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Shows radial distances and unelectrified railroads. Also shows unelectrified railroads. Also covers adjacent suburbs. Scale ca. 1:43,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 651/1; 651/2; 650/3; 650/4
Relief shown by hachures. Shows county boundaries, towns, cities, railroads, and immediately adjacent areas of neighboring states. "Copyright, 1890, by Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick." "Benedict & Co., Engr's Chicago." Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. In left margin: 44. Missing section at bottom and mounted on paper backing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861, by G. Woolworth Colton." Insets: Plan of the southern portion of Florida. 16 x 13 cm.-Western portion of the United States. 18 x 20 cm.-The southern portion of Texas. 9 x 10 cm. Includes tables of "Cities and towns with a population of 10,000 and over" and "Population of the United States." "Drawer 47, portfolio 1, no. 28" written in the right margin. General map annotated in red and blue to show military departments. Description derived from published bibliography. Scale 1:3,168,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 25.3 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
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
Relief shown by hachures. "Published in the statistical edition of the Galveston news, September 1st, 1883." Includes tables showing "Railroad construction in the United States" and "Railroad towns in Texas having a population of 1,000 and over". Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Lc copy imperfect: Holes and torn along fold lines.
Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored to emphasize state boundaries and county areas. Prime meridian: Washington D.C. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1852 by J.H. Colton in ... the Southern Dist. of N. York." LC copy imperfect: Darkened on verso at fold lines, adhesive label affixed to cover. Signed in ink script on inside of cover: Millard Fillmore, July 26 1853. Includes population statistical table and embellished map border (flowers, berries, leaves, tendrils). Publisher's printed map list on inside of cover. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Shows longitude from Washington. Includes population statistics and ill. Scale ca. 1:550,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
Relief shown by hachures. Shows longitude from Washington. "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853 by J.H. Colton & Co. ... " Includes population statistics. Scale ca. 1:550,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 110; 650/1; 651/2
Outline map of the United States showing drainage, state boundaries, major cities, and names of states, with state population figures. Western states show topography by hachures. Some major rail lines are shown in the northeastern states. Besides the "Northern Route" the map also indicates four more southerly proposed routes west of the Mississippi River.
Shows drainage, cities and towns, counties with population figures, and railroads with distances. Includes list of counties and towns.
Map of Ohio showing drainage, township and county boundaries, cities and towns, railroads, and a table of population for the 1880 census.
General map printed in green ink. Imperfect: pieces are missing from along the center fold and at the bottom. Includes tables giving "routes and distances," "population of the United States from the Census of 1860," and "Number of white males in each state between the ages of 18 and 45." "This map, in combination with our War-Telegram Marking Map [published in 1862] will be found a sufficient and easy guide to follow up all the various movements of the contesting armies." Description derived from published bibliography. Scale 1:2,217,600. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 31.7 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
NEWS OF THE WEEK Maine Matters The returns for the November election are practically complete and show McKinleys plurality in Maine to be 26200 McKinleys vote 61048 Bryans 35658 Wooleys 2012 ltebs 713The Maineborn congress men in other States are all reelected by big majorities Alexander of New York Fletcher and Stevens of Minne sota and Roberts of Massachusetts are returned by their constituents and there may be some sons of Maine among the new membersThe shoe business seems to be on the boom in Auburn Nearly all of the companies report a rush of work and say that the orders are coming in faster than they can be filledIt was announced that the new monitor to be launched from the Bath Iron Works the latter part of the month would be christened bv Miss Grace H Boutelle Since that time Miss Boutelle who is at present in Boston with her fatherCongressman Boutellehas decid ed that it would be impossible to accept the invitation of the Bath Iron Works and her sister Miss Annie Boutelle will do the christeningThe population of the cities of Maine and some of the larger towns has just been published by the census bureau In
K AkY NEWS AND NOTES ii in tlu Atlantic Monthly ndes the closing chapters ot i aides Bvlow Hill Katrina m i dys Harden and Jennette i liances Poetry is fur lan Messer Richard Buri ardson and others the ig with the entertaining i lub as usual i ntispiece in color by i i showing desert and in A riona side by side e beginning in tlie May promised series on The f u Bay Stauuard i ilustrauons ot which hawing Iiv Mr Parrish deals with the large as itle known regionnat imate population irri i ot ti e people etc el opens the May At tret ally studied and i iperecond Thoughts n t ot Anarchy He I pvt iii a dispassionate iid not have been possi i a rlier when MeKin utrd He points out the ngth of anarchism in some ot the elements gfl her witli other facts ousidered in reference seagiou of Hie year is Frank leslies Popular 1 i w ith a thoroughly out ei idled with stories of shes tramps and other did dedicated to sport to in joy of living C H is oft with The Iord of i di iig tale of
Relative Strength of Russia and Japan Now that hostilities have actually be gun in the Far East it may be of in terest to compare in a general way the resources of the two countries involved If this comparison be made without reference to the probable theater of war and the conditions hedging about the movement of forces thither the combatants seem very disproportionate ly matched The Russian empire com prises about oneseventh of the land surface of the globe Including intern al waters it covers an area of 8660305 square miles and its population is esti mated at about 120000000 inhabitants ot which 2005016 square miles and 106 264166 inhabitants were in 1000 com prised in European Russia It lias an annual revenue amounting to about 000000OOO and expenditures some what in excess of that sum The Rus sian army on a peace footing numbers about 1100000 men and oil a war foot ing about 0600000 men The navy is understood to comprise about 40000 officers and men 1 apan the island empire comprises an area of liil10s square miles including Formosa and tlie Pescadores Its popu lation including the islands specifical ly named numbered 47000Ono inhabi tants Its
Maines Vital Statistics 16003 Children Born in 1905 i6f Twin Births and One Triple Birth Three Men and One Woman Martied the Filth Time lr A G Young registrar of vital statistics tuts submitted bis last annual report that tor 1905 The number of children born in the State in 1905 was 10005 of which 15294 were living and 11 stillbirths Of the living children of which the sex was certified 7794 were males and 7483 females For each 100 girls born there were 1041 boys The birth rate in the cities per 1000 population was 2058 as compared with 2182 the birth rate of the rest of the State As it has invariably been since regis tration beguu in the State the birth rate was the highest in Aroostook county 3400 and the lowest in Waldo 1452 Of the total births 0008 per cent were of native parents 2079 of foreign parentage and 1799 of parents one of whom was foreign Lincoln county had the largest percentage of nativeborn parents 9101 per cent and only 058 percent in which both parents were foreign born High percentages of foreign horn parents were found in Androscoggin county 3960 and in York
asforii i a harmless substitute for Castor Oil Pare goric Props and Soothing Syrups It contains neither Opium Morphine nor other narcotic substance For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation Flatulency bind Colic and Diarrhoea allaying Feverishness arising tliciefrom lV rmating the Stomach and Bowels aids the as siinilatioif of Food giving healthy and natural sleep The Childrens PanaceaThe Mother s Friend Piirge Uur Population By H H Windsor in the October Popular Mechanics Magazine Last month we considered the advant age of sending back bodily to Germany those willful spirits whose actions and utterances were so flagrant our govern ment has been forced to intern them for the duration of the war It might be ad ded that failing to do so and turning them loose again in our midst they im penitent will still cherish those same un American ambitions with a resentment added by reason of their imprisonment But why should we single out or re strict ourselves to these few hundreds who have been found guiltyr in our courts of justice For each one so convicted there are a thousand whose hearts are bitter against American principles
fS UNWISE to put off todays duty until to morrow If your stomach is aciddisturbed take KmiqidS the new aid to digestion comfort todaym A pleasant relief from the discomfort of aciddyspepsia MADE BY SCOTT BOWNE MAKERS OF SCOTTS EMULSION Tea and Club Rooms Opened for American Women Miss Charlotte Niven Director of Ital ian Work Prepares for Influx of American Woman Students Italy is rnw included in the war work of the American Y W C A Miss Mabel Warner of Salina Kan and Chicago lefi Paris i few days ago for Rome where she will he in charge of a Hostess House for American girls employed there by the American Red Cross the Embassy and the new Tu berculosis Commission Miss Warner lias been director of the Y W C A Hostess House at Irest France Miss Warner will open a tea room and club rooms where the American women can gather for social times Rome is harboring a refuge population of about 40iHo and accommodations are difficult to Ind l lte wnru m Koine was srarteo as a direct result of the appeal of Miss Charlotte Niven one of the National Y AY C A secretaries of