Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-12

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The NEW AMERICAN CYCLOPKDIA, was completed
IN 1863 since which time the wide circulation which
it has attained in all parts Of the United States
and the signal developments which have taken
place in every branch of science, literature, and
art, have induced the editors and publishers to
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Within the last ten years the progress of discov-
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The movement of political affairs has kept pace
with the discoveries of science, and their fruitful
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the convenience and refinement Of social life.
| Great wars and consequent revolutions have Oc.
ment. The civil war of our own country, which
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