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Library of Congress1873

Atlantic Ocean &c. : shewing the communication between Europe, North America and the Pacific

Shows transatlantic cables, steam and sailing routes, currents, and the Sargasso Sea; major existing and proposed railroads in the United States and Canada, Chagres Railway across Panama. Relief shown by contours. Annotated in ink: Black's General Atlas - 1873. Rubber-stamped: 626888 N. 41. Includes travel times and distances for various routes, dates of cables. In lower right margin: 39A.

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Library of Congress1886

Image 4 of The Magnolia gazette (Magnolia, Miss.), April 30, 1886

TALMAGES SERMON Dlsoourse on the Trials of News paper Editors and Reporters The Shams They See ancl the Temptations They Meet in Their Search for News An Underpaid Clans a Rule and Their Souls Nobodys Car or Rev T DeWitt Talmage in a reoent sermon took up the cudgel for the news paper men illustrating their trials temp tations and almost ceaseless labors in the fight for current news in a forcible man ner He took for his text Behold a flying roll Zacliariah Dr Talmage said This winged sheet of the text had on it a prophecy The flying roll today is the newspaper In calcu lating the influences that affect society no more afford to ignore It than you you can iernore the noonday sun or the Atlantic Ocean It is high time that I preach a sermon expressing my appreciation of what the newspaper press has done and is doing No man living or dead is or has been so indebted to it as I am for it gives me perpetual audience in every city town and neighborhood of Christendom and I take this opportunity before God and this people to thank the editors and publishers and

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Library of Congress1901

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 24, 1901

VACATION ON CAPE COD Lo on a narrow neck of land Twixt two unbounded seas I stand Quaint Cape Cod Even its name has i ilavor of oddity about it which illus j dates the grim humor of the Pilgrim I delegation selecting it Fishing in its neighboring waters the party decided i it the first fish caught should give tie to the new found cape and up j on the bottom speedily whisked a jnodly codand Cape Cod was im irdiately christened into existence arcely more than live miles in width any part it extends out from the uinland or upward of sixty miles d curves inward sixty more its in land sliores washed by the waters of c of the most picturesque bays known the world while its outer coastline esents a harrier to the broad Atlantic lieli rolls in magnificent surfbeats eaiust it On the Atlantic side the n ation of which I write was spent It goes without saying that in choos ig the cape for a summer vacation ne is governed by a thorough love for ocean its changing moods its vast ess and 1 know of no better place on our coast to satisfy

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Library of Congress1886

Image 2 of The Grenada sentinel (Grenada, Miss.), April 24, 1886

TALMAGES SE1UI0X i Discourse on the Trials paper Editors aqg R N fbr Shams They See aad the Temptation They Meet In Their Seaich for News An lliKlirpald fUfrM W Their Koala Nobody Care PeWittj Talmagjei In a recent ormon took up tnecudgePfor the newe pper men illntfcratiug thair triaia temp tations and almost ceaselesn labors in the fight for current news in a forcible man ner He took for hta text Behold a flying rolltZachariah vL Dr Talmage said This winged sheet of the text had on it a prophecy The flying roll today is the newspaper In calcu lating the influences that aflfecj society you can no more afford to igUjttrir it than you can ignore the noonday sun or the Atlantic Ocean It is high time that t preach a sermon expressing my appreciation of what the newspaper press has done and is doing No man living or dead is or has been so indebted to it as I am for it gives me perpetual audience in every 5yTfcwn and neighborhood of ChrMtendWlfnd I ake this opportunity before God and thi ieople to thank the editors and publishers and compositor and typesetter the world over and I

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Library of Congress1886

Image 4 of The Brookhaven leader (Brookhaven, Miss.), April 22, 1886

TALMAGETS SERMON Discount ou the Trlels of News paper Editors and Reporters Tt Shim Thr See and the TtmptMltM They Meet In Their Search for News Aa rnderpald Clema a Rule and Their SoaU tohodyi Care Rev T DeWitt Talmage In a recent aertnon took up the cudgel for the news paper men illustrating their trials temp tations and almost ceaseless labors in the fight for current news in a forcible man ner He took for his text Tthnld a flying rollZacharlah v1 Dr Talmage said This winged sheet of the text hd on it a prophecy The flying roll today is the newspaper In calcu lating the influeneea that affect society you can no more afford to ignore it than you can ignore the noonday son or the Atlantic Ocean It is high time that I preach a sermon expressing my appreciation of what the nwspaper press has done and is doing No man living or dead is nr has been so indebted to it as I am for it gives me perpetual audience in every city town and neighborhood of Christendom and I take this opportunity before Clod and this people to thank the editors and publishers and

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Library of Congress1902

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 2, 1902

WAIF OF THE OCEAN Bottle Thrown into Indian Sea Found off Cape Cod Floated for Twenty Eight j Year Ceorge T Maddox of Brockton Mass j is closely connected with the tale of a sea drifting bottle that lloated twenty eight years The bottle was thrown overboard in the Indian ocean from the vessel Hattie K Tapley inl74 Mad dox was third mate The bottle was recently picked up off t ape Cod It was intact with its lit tle message still preserved telling the whence what where of the bottle That was twentyeight years ago when Maddox was barely of age The bottle was washed from the In dian ocean to Cape Codfrom the far east to the far west from old world waters to New Ingland shores It has taken Ceorge T Maddox with vivid memory back to his younger life over the Indian ocean from his present days of furni ture selling in Brockton It is a strange story that lias thus come up out of tiie sea Tales have been told and retold ot bottles thrown from sailing vessels and picked til years later in faroff parts of the work These stories have been taken wit

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Library of Congress1908

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 17, 1908

THE CALL OF THE SEA Capt John Hill a Native of Maine After 25 Years of Ranch Life Returns to Salt Water Spokane Wash November 27 After a quarter century of struggle against the never ceasing call of the sea during which he was a rancher at Wardnerin the heart of the Coeur d Alene mining district in northern Idaho east of Spo kane Capt John Hill 76 years of age has decided to pass the evening of his life on salt water He is going to Puget Sound thence down the coast to southern California back to San Francisco sail ing thence around the Horn to the north Atlantic coast where he put out of Port land harbor for the gold camps on the Pacific 57 years ago Captain Hill sailed on foreign waters and on the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans 36 years before coming to the Spokane country and he knows every rock and inlet reef and shoal between Halifax N S and the northern straits of Alaska and now that he has plenty of money as the result of a satisfactory settlement out of court with a mining companyafter seven years litigationfor damages to his ranch

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