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Shows the names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Date and title from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Drawn on a 3/8-in. grid. Pen-and-ink and pencil mounted on paper. Library of Congress. Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H20 LC Land ownership maps, 1197 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
1904. 84 sheet(s). 10 skeleton maps. Bound.
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
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
Press Comments Favor Premiers Speech Berlin Papers Underscore the Reference to Rus sia as Outstanding Feature Editorials Say Von BethmannHollweg Has Won Adherents by His Stand Ielrn 11a 1G via London May 17 Press comment today on the chan cellors speech aimoct unanimously underscores the reference to Russia a th significantly outstanding fea ture of the Premiers utterance The speech as a whole is generally com merdtd as one of the boldest and best that von BethamnnHollweg has yet made in parliament and personal criti cism of the chancellor is conspicuous ly absent The editorial discussion dilating upon all angles of var aims and peace terms emphasizes the widely divergent views entertained on all sides In many quarters the speech has had a pronounced conciliatory effect and is interpreted as pointing the way to a common meeting ground The impres sion prevails that the Conservatives came out of the fray bally battered although the chancellor was equally emphatic In disowning any predilection for the Socialist Democratic program of territorial and indemnity renuncia tion Standing guard between these two millstones the bloc of the Middle parties helped the chancellor to carry the day The chancellor has won adherents and camp followers
STATE HOUSE Governor and Council Will Meet t 10 A M Thursday Mey 7 Comr Thomas Calls Attention To Principals Meet While this annual conference Is really for principals of schools we are pleased to Include an Invitation to superintendents and school com mitteemen says Dr A O Thomas State commissioner of education in a letter being sent out to principals of high schools and academies in re regard to the annual conference of principals of secondary schools which will be held at the State House on Friday and Saturday May o and 9 The program for this conference was recently published in the Ken nebec Journal It Is also hoped that we have a good representation of academy peo ple present as some questions will be up for discussion in which they are vitally interested continues Dr Thomas Our program includes an address bv Governor Ralph O Brewster also by Trof John M Brewer director of the Bureau of Vocational Guid ance Harvard University and Dr Emery N Ferriss Professor of Ru ral Secondary Education Cornell Vnlversitq Each of these out of state speakers will give two ad dresses and will be helpful other wise in the various discussions
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
Look Into the Home to Determine Adequate Advertising A DEQUATE advertising in any medium is determined by certain basic facts which are found in the home No advertiser can arbitrarily decide how much advertising effort is sufficient to influence the readers of any newspaper to the fullest degree The answer is found among the readerfamilies Minimum advertising is determined by the minimum purchases of the readergroup The only other controlling factors are the merit and available supply of the merchandise for saleand the spread between cost and selling prices Let us examine a thousand average homes to learn the minimum expendi ture for clothing advertising which can be called adequate The average U S family spends 23535 per year for clothing A thousand families purchase 23535000 worth of clothing annually It is the universal practice of clothing retailers to invest at least 3 for advertising Therefore the purchases of every thousand families who sub scribe to this newspaper justify an investment of more than 7000 in clothing advertising in this medium every year Ten clothing merchants would each be justified in spending 700 per thousand circulation per year Are you positive that your advertising effort is adequate in this newspaper
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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
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
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
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
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