and all intermediate landings For freighter passagehav ing irperioracconmlfOtridn APPLY ON BOARD GgIPE STARLE NELS TITLOR Proprietor CORNER OF THIRD and DESOTO STREETS ALEXANDRIA LA ARRIAGES BUGGIES andA HORSES TO LET IO 0SS EPT by the DAY WEEI 1ONTl The STABLE is the LARGEST and L IOST COMFORTABL4 in the STATE iParticular attention paid to SIIOSES left on KEEP or for BALE To Drovers iPLEKNDID AT LE PES Will rent STALLS by DAY or WEEK FOR HORSES IitoSks CAn lTAdh Sf L idES and t I i iARNESS MiLLINERY STORE AVING PURCHASED THE MIL i linery Store of tihe late Mrs Gr Sullivan situated on SEClOND ortner of JOHNSTON St respectfvlly inforei the publc aptl pa tronsof th estabslihmuept that they will continde to chrry It di inthesame style and line of b siness They have ý1 aredeyylýpleL he e stock af goods td imawal s i cad continue Xo keep 6 1A0S ASHINABLE DRESS GOODS Ptf BLL STLE8 LACES TULILES

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Library of Congress1911

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

The Story of a Man Who Made Good BY HARRY LEE SNYDER From the National Magazine About ten oclock in the morning of the first day of April the high cost of living landed h solar plexus blow I had just paid my good German landlady for my preceding weeks board and lodging and she had remarked apologetically Pota toes costs so much an meat is so high once that it is 1 must ask you for ten dollars every week already And I had been paying only seven I went to my office and sat down at my desk to think things overa not alto ether pleasant or wholly profitable task was a lawyer My honest old black smith fatherhaving in mind nothing but the thought of securing my futurehad made numberless sacrifices that I might be educated and his dearest wish had been to see me cozily established in my chosen profession Within a week after my admission to the bar he died and I found myself alone in the world for my mother had passed away some years be fore As I sat at my desk that morning 1 fell to thinking of my fathers last words

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Library of Congress1922

Image 2 of The North Mississippi herald (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.), March 24, 1922

JOHN HORAN Lawyer CRIMINAL AND GENERAL PRACTICE Office Oppicite Pot Office WATER VALLEY MISS C W JOHNSON Civil Engineer Land Survey Farm Drainage WATER VALLEY MISS iMiiiiiiimiitiiiiiiiniiiiitiiitiiiiiiiiiiiii W A SPEARMAN Dentist Office hour 8g m to S p m Over Harkins Store MAIN ST WATER VALLEY Llilillitlllllllllllltlllllllililliiiiiiiiiiiit J L HARRIS AttornevatLaw Will practice in all the Court Office on Wood Street WATER VALLEY MISS Dr P L BERRY Dental Surgeon Phone 199 Over Poctoffice WATER VALLEY MISS lllimillllllllllllllHIIUHHIlIinilllHHI W I STONE J P STONE STONE STONE Lawyers Will Practice in all Court Water Valley and Coffeeville imiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiijiiiiiHi DR J B LONG Dentist OAKLAND MISS IIMlIIIMItliltllllliUmilllllllllfllllillll 6R6 cures Chills and Fever To Stop h Cough Quick take HAYES HEALING HONEY a cough medicine which stops the cough b healing the inflamed and irritated tissues A box of GROVES OPENTRATE SALVE for Chest Colds Head Colds and Croup is enclosed with every bottle of HAYES HEALING HONEY The salve should be rubbed on the chest and throat of children suffering from a Cold or Croup The healing effect of Hayes Healing Honey in side the throat combined with the healing effect of Groves OPenTrate Salve through the pores of the skin soon

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Library of Congress1904

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 29, 1904

A Letter and its Result So thats the way the land lies is it asked Ivy Lyle The sensitive face under the big roselined sunliat was very white Her lips quiveied a little The bands that held the vagrant sheet trembled 1 thought said the girl to herself I hadnt begun to carein that way I was only becomingattracted But the shockthe disillusion When she had started out an hour ago for her usual brisk morning walk along the crisp shelving sands she had been one of the most indifferent light hearted of girls She was done with college and the two years of foreign travel that had succeeded school as a sort of polishing process She had per fect health and misty di earns of all the veiled future held in its keeping She had aesthetic tastes and her skill in athletic sports was the admiration of her less vigorous girl friends She had been having a beautiful time down at this gay unconventional resort on the Michigan coast And nowwell tem porarily it seemed that her pleasure was spoiled And in her heart she knew that she must have been beginning to think too much of the man

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Library of Congress1908

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 5, 1908

Naval Events in Hampton Roads Continuation of the Story of the Cumber land and the Merrimac By Oapt John O Johnson of Liberty In my last I left the Cumberland sunk the Congress on fire and the Merrimac having accomplished her work of de struction for that day and flushed with victoryhad retired behind Sewells Point with the intention of completing on the morrow the entire destruction of the Union fleet What wild excitement what grief what anxiety what terrible forebodings for the morrow possessed the Union fleet when night fell on that ever to be remembered 8th day of March 1862 can never be described On shore and afloat all was panic confusion and consternation It was by all odds the darkest night for the Union cause during the war of the Rebellion The Minnesota hastening to the relief of the Cumberland and to participate in the fight against the Merrimac had grounded within two miles of Newport News remaining a helpless spectator of the sinking of that noble ship and the burning of the Congress The frigate St Lawrence eager to succor her con sort had also grounded near the Minne sota The Roanoke like the others on

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Library of Congress1909

Image 2 of Judith Gap journal (Judith Gap, Mont.), June 11, 1909

LET ME SHOW YOU THE BEST IN THE JUDITH LAND DISTRICT It will PAY YOU To see Me Now RELINQUISHMENTS HANDLED Thorbahn THE JUDITH GAP JOURNAL S J SMALL Published every Friday in the Journal htiilditiK Judith Cap Menuher county Montana Subscription rate f20ii a year iu advance other wise f250 Yearly advertising rate 20 cents an inch Short time rate 35 cents an inch each insertion Entered as secondclass matter Decent lier 111 90S at the postoflice at Judith Gap Montana under the Act of March 3 1S79 Marion Small IHsinkss Masai i n WATCH MONTANA GROW Butte Miner Fiftylive Riant steam plows are turning over new sod in Fergus county at tlie rate of over 1000 acres daily says the Democrat published at Lewistown It is such little items as this quoted that tell the story of Montanas marvelous agricultural development Two or three weeks asm the Miner referred to a comment from a paper published in Wibaux that nearly Mi steam plows were at work within a short radius of that town It is almost impossible for the res ident of Butte who does not travel over the state to realize how rapidly Montana is being settled

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), January 26, 1895

FOR SALE One hundred and sixtyfive ar pents of land just below Perrys lridte having a front of 51 arpenrts on the Vermilion river by a depth of 31 arperlts i his property is intersected by the tiubli road leading directly to Perry nid A hIevilie has several beautiful building sites is fincly wooded and will make a rich sugar larinm It is partly improved having considlerable feucing uponr it a dwellinz horuse anid other buildinfgs Terms Cash or time grantid as putr chaser deirles Arv lurther information may be had by applying to Home I cuir or ED wARIS GREEE attYs Abbeville Augut 4 1894 NEW YORK For 1894 DAILY SUNDAY WEEKY 6pars 1 cts 20 pages 4 ts 8 or I 1page 2 c Aggressive Republican Jlournal Of the Metropolis A NEWSPAPER FOR THE MASSES Founded Doeember 1st 1i67 Circulation ar 100000 Copies DAILY Tim Parss is the organ of no fac tion pulls no wires has no animosties to avenge The most remarkable Newspaper Success in New I ork The Press is a National Newspaper Cheap news vu gr sensation and trash find no place In the columns of lIm Pxiss has thebrightest Editorial page in New

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