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Library of Congress1875

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

PIEOPLE 1EW 0 0hEA Grand Ecore Packet Compy Weekly Tuesday Packet THE FINE A 1TAST PASSEGER TEAMER BRA JOHNSON JOHN ster El BLU Clerk a t1TILTt01F REGULAR TARIP t VV tafdrtt eikslt for Foit Debussy Barbins Normans Pineville Alexan dria Grand Ecore ann all Intermediate landings tI flgilttor passage hav ing supeW r Rio moo ations APPLY ON BOARD EOLtPSl ST ABLE f NELS TA LOR Proprietor t CORNERl OF THIRD and DESOTO STREETS ALEXAWDRIA LA 1 C ARRTABUU R and HORSES TO LET HORSES ITT by the DAY WEEK h19NTlI The STAB the LARGEST and MOST COMFORTABLE 1 inthe STATE 4 I Paftreilac attentionr p a d tp HORSES leftoa KEEI for BAI4E T To Drpvers SPLENDID KULE PE S Will rent STALLS by DAY or WEEK Q I HOR SES HORSES CARRIAGES BUGGIES and HARNESS MLINERY STORE I sV1 TAi1Y 1II1IY HZ ATG PUtRCI1ASED THEIIIL iineyy Store of the late Mrs C Sullivanaiugtc n SECJ corner of JOURSTON St rebpeatftllyinforin he public and pa trons of the establlishment that they will continue to carry it on in the same style pt1lineof Rapne Thaeybaho alreadyreilenishled the seelf gbads and maidittiae and contimue to keep ADIlES FASHIONABLE DCRSS G000Q o

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Library of Congress1928

Image 4 of The Ronan pioneer (Ronan, Mont.), December 13, 1928

Hmm for Christmas Specially low vacation tame uu convenient train terr lea bring Chrietmae at Home within your reach How glad the Mbs will be to tee you Yarn yl OmbTMi tor Tickets on tale Dec 19 to 23 inclusive Return limit Jan 71929 Rates between all points in Montana Wash ington Idaho and Oregon Ask Tear Aaart NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY IfMHIfIgMMIfMgUM A C RETZ UNDERTAKER LAKE COUNTY CORONER Licensed Embalmer Represented by A M STERLING CO RONAN MONTANA A O SKOGEN Watch Clock and Phonograph Repairing Ronan Montana DR E J FRENCH PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Office at Residence RONAN MONTANA DR A K RESNER PHYSICIAN SURGEON Eyes Tested and Glaasea Fitted leaidence and office one block South of Ronan Drug Store RONAN MONTANA JOHN P SWEE LAWYER ractlce in State and Federal Courts and before V S Land Offices Office first door west of Ronan State Bank RONAN MONTANA DR J H HEIDELMAN PHYSICIAN SURGEON Office and residence two blocks South of Ronan Drug Store RONAN MONTANA M M TWICHEL UNDERTAKER LICENSED EMBALMER Represented by Lemire Bros Ronan Mont HIDES WOOL FELTS Ship direct We pay the highest market price We also carry a full Une of Garden Tools

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Library of Congress1875

Image 4 of The Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, La.), March 24, 1875

ALEXANDRIA PEOPLES INEW ORLEANS and Grand Ecore Packet Oompy Weekly Tuesday Packet TiE FIKE AND FAST PASSENGER STEAMER B ISII JOHBNSON JOHA HIF at aster ED BURK1 Clerk T ILLN11fAKII REGULAR TRIPS taking freight for Fort DeRussy Barbins Normans Pineville Alexan dria Grand Ecoreand all intermediate landings For fraght ot passage hav ing superior accommodations APPLY ON BOARD ECLIPSE STABLE AGES TAILOR Proprietor fSRKER OF THIRD and DESOTO STREETS ALVXANDRIA 1A c t s A BUGGIES and a HORSES TO LET HOlSES IEPT by the DY WEEK MONTH The STABLE Is the LARGEST and MOST COMFORTABLE in the STATE ltPPttcular attention paid to HORSES left on KEEP or for SALE To Drovers SPLENDID MUZE PEJS Will rent STALLS by DAY or WEEK FOR HORSES HORSES CARRIAGES BUGGIES and HARNESS AL 7Y r8 on JHAV9 P022 AZE MILLINERY STORE Ila i MAlI t OMAIT JJAVING PURCHASED THE MIL linery Store of the late Mrs C Sullivan situated on SECOND corner of JOHNSTON St respectfully inform the public and pa trons of the establishment that they will continue to carry it on in the same style and line of business They have already replenished the stock of goods Id materials and continue

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Library of Congress1918

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 26, 1918

The Kind You Have Always Bought has borne the signa ture of Chas H Fletcher and has been ma e under his personal supervision for over 30 years AUow no one to deceive you in this Counterfeits Imitations and Justasgood are but Experiments and endanger the health of ChildrenExperiencejagainstExperiment The Kind You HaveAlways Bought In Use For Over 30 Years From Belfast Boys in France Amos P Lord of this city has received the following letter from his son Ray mond who is with the American Expe ditionary f orces in France Dear Father Just received a letter from you which has been a long time coming and I was very much pleased to hear from you I am still alive and kicking although the last two weeks I thought I was booked for some other land We have been over the top twice and you cant imagine what a fellow goes through when he is dodging machine gun bullets shells and every other weapon used in warfare I came out unscathed but I guess it was only luck Believe me you see some awful sights on the battle field but when you are in action you dont pay any

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Library of Congress1900

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 24, 1900

NEWS OF THE WEEK Maine Matteks A great section of the estate of the late Jen SamuelF i Hersey was w illed to the city of Bangor for edr rational use Eighteen years before the testator had made his will a committee of the city council called upon totix tiie valuation fixed the value of the timber lands which he devised in trust to Bangor at 810108842 Six teen years later and two years before by the terms of the will the property could be divided the state assessors placed tiie valuation at 835378187 or 31200343 more than tiie valuation lixed by tiie trustees of the estate and the city council committee It is not surprising that the city is taking steps to secure its right to tin timber lands At tiie annual meeting of tiie Wo mans Aid Society of the Eastern Maine General Hospital at Bangor May 13th these officers were elected for tiie com ing year Pres Mrs Henry Lord 1st vice pres Mrs IN B Denio 2d vice pres Mrs K W Sawyer treas Miss Mary 11 Men ill sec Miss Jennie 1 Pickering The reports of tiie officers showed the hospital to he in a

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Library of Congress1919

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 19, 1919

uktte Gives Way to Pool at AixLeBains tiling casino at Aix which is leased by the Y M C A the me of skill has replaced the French game of chance They the Yankee soldier to come to Aix but one taste of Y and he had to be hired to stay away THE T SOUGHT SERVICE NOT FAME SAYS GEORGE W PERKINS War Work Finance Committee returns home and fully on monumental and efficient organization d by Y M C A for service to A E F fPkins or iNew York finance committee of Iouncil of the Y M turned from Europe over four months in ugh investigation of by the Y M C A ins report is an im of tlte prodigious 1 by the great organi nions in the war land ami friends of the As well feel that its big i nr Jn his summary I ribute could be paid to Y M C A than that iig paid by the Army either taking over or iing in the work of ularging the activities e Y M C A at the work in Europe a ice was signed it was nor practical to rs at military

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Library of Congress1961

Image 1 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), March 25, 1961

THIS IS NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEEK Patronize Our Advertis P A V iP1 J ackson Gs Advocate VOLUME XIVNUMBER 21 JACKSON MISSISSIPPI SATURDAY MARCH 25 1961 PRICE TEN CENTS President Salutes National Negro Press Week DUKE UNIVERSITY TO ADMIT NEGRO STUDENTS __l NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION MAKES PLAN TO DEDICATE FOUR HUNDRED ACRE TRACT FOR HOMES FOR TENNESSEE NEGRO SHARECROPPER FAMILIES Tract To Be Known As National Baptist Convention Freedom Farm Farm Seen As First Attempt To Put Into Practic J H Jackson Plan Of Racial Self Help A ChicagoAll arrangements for the purchase of this farm were completed last week and it is now in the possession of the National Baptist Convention U S A Inc Dr J H Jackson president an nounced that there will be a re ligious service edication on the land this week The farm is lo cated near Mason Tenn in Fay ette County Two new four room houses are now in the process of being constructed and the other four houses are being repaired The farm will be ready for occu pancy by March 21st The farm can accommodate at least seven families The first preference will be given to the residents of Tent

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Library of Congress1902

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 17, 1902

I MOUNTAINS OF OREGON tirape and Other Beautiful i u aeade Bane Mounts Hood I Helen Uie Springfield Republican jive passed their lives t i l Washingtons birth iutlissolubly associated i ice with cold winter id naked trees and agen filiation But even in a Naturelover though iay prohibit woodland amis and realizes with eh that life is still there ati tlie snow or ice or1 tae pulsing current still but lelt and realized To iheied ill by a glorious witn the air warm and meadow lark singing pti ol Ins cheery little inspiration to a tender It in mined to climb lort i 11joy tlie mild sunshine limy spring air view the uriy and gather some i e beautiful Oregon ml them 8501 miles to Mass cars landed me at the i t where the long flight the top of the heights evergreen whose dark much delight in this climate Step by step iw ith plenty of resting way the summit was it with the exertion of i step is a delight With f building the long flight has been content to let and the overarching mon 11 rest are there in all their tidiness and beauty Ail cssgrown

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Library of Congress1903

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 27, 1903

UP IN MAINE SAYINGS AND DOINGS IN THE PINE TREE STATE WIALM IN AN ALDER SWAM A Waldo county man sends the Ban go r News a story about a neighbor of his who is making money from an al der swamp which has an area of no more than ten acres The land was low and mucky and very wet Except for large crops of mosquitoes the prod ucts of this piece had been hardly worth recording The purchaser paid two dollars an acre for the lot or 20 in all and at once took possession by fitting up and moving into an aban doned farm house which stood on a knoll at one corner of the swamp the only dry piece of land in the pur chase He proceeded to map oft his tract in true forestry style planning to cut one acre every year and to proceed in that ratio until at the end of ten years he should come back to his origi nal lot In this manner he has kept at work cutting his alders in June and trimming out and peeling the larger and crooked sticks to be made into rus tic furniture during

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Library of Congress1908

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 17, 1908

THE CALL OF THE SEA Capt John Hill a Native of Maine After 25 Years of Ranch Life Returns to Salt Water Spokane Wash November 27 After a quarter century of struggle against the never ceasing call of the sea during which he was a rancher at Wardnerin the heart of the Coeur d Alene mining district in northern Idaho east of Spo kane Capt John Hill 76 years of age has decided to pass the evening of his life on salt water He is going to Puget Sound thence down the coast to southern California back to San Francisco sail ing thence around the Horn to the north Atlantic coast where he put out of Port land harbor for the gold camps on the Pacific 57 years ago Captain Hill sailed on foreign waters and on the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans 36 years before coming to the Spokane country and he knows every rock and inlet reef and shoal between Halifax N S and the northern straits of Alaska and now that he has plenty of money as the result of a satisfactory settlement out of court with a mining companyafter seven years litigationfor damages to his ranch

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Library of Congress1952

Image 5 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), March 15, 1952

orklng Against Each tlPTNyiu Pa from the Louisville CourierJournal Home Economics Continued from Page One various discussions concluding j with the subjects Pertinent Prob lems in Teaching Home Econom Visit The Home Dining Room D W Robinson Prop For Service Comfort and Tasty Food 400 N Farish Dial 49455 REMEMBER A Message Said With Flowers Is Well Said and Boots Flower Shop Wedding Designs Corsages and Many Other Famous De signs Call any time Dial 542 Nite 26927 817 North Farish St Jackson Miss ics and Organizing An Effective Home Making Program for Adult Attending the conference were representatives of Colleges and Universities and Education De partments and Organizations from seventeen states which included Alabama Arkansas Delaware Dis trict of Columbia Florida Geor gia Kentucky Louisiana Mary land Mississippi Missouri North Carolina South Carolina Okla homa Tennessee and Texas The Colleges and Universities represented were Alabama A M Tuskegee Institute Arkansas A M V N Howard University Dela ware State College Florida A M Georgia State College South ern University Grambling College Morgan State College Maryland State College Tougaloo College North Carolina Coliege Langston University State A M College S C Tenn A I University Prai rie View A M

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Library of Congress1903

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 24, 1903

JIRS ELIZA BECKETT HUNNEWELL llah Attended Campiueetlns fr 73 year Mrs Eliza Beckett Hunnewell whose pleasant home is on the corner of Charles and Park streets in this city where she and a sister ftnd niece live together is supposed to bear the palm for constant and regular attendance upon the campmeeting of the Metho dists in eastern Maine Mrs Ilunnewell began when these annual gatherings were held in Liucoln ville and afterwards went to Bucksport yearly until 1848 when a campmeeting was held at Islesboro at which a com mittee was appointed to select a per manent location East Xorthport was chosen and in J une of the following year the Wesleyan Grove Campmeeting Association was formed land purchased on a shore site and tlie place named Xorthport Camp Ground Mrs Ilunnewell was present at the organization and the first camp meet ing in the new grove and has beer a zealous participant in all the services there ever since This year therefore will round out the 73d of this camp meeting devotees uninterrupted service in these first temples of the Lord Mrs Ilunnewell was born in Orono Xov 12 1814 Her father was William Beckett a captain of

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Library of Congress1902

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 29, 1902

VOPLE Belfast Young Home I Mil 11 21 1902 Jg when we awoke rut soon cleared oft in having the finest ill here and Athens to nmere on board in good ft six hours later than d time of departure That ii in this part of the world where time seems to count as merely made to kill Sunday Vl a good rest and on account of p extreme cold were not on deck all y but saw the site of ancient Troy mu the Asiatic shore It was beautitul coming through the Dardanelles about sunsVt At the town of this name we stopped to land a freight of artichokes and beans and to have our health certi ficates approved We awoke at six the next morning to find ourselves about to drop anchor in the llosphorus oppo site the sevenhilled city of Constantine with the star and crescent on all sides t was a little cold and dither foggy so we did not hurry to see lie entrance in to the harbor which has been so enthu siastically descrilied by many Gradu ally however the minarets appealed through the vapors one by one and the domes of the mosques

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Library of Congress1901

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 24, 1901

VACATION ON CAPE COD Lo on a narrow neck of land Twixt two unbounded seas I stand Quaint Cape Cod Even its name has i ilavor of oddity about it which illus j dates the grim humor of the Pilgrim I delegation selecting it Fishing in its neighboring waters the party decided i it the first fish caught should give tie to the new found cape and up j on the bottom speedily whisked a jnodly codand Cape Cod was im irdiately christened into existence arcely more than live miles in width any part it extends out from the uinland or upward of sixty miles d curves inward sixty more its in land sliores washed by the waters of c of the most picturesque bays known the world while its outer coastline esents a harrier to the broad Atlantic lieli rolls in magnificent surfbeats eaiust it On the Atlantic side the n ation of which I write was spent It goes without saying that in choos ig the cape for a summer vacation ne is governed by a thorough love for ocean its changing moods its vast ess and 1 know of no better place on our coast to satisfy

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Library of Congress1901

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 28, 1901

NEWS ROTES James M Smith near Athens Ga sold his cotton crop 2o00 balesfor 100 000 Fourteen women received the doctors degree last year at the University of Zurich Congress has adopted the slowsand system of filtration for the water sup ply of Washington Emeralds have been discovered in Arizona and it is said in North Caro lina They are however very small A few days ago at Littleton N H the mercury changed from 40 below to 40 above inside of twentyfour hours It has been found in India that in oculation against rinderpest will protect an animal for a period of seventy or eighty days Iron lands showing more than 7000 000 tons of ore have been leased in Northern Minnesota by the American Steel and Iron Company Arkansas legislators could not decide whether the State flower should be an apple blossom or passion flower and re ferred the matter to the committee on education A bill is before the Federal Council of Germany providing that the time of study shall be for medical students five years instead of the present term of four years and a half There is a Chinese farm in Florida where the Johns

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), December 7, 1895

Valuable Plantation for Sale In one of the most fertile regions of the Parish 280 arpents of improved lenl heautilully situated with a f ont of 7 qrpent on BRavon Tigre by a depth of 40 arpents located oartly in Ver milion and Iheriaparishes within twociles from a railroad depot and bordering on a navigabic stream which affords water transportation to gulf ports This land is suited for cotton sugar cane corn and sweet potatoe a portion of it is adapted to cattle grazing and rice culture without the process of irri gation and the whole can be made so by irrigation from Bayou Tigie Fruit trees grow well and yield abundantly The land is all en closed and has 9 or 10 small build 1irs For further particulars regardinii Pnme and terms of sale apply to Miessrs Broussard Kitchell Attys Abbeville La or to AURORE DEFRANCE Widow Louis Laporte Nov 2395 C DEBAILLON Attorney at Law Lafayette La Will practice his profession in the District Courts of Lafayette and Ver milion parishes Southern Pacific Company The shortest and most direct route to all points in Texas New Mexico Arizona Colorado Califor nia and on the Pacific Coast The Standard

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Library of Congress1909

Image 2 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 22, 1909

THE REPUBLICAN JlURNAL BELFAST THURSDAY APRIL 22 1909 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY The Republican Journal Publishing Co CHARLES A BILSBUKY BuStSnager Subscription Terms In advance 200 a year 100 for six months 50 cents for three months Advertising Terms For one square one inch length in column 50 cents for one week and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion MAINES LITERARY OUTPUT Maine has many claims to distinction If it may no longer be called the Pine Tree State we can take the spruce as an emblem or adopt Miss Sarah Orne Jewetts designation The Land of the Pointed Firs We no longer build ships but they are not built elsewhere and until this class of shipping went into decadence Maine held her supremacy both in ships and their commanders Un til the advent of the artificial ice plant and the Morse ice trust our ice crop furnished employment to hundreds of men and horses in the winter months and when the rivers opened our vessels carried the ice to market Maine is be coming the summer playground of the nation and the mecca of sportsmen dur ing the fishing and big game seasons Lumber and granite are important fac

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Library of Congress1950

Image 45 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), October 13, 1950

yy I l I U H 1 i 1 I i 1 I 1 Furniture STORES 1 V I I I I ANNIVERSARY SALE 1 I E SAVE IN ALL 24 I DREAMHOUSE E f DEPARTMENTS J H St at 7th NW I jj 1106 G Street NW i i 215 King Street 1 Alexandria i I I Blair Lee House Silver Spring Crops Out of Control DELBURNE Alta In 1948 a barley crop was sown and har vester near here Last year a good volunteer crop came through from seed accidentally scattered the year before although the land was due to be summer fallowed This year another volunteer crop is under way and looks as though it may be the heaviest of the three The Workers and Peasants Party of Bombay India has gone Communist i A FASHION SHOW ydurno I auHCAm l EVERY SATURDAY at I PM I staged and narrated by p MRS CLADSTONE WILLIAMS PrizesGuest StarsFavors j HOTEL RALEIGH I For res call Pierre NA 3810_J La Prensa Executive Receives Award for Freedom Efforts By the Associated Press NEW YORK Oct 13Dr Al berto Gainza Paz director of the Buenos Aires daily newspaper La Prensa last

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