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Library of Congress1899

Image 2 of The Billings gazette (Billings, Mont.), October 3, 1899, (Semi-weekly)

The Billings Gazette SBDElIIIWEEKLY U L BOARDMAN 3Adltor nd Puebli2soer Ofiielal City and County Paper Rntered at the Billings Postoffice as Second Class Matter Subscription 1Iatee One year in advance 8300 Six months 150 Single copies 05 TUESDAY OCTOBER 3 1899 ILLUSTRATED HISTORICAL EIITION The Illustrated Historical Edition oi The Gazette which has been in courst of preparation since last spring will be issued next Friday It is in maga zine form consists of fiftyone pages inside the covers is embellished with 160 fine halftone engravings and the subject matter is descriptive of the splendid resources of Billings and Yel lowstone and Carbon counties De parting from the usual custom in is suing editions of this character one copy will be sent free to every sub scriber of The Gazette while extra copies will be on sale at this office at 25 cents Each and every copy of the edition has actually cost that sum to produce it the management of this newspaper depending on the individual writeups for profit which is reduced to a minimum on account of the cost of the engravings and other heavy ex penses incident to a publication of this nature In other words The

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Library of Congress1939

Image 8 of Glacier County chief (Browning, Mont.), December 15, 1939, (Magazine Section)

Sweethearts Reunion Under Mistletoe Twig BETTY JANE dressed careful ly wondering if college had changed Bill much It was grand having him home for the hol idays The doorbell rang Christmas gift cried Bill hand ing her a gaylywrapped package and taking her in his arms Betty Jane drew back She wasnt sure she liked this Bill so wellhe seemed so sure of himself She re membered Bill as humble wooing for her favors Come say hello to the folks Betty Jane invited and see the tree and smell turkey They went hand in hand I sup pose youve met a lot of girls at col lege she hazarded Tell me about them Well theres just one Im really crazy about Bill answered All the fellows think shes swell Her pictures on my dresser and when ever Im in doubt I talk things over with her How grand said Betty Jane in a tight little voice They came to the mistletoe How different from last year when she was just learn ing to love him I have her picture on my watch too Bill went on his eyes twink ling brighter than the silver star atop the tree You used

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Library of Congress1962

Image 6 of The Chronicle (Pascagoula, Miss.), December 7, 1962

We are for these things whatever helps most of us even at the expense of some of us cCUuaI WE SEE IT THIS WAY We are against these things whatever helps some of us at the expense of most of us A slim hope that a good reap portionment bill will come from a housesenate conference next week is held out by State Rep Karl Wiesenburg of Pascagoula A bill calling for establishment of a legislature of 100 representa tives and 51 senators was passed by the house Wednesday Con ferees from the house will negoti ate with this as a starting point It is possiblethough barelythat a true reapportionment might be worked out What will come forth however most probably will be just another rearrangement plan disguised as fair reapportionment The house bill passed Wednes day though is closer to a fair one than any other suggestion yet to come from the legislature Its 100 man house allows for one member from each of the states 82 coun ties with 18 other seats available for dividing among the most heav ily populated counties Fiftyone senators most probably is the opti mum number for the upper house Wiesenburg believes that

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Library of Congress1907

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 21, 1907

THE VETERANS POLL TAX In the Maine House Feb 7th on motion of Mr Skidmore of Liberty an act to amend Chapter 163 Public Laws ot 1905 relating to the exemption of soldiers and sailors from poll tax was taken from the table Mr Skidmore then addressed the House rs follows Mr Speaker in tabling this bill my purpose was to call the attention of the members of the House to the fact that this bill was treading ou dangerous ground that it created a class legisla tion that is it relieved from taxation a certain portion of onr people who were well able to pay The law relat ing to a poll tax by some is considered to be absurd and wholly wrong but as for me I do not think so It gives to those w ho are young and just coming on the held of action and who have not had the privilege that others have had to acquire property ou which to be taxed a better and more thorough knowledge of the plan and conditions of government Now there is a law on the statute books which this law calls attention to which exempted all soldiers

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Library of Congress1912

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 22, 1912

Washington Whisperings Washington D C August 19 1912 Taking the items carried in the Sundry Civil bill for waterways on which there is absolute agreement between the Sen ate and House and these added to the several amounts appropriated in the River and Harbor bill which is now a law the total sum set aside for improv ing the rivers harbors and canals of the county for the fiscal year ending June will reach in the neighborhood of forty three millions within seven millions of the amount set by the National Rivers and Harbors Congress as a proper an nual appropriation to put the water ways of the United Sates in a condition to do their proportion of the work of transportation For the past two years the biggest of the waterway organizations the National Rivers and HarborsCongresshas been on record in favor of a yearly appropriation of fifty million dollars It has bent every energy to the accomplishment of the principle for which it stands and now with the present appropriation of nearly fortythree millions and a like sum prob bly at the short sessions of Congress next winter it looks as if the campaign of education conducted by

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Library of Congress1887

Image 2 of Helena weekly herald (Helena, Mont.), August 25, 1887

IN ANNUAL SKSSION Third Yearly Meeting of the Mon tana Press Association Fraternization of Territorial Quill Drivers Addresses bv President Alderson and F President Mills FIRST DA VAUGUST 23 The Montana Press Association met this morning at 10 oclock in the council hall of the new court house W W Alderson Avant Courier Presi dent in the chair Members present W H Sutherlin First Vice President Rocky Mountain Husbandman Eobt E Fisk Second Vice President Helena Herald Jerry Collins Secretary River Press I W Fisk Helena Herald J E Hendry Helena Independent Hobt C Walker Helena Herald George E Boos Montana Live Stock Journal Alexander Devine Helena Independent It H Howie correspondent Van H Fisk Townsend Tranchant Will Kennedy Helena Independent James H Mills New NorthWest J It Widmyer Glendive Independent A K Yerkes Bozeman Chronicle Samuel W Langhorne honorary mem ber Wm F Wheeler correspondent Lambert Mollinelli Helena Independent NEW members elected Philip Schmitz Montana Free Presse Leslie Sulgrove Live Stock Journal James B Walker Helena Herald Wm M Dulliver Helena Herald Walter M O Dwyer Great Falls Tribune W it Harber River Press George Alderson Avant Courier J D Whelpley Billings Gazette C B Camp Billings Gazette The

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Library of Congress1914

Image 1 of The Caldwell watchman (Columbia, La.), January 16, 1914

li _ Utkhma VOL XXVIII COLUMBIA LA FRIDAY JASNUAIY 16 1914 RANTITRUST LW S ARE FORMULATED PROGRAM FOR LEGISLATION OUT LINED BY CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE WILSON TO PASS UPON IT President Is Expected to Give Ap proval to Several Drastic Meas ures That Are Proposed Wentern Newspaper U nion Nw Srv WashingtonA general outline or tentative draft of the intitrust legis lation prepared by majority members of the house Committee on the Judi ciary fir action by the full committee subject to a conference with President Wilson has become known While members of the committee REF talked with the president some weeks on ago the proposed bills so far as known a me have not the administration stamp and which they will be discussed at a confer lation ence between the president and the and h committeemen The bills drafted af which ter conference between Chairman Clayton Carlin of Virginia Floyd of tABA Arkansas McCoy of New Jersey and L others cover these Three points 1 Interlocking directorates 2 Trade relations and prices 3 Injunction proceedings and dam T age suits by individuals In every case President Wilsons idea of providing penalties for indi west viduals as well as for corporations

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Library of Congress1914

Image 1 of The Caldwell watchman (Columbia, La.), January 23, 1914

VOL XXV III COLUMBIA LA FRIDAY JANUAIRY 23 1914 NO 5 TO SATE COTTON GROWERS MILLIONS THIS IS OBJECT OF BILL INTRO DUCED IN HOUSE BY CON GRESSMAN LEVER WOULD DETERMINE GRADES Appropriation Asked to Provide for Investigation and Spreading of Information Among Farmers Westrn Newspaper IIton News Scrvice WashingtonThe saving of mil lions of dollars now lost annually by cotton farmers and small manufactur ers is the object of a bill which Rep resentative Lever of South Carolina chairman of the house committee on agriculture has introduced The measure would appropriate 50000 to be used by the secretary of agricul ture in determining relative spinning values of the different grades of cot ton as already standardized by law and for demonstrating the results of this word to producers and consumers of cotton The department of agriculture al ready has standardized the nine grades of cotton and is concluding its first investigation for testing the waste tensile strength and bleaching qualf ties of these grades The house committee on agriculture has been advised that Texas alone is losing 40000000 because neither buy ers nor sellers have any appreciation of the value of this years offcolor cotton in that state Buyers

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Library of Congress1919

Image 1 of The Montana nonpartisan (Great Falls, Mont.), September 13, 1919

OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THe NATIONALNONPARTISAN LAAGUe IHU T5 TATr OF MOF A IOLUMU 8 GREAT FALLS MONTANAATURDAY SEPT 13 1919 NUMBER 38 C oa A U NUMBER 38 LABOR LEAGUE JOINS HANDS WITH FARt RS IN DETERMINED FIGHT TO FREE MONTANA REPRESENTATIVE GATHERING OF LABOR AT GREAT FALLS EFFECTIVE PLANS OUTLINED Platform Adopted and Nonpartisan League Program Endorsed Organization of Labor League Forces To Be Started At Once and Vigorously Pushed Means Defeat for Copper Crowd Montana Labor has officially joined hands with the Nonpartisan League At a representative gathering of labor men who met at Great Falls two days last week pursuant to resolutions passed at the re cent conference at Billings the committee named to find ways and means gave birth to the Montana Labor League The men who met are well known throughout the state and in cluded Hugh Jones of the Railroad Brotherhood of Great Falls Jack Mangus of the Mineworkers Lehigh Harry Hudson of the Railway Federation Don McLeod of the Havre Machinists Mike Holland of Sun River Bench representing the farmers Hon W F Dunn of Butte and A T Woodruff of the Smeltesmen and Alf Budden president of the Cascade Trades and Labor

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Library of Congress1940

Image 2 of Montana oil and mining journal (Great Falls, Mont.), March 9, 1940

Aider Gulch Stampede Put End to Bannack Newspaper what is now Montana and which was adult in Bannuk who did not po A few weeks following the discovery of gold to Grasshopper nack a printer with i press and a shirttail full of type ap peared in Bannack unloaded his out fit and announced that he had come to the new gold fields to establish the first paper in the territory which was then Idaho He immediately proceeded to get out his first and only issue of the Bannack NewsLetter a small poster size sheet In this work he was assisted by Col Wilbur F Sanders and several ys after the issue of the creek Ban a small army who wrote the salutato other editorials A few publication of the initial Bannack NewsLetter came the news of the phenominal strike by Bill Fair weather and his friends in Alder gulch where gold had been found in super abundance Immediately thereafter oc curred the Viriginia City stampede one of the most notable gold rushes in da NOW G0 With Montanas Own BIG WEST Polymer Gasoline Higher Test at No Higher Price A Montana product for Montana people Try Polymer gasoline today

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Library of Congress1859

Lloyd's American railroad map of the United States, showing the three proposed roads and the overland mail route to the Pacific

Relief shown by hachures. "Drawn & engraved at Rae Smith's, 71 Nassau St., N.Y. from materials furnished to the 36th Congress, March 1859 by G.K. Warren, Lt. U.S. Top. Eng. for the passage of the Pacific Railroad Bill." "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1859 by J.T. Lloyd in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States ..." Includes portraits of 12 railroad presidents and advertisements. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Tears in right and left margins, mended with tape. Water stains in left margin. Vault

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Library of Congress1889

Washington Yard : tracks for which company is indicted, shown in red

Covers area in central Washington D.C. bounded by Pennsylvania Av. N.W./S.E., 9th St. S.E., N St. S.E., diagonally northwestward to 14th St. S.W. Shows railroad yards, connecting trackage, and city block numbers. "October 1889." Typewritten on label affixed to verso: Ground covered by House bill 8243. Blueprint with selected tracks emphasized in red pencil. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing to fold to 22 x 14 cm. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. DCP

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Library of Congress1892

Map of Illinois Central R.R.

U.S. central states from Great Lakes to Gulf of Mexico, showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, roads and railroads. Principal north-south line, chartered in 1850 and incorporated in 1851. 706 miles opened for traffic in 1856. First railroad to receive lands granted by the passage of the "Illinois Central Land Grant Bill."

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Library of Congress1900

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 29, 1900

_ Perfectly healthy people have pure rich Bolootl Hoods Sarsaparilla purities and en riches the blood and makes people healthy The DoctorHere I carried that patient through a desperate sickness only to His WifeHave him object to your fee No drop dead when lie saw my bill Life builds up the system puts pure rich blood in the veins makes men and women strong and healthy Burdock Blood Bitters At any drug store He How I envy the man who just sang the solo She Why 1 thought he had an exceptionally poor voice He Oh it isnt his voice I envy its his nerve Tit Bit Cure the cough and save the life Dr Woods Norway Pine Syrup cures coughs and colds down to the very verge of con sumption IptoDate Customer Some crabs please Waiter Shirtwaist or huntin ease Customer What do you mean Waiter Soft or hard shell sir Puck Ive suffered for months from sore throat EclectricOil cured me in twentyfour hours SI S Gist Hawesville Ky His Reply SappingtonYour sister looks sweet enough to eat Little Rodney She does eat Judge Dr Agnews aiarrhal IowderRev AY H Main pastor of the Baptist Emanual church Buffalo

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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 Congress1912

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 5, 1912

From December Magazines WANTEDA SENSATION To make advertising interesting we need a sensation and advertising forms so large a part of our daily intellectual diet that it seems not too grasping to ask for a change of mental food Kosy Rumfurt Raramels have lost their taste Sharp Snappy Styles for Serious Students have wearied eye and mind Mannish togs of dainty model tug at the feminine pursestrings in vain We could not improve the picture but look what we have done to the frame won us by its complacent satis faction but now tires us by its constant repetition A prominent manufacturer who is going out of business has placed at the advertisers disposal his entire stock which is being offered by us at merely nominal pricesbut for us he has re tired once too often his magnanimity no longer touches us and we wearily thrust aside the lists of his misplaced philan thropiesElizabeth C Billings in the Atlantic WHATS THE USE I am ceasing to criticizeI use the word in its present degenerate sense of faultfinding because my complaints have not been productive of one iota of good Moreover they have always been ungraciously received either by the per

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Library of Congress1919

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 3, 1919

LANES COLD ciPtiP TABLETS GUARANTEED BBM WITt JOHN ON GUARD IN GERMANY But He Must Be Cared For and Brought Home and the Vic tory Loan Billions Will Go to Pay That Bill Most of us in the recent weeks have heard some mother or father speak of their absent son somewhere with the American army of occupation along the Rhine Johns in Germany they say proudly John is standing guard out there along the front line of freedom no longet menaced by gas bombs and shrapnel high explosive shells or ma chine guns nor auy of the machinery of war He is enjoying as much as one In Bervlce may the fruits of victory He is sleeping in the open instead of in a dugout He is having three nieaJs a day instead of a snack between bom bardments Hes as comfortable as it is possible for him to he and meet the demands of his duty Uncle Sam must pa his passage home must see that he is safely cared for uutil returned John must be cared for in Germany he must be taken care of when he gets back John and some 2o00000 of his com rades

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