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MAINE ITEMS Mothers Aid Law Goes Into Effect in Maine Augusta Me July 7 Capt James F Bagley secretary of the State Board of Charities and Corrections is sending out to the municipal boards instructions on the Mothers Aid law passed at the last session of the Legislature which be came effective today The act provides that every city and town shall help mothers with children under 14 The applicants must apply in person to the Municipal Board of Moth ers Aid and file a statement of their re sources and when medical aid is required the request shall be made to the nearest hospital receiving State aid Dependent children upon reaching 14 shall go to work for the time allowed by the school attendance laws if physically able Cash aid will be given in every case if the mother is found to be compe tent to manage cash and if she is not competent some one else will be ap pointed The municipal board will be re quired to furnish proof satisfactory to the State board that the applicant has lived in Maine for five years When an applicant moves out of a city or town it will be
MOTHER Open Child s Bowels with California Fig Syrup Hurry Mother A teaspoonful of California Fig Syrup now will thor oughly clean the little bowels and in a few hours you have a well playful child again Even a cross feverish constipated child loves Its fruity taste and mothers can rest easy be cause It never fails to work all the our bile and poisons right out of the stomach and bowels without griping or upsetting the child Tell your druggist you want only the genuine California Fig Syrup which has directions for babies and children of all ages printed on bottle Mother you must say California Refuse any imitation Advertisement Long Distance Sambo in heaven had Just got Ras tus far below on the asbestos ouija board HeUo Rastus how you gettln long Oh Ise havin a fine time Dont haf to work much jest shovel in some coal now and then Hows youall Ise workin purty hard We haf to sweep up de clouds pull in de tabs switch on de light an give de oie sun a shove every mornln How come youall have so much work to do Well sah to tell the truth were kinda
60 YEARS OF DANCING prof J C Whitten is Light on Hie Feet at 80 Boston Sunday Globe In the northern part of the city of Belfast Me there lives a pleasing character in the person of Prof Jere miah C Whitten well known through the State as a dancing master and ex pert violinist and even at an advanced age the envy of all the country lads around as well as his city contempora ries Young at the age of nearly 80 years is Prof Whitten wiio is yet in the dizzy whirl of fashionable dances and still skilfully handles his violin in a manner which produces those rich tones of music known to the musician The subject of this sketch was born in Freedom Me the son of a farmer and mechanic and in that town his early days were passed At the age of 18 years after having taken a thorough course of study in Freedom academy he left home to teach school following that occupation several years From nis mother be inherited rich musical gifts and under her direction he began a study of music taking his first lesson on the violin from her the mother
The Medicine that Lydia E Pinkhams 8L aMmoTwlenu Vegetable Compound ism Sterility How shall a mother who is weak and sick with some female trouble bear healthy children YS1 How anxious women ought to be to give their children the blessing of a good constitution I vS Many women long for a child to bless their home but because of some debility or displacement of the female organs they are barren Preparation for healthy maternity is accomplished by Lydia E PinkhanTs Vegetable Com V pound more successfully than by any other medicine because it gives tone and strength to the parts curing all displacements and inflammation I Actual sterility in woman is very rare If any woman thinks she is sterile let her write to i Mrs Pinkham Lynn Mass whose advice is given free to all expectant or wouldbe mothers The Ijj medicine that instantly asserts its curative powers in the ills of women is I Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound Read these Two Remarkable Cures Dkab Mbs Pinkiiam During the early part of my married life I was very delicate in health I had two miscarrages and both my husband and I felt very badly as we were
fAPT OKUM I Tarry Topsides of Th ropsm in the Boston Globe through the cabir schooner Tarry Top Von Siind Me at anchoi I ti hist evening wher cth o r tin quarter rai 3jeIial eurwav J G untenance of Captain fc celebrated marinei charioted by the a red in the gangway cring hail and a nc below glad t see m the reporter who it Captain Okum at these many years tde looking old lady knitting said Captain Okum Globe man Ive told tin one that puts of me in th paper hat no anger dwelt f the pictures said he Sorry I Ye see mothers It a aboard Women i at his joke and the locker a finely j s a sundried fish one you never set pr duced a jug of th old place at f said on the table and in a mood for an n The reporter at the comfort the table whose ed in the lamp i t earins asked grin Never 1 Tarry afore did i it this way We iinr and mother So when one lives out some lied Wabanin went slowly over traveler over a ii 11 says Come turkey with
Little Girl Was Not Expected To Live Mother Grateful That She Was Saved Read this part of a letter we received from a good woman and grateful mother Mrs I H McLeod 30 Second St Bar Harbor Maine She wrote 1 have just got a bottle of your Dr Trues Elixir and it makes the fourth bottle I have had for my little girl She was ill when 1 saw your adv and I had six doctors here for her and they never helped her at all and now she is all well and I dont like to be without it in the house and 1 can truly recommend Trues Elixir for children Dr Trues Elixir tones the stomach regulates the bowels and expels worms Thousands of children have worms and parents do not know what the trouble is Symptoms or signs of worms are De ranged stomach swollen upper lip sour stomach offensive breath hard and full belly with occasional gripings and pains about the navel pale face of leaden tint eyes heavy and dull twitching eyelids itching of the nose itching of the rectum short dry cough grinding of the teeth little red points sticking out on tongue
Little Girl Was Not Expected To Live Mother Grateful That She Was Saved Read this part of a letter we received from a good woman and grateful mother Mrs I H McLeod 30 Second St Bar Harbor Maine She wrote I have just got a bottle of your Dr Trues Elixir and it makes the fourth bottle I have had for my little girl She was ill when I saw your adv and I had six doctors here for her and they never helped her at all and now she is all well and I dont like to be without it in the house and 1 can truly recommend Trues Elixir for children Dr Trues Elixir tones the stomach regulates the bowels and expels worms Thousands of children have worms and parents do not know what the trouble is Symptoms or signs of worms are De ranged stomach swollen upper lip sour stomach offensive breath hard and full belly with occasional gripings and pains about the navel pale face of leaden tint eyes heavy and dull twitching eyelids itching of the nose itching of the rectum short dry cough grinding of the teeth little red points sticking out on tongue
mis WEAK HERVOHS MOTHER Tells How Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound Restored Her Health Philadelphia PaI was very weak always tired my back ached and 1 felt sickly most of the time I went to a doctor and he said I had nervous indi gestion which ad ded to my weak condition kep me worrying most of the time and he said if I could not stop that I could not get well I heard so muchabout LydiaE Pinkhams Vegetable Com pound my husband wanted me to try it I took it for a week and felt a little bet ter I kept it up for three months and I feel fine and can eat anything now without distress or nervousness Mrs J Worthline 2842 North Taylor St Philadelphia Pa The majority of mothers nowadays i overdo there are so many demands upon their time and strength the result is invariably a weakened rundown nervous condition with headaches back ache irritability and depression and soon more serious ailments develop It is at such periods in life that Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound will restore a normal healthy condition as it did to Mrs Worthline Universal Military Training j Hamlin Garland
THI 1VKWIKC WORLD MONDAY APRIL I ltll AN APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Let us alleviate human suffering and preserve life not help to destroy it 2 AS a result of receiving hundred of thousand of letter cables and memici through various sources containing heartbroken appeals prayers and pleas from the people of our mother countries we the undersigned editors and publishers have concluded to place this appeal before the great American people on behalf of our readers The readers of our newspapers are vitally affected almost without exception by this disastrous conflict of the European Italians Their brothers their sisters parents children or relatives live In the warring countries This does not mean that the Ameri can people as a whole is not vitally affected but our readers are more closely linked through the bonds of blood relationship with the peoples of countries now plunged in the depths of barbaric warfare Each days mail with its news of the pitiful progress of the war brings some new and bitter anguish to the hearts of our people The pleas of the millions of widowed mothers the appeals of the fatherless children and orphans and the prayers of the starv ing
THE SUN MONDAY APRIL 5 1915 AN APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CI Let us alleviate human suffering and preserve lifenot help to destroy it R Vf S a result of receiving hundred of thousands of letters cables and mes sages through various sources containing heartbroken appeals prayers JM and pleas from the people of our mother countries we the undersigned editors and publishers have concluded to place this appeal before the great American people on behalf of our readers The readers of our newspapers are vitally affected almost without ex ception by this disastrous conflict of the European nations Their brothers their sisters parents children or relatives live in the warring countries This does not mean that the American people as a whole is not vitally affected but our readers are more closely linked through the bonds of blood relationship with the peoples of countries now plunged in the depths of barbaric warfare Each days mail with its news of the pitiful progress of the war brings some pew and bitter anguish to the hearts of our people The pleas of the millions of widowed mothers the appeals of the father less children and orphans and the prayers of
7Sf3r7S VUW Jh r T I r obh i THE WASHINGTON HERALD MONDAY APRIL 3 1913 AN APPEAL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Let us alleviate human suffering and preserve life not help to destroy it 99 TO AS a result of receiving hundreds of thousands of letters cables and messages through various sources containing heartbroken appeals prayers and pleas from the people of our mother countries we the undersigned editors and publishers have concluded to place this appeal before the great American people on behalf of our readers The readers of our newspapers are vitally affected almost without exception by this disastrous conflict of the European nations Their brothers their sisters parents children or relatives live in the waning countries This does not mean that the Ameri can people as a whole is not vitally affected but our readers are more closely linked through the bonds of blood relationship with the peoples of countries now plunged in the depths of barbaric warfare Each days mail with its news of the pitiful progress of the war brings some new and bitter anguish to the hearts of our people The pleas of the millions of widowed mothers the appeals of the fatherless chil
AN APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Let us alleviate human suffering and preserve lifenot help to destroy it AS a result of receiving hundreds of thousands of letters the plants devoted to the manufacture of ammunition cables and messages through various sources containing e 1 1 j heartbroken appeal prayer nd plea from the people of our for nabons at war to immediately cease mother countries we the undersigned editors and publishers making powder shrapnel and cartridges destined to have concluded to place this appeal before the great American destroy our brothers widow OUT sisters and mothers people on behalf of our readers I7 The readers of our newspapers are vitally affected almost Orphan their children as well as destroy forever the without exception by this disastrous conflict of the European priceless possessions handed down by our ancestors nations Their brothers their sisters parents children or rela tives live in the warring countries This does not mean that the We appeal particularly to the American manufacturers and American people as a whole is not vitally affected but our read their workmen engaged in manufacturing any of these articles to ers are more closely linked through the bonds of blood relation
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