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Library of Congress1882

Agents of Quartermaster's Department employed in the investigation of Fourth of July claims. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives, a statement of the agents of the Quartermaster's Department now employed in the investigation of claims under the act of July 4, 1864. April 21, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed

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Library of Congress1863

In the Senate of the United States. January 15, 1863. -- Ordered to be printed with the documents. Mr. Morrill, from the special committee appointed to inquire into the facts relative to the chartering of transport vessels for the Banks expedition, and the character of the men employed to navigate them, submitted the following report in part

Andrew J. Richardson, ship owner, Niagara. Brigadier General George L. Andrews, U.S. Army. Charles H. Haswell, engineer and marine inspector. Commodore G.J. Van Brunt, U.S. Navy. Cornelius Vanderbilt, shipping executive. Index follows p. 127. Lieutenant Colonel John W. Locke, U.S. Army. Notable witnesses include: Thomas D. Taylor, marine inspector and editor, American Lloyd's Register of Shipping. Thomas J. Southard, shipbuilder. Title taken from opening lines of text. SERIALSETDELIVERY1

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Library of Congress1862

Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 4th ultimo, copies of all instructions given to commanding generals in pursuance of the acts of Congress approved August 6, 1861, setting free slaves who have been employed, by the consent of their masters, against the government of the United States. July 10, 1862. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed

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Library of Congress1880

In the Senate of the United States. April 23, 1880. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Withers, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 851) The Committee on Pensions having examined the Bill (S. 851) granting a pension to Martha A. Lachman, together with the accompanying petition, find that the claimant applies for pension on account of the services of her late husband, Herman [i.e. Henry] Lachman, as a detective in the employment of the government during the late war

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Library of Congress1873

In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2514.) Petition and corroborating proofs show that William A. Hoon was assistant engineer on the steamer Champion, No. 3, employed in United States service, and that he was killed on Red River, April 27, 1864, by the blowing up of the boat while attempting to pass batteries of the enemy while engaged in the Red River expedition, said deceased at the time acting as assistant engineer

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Library of Congress1923

Image 14 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), March 12, 1923

W 1 One of Washingtons Industries So tremendous is the business of running the United States Goverment that Washington even to Washingtonians is considered a Government city as applied to industry It is true the Governments one hundred thousand odd employes with a monthly payroll of some ten millions bf dollars is a tremendous factory yet throughout the city are hundreds of smaller industries giving employment to thousands of men and women and turning back in the business channels millions of dollars each year Such an institution is THE WASHINGTON TIMESHERALD Whose Weekly Payroll for 594 Employes Is in Excess of 24000 These 594 employes are for the most part heads of families or at least breadwinners and probably suppbrt 2000 people which is a small community in itself a community spending for the necessities and many of the luxuries of life over a million and a quarter dollars each year Buying Power to be reckoned witha farreaching influence in merchandising real estate and financial circles THE WASHINGTON TIMESHERALD A National Institution With Washingtons Interest Always at Heart will soon move into its new home One of the largest and most modern newspaper plants in the United States is being

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Library of Congress1905

Image 2 of The Colfax chronicle (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.), June 3, 1905

The Chronicle COLFAX LOUISIANA Women in Business The pronouncement comes from Chl eago that the new woman is dead commercially speaking that prominent employers of that city have decla ed that they do not want women and that some have declared unequivocally that they will hire no more women Variou3 treen are given for this policy but Dmon that has not always existed and wlil not always exist asserts the In dianapolis News We have heard so much in recent years abxout the prog res of women in the business world their succeess their adaptibility their loyalty their good habits and what not which made them superior to men that this announcement from our most strenuous center of commerce comes with a good deal of a shock How much force really lies behind it is doubt tul That women are now employed in many places in preference to men is un questionable that they will continue to be employed in such places is altogether probable Affairs of this kind with women as well as with men have reached the utilitarian basis Where work and women are not suited the women must drop out There is a sur Vival of the

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Library of Congress1903

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 4, 1903

founty Correspondence Deferred from last weekJ 1 Thayer of Belfast ere idayState Lecturer oliire at Victor Grange buiar1 veiling June 3dMiss i as arrived home for the lieasant reception was 1 Mrs Beebe at the par lay evening About one resent The evening was ntercourse and singing r mi were servedMrs seriously ill Mrs It i t last is in town Memo 1 observed at the M E miber of veterans were f ip u m arrived home from 1 i siia_Iapt W CHard days last week with his ids barge the George charging coal in lrovi J lieagan and Mrs ted relatives in Winter i Mrs Mary Smith enter i nb May 20thGeorge me sick with asthma 1 the Misses Maud and uikfort were the guests last Saturday and Suu i rusts here last Saturday did a lot of damage to frud trees Mrs Mary Ilufns I land man called in Stockton Springs II Clarke have gone to j _selden Clarke has l where he lias employ i Clarke visited her j 1 in Butter City Sun il and Raymond How n Bucksport last week j i has returned home j he lias had employ rant visited friends p

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Library of Congress1919

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 4, 1919

h Sees No Reasonable ion to Reservations uncerning League vER AT WHITE HOUSE lit Asserts United States iders No Powers and Withdraw at Wiil President Wilson and of the Foreign Ue 1 iimiitee ot tlit ocudie luet i ic House Tuesday to dis ace treaty idl opened the discus mpressing on the Senators of prompt ratification of without amendments and nations that would n mission of the treaty to mnatories csp many tier i uent said that the inter v class of people the larm rial workers and employ Med prompt ratification to j at stable conditions of in uiculture and employment iblished The Presidents bicli was in effect an ad country follows hat this conference will vpedite your consideration aty of peace 1 beg that pardon and indulge me if 1 that practically the whole aging the country back to litions of life and indus pon the decision of the i regard to the terms of fiu again to urge my ad the act u ol th Senate to tlu p ahi tuHen at 1 f practicable moment be face in the readjustment onai life are uf the most ai erit cal character will r iheir proper solution the

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Library of Congress1959

Image 28 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), May 25, 1959

C2 THE EVENING STAR W aihinftn 0 C MWf Mey 25 IMS tffK v kMp tK 3H DISTINGUISHED PRESSMANSamueI H Kaifffmann left president 5 of The Evening Star Newspaper Co holds a plaque naming him an 9 honorary member of the International Wessmens Union after it was presented him by Anthony J DeAndrade the union president at the microphone Robert Callahan right vice president of the Washington pressmen is holdng a traditional pressmans paper cap also presented to Mr Kauffmann Edward Meyer president of the Washington press men is second from rightStar Staff Photos by Francis Routt and B Arnold Sachs Family Day at The Star Draws Crowd of 4000 Four thousand festive em ployes and guests of The Eve ning Star satisfied their curios lty yesterday at a premiere sho wins of the new Star Building Ranging in age from 4 weeks to 87 years employes ex employes and their families embarked on hourlong tours of the big modem plant at Sec ond street and Virginia avenue SJE which has housed The Star since March Probably the oldest visitor to the Family Day Open House was Charles Powers 87 of 7402 Arden road Cabin John Md A former street

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