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Library of Congress1890

Image 2 of The Anaconda standard (Anaconda, Mont.), March 14, 1890, (Morning)

THE ANACONDA STANDARD PUSLISHED EVERY MORNING IN THE WEEK EXCEPT MONDAY The Offcial Paper of Deer Lodge County altvwhel by earnr or mall t see delles a lmr thrcc dober a qmlurr r oae ddiar a meoMU THI STrN DM1RWD to the ly da ewpaper with tlergmaphk dt pHeein l nIer uli r y It prm mor tirapllle mew ths sanyor newspaper l Momltaa Correpsieasee anwl buinween ktter should 1 atdrwemi to THE STANDARD Corset of H and Third streects aAcudam Montaam FRIDAY MARCH 14 I The lacreasing importation of water for beptismal purposes from the Holy land will doubtles suggest to some enterprisang Yankee the project of starltg a water canning factory on the beaks of the Jordan How bath the military glory of Francs departed when she is content to fight the poor old king of Dahomey and his thaae warriors Thespirit of Bona parte meut kick itself in mortification for the country that once made Europe tremble Chief Justice Fuller stubbotrnly re fues to shave off his moustache al though it is said the associate Justices have advised him to make the sacrifce in the name of dignity and impressive ness The chief justice is evidently keeping

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Library of Congress1912

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 2, 1912

fortune in Hens and Apples v Hampshire Man Realizes 16000 4 1 cpfi 000 a Year from Fruit and to u rfiiicious mingling of hens and ap Lj inabled C E L Haywood of Ee ik M H to develop a rough sl Vnl uneven bit of runout soil into rr c5t fruit and poultry farm in md and to earn a profit which 11 16000 to 26000 a year i has been brought about by a a century of unremitting la h evolution of a successful trictly business management is today the land supports an 10000 trees and more than At first sight it looks like a tmvn with its long streets of tses which now number 720 iions were merely incidental growth of the industry both ive been placed upon a paying i both hens and apples contri general success of the under go Mr Hayward first started in had only a property of 250 a i idi had no more promising fea liundreds of neglected places other States To work upon orchard of some 400 trees in ss promising condition He av hundred hens soon after tak en and by elaborating his own I the groundwork of

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Library of Congress1942

Image 4 of Browning chief (Browning, Mont.), November 27, 1942

The Browning Chief Entered as 2nd class matter July 15 1931 at the postoffice at Browning Montana under act of March 3 1979 Subscription 200 year in advance Mis Annie Duncan Owner A weekly newspaper published every Friday at Browning Glacier County Montana 1 To Meet Shi Quota A military event like the inva sion of Africa brings home to us all more poignantly than ever the importance of shipping in the crucial battles of this war It is more than gratifying to learn from Hear Admiral Emory S Land chairman of the U S Maritime Commission and head of the War Shipping Administra tion that the construction goal of 24000000 deadweight tons of merchant ships in 1942 and 1943 is being met Only a year ago our plans called for a total of but 12000 000 tons then the program was stepped up t o 18000000 tons Completion on schedule thus far of the 24000000 goal 6000000 of the 8000000 called for this year already delivered is a tri bute to an industry that has geared itself to meet the require ments of our fighting forces Catholic Altar Society Annual Bazar Dec II Plans under by the Catholic Altar

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Library of Congress1916

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 6, 1916

u Sylvester Cottrell and Some ot His Descendants Sylvester Cottrell belonged to the Westerly R I family which is still rep resented in that town Buying land in Islesboro about 1772 he settled on what is now called Hewes Point having a tannery there it is said The Westerly records show that on June 7 1767 he was married to Peggy Margaret Pen dleton daughter of Thomas Pendleton of Stonington Conn and later of Isles boro Maine Sept 4 1789 Silvester Cotterell sold 100 acres of land in Isles boro to Stephin Pendleton the deed be ing witnessed by Gideon Pendleton and Sylvester Cottrell Jr also July 1 1790 Silvester Cottell sold 100 acres to Samuel Jackson for 73 pounds 10 shill ings The name is variously spelled having four different spellings in one deed These transfers were probably made about the time he removed to N B where he died atMiramichi it is be lieved According to the Bangor Hist and Gen magazine his tombstone re cords that Sylvester Cottrell died Mar 20 1830 aged 88 and his wife Margaret died Oct 20 1833 aged 84 So far it has been impossible to find the record of Sylvesters birth

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Library of Congress1904

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 3, 1904

Relative Strength of Russia and Japan Now that hostilities have actually be gun in the Far East it may be of in terest to compare in a general way the resources of the two countries involved If this comparison be made without reference to the probable theater of war and the conditions hedging about the movement of forces thither the combatants seem very disproportionate ly matched The Russian empire com prises about oneseventh of the land surface of the globe Including intern al waters it covers an area of 8660305 square miles and its population is esti mated at about 120000000 inhabitants ot which 2005016 square miles and 106 264166 inhabitants were in 1000 com prised in European Russia It lias an annual revenue amounting to about 000000OOO and expenditures some what in excess of that sum The Rus sian army on a peace footing numbers about 1100000 men and oil a war foot ing about 0600000 men The navy is understood to comprise about 40000 officers and men 1 apan the island empire comprises an area of liil10s square miles including Formosa and tlie Pescadores Its popu lation including the islands specifical ly named numbered 47000Ono inhabi tants Its

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Library of Congress1903

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 23, 1903

NEWS OF THE WEEK Maine Mattehs Forest Commis sioner Edgar E Ring is now engaged in making official visits to tlie wild land i counties of the State for the purpose of making arrangements with suitable persons to act as tire wardens under the j provisions of the new law passed by the legislature the past winter This law provides that he shall thoroughly police the timber lands in tbe unorganiztd townships of the State so as to protect them from tires Wardens will he eu1 gaged at S2 per day for such time as they may he actually employed and as sistants may be summoned at any time who shall be paid 15 cents an hour tori the service renderedThe State lays j claim to the oldest twins living in New England and probably in tlie l nited States The Maine twins are Calebs j Haskell one of the most prominent I citizens of New Gloucester and Mis 1 Judith P Bradbury who is now living j in Box bury Mass They were born in j New Gloucester August 1 1M4 iheir parents Caleb and Judith Collins lias1 keli had twelve children of whom ten I grew to maturity

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Library of Congress1951

Image 6 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), June 16, 1951

Miss Farmers Continued from Page One liood enough stand to justify culti vation This represents a larger acreage than the 2035000 acres harvested in the State last year but is below the 1951 goal for de fense needs Over t0 percent of the corn crop j is up to a pood stand with 88 per cent of the State poal planted apencies estimated Both soybean and rice acreapes will preatly ex I ceed early estimates Do not plaw up land in the Delta i where cotton is planted and seed i are still pood leaders recommend ed If the seed perminate by June BEST PRICES FOR YOUR WEEKEND SHOPPING Groceries and Meats Priced Right FREE DELIVERY STEAK A Grade Lb59c PORK CHOPS Center Cut Lb 59c BACON Sliced Lb42c SALT MEAT StreakOLean Pound30c ROAST Best Beef Lb59c PORK LIVER Lb37c BEEF LIVER Lb69c CHICKEN Fryers Lb49c SUGAR 5 Lbs46c POTATOES 5 Lbs15c RICE Short Grain Lb10c NEW JACKSON MARKET AND GROCERY STORE 225 N Parish St Phone 26589 1015 twothirds of the a crop can normally he expected under good management based on experi mental results at the Stoneville Station Leave fields with 50 per 1 cent of a stand

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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 Congress1897

Image 2 of The Free press (Poplarville, Miss.), May 6, 1897

Tsffi Free Press A G RussrLl Sr Editor UTOBLISHHD WEEKLY aT POPLARVILLE MISS ffbvrsday May 6 1897 ON L DOLLAR IN_ADVANCE iNTSUKD AT TIIK POST office at POPLAHVIhLK MISS AS SKC oNu class Mail Mattkh Greece ha a new cabinet The streets of Hannibal Mo are now navigated by lioatN The cotton acreage of Texas tins season will he the largest on record Eleven thousand acres of Ala Hiauia gold lands hate been sold to a 8 ndieute for 117000 MG A veroff the Greek million aire of furls France lias subscrib ed 80 000000 to the War fund ot hs country A lire at Newport News on the 17th tilt destroyed 82000000 worth of property Eight persons were injured Levi A nlentine tor many years a Citizen of Enterprise aged 85 years died suddenly a few days ago While enjoying his tinner At Barcelnnia 20 anarchists in addition to those already sentenced have been condemned to heal It lur the bomb outrage June 7th last Fiy hundred houses were swept away and twice as many people rendered homeless by tiie recent lood ot I lie Cottonwood river in Oklahoma Mr Oliver VV Patchings son of Representative T 0 latchings

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Library of Congress1899

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 29, 1899

NEWS OF THE WEEK Maine Matters Lawrence Bros of South Gardiner have sold to Boston par ties Crocker township for 110000 It contains 20000 acres and is said to be one of the best spruce tracts in Maiue today It is particularly well situated being bandy to either water or railroad Law rence Bros bought this tract of land three years ago for 40000 and have therefore netted a profit of 70000 and their original investment has paid them a dividend of over 50 per cent each year Lightning struck and wrecked the roof of Charles J Treworgys lumber mill at Ellsworth Falls June 14 The 15 men in the building were shocked by the electricity three men being unconscious for some hours The lire which followed the bolt was extinguished before much damage was doneThe Congregational clergy men of Hancock county in conference at Bluehill June 14th adopted resolutions condemning the flagrant violation of the marriage contract and the deplorable in crease of divorces iu the State The adoption of the resolution carried with it the agreement that clergymen of the conference should not solemnize marriage where one has or both parties have been divorced_Samuel Bryant a prominent citizen

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Library of Congress1910

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 28, 1910

The Queen of the Kennebec i Or The Last of The Wampanoags BY FRANK W GOWEN NO 11 Arnold was true to bis word and over took Morgan at Indian Old Point in Nor ridgewock Here he found the river for a mile or two ahead so broken into rapids that it was necessary to land all his boats baggage and stores and transport the same along th banks of the river This was a doubly hard task for his sol diers as trees and bushes had to be cut down and cleared away to effect a pas j sage for the army The trials and hard j ships of the brave and hardy soldiers had begun in good earnest but Arnold was j everywhere present now with the rear division of his struggling army giving orders right and left to the officers then jumping into hiscanoe he shoots forward like a deer and when he comes in sight of Morgans toiling soldiers far in advance of the main army they send up a hearty cheer for their brave and daring leader who knows no fear Night overtakes him but this brave man rests not Sit ting before a big

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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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