German Evangelical Church, Martinsburg, W. Va. February 8, 1892. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed
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Image 4 of Browning chief (Browning, Mont.), December 4, 1942
The Browning Chief Entered as 2nd class matter July IS 1931 at the pastoffice at Browning Montana under act of March 3 IS7S Subscription 200 year tn advance Mis Annie Duncan Owner A weekly newspaper published every Friday at Browning Glacier County Montana Germans and Generals General Waveils recent choice of the worlds halfdozen great est generals is particularly inter esting because it does not in clude the name of a single Ger man of the last hundred years in spite of the fact that this emi nent British soldier recognizes that modern Germany is probably the greatest militarist power known General Wuvell places the American Robert E Lee on a level with Napoleon though re garding him as rather more of a gentleman than the celebrated Corsican adding also the names of Frederick the Great of Prussia and the Duke of Wellington Leading these four in General Wavells opinion are the two greatest soldiers the world has yet seenWinston Cnurchills ancestor the Duke of Marlbor ough and the famous Byzantine Belisarius The reason for the omission of modern German generals like Ludendorff is that German vic tories are characteristically the result of close organized staff work and that no
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Post- und Eisenbahn-Reisekarte--Deutschland, Holland, die Schweiz, Italien bis Neapel, der grösste Theil von Frankreich, Ungarn, Polen etc. : mit besonderer Rücksicht auf Eisenbahnen u. Seedampfschiffahrt
Post-road/railroad map of Central Europe (Germany, Benelux, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Hungary, and adjacent regions). The component German states/principalities and adjacent countries are shown in distinctive border coloration. Title from map-content area (recto). When affixed to the cloth backing the map sheet was sectioned to 24 panels. Handwritten (cursive script) inked identification statement on paper label affixed to cloth backing (verso): German post and rail in 1856, Millard Fillmore, May 16, 1856. LC sheet imperfect: Use-worn, LC accession rubber-stamp in map-content area (top recto), lead-pencil annotations on cloth backing (verso). Includes notes, indexed table titled "Statistische Uebersicht der 38 deutschen Bundesstaaten", railroad distance table, waterways distance table, and key to abbreviations. Five paper panels with statistical tables, panel with spa/health-resort locations, panel with 6 trans-Alpine road profiles, and cover panel affixed to cloth backing (verso). Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 26, 1915
That German Submarine Suspicious Craft Explained as Ol Gramp a Fixed Institution In These Waters boston Globe J Castine Me Aug 18 The Oakum Club which meets every afternoon on the shady side of Spurlings fishhouse and peruses fractional parts of the met ropolitan journals that Sam Strout picks up around the big hotel where he is night watchman has passed informal resolu tions that there has been so much foolish ness printed about German submarines being round Penotscot Bay that it is incumbent upon the club to set the public right ldunno remarked Capt Eph Simp son these newspaper fellers or least wise all I ever run afoul of cant never git nothin right Last week I got out my old chart and showed one of em jest what the perils of navigation was that lay tween Monhegan and Cape Rozier way and how slim the chances of them furriners in a craft that was travelin down close to the bottom and steerin by squintin around the corners of a stove pipe thing that stuck up through the deck of makin White Head to say nothin of the Muscle Ridge channel and all the rocks an bars and sich
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Image 15 of Daily inter mountain (Butte, Mont.), May 27, 1899
The Wars of the Princess De Sagan In Emeperor William II of Germany the shrewd Princess de Sagan encoun ters a foeman worthy of her kill and of this dispute all Europe s talking It is announced by the German kaiser that he 1 will not permit the da Sagan inheritance founded y a Sagan in the principality of that manor in Silesia to pass into the hands of the French v fe of the decrepit prince who was at one time the acknowl edged Beau Brummel of all France These German estates are of vast ex tent They arc valued at between 2000 000 and 3000000 and produce an annual rental of about 100000 The emperor can do as he likes legally The estates are held as a gift of the crown under an old law and William has power to recognize any heir he may choose That heir may ultimately be the Princess of Fuersten berg I Jeanne Alexandrine de Sagan is un questionably a remarkable woman i For a matter of thirty odd years she has reigned a queen in exclusive Parisian circles despite the stain upon her fathers name and her own unconventional life j She
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Carl Jügel's Post u. Reise Karte von Deutschland : und den Nachbar Staaten, bis London, Paris, Montpellier, Florenz, Warschau, Kopenhagen
Relief shown by hachures. Unidentified prime meridian. Includes illustrations and inset "Routenkarte von Europa". LC copy annotated to show "M. Fillmore's route Sep. & Oct 1855". Each sheet sectioned into 9 and mounted on cloth, folding to 20 x 14 cm. Signed on sheet 1 on verso above title label: Millard Fillmore bot. at Frankfort $2.25, Sept. 3 1855. In addition to the title label and two panels from the cover, two pages of publisher's advertisements are pasted on verso of page 2. Legend in French pasted on verso of page 3. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. In German. French legend and parallel title.
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Carl Jügel's Post u. Reise Karte von Deutschland : und den Nachbar Staaten, bis London, Paris, Montpellier, Florenz, Warschau, Kopenhagen
Relief shown by hachures. Unidentified prime meridian. Publication and edition information from cover. Includes illustrations and inset "Routenkarte von Europa". LC copy sectioned into 48 and mounted on cloth, folding to 21 x 14 cm. Signed on French cover on verso: Millard Fillmore, May 16, 1856. Signed above French legend on verso: Millard Fillmore, May 16, 1856. Signed on manuscript label on verso: Millard Fillmore, May 16, 1856. In addition to the printed title label, manuscript title label, French legend and list of postal rates, and the two panels from the cover, two pages of publisher's advertisements are pasted on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. In German. French legend, parallel title, and list of postal rates.
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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 21, 1911
The Story of a Man Who Made Good BY HARRY LEE SNYDER From the National Magazine About ten oclock in the morning of the first day of April the high cost of living landed h solar plexus blow I had just paid my good German landlady for my preceding weeks board and lodging and she had remarked apologetically Pota toes costs so much an meat is so high once that it is 1 must ask you for ten dollars every week already And I had been paying only seven I went to my office and sat down at my desk to think things overa not alto ether pleasant or wholly profitable task was a lawyer My honest old black smith fatherhaving in mind nothing but the thought of securing my futurehad made numberless sacrifices that I might be educated and his dearest wish had been to see me cozily established in my chosen profession Within a week after my admission to the bar he died and I found myself alone in the world for my mother had passed away some years be fore As I sat at my desk that morning 1 fell to thinking of my fathers last words
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Image 4 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 13, 1915
The Republican Journal BELFAST THURSDAY MAY IS 1916 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY The Republican Jour Pub Co CHARLES A PILSBURY f Manager Advertising Terms For one square one Inch length in column 25 cents for one week nnd 26 cents for each subsequent insertion Subscription Terms In advance 200 a year 100 for six months 60 cents for three months This is Tulip Week Do all the young men know itBoston Globe Yes but they dont spell it that way With them it is twolip fiftytwo weeks in the year The editor received by mail Monday several strawberry blossoms picked by Merton Bessey in Peru May 2ndRum ford Falls Times South America7 The Germans fired a shot into Dun kirk from a distance of 20 miles and would have killed an infant had it not been rescued by its father Such is war fareGerman warfare Whatever may be the verdict of the jury in the case of Barnes vs Roosevelt i the verdict of the people as voiced by the pressof all shades of political opinionwill be adverse to the Colonel Indeed we may say that the verdict has already been rendered in advance of the jury Chapters of inside
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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 21, 1917
i ACCUSED AS GERMAN SECRET AGENTS ___ Harry F 1erissi Irving Bonaparte and Axel B Melchar accused of hav ing maintained a secret mail system between this country Germany Mexico and South America _ Farewell to Meat By Scott N earing in Coast Seamans Journal Vegetarians have always been rare in the United States People have taken it for granted that in India or in China a meat diet was out of the question but in the United Stateshave not our ances tors eaten meat from a time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the con trary True enough but our descendants must stop it From 1860 to 1917 the population of the United States increased a little more than threefold and from 1880 to 1917 it doubled almost exactly Contrast with this in crease in population the increase in the production of meat for which the work ingman spends onethird of his food bud get The meat supply is absolutely limit ed by the number of meat animals in a community The figures showing the number of live meat animals in the Unit ed States indicate an alarming failure of t he meat supplies to keep pace
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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 20, 1917
A Mothers Appeal to the President Mr President those of us who are giving sons and husbands or other loved ones are giving all that we have in life Bravely we are trying to bear the sor rows which have been placed upon us Bravely we are trying to look forward with some hope of their return We would ndt hold them back for we know that they are going for our honor and to save us and all womanhood from the fearful fate which has befallen Bel gium and much of France But Mr President we know that their lives are being menaced because of pro German activities We know that many a soldiers life will be lost which might otherwise have been saved had these proGerman activities been suppressed with a ruthless hand The men who in this country are fight ing the United States by working for Germany are infinitely more our ene mies and the enemies of these loved ones that we are sending to battle than are the men in Germany even than the Kaiser and his associates These men at home are seeking to stab our loved ones in the back and you Mr
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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 21, 1918
6 all sorts _A11 Ships Huns Damaged Now in U S Service Despite all the efforts made by their crews to render them useless nearly a hundred formerly interned German ships are now flying the Stars and Stripes in the service of the United States navy says the March Popular Mechanics Maga zine It develops that although the Huns were convinced their vandalism made our use of the boats impossible the navy has not only managed to repair all of them but has done the work so skill fully that in no case has failure or weak ness since developed Fire extinguishers were filled with gasoline incendiary prep arations made and gauges reversed Steam pipes were plugged by disjointing them driving in slugs of solid brass and then concealing the work by renewing the connections Meter Which Registers Telephone Calls A recently invented telephone meter described and illustrated in the March Popular Mechanics Magazine is designed to prevent errors in charging calls and t make the service more satisfactory to the subscriber in other respects Being of comparatively simple construction it can be installed in the signal case of a coinoperated telephone with slight alter ations The device comprises two
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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 1, 1918
An American BusinessSoldier in the War Zone Part V I want to take you up to the most ad vanced station of our flying forces in France where the Lafayette Escadrille are stationed We had a wonderful day with them You read of the death of Captain Hall a few days ago It was my privilege to be shown all over their field every plane they had by Captain Hall I had a long conversation with him and he sat next to me at luncheon We had a great time with those boys Eighteen American flyers at the front represented at that date all of Americas forces at the battle front in the air Think of it We are apt to grow bombastic about our contribution to this war but so far it is woefully lacking We owe all that we have to Britain and Frai e Our part is coming in the war Here is a piece of German propaganda that is being sent around You hear it whispered now and then Well I un derstand that France is unloading onto the Americans and they are not doing their share I understand that Great Britain is not doing her
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Image 3 of The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.), November 15, 1894
H1SGEIXAHBVBO Cut It Out Cut out this advertisement and send it to the makers of with your address and 14c in stamps and by return mail you will receive their beautiful Columbus SouvenirSpoon Address THE J B WILLIAMS CO Glastonbury Ct PREMIUM DEPARTMENT We warrant these spoons made of the best German silver extra plated with pure silver oxidized handles gold lined bowls Am greatly pleased with Souvenir Spoons and con sider them little gems They are almost identical in every respect with some we bought at the Worlds Fair for which we paid 2 apiece We use nothing but Ivorine and cor r WW II MARRY ME JACK And buy the rihg at McKinneys A thousand Solid Gold Rings Diamonds Opals Pearls Turquoise Moon Stones Emeralds aud Garnets in any kind of a setting Engagement and Wedding Rings a specialty Largest stock Low est prices in the city KENNEY THE JEWELER 459 Congress St Monument Sq novldtf PALMER ANDERSON GO 29 Exchange Street AGrEKTTS OF CONTINENTAL Insurance Co OF THE CITY OF NEW YOKE Incoporated in 1852 Commenced business in 1853 F C MOORE President Secretary EDWARD LANNING Capital Paid Up in Cash 100000000 STATEMENT OF ASSETS JAN 11894
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Image 6 of The Progress (Shreveport, La.), December 23, 1893
C D BICES Ed and Prop SREVEPORT A KAISIR WILLIAMS preposterous egotism provokes univeal aw v among foreigners but to the German nation it is rather too serious a mat ter to laugh at A capital of 52000000 is invested W in the nursery interest in 172000 acres of land In all horticultural a pursuits the entire capital is esti bi mated at over 100000J0 by the tt sensus of the agrioulturai depart is mont P1 A registered letter that was re w ceived at the Portland Maine post ii office the other day bore a stamp ofi the 4 denomination It would have gone for the usual ten cent fee and t postage The stampcollecting fad H was suggested as an explanation the tl stamp that had been used being re garded by enthusiasts as more valua m ble than an uncanceled one b TILE smokeless powder is not prov o01 ing such an unadulterated success in tc Europe as was looked for It is said a that at least 500 Italian steel field j pieces have been ruined by the d use of this new explosive If field n piece are thus destroyed in ordinary if practice with
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Philip Milbauhr. April 24, 1894. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed
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