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Library of Congress1918

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 5, 1918

A Prize Essay for Peace Day Wednesday Nov 27th was observed as Peace Day in all the Massachusetts High schools All the pupils in the Som erville High school were required to writeessays on the theme the best one in each class to be read before a school of 2500 pupils Miss Charlotte B Wads worth a junior wrote the following which was selected from 300 by the spe cial committee Miss Wadsworth is the daughter of Mr Edward A Wadsworth of Belfast and is living with her grand father George W Burkett while attend ing the Somerville High school Americas Part in the War Hundreds of years from now school children all over the civilized world will be carefully memorizing the date April 6 1917 that date which to all of us means and has meant so much We need not memorize it we have lived it It was very still in the great hall of Congress on that sixth of April 1917 Every available seat was filled The galleries were crowd ed the quiet was so intense it was al most visible as President Wilson read those momentous words declaring war on Germany Every possible effort had been

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Library of Congress1862

Emancipation Proclamation.

Initially, the Civil War between the North and the South was fought by the North to prevent the secession of the South and preserve the Union. Ending slavery was not a goal. That changed on September 22, 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which stated that slaves in those states or parts of states still in rebellion as of January 1, 1863, would be free. One hundred days later Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious areas "are, and henceforward shall be, free." Lincoln's bold step was a military measure by which he hoped to inspire the slaves in the Confederacy to support the Union cause. Because it was a military measure, the proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, and left slavery untouched in the border states. Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery, it did fundamentally transform the character of the war. Henceforth, every advance of Federal troops expanded the domain of freedom. Moreover, the proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy. By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and their own freedom.

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Library of Congress1937

Image 13 of The Washington daily news (Washington, D.C.), June 30, 1937

Publishers Map Fight on Closed Guild Shop Editors Take Stand After Convention of Editorial Workers Claim Unions Resolutions on Spanish War and Court Bill Menace Freedom of Press By United Press CHICAGO American newspaper publishers are on record today as unalterably opposed to the closed Guild shop or any other form of closed shop for those who prepare and edit news and pictures for news papers A resolution to that effect was adopted unanimously late yesterday at a convention of newspaper pub lishers from all parts of the United States The publishers declared termination not to enter agreement with editorial upon a closed shop basis their de into any employes The convention which was called after the St Louis Guild convention adopted a bargaining code which in cluded mandatory rules calling for a closed or Guild shop in all contracts with newspapers was presided over by JamesG Stahlman president of the American Newspaper Publishers Asso ciation It was announced there were 565 delegates present from 11 newspaper organizations Text of the resolution follows The newspaper editors and pub lishers from all sections of the United States individually and thru their cooperative associations listed below are gathered here to take action

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Library of Congress1899

Image 2 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), February 9, 1899

1053t ct fan W H Scanland Editor and Proprietor BENTON LOUISIANA TlwridayFebruary 91899 A terrific cyclone in Lowndes Co Kiss Friday blew down cabins and injured several negroes In the Missouri House Saturday there was a fierce attack on the school book trust and its lobby Robert P Porter advisee that nearly all the United States troops be removed from Cuba by April By a unanimous vote the Minneso ta Senate has declared in favor of the election of Senators by the people Senator Daniel of Virginia made a strong speech in the Senate Friday against expansion and the ratification of the peace treaty Over 818 bills have been introduc ed in the Arkansas legislature up to date The fool killer is not doing his duty up in that State The House Judiciary has decided that General Wheeler and other Con who volunteered in the late war vsoated their seats in Congress A dispatch of the 5th says Texas cattle are dying by the thousands on aeoount of the chilling rains and long oontinned windstorm of last week Reports of thirty persons killed by snowslides Friday came from Bredkenridge Colorado Train ser vioe was still suspended in the mount ains

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