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Library of Congress1925

Image 14 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), January 8, 1925, (Centennial Edition, Main News Section)

More Kind Words From Friends on Occasion of Centennial The following Congratulatory Letters in Connection with the Centennial of the Kenn ebec Journal have been received in addition to those received earlier and placed in section B of the Centennial Edition SoninLaw Of James G Blaine New York N Y Jan 7 1025 Charles Flynt Kennebec Journal Augusta Maine Congratulations on anniversary of splendid paper WALTER DAMROSCH I CONGRESSMAN FOR THIRD DISTRICT Washington D C January 5 1925 Honorable Charles F Flynt President and General Manager The Kennebec Journal Augusta Maine My dear Mr Flynt Since boyhood the Kennebec Journal has been a household Institu tion in my family I have seen it through the years faithfully recording the events of my school and college days my early manhood the birth of my children the passing of relatives and friends and the thousand and one happenings large and small Joyous and sad that go into the making up of a full life In later years here in Augusta my boys have all acted as carriers of your paper and every morning in my home young and old read your columns with Interest and with profit Always the paper has been

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Library of Congress1912

Image 6 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), September 28, 1912

Daily Kennebec Journa Entered at the Augusta Post Office a second class mail matter ESTABLISHED 18 23 No notice whatever will be taken o unsigned communications The Journal cannot be held responsi ble for the preservation or return ol rejected communications Address all communications relating to subscriptions and advertisements to BURLEIGH FVLNT Publish ers Augusta Maine Saturday September 28 1912 REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS i i For President WILLIAM H TAFT Of Ohio tift i For Vice President JAMES S SHERMAN Of New York The Good and the Bad in New Law With nil its absurdities and its jokers and its nonentities the news paper law we are bound to admit has Its partially redeeming features If a few less lawmakers had been content to keep their mischievous fingers out of the pie and had aimed honestly to produce a law unquestionably consti tutional with the determination to reach the root of acknowledged evils according to tjic intent of the origi natorswell if all these things had been adhered to it might have been a law worth while The decision of the attorneygen eral published Friday morning deals with certain important phases of the law but does not relieve the general contempt

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Library of Congress1914

Image 6 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), March 5, 1914

Daily Kennebec Journal Entered at the Augusta Post Office as second class mail matter ESTABLISHED 1826 No notice whatever will be taken of unsigned communications The Journal cannot be held responsi ble for the preservation or return of rejected communications Address all communications relating to subscriptions and advertisements to Kennebec Journal Co Publish ers Augusta Maine Thursday March 6 1914 Republican Ticket FOR MAYOR Hon Willis E Swift Ward One AldermanArthur N Soule CouncilmenOscar H Anderson and Burleigh Martin WardenOrlando H Tolman Ward ClerkClarence C Hunt ConstableAlbert E Gardner City CommitteemanClaude W Townsend Ward Two AldermanNorman L Bassett CouncilmenGeorge W Wadlelgh and Wilbert S Wilson WardenCharles J House Ward ClerkFrank V Mendall ConstableWilliam P Fox City CommitteemanBlaine S VUes Ward Three AldermanCharles P Kinsman CouncilmenFred S Daggett and Winfred A Jackson WardenCharles H Dill Ward ClerkWilliam B Fletcher ConstableJohn C Howes City Committeeman Harold A Murchie Ward Four AldermanEdmond Doyon CouncilmenPhilibert Poulin and Joseph Lambert WardenFred Lapointe Ward ClerkC A Miron ConstableArthur Roy City CommitteemanHiram H Weymouth Ward Five AldermanArthur E Percival CouncilmenPercy W Morrill and Charles B Phllbrlck WardenLester G Teague Ward ClerkFrank W Damren ConstableBenjamin Tracy City CommitteemanW S Knowles Ward Six AldermanCharles M Taber CouncilmenAlbert E Folsom

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Library of Congress1916

Image 6 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), July 10, 1916

daily KENNEBEC JOURNAL Entered at the Augusta Post Office a iSecond class mall matter ESTABLISHED 1825 Kaaotlee whatever will be taken of unsigned communications The Journal cannot be held responsi ble for the preservation or return of rejected communications Address all communications relating to subscriptions and advertisements to Kennebec Journal Company Publishers Augusta Maine Monday July 10 1916 Republican Nominations FOR PRESIDENT CHARLES EVANS HUGHES VICE PRESIDENT CHARLES W FAIRBANKS GOVERNOR CARL E MILLIKEN U S SENATOR Frederick Hale REPRESENTATIVES TO CON GRESS 1st DistLouis B Goodall 2nd DistWallace H White Jr 3rd DistJohn A Peters 4th DistFrank E Guernsey STATE AUDITOR Roy L Ward well A Misguided Friend Editor Kennebec Journal The Journal editorial of June 27 entitled the Right Course at Last has been read with considerable surprise by a wide circle of manufacturers and railroad men The editorial in question claims to reflect the publicity attitude of the newspapers to ward American industry In the present wage controversy between the railroads and the brotherhoods for example you say no safe dependence can be placed on the claims of either side and in the public interests you think the contestants that is to say these conflicting and unre

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Library of Congress1922

Image 2 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), October 6, 1922

Interesting Papers Read at the Opening Sessions of the Maine Press Association Continued from Page One feystcm Mr Burleigh spoke at the afternoon session and what hfe had to nav was of high value to hi s aud ience Nichols Chosen President Frank B Nichols of The Bath Times was elected President of the Maine Press Association at the morning session Thursday at the Au gusta House He succeeds Charles H Fogg of Houlton whose term ex pires at this meeting R T ratten of Bkowhegan was reelected secre tarytreasurer in spite of his modest ly expressed belief that SUowhegan had hadthe honor long enough and that It would be for the benefit of the association toelect someone else The first session of tho meeting was called to order shortly after 10 oclock by President Charles H Fogg who Immediately introduced Mayor Hanford L Fogg of Augusta Mayor Fogg said that It was an honor to gfeet such a gathering of represen tatives of the press and as great a pleasure to welcome them upon be half of the citizens of Augusta to the capltol city because when newspaper men gather there Is a spirit of good fellowship and also

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Library of Congress1879

Image 1 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), January 25, 1879

PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING SUNDAYS EXCEPTED BY SPRAGUE OWEN NASH TERMS SEVEN DOLLARS PER ANNUM SINGLE COPIES FIVE CENTS VOL X AUGUSTA MAINE SATURDAY MORNING JANUARY 25 187J NO 25 The fimncbcc Journal j _ luhlihcd ut An if st a Min Water street foot of Court lv snii K ovi v A NasII COMMITTEE NOTICES Committee on J ml trialif I he Committee oil the Judiciary will n tn lues day ami I hursduy ut 4 odwk in the Judiciary Moou jk i Committee on fit hi rot ion Tic Committee on Iklocntion will meet on Tues dfts and Fridays lit i I V In tin s nut chamber Committee on tnh riot Water Hie Committee m Interior Waters will meet in ICooin No 1 on Thursday of each week at J4 oclock kV M ArsTix IfAitcu 1 Wiimam IM Kiv fInnn Committer on M reant Hi Iff air mol Inmiranee the Committee on Mercantile Attiiir and Insur iiu will meet until further notice ut ltMiu IT on I biiMuUvf of nU week at i oclock I M Committee on Imtoin Ajfair The t oiniuittee on Indian A flair w ill meet in lnoin No IV on Wdiiela of each

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Library of Congress1894

Image 3 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), November 16, 1894

1 T Jaitu gomriwc journal City and County __ i POLICE BALL Over 1000 Ptople In Alt n iance and Ail Enjoy tlo Event Concert P0ramme Finely Rendered and 200 Couples Join in March The sixth annual hall of the Augusta police was given In Mconian hall last evening anti about loot people were in at tendance The concert by Higgins fnl orchestra from H to i oclock was a d light to the hearers and every irt of Its pro gramme was rccePetl with appreciation some of the selections licing osfxrially fine The Goblins Frolic and The Salvation Army were very catchy At sharp i the directors F W Math ews A V Brooks F I Hersey S S Ha mini 1 Dr K 1 Martin Dr A T Titcomli Horace Cony and Kverett Stone mareiied out with the Isxes of lieauliful dance onlers and then the grand march and circle liegan Marshal Bean and wife led tile march and were followed liy tlie other incmliers of the police force and ladies When the circle had formed over 200 couples were oil the floor and it nettried as though there was hardly room for them to lance The crowd

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Library of Congress1910

Image 1 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), March 18, 1910

VOL XLI AUGUSTA MAINE FRIDAY MORNING MARCH 181910 TWELVE FAGES NO 63 PRES TAFT HAS A STREN UOUS ST PATRICKS DAY But He Enjoys It Even If Someone Did Steal the Quid Sod on Which He Was to StandSix Rinsing Speeches at Chicago Amid Great En thusiasmLeaves ter Rochester N Y TAFT IN CHICAGO Chicago March 17St Patrick was notaMy remembered in Chicago today not ihe brunt of the celebration fell upon President Taft and he was a thoroughly tired man when his train left tonight for Itoehester X Y During the day he spoke to members of the hiengo Newspaper Club the Trafle Club to a mass meeting to members and guests of the Hamilton Club was twice at functions provided by the Irish Fellowship Club which was his host for the day In these speeches the President touched ttfon Statesmen Correspond ents who colored farts to suit their views To the railway men composing the Traffic Club he expressed his trust In the tense of justice of the Ameri can people He averred that lie had learned more in the first year of bis administration than le could hope to assimilate in the next three t At the

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Library of Congress1913

Image 6 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), September 17, 1913

Daily liennttec Journal Entered at the Augusta Post Offlos as second class mail matter ESTABLISHED 1825 _ No notice whatever will be taken of unsigned communications The Journal cannot be held responsi ble for the preservation or return of rejected communications Address all _subj communications relating tions and advertisements c Jouriltab Co Fublish sta Wednesday September 17 1913 Behind words lie deeds be hind deeds qualities behind qualities intention and the dis tinction between one man and another is the innermost am bition and the chosen attitude of the soulIan Mactaren The Real Situation In a twocolumn editorial heavily attempting to squeeze consolation from the recent election the Water ville Sentinel Tuesday hits upon i fact that has figured in the past and is bound to figure in elections to come Our Waterville neighbor makes th error of treating it as though for the first time such phenomena were now recognized by intelligent observers The Sentinel says A trifling margin of 500 votes separates our total from theirs while between us lies a wide field of 6500 independent voters ready to go where they think they ought and back of us a reserve force of 000 stayathomes who will come

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Library of Congress1916

Image 11 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), October 7, 1916

Since 1854Quaker Ranges have been rightly termed The Housewifes Friendthere must have been merit as the basis for such success ful range building as The Quaker Sales show ing has been one of gains year after year It is not to be expected that you buy a new range very often but it is absolutely certain that you owe it to yourself and the content ment of mind to enjoy the best baking facili ties that can be furnished Thats where the Quaker Range stands supreme re liable serviceable and eco nomical really you cant afford to risk the choice of a different range Everything that helps Nothing that can hinder Buy Your Quaker Range Today R W SOULE Emporium AUGUSTA a Big Producing Mine Fully finrncrd Ably managed 1 about to enter tho Dividend Paying Class Have been in dote touch with this property nd its development for the last eighteen months and have inves tigated it thoroughly through MY OWN ENGINEERS AND ATTOR NEYS Now selling at 106 to 118 I believe this The Best Buy on whole market both for assured LARGE DIVIDENDS and Speculative PROFITS Get inquiries and orders in early as market is due for

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Library of Congress1891

Image 3 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), January 24, 1891

LITERARY EXERCBES __ Of tlu liios Pftis Acciitios Friday hHwm Ii Repmntatftw nlEssay 7 Raj TktapHs at RkArad Aod ba Potni by Bitot c Mlcbai at mniMd Ktprtwaati Rail WfU vltll aa appreciative audience at ibe literary eterclaea of the afternoon A pteaeiny feature of the occaaioa aa amt la mute by th Capital iaitu Preei pre nura uu tntfO daced as tbs essayist Mr Rav Thompson the accunpHabe editor of the Richmond Bee The auliecce expected a iOd thing from hia pen which has never been koawn to run in dull lines and they were not disappointed Hie essay was a mode one terse and vigorous ia exprss sion orginsl and forceful in thought it will take nrk as one of the Bneat things in this line with which the association has ever been favored The following ia the foil text of it mm cot xmt exitoii Hie Labors mm Rtwsrtfi BT RAT THOM POOR In former Hoses a Chinese official never ventured to deliver an unwelcome message to the Emperor until he had provided him elf with a coffin It would have been well perbape had I exercised the Mint prudent foreeigbt in my present extremity Though not

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Library of Congress1894

Image 6 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), October 29, 1894

SHE RATTLED HIM For a reporter with but little to write fcmd plenty of time in which to write it there Is nothing more pleasant than to dic tate a narrative to a cheerful typewriter particularly if she be young and have nice soft hair to distract the eye and well formed white fingers and bo withal ex ceedingly pleasing but for a reporter with a long yarn to write and a limited amount of time to finish it things sometimes have u different aspect Near Printing House square is a type writing office which many newspaper men frequent A new girl came there one day last weeka real nice girl and an excel lent operatorbut she had never done that kind of work before V hiie she was sit ting in the main room upon the afternoon of her first day a newspaper man came hustling in and Mrs J have you got anybody to take a two column story in a hurry Yes replied the manager Hero is a young lady who has just como to us Miss BrownMr Smith You can go into that corner room In three minutes the young lady was seated at her machine

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Library of Congress1894

Image 6 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), December 3, 1894

NEW AT THE BUSINESS SHE WAS A VERY NICE BUT A VERY FRESH TYPEWRITER GIRL She Wae So Interested In the Reporters Story That She Wanted to Stop Quite Often nnd Talk About ItHad to III Her Hair and Get Her Chewing Gum For n rgjortfT with hut little to write nnd plenof timo in which to write it 1 there is nothing more pleasant than to dictate a narrative to a cheerful type writer particularly If sho he young and have nice soft hair to distract the eye and well formed white fingers and be ex ceedingly pleasing Hut for a reporter with a long yam to write and a limited amount of timo to finish It thing3 some times have a different aspect Near the newspaper cflico is a typewrit ing office which many men frequent A new girl came there ono day last weeka real nice girl and an excellent operator hut she had never done that kind of work Isfore While she was sitting in the main room upon the afternoon of her first day a newspaper man came bustling in and Mrs 1 have you got anybody to take a two column story In a

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), May 17, 1895

gaitg gcttnrbff gmnwt TERMS 700 Per Tear Ho natlcc whatever will be lakes of bb lBd eommnnicatlOBe Tnloguuoinoi bbid BwroriiiLi or the reeervetloB or retoro ol rejected oom BBleatloBa till nee all oomeiiiBlcatlOBi relatlaf to eob Mrtptloaa and advertisement to Bobibxob ft riTin Pnbltehere Auxosta Main Bismarck thinks female sympathy with existing political institution the safest bulwark against socialism I It Harvards faculty is for football lias Harvard a faculty for football Is the question now stirring the American Athens to its very center The statesmen of tl3 South are not quite all In favor of cheap money Sena or Lindsey of Kontucky is one of the glittering exceptions to the rule American sympathies are with tho Cu ban insurgents and the hope will be gen erally entertained in this country that they may yet achievo their independence California Is being flooded with Japan ese cheap labor while natlvo lalor 1 Idle Wo have a high regard for the Japanese Put that sort of conquest should not be permitted In this country Tho Boston city government has a very pretty fight nfoot as to who shall have the handling of the 12000 appropriated for the celebration of July 4th The

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Library of Congress1896

Image 12 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), May 7, 1896

JUST A GLIMPSE Of the Early Editorial Writers of Kennebec Valley Storng Characters That Left a Deep Impress Upon Those Who Came Within the Sphere of Their Pow erful Influence Head before the Kennebec Historical Society To give this subject the range ami fulness of detail that it merits would be to furnish material for a good sized volume I shall therefore undertake at this time merely to touch briefly upon the more salient characteristics of a small group of men whose names are prominently identified with the earlier newspaper history of Central Maine and who exerted a power for progress that will extend far beyond the narrow limits of their own day and generation I shall also consider only the work of those writers who attained distinction in the newspaper work of the Kennebec valley prior to the Civil war and shall not undertake to pre serve any chronological order In the very nature of things the best work of the editorial writer is largely of an impersonal character and he so frequently sees the children of his brain adopted and reared as the natural off spring of others that the experience has nothing of novelty for him It

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Library of Congress1902

Image 9 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), October 4, 1902

funny things How Newspaper Humor Has Grown and Changed The Short Joke is a Product of Recent Years JVlany Good Samples of Wit and Humor in Past and Present In the file room of The Baltimore American are the bound volumes of the paper dating back to 1773 writes W IX Nesbit Josh Wink in the Inde pendent Here the person who feels an interest in the study of the growth and development of newspaper humor In America may spend some musty dusty tjlIt doubtless enlightening hours Con sidered in the light of present day wit there was no newspaper humor a cen tury ago If we will but remember the mental attitude ot the strictly moraled people of those days we shall recall the fact that at that time any mani festation of humor was regarded as in tensely unregenerate if not wholly wicked w see in the historical novel of today much of the sprightly wit and brilliant conversation of the old colonial regime but it was not re flected in the papers of that time To get any newspaper humor to speak of tve mu t on down to about 50 years ago lien it began to

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Library of Congress1903

Image 5 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), February 20, 1903

Dropsy Neuralgia of the Heart For Years Pain Went From Heart to Head Dr Heart Cure and Nervine Cured About three years ago my sister was so badly sheeted with heart trouble and neu ralgia of the heart that we did not expect her to live Although we had a firstclass phy sician shegrew worse under this treatment She had a swollen dropsical look and had frequent spells of neuralgia plain at her heart when she Wedld tender the most heartrend ing moans and shrieks At times the pain would go from her heart to her head when a lump would appear on her temple half as large as an egg One night she got up in bed and ran into the back yard crying with pain she was not conscious of it however and was brought back to the house by neigh bors I bought for her a bottle each of Dr MilesNervine and Heart Cure which helped her greatly She afterward used some five or six bottles and has never had a spell since I had used your medicine with great benefit myself I know that Nervine and Heart Cure not only saved my sisters life but also

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Library of Congress1907

Image 8 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), September 5, 1907

STATE NEWS HANCOCK m SARGENTVILLE The fair held by the Library Associ ation was a decided success netting 235 The school committee have been re pairing and painting the schoolhousc School began Sept 2 taught by Miss Gleason of Cherryfleld The Eastern Steamship Co is repair ing the wharf at this place Mrs Mc Auley wife of the superintendent who has been stopping here with her hus band has returned to her home in Camden Ernest Grindle who has been living on what is known as the John Katon place is moving into Mrs Mary Wares house Merton Page has moved from North Sedgwick into J W Grindies house Several Sargentville people attended the fair at Bangor Friday William K Ialor has been entertain ing his father and two sisters at his summer cottage Raymond Bridges has purchased a house lot of W X Means at Curriers Corner and is preparing to build a house Edward Skelton of West Brooksville was the guest of Clarence Chatto Sat urday and Sunday Harold Sargent is passing a few days with his mother before entering the University of Maine The Dluesedgbrook S S Association will hold its annual session at Sedg wick Sept

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