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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 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 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 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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Library of Congress1908

Image 8 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), April 23, 1908

JOINT BANQUET Associated Press and Pub lishers Dine Together Every Slate end Territory In the Union Represented Senator Knox and William J Bryan Among the Guests New York April 22There was a notable gathering of editors and pub lishers at the WaldorfAstoria tonight the occasion be og a joint banquet of The Associated Press and the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers Associa tion both of which organizations are holding their annual meetings in this city Every state and territory of the United States was represented by per sons who have earned distinction in the newspaper profession while their guests included William Jennings Bry an United States Senator Philander C Knox of Pennsylvania and others of public influence The grand hall room was filled to the limit of comfort when the 600 diners had found their places The boxes which were half hidden by a wealth of carnations and apple blossoms were occupied by the families and friends of the banquetters The scheme of deco rations was as beautiful as it was elab orate the national colors of course predominating At the presidents table were Gener al Charles H Taylor of the Boston Globe the toastmaster Herman Rid der editor and publisher

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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 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 Congress1912

Image 9 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), July 13, 1912

Use Glenns Sulphur Soap For Heat Rashes Kczema Pimples 1 lives Oily Skin Blackheads Itchy Skin Ivy Poisoning Sold by druggists generally I Hills Hair and Whisker Dye Dlac or Brown 50c Against Against Substitutes Imitations Get the WellKnown Round Package HORUCKS MALTED MILK Made In the largest best equipped and sanitary Malted Milk plant In the world We do not makemilk products Skim Milk Condensed Milk etc But the OriginalGenuine HORLICKS MALTED MIIK Made from pure fullcream milk and the extract of select malted grain reduced to powder form soluble in water Best fooddrink for all ages MTASK FOR HORUCKS Used all over the Globe JimieciOcdafcitnfain ffio Cto sf trM Mo Cii in if Hot Wave HAS NO EFFECT ON THE White Mountain Refrigerator THEREFORE THE APPRECIAT IVE HOUSEWIFE BUYS THE SANI TARY WHITE MOUNTAIN ALL SIZES AND PRICES Couch Hammock 595 KHAKI CANVAS WIND SHIELD NATIONAL SPRINC BOTTOM KHA KI DENIM COVERED MATT CHAINS AND HOOKS OVER 25 SOLD THIS LAST WEEK A FEW MORE AT THIS PRICE I Ice Cream Freezers Porch Chairs Tables Lawn Swings Grass Seats Bamboo Porch Shades Settees OUR STOCK OF SUMMER FURNISHINGS IS QUITE COMPLETE RWSoule Emporium DEPOT SQUARE We Pay the

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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 Congress1912

Image 13 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), December 14, 1912

BODY AND FACE 1MECZE1 Grew Worse Until Hands and Feet Swollen and Running Sores Skin Would Drop Off in Scales Prac tically a Shutin Cuticura Soap and Ointment Entirely Cured Brownvlllp N YCuticura Soap and Ollit ment cured mo of a stubborn case of bzema which followed a severe caso of scarlet revcr My body and face was a mass of Rores so that I was practically a sliutin It grew worse until my hands and feet were swollen and running sores 1 trieo many remedies One kind which I used fairly burned my skin up so that It would drop off In scales 6s il It was scalded But thanks to good advice I then used Cuticura Soap and Ointment In a short time I was entirely Cured Now my skin is clear as ever and 1 have had no return of the disease I hope this letter will help the suffering ones who are fighting eczema Signed Miss Bdnu Bidwcll Jan 10 1912 TO REMOVE DANDRUFF Prevent dry thin and falling hair allay Itching and irritation and promote tho growth and beauty of the hair frequent shampoos with Cuticura Soap assisted by occasional dresfffngs with Cuticura Oint ment

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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 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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