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Library of Congress1909

Image 4 of Times-promoter (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.), July 15, 1909

The TimesPromoter G L Darden Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES 100 One Year Six Months Three Months T 60 26 Obituaries resolutions of respect and no tices of pay entertainments will be charged for at two and onehalf cents per line of ev ery six words Count the words in your man uscript and send two and onehalf cents for every six otherwise it will not be published Anent The Lumber Trust Attorney General Sterling has brought suit against the Retail Lum ber Dealers Association of Mississip pi and Louisiana for more than four teen million dollars for violating the antitmst laws of Mississippi The supreme court of Mississippi has already ruled that the Association is a trust and the case has been appeal ed to the supreme court of the United States If that tribunal affirms the decision of the Mississippi courts the attorney general should be able to recover There is ample evidence that the Association is a combination in re straint of competition Evidence can also be adduced to show that when a consumer in one part of the state buys lumber direct from a member of the Association in another section the member of the Association living nearest

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Library of Congress1859

Map of the United States west of the Mississippi showing the routes to Pike's Peak, overland mail route to California and Pacific rail road surveys. To which are added the new state & territorial boundaires, the principal mail & rail road routes with all the arrangements & corrections made by Congress up to the date of its issue

"D. McGowan and George H. Hildt's 1859 map of the United States west of the Mississippi was based on an official map of 1857 produced by the Pacific railroad surveys. In the 1850s, Americans concluded that they needed to build a transcontinental railroad linking the east and center of the country with the Pacific coast. The U.S. Congress authorized the army topographical service to undertake engineering surveys and general assessments of five possible routes: from Saint Paul, Minnesota; from Council Bluffs, Iowa; from Saint Louis, Missouri; from Memphis, Tennessee; and from Vicksburg, Mississippi. Cities, states, and business groups competed fiercely to be the eastern terminus of the transcontinental railroad. This map offers an excellent example of a promotional map used to encourage settlement and investment in the American West. Published in Saint Louis, it emphasizes potential routes emanating from that city. The focus on Pike's Peak highlights the recent discovery of gold in Colorado. The map is hand-colored, framed in decorative borders, and shows drainage, state boundaries, cities and towns, and transportation and communication networks." World Digital Library. Detailed general map framed in decorative borders showing drainage, state boundaries, cities and towns, and the transportation and communication networks. An excellent example of a promotional map to encourage emigration. [From published bibliography]

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Library of Congress1870

Hitchcock's second plan--homes for the people at West Flushing : [Corona, Queens County, Long Island, N.Y.]

Cadastral map showing lot lines, lot numbers, sold/unsold lots, railroad line, and extant buildings. Imperfect: Wrinkled, fold-lined, torn at edges, annotated in lead pencil/blue pencil. Includes promotional text, location map (inset), and railroad timetable. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no.: 2005-168

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Library of Congress1889

The Man of Commerce.

"The Man of Commerce" is a detailed map that conflates human anatomy with the American transportation system. Published in 1889 by the Land & River Improvement Company of Superior, Wisconsin, the map promotes Superior as a transportation hub and shows the routes of 29 railroads across the United States. The outline map of North America is superimposed by a cutaway diagram of the human body. The map's metaphor makes West Superior "the center of cardiac or heart circulation." The railways become major arteries. New York is "the umbilicus through which this man of commerce was developed." The explanatory notes conclude: "It is an interesting fact that in no other portion of the known world can any such analogy be found between the natural and artificial channels of commerce and circulatory and digestive apparatus of man." Use of the human body as a cartographic metaphor dates back at least to the 16th century, to the anthropomorphic map of Europe as a queen in Sebastian Münster's Cosmography (1570). This map may be the earliest application of this metaphor to North America. The cartographer was A.F. McKay, who in 1889 briefly served as the editor of the Superior Sentinel newspaper. The map was engraved by Rand McNally. The American Geographical Society Library acquired the map in 2009, aided in part by the Map Society of Wisconsin. The only other known copy of this map is in a private collection.

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Library of Congress1936

Visit historic Ephrata, Pennsylvania

1 print (poster) : lithograph, color. | Poster promoting the Ephrata Cloister, Lancaster Co., Pa., showing two angels dropping flowers on the community.

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Library of Congress1936

Visit historic Ephrata, Pennsylvania

1 print on board (poster) : lithograph, color. | Poster promoting the Ephrata Cloister, Lancaster Co., Pa., showing two angels dropping flowers on the community.

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Library of Congress1870

Map showing the Port Royal Railroad and its connections

Map of the southeastern United States showing drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, and the railroad network. In 1871 the line was in progress of completion. One of Colton's typical maps published for an individual railroad company to promote industry and settlement in rich mining or agricultural areas. (Entry 533)

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Library of Congress1849

Map without title showing the railroad route to Santa Fe and San Diego; the central route through South Pass and on to San Francisco and "Puget's Sound," and connecting railroads east of the Mississippi

Outline map of North America showing proposed railroad routes within the present limits of the United States. This is one of the earliest promotional maps for a transcontinental railroad to come before the United States Congress and claimed by the author to have been "conceived as early as 1830."

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Library of Congress1907

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 27, 1907

COME TO MAINE GOOD WORDS FOR OOR STATE AMD OCR CITY Tlie New England Homestead is pub lishing a series of articles on home industrial opportunities and promoting New England uplift and a recent issue contained the following articles which we take pleasure in reprinting COME TO MAINE DR G M TWITCHELL AUBURN ME Naturally the home seeker wants a good climate healthy conditions a productive and retentive soil naturally adapted to a variety of crops a strong positive moral sentiment and a frater nal sympathetic atmosphere Beyond this the thinking man will look to school houses and school privileges and churches and church attendance No man wants to locate in a malarial at mosphere whether it be physical or moral All these points should enter into the account 1 am convinced there is no State which today offers the substantial at tractions to be found in the State of Maine 1 would not be loyal to my native State did I not declare this I would not be true to myself did I not give good substantial reasons for my faith in the first place a granite soil insures certain qualities of water and peculiarities of disposition not to

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Library of Congress1912

Image 13 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), December 14, 1912

BODY AND FACE 1MECZE1 Grew Worse Until Hands and Feet Swollen and Running Sores Skin Would Drop Off in Scales Prac tically a Shutin Cuticura Soap and Ointment Entirely Cured Brownvlllp N YCuticura Soap and Ollit ment cured mo of a stubborn case of bzema which followed a severe caso of scarlet revcr My body and face was a mass of Rores so that I was practically a sliutin It grew worse until my hands and feet were swollen and running sores 1 trieo many remedies One kind which I used fairly burned my skin up so that It would drop off In scales 6s il It was scalded But thanks to good advice I then used Cuticura Soap and Ointment In a short time I was entirely Cured Now my skin is clear as ever and 1 have had no return of the disease I hope this letter will help the suffering ones who are fighting eczema Signed Miss Bdnu Bidwcll Jan 10 1912 TO REMOVE DANDRUFF Prevent dry thin and falling hair allay Itching and irritation and promote tho growth and beauty of the hair frequent shampoos with Cuticura Soap assisted by occasional dresfffngs with Cuticura Oint ment

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Library of Congress1916

Image 10 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), July 7, 1916

AN OVERTURNED CANOE FOUND IN RALD MOUNTAIN POND TELLS STORY OF THREE MISSING ROYS Searching Party Organized to Ascertain the Truth of Their Dis appearance from their Homes in Blanchard on July Fourth Monson Me July 6Three Blanch ard boys Colby Fox Emery Packard and Parley Whitman are believed to have been drowned In Bald Mountain 1 pond at Blanchard on the Fourth of July Searching parties were out look ing for them today An overturned canoe in which Packards coat was found but otherwise no trace of them was found HEAVY SUIT BROUGHT AGAINST PROMOTER IN REORGANIZING UNITED STATES WORSTED CO Claimant of Maine Company Alleges Boston Banker Failed to Furnish Capital and Unsuccessful Concerns Were Unloaded on Ne w Organization Boston July 6A suit for J200000 agilnst Neal Rantoul a local banker for losses alleged to have been sustain ed through reorganization of the Unit ed States worsted Co of Maine was fil ed in the superior court today by E J Ilylan The claimant who is a manu facturer of woolen goods founded the United States Worsted Co of Maine In connection with the expansion of its working capital he alleges a plan of reorganization was agreed

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Library of Congress1958

Image 2 of The Sidney herald (Sidney, Mont.), October 29, 1958

She Sidney Sderafhd A CORPORATION LEO N SCHWARTZ Mgr OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF RICHLAND COUNTY MONTANA nintii HATiON Ai OITOIIAI Entered at the Postoffice at Sidney Montana as Second Class Matter March 13 1908 under the Act of March 3 1ST9 Published Every WedoesfUy at Sidney Richland County Montana SUBSCRIPTION RATES RichlandMcKencie Counties 399 a year 89 a year in Montana 400 a year Mftnide Meotana Single Cepies 19c Foreign Countries 599 Advertisers Help It is not often that we ask favors of our readers but heres one you can do for us Every time you buy from an advertiser in the Sidney Herald mention the fact that you saw the article purchased advertised in this newspaper As most readers understand the income of a newspaper is twofold from the subscribers and from the advertisers Naturally the way to satisfy readers is to publish as fine newspaper as possible and the extent of any newspapers news coverage depends to a large degree upon the amount of advertising carried The advertiser who buys space in a newspaper for the purpose of promoting his sales will be more inclined to con tinue his advertising if he gets definite proof that it brings results

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Library of Congress1962

Image 5 of The Lexington advertiser (Lexington, Miss.), October 18, 1962

FBI Head Hits Misinformation And Suppression Of News Misinformation and suppression of news are deadly enemies of a free people J Edgari Hoover said in a special tribute to American newspapers on the occasion of National Newspaper Week October 1420 Integrity in journalism as in law enforcement cannot be a matter of percentages It must be com plete and impregnable cordingly thp newspapers role in keeping the public in formed becomes increasingly significant Integrity in journalism r m law enforcement cannot be a matter of percentages It must bp complete and impreg nable As guardians of Ameri can liberty the press and t e police are charged with a i rd trust Operations whch j closely affect the lives of millions of nenplp must be exemolarv and above re proach In addition to its innate re sponsibilities 1he press is mrrallv obligated to promote hp fim heanno of justice and tee pertefm4on of law and nrdnr In deed much of the nrorpq pr profession V is v_iedp m rising its standards mf3ional status is di dl 1butablp to tP sup port of editors and publishers u0 pconize tho need for ffivp law enforcement On oodcn to be sure the nene

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Library of Congress1940

Image 2 of Carbon County news (Red Lodge, Mont.), September 6, 1940

American Newspaperdom Joins in Honoring Johann Gutenberg Who Gave the World the Invention of Printing From Movable Type By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Released by Western Newspaper Union HE American press dur ing 1940 is paying hom age to Johann Guten berg who 500 years ago in a little workshop in the free city of Strasbourg now in Germany invented the art that makes possible the mod ern newspaper Gutenbergs inventionthe discovery of a technique for casting from lead individual types bearing individual let ters which can be arranged into lines for the printing of words and sentencesmakes it possible for you to read what is on this page Citywide celebrations honor ing the father of printing in which newspapers are actively participating are being held dur ing the year 1940 throughout the western hemisphere as the result of the outstanding promotional Work of Douglas C McMurtrie chairman of the Invention of Printing Anniversary committee for the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen an organization made up of 6000 printing foremen and superin tendents and leaders of other graphic arts groups T The significance of Gutenbe r gs invention can best be evaluated by looking backward into the world before the

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Library of Congress1888

Image 4 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), July 12, 1888

TAL AGES SERMON A Discourse on the Palpit and Press as Allies The Power of the Press for Good or Evil The Folly of Antagonizing ItA Force that Should be Culti vated and Promoted Rev T DeWitt Talmage preached a sermon in Brooklyn Tabernacle on the Pulpit and Press Made Allies taking for his text The children of this world are in their gener ation wiser than the children of light Luke xvi 8 He said Sacred stupidity and solemn incompetency and sanctified laziness are here reVuked by Christ He says world lings a wider awake for opportunities than are Christians Men of the world grab occasions while Christian people let the most valuable occasions drift by unimproved This is the meaning of our Lord when He Bays f The children of this world are in their genera tion wiser than the children of light A marked illustration of the truth of that maxim is in the slowness of the Christian religion to take possession of the secular printing press The oppor tunity is open and has for some time been open but the ecclesiastical courts and the churches and the ministers of re ligion are for the most part

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