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Southern military prisons and escapes
Title from cover. "Prepared and read by request before the Minnesota Loyal Legion, at Minneapolis, Nov. 11, 1890." Also available in digital form.
No party now but all for our country
Cover title. Caption title: Address read at the inaugural meeting of the Loyal national league, by the request of the League, in Union square, New York, on the 11th of April, 1863. "New-York, May, 1863." Also available in digital form.
Notes of a preliminary sanitary survey of the forces of the United States, in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, near midsummer, 1861,
Caption title. "Read before the Board, July 10th, 1861, and ordered to be printed."
Van Derveer's Brigade at Chickamauga
Title from cover. "Paper read before Minnesota Commandery of Loyal Legion U.S., May 12, 1903." Also available in digital form.
The phantom column.
Read at the reunion of the Second New Jersey brigade at Elizabeth, N. J., Sept. 26, 1889.
Map of the Mine Hill & Schuylkill Haven R.R. & branches
Map of part of Pennsylvania between Schuylkill Haven and Ashland, showing drainage, cities, towns, individual buildings, mines, mills, and the branch rail lines connecting with the Philadelphia Reading & Pottsville R.R.
Lloyd's new map of the United States, the Canadas, and New Brunswick, from the latest surveys showing every railroad & station finished to June 1862 and the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from the United States Superintendent's official reports of the Coast Survey by order of Congress
"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by J. T. Lloyd." General map of the eastern United States showing state and county boundaries, cities and towns, forts, roads, and railroads. This map was in the possession of Jedediah Hotchkiss at the time of his death. Major Hotchkiss served as topographic engineer with the Army of Northern Virginia. In July 1948, the Library of Congress purchased his map collection. Handwritten note on the verso reads "Lloyd's [sic] map of the United States, 1863 captured and used as part of my collection of maps, during the Civil War, 1861-5. Jed. Hotchkiss, Top. Eng., 2nd. Corps, Army N. Va." For the 1864 edition see Civil War Maps entry no. 50. Description derived from published bibliography. Scale ca. 1:2,250,000. Library of Congress. Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 41.4 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 5, 1900
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES In the June number of The Maine Central appears Robert Rexdales poem on Maine entitled Motherland with an excellent likeness of the writer The poem was originally delivered before the Maine Club at hieago and its reproduc tion lias a special interest in view of Old Home Week J T Whelpley having recently given affairs in Cuba thorough and careful investigation describes in the July Atlantic Cuba of ToDay and ToMor row showing what the Spanish rule w as w hat the Americans have been and are doing since taking possession and how difficult and delicate is Hie task before u to regenerate and educate the Cuban people and lit them for ultimate Seltgoernment As an exsclmolc unuffttee woman Martha liaker Dunn in the July Atlan tic tells many wholesome and some un palatable truths as to the general mis manmanagenient ol educational ptob lemsthe often dishearti dug treatment of public school teachers andthecon scieneciess demands generally if not universally made upon them The slightly humoroustone which pervades the silicic makes it easy and attractive reading while it is none the less out spoken mid emphatic as to the need of rciitm for many crying evils
Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 31, 1901
You have read of the cures byHoods Sarsa parilla and you should have perfect confi dence in its merit It will do you good One Point of Difference Whats the matter with you asked the sympathetic friend an attack of grip No this isnt grip I havent time to stay at home and send for a doctor This is simply a bad cold Washington Star Dr Agnews i atrrhal Powder has proved a blessing to many a man before the public In eases of hoarseness bad throat tonsilitis and catarrh Some of the most recent evidences of its efficacy comes from a wellknown actor whose home is in New York City He says 1 have never found anything equal to this remedy for quick relief 50 cents Sold by Edmund Wilson and A A Howes A Co09 Made Him CrossButhe didnt call you a liar in set terms did he asked themolli fier He might as well have done so He said 1 had no more regard for the truth than an historical novelist Life Couldut Ksiinmte Its ValueDr Ag news Cure for the Heart never fails It re lieves in 30 minutes it cures It is a bacon light
Image 2 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 4, 1901
JOURNALISM As a Profession for Young Men and Women A paper read at the Universalist Church Sunday evening March 31st by Charles A Pilsburv I am asked to address you tonight on Journalism as a profession for young men and women Should I accept the great preponderance of opinion on this subject it would only be necessary to say to those of either sex who think of taking up newspaper work what Punch said to those contemplating matrimony dont Men and women who speak from experience tell us that journalism is an arduous profession in which there are few prizes and that the qualities which command success in this line of work would bring greater fame or larger pecuniary reward in other professions or in trade This is perhaps true but journalism has its attractions and its rewards First as to the young woman m journalism I can look back to a time when there were no women employed in regular newspaper work There were women contributors but none who held positions as reporters staff correspond ents or editors Today there is not a newspaper in any of the large cities and this is no doubt true of the smaller
Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 20, 1902
ADDRESS OF WELCOME j To Waldo District Lodge of Good Templars at Brooks Feb 8 190 BY MARCELLlS J BOW Officers and Members of Waldo District 1 odge of Good Templars Brothers and Msters By virtue ot official request it be comes my pleasant duty to welcome you m visitors upon this occasion to the home f Brooks lodge It is well known that for many years w e have sustained here one of strongest and most enthusiastic lodges to be found not only in the county but in the Mate ui members are alive and interest ed in the success of our own lodge and that ot Good Templarism wherever dispensed They are anxious to advance the order and t uphold the principles upon which it is founded They are read to unite almost as one person upon any subject of vital im portance Uur meetings are largely attended and harmoniously conducted and you may rest assured that it is with the greatest pleasure that we welcome you our neighbors and friends to our pleasant lodge home which has become endeared to us by the many pleasant associations of the past While i w ih that the honor of
Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 3, 1903
Literary News and Notes The article on Joseph Pulitzer in Everybodys for September is pecu liarly illuminative of the mans charac ter and his ideals of newspaper making In the light of his present extraordi nary endowment of a College of Jour nalism at Columbia it affords an inter esting index to The line of thought of which that is the culmination Herbert Maxwells notable discussion of Animal Intelligence in The Month ly Review is reprinted in The Living Age for August 2 In lighter vein and perhaps even more attractive to lovers of outdoor lite is Edmund Selouss charming sketch Terns in the Nurse ry from The Saturday Review Three noticeble articles on literary topics of perennial interest appear in current numbers of The Living Age In the number for August 22 Charles L Eastlake writes of Thackeray Aug ust 2 contains Augustine Birrells re view of New Editions of Charles Lamb and September 5 an article from Walter Frewen Lords dashing pen on Charles Reades Novels Ir Holmes writes Thomas Bailey Aldrich in the August Century had an odd liking for ingenious desk accesso ries in the way of pencil sharpeners paper weights penholders etc The latest contrivances
Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 1, 1903
Literary News and Notes The stories of the worlds great cor porations are so full of interest m every detail that they read like ro mances The greatest corporation in the world is undoubtedly the billion dollar teel Trust and its story which appears in The Cosmopolitan for Octo ber forms one of the most important chapters of American business history John Burroughs is to contribute to The Century for 1904 a number of arti cles on Current Misconceptions in Natural History giving his views as to what he believes to be errors ot ob servation record or deduction on the part of contemporary writers on nature subjects The echoes of Mr Burroughs article on a similar topic which appear ed in The Atlantic last spring are still reverberating and in this series Mr Burroughs will take up the subject more fullv publishing his matured opinions as to instinct the alleged teaching of young animals by their parents tlse play of animals and kin dred themes Thackerays most important Ameri can letters are to see the light in the November and subsequent numbers of The C entury Magazine They cover both the first and second visit of the novelist to
Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 18, 1904
The Medicine that Lydia E Pinkhams 8L aMmoTwlenu Vegetable Compound ism Sterility How shall a mother who is weak and sick with some female trouble bear healthy children YS1 How anxious women ought to be to give their children the blessing of a good constitution I vS Many women long for a child to bless their home but because of some debility or displacement of the female organs they are barren Preparation for healthy maternity is accomplished by Lydia E PinkhanTs Vegetable Com V pound more successfully than by any other medicine because it gives tone and strength to the parts curing all displacements and inflammation I Actual sterility in woman is very rare If any woman thinks she is sterile let her write to i Mrs Pinkham Lynn Mass whose advice is given free to all expectant or wouldbe mothers The Ijj medicine that instantly asserts its curative powers in the ills of women is I Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound Read these Two Remarkable Cures Dkab Mbs Pinkiiam During the early part of my married life I was very delicate in health I had two miscarrages and both my husband and I felt very badly as we were
Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 31, 1905
RECOGNITION DAY AT CHAUTAUQUA Correspondence of The Journal Chautauqua X Y Aug 21 Wed nesday morning August 16th about one hundred and seventyfive members of the large class of 1905 of the Chau tauqua Literary and Scientific Circle passed through the Golden Gate and received their diplomas in token of the completed course Recognition Day is the crowning event of the Chautauqua year the natural climax of the As sembly program and the goal toward which thousands of men and women in all parts of the globe strive zealously throughout the years The Cosmopo litan class well named because of the widely different communities represent ed in its membership and the broad in terest which its members have mani fested in all the work of the Circle re ceived formal recognition for the fidel ity with which its members have pur sued to completion the four years course of home reading prescribed by the Circle With the one hundred and seventyfive of this class who were present to go through the mystic portal were a large number of graduates of former years but who had never be fore been at Chautauqua on Recogni tion Day All over the world however
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