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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-01-15

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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-01-15

Halls Hair Renewer cures dandruff
and scalp affections; also all cases of
badness where the glands which feed
the roots of the hair are not closed.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-01-15

There are many good reasons why you
should use One Minute Cough Cure.
There are no reasons why you should
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-01-15

Sold throughout the world. Price, CUrIcURA,
Soc; Soar, Csc. /; REsoLvENT, 81. Potter DRUG
AND CHEM. CORP, Sole Props, Boston, U. s. A.
RaJ-" How to Cure Skin Diseases" !" mailed free.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-18
KEEP OFF THE GRASS.
State Street Residents Mean Business-Boys
Will Please Take Notice.

Hesidents on State street have made
complaints to the authorities that the
boys who pass on their way to and
from school, show a disposition to run
about on the lawns where no fences
are put up for protection. They sa,
they want this stopped.
One states that he had TO make an
outlay Of $500 or his place, last year
largely the result of the boys work
Another had IA biz of 500. which he at
tributes to this cause.
The trouble seems to be a thought
lessness on the part of a certain lot OF
else failure to appreciate the amount
Of damage done, tearing around like
wild animals.
Principal Graves of the William r.
Smith grammar school has made it a
point to impress upon his pupils the
Importance Of keeping out OF yards, in
the spring of all times of the year, and
it is through no fault of his that any
trouble occurs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-18
The River Rises.

The Kennebec river has risen at the
rate of foot day since Thursday
and it is now high enough to
be very attractive, somewhat interest
ing, but hardly what could be called
in any sense of the word.
The water has risen enough to COM
pletely cover the steamboat wharf, and
the new building is getting a flooding,
but unless an unexpected rise comes,
no danger is expected, though it was
made fast by lines TO a telegraph pole,
Friday, to prevent it's floating away.
The Edwards mills were compelled to
shut down about one-thrd of their regular
product on account of the rise. At last
reports it would require rise of 4 feet
more for the water to enter the basement
of anv of the mills.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-18
A Lot OF Republicans.

There was great gathering of Au-
gusta's prominent and representative
Republicans at the station, Friday
morning en- route for the third district
convention to be held at Waterville
Among those who went on the morning
train We're Mayor Choate, VIM. t.
Getchell. Dr. E. j. Roberts. w. H. Will
liams, w. u. Stinson, A. ID. Russell
Melville Smith. J. L. Blanchard Esq
j. f.. Wade, Il. w Mckeen, Frederick
Cony, Hon. J. w. Chase, Col +. G. Ste
vens, Major p s. Fogler Walter A.
Ncwcomb, George II. Smith. There
were also among the number Rev. Mr.
Abbott and Mr.. Moody of Liberty. and
Hon. r. y. Barrett of Canaan, who had
stopped over in Augusta on their re
turn from the Portland convention.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-18
Death OF Mrs. Eva L. Hall.

Mrs. Eva l.. Hall died at her home
on Sewall street. Friday morning. al
the age of So years. The cause of her
death was peritonitis. from which she
had been suffering since Easter Sun
day
The deceased was the. widow of the
late A. j. Hall. who died about two
years ago. She was born in Andover
her maiden name being Eva L. Wood
She came to Augusta about IA years
ago, For some years she was engaged
in business on Water street, marrying
about five years ago.
She was most estimable and noble
minded woman, and her loss will be
deeply felt by all who knew her. She
was of a loving nature, and very sym
pathetic in her disposition. doing much
good in her thoughtfulness for others
She is survived by boy. ~nauncey
A Hall. years of age. and a father.
The services will be held at the resi-
dencc at o'clock, and at the Congre-
gational chapel at go, Sunday after
noon
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-18

Few men are better known to the peo-
pie of Augusta Hallowell and Gardi-
ncr than the subject of this sketch,
Warren w. Wight. conductor of the Ac-
commodation train running between
the three cities. whose sd year of rail-
road service will close. tonight.
Looking backward. 81 years does not
seem a long time. bat nevertheless it is
sufficient to make Conductor Wight one
Of the veteran officials of the road,
there being but two other men who
have been in the employ of the Maine
Central as long as he. Conductor John
Jewett of Portland, is one. and Elisha
Newell of Farmingdale. engineer of the
shifter in the freight yard at Gardiner
the other. These three men have seen
the Maine Central Railroad grow from
its infancy, when slow trains and
limited comforts all that the travel
ling public could expect, into one of the
best equipped and most perfectly man.
aged lines in New England, in whose
luxurious cars travel becomes indeed
a pleasure.
Conductor Wight was born in Gardi-
rer, April 20, 1S43. When 81 years of axe
he secured the position of baggage
master and brakeman on the Dummy"
train. which was placed on the route
between Gardiner and Augusta, in
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-18

April, 1864 The road was then owned
and operated by the Portland & Ken
ncbec Railroad Co.
The Dummy was rather primitive
style of conveyance. and would excite
much curiosity. We're it to be seen fly
ing along the rails today. The train
comprised d single car. With engine
baggage car and passenger coach. all
IN one. The seats ran lengthwise of
the car. which would accommodate
about 40 people. The Dummy was not
very speedy, and the trip from Gardi-
ner to Augusta consumed a half hour.
while 1t is now made in Is minutes. The
first Dummy was burned in the station
at Augusta. and second one put on.
but increasing travel demanded better
accommodations and an engine and car
were substituted Thus the train has
grown until today it comprises a Pull
man combination baggage car and
smoker. and passenger coach in every
way suitable for the requirements of
patrons.
On the retirement of Conductor
John Holmes. in 1889. Mr.. Wight was
appointed to the position which he has
since held, serving the company and
its patrons with a faithfulness which
renders him eminently worthy of the
general respect and esteem which he
ENJOYS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-18

Gospel meetings at 81 Capitol street
on Sunday at 1880 :, NJ. and p. NJ
Sunday school at II o'clock.
First Christian Church on Northern
avenue: Preaching at 1890 A. NJ and
! in the evening by Rev b. s. Crosby.
from CASTLE. y. y: Sunday school at
II NJ.
st Marks Church: Holy Communion
At O'Clock in the morning.; second SER
vice At 10 SO; evening service at 100:
the bishop Will confirm at this service;
sunday school after morning service.
Unitarian Church: Services at 1920
4. NJ Mr.. Newbert VIII speak upon
the theme announced for last Sunday.
Is Human Happiness Conditioned IN
ignorance and Superstition SUNDAY
school at u o'clock.
The religious services conducted by
Elder Huffman at l42 Grove street. to-
lay will be held at 1890 a. NJ. instead
Of go p. NJ. as heretofore. The change
has been made in order to accommo-
date those al Hallowell
st. Barnabas' Chapel Bangor street;
Second Sunday after Easter. Sunday
school at 2.45 O'Clock, p NJ. evening
prayer with confirmation by the Ri.
Rev. II. A. Nicely. ID. D.. Bishop Of
Maine at $50 O'Clock, p. NJ.
Free Baptist Church: Morning Ser
vice at 1880 A. A. with sermon by Rev
L. Eean. sunday school at T. NJ; Jul
MGR \. L. G. f.. at SO =. NJ: Senior A.
f. C. l.. at 6 f. NJ; prayer meeting
Wednesday evening in the vestry at
80 F. NJ
First Baptist Church: Morning wor-
ship with sermon by the pastor at 1890:
Sunday school at noon: Juniors at 4 T..
NJ; Y. =. S. c. T., meeting at L. NJ;
Union =. NJ. c. A. service in the even
ing with an address by Secretary
Jordan of Bangor
The winthrop Street Universal!st
Church Rev c. A. Hayden. pastor
Morning services at 1910: sermon ~
the pastor: subject. Wanted a Sermon
fcv the Times. Quit You Like Men >
Sunday So hool at II NJ; Young Peo-
ple': meeting al : p. NJ.
Y. NJ G. A.: Mass meeting for men
only. at O'Clock. Address of interest
to men. hy K. A. Jordan. general Soc
rotary Bangor y. NJ. G. A., in Associa-
ton rooms. At 1.3G in First Baptist
church. anniversary exercises. r. \.
Jordan of Bangor will be the principal
speaker.
Congregational Church. 1890. morn
ing worship. with sermon by the pas
tor. Subject: The Spirit and the
Method Of Practical and Effective
Christian Work. II NJ. Junior En-
deavor: ! p NJ, Y. p. S. c. E. meeting,
followed by brief address by the pas
tor on the subject of the service:
What We Should BE Doing to Save
the Lost
Green street Church (Methodist
EpiscopaD: services sunday as fol-
lows: Worship at 1890 A. NJ, with
sermon by the pastor, Rev. c. S. Cum
mings, on God Seen in the Works of
His Hands, Sunday school at noon.
The Young Peoples meeting will begin
very promptly at $50 P. NJ. The regu-
lar evening service will be omitted,
that we may unite in the Y. NJ. c. A.
anniversary services.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-18
Death Of Little J. E. BADGER jr.

Joseph f. Badger, Jr.. the three-year
old child of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph T..
Badger, died, Friday morning, after a
very short illness of only two
days. The little fellow was
the youngest of five children, and
was gifted with a very bright and low
able disposition. The deepest SYM
pathy is expressed for the bereaved
parents and family.
The funeral will be held at the resi-
dence. Monday morning, at 1913
o'clock
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-18
Regarding That Championship Cup.

The beautiful silver cup, on which
there is settlement pending. between
the Portland and Bangor high schools
as to the ownership. will be on exhbi
ton. Saturday, in the show window of
Guy O. Vickcry. The cup is Il trophy
contested for last year by the MEM
bers of the NJ |. S. A. A.
The committee appointed to settle
the question regarding the disposition
of the cup will probably meet Monday,
in this city. If the decision is made in
favor of Portland. this school would
like to have it made before Tuesday, as
it has an indoor meeting on that day.
The committee will consist of three
men. of which two have been ap
pointed, Hon. T.. Dudley Freeman OF
Portland, selected by the bangor
school. and John r. Masyh of Bangor.
by the Portland school. The third
member will probably be selected from
this city, Monday, and Adhesion made.
Germany appears to be able to COM
pete with our manufacturers on some
classes of goods surprisingly. Swift &
Swift have just received large invoice
of china in the original package. Ii
includes a very large assortment of
pieces of beautifully decorated ware.
and they are going to be able to sell
them at about One-half of the usual
price. A complete display of these
goods will be made in their north win
dow.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-18

Miss Eta Hanson has been reapins
a harvest this week. Her millinery
and dressmaking rooms have been dis
covered by many people to their de-
light.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-18

The first and second classes of the
William r. Smith Grammar school will
play ball, this afternoon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-18
AUGUSTA CHURCHES.
Sunday Scrviccs-All are Cordially Invited Il
Attend.

Go insure insertion in Saturday morn
ing's journal. church notices must be
handed in by Friday afternoon at the
latest.)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-18

Mr.. and Mrs. George +. Burbank OF
Baltimore. are visiting Mr.. Burbank
parents in this city.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-11-20

'snipes. - Along about midnight the
billpOsters sally forth, each carrying
canvas bag full of the ''snipes, - slung
from their shoulders, and a paste pail
and brush. They work quickly and are
wary of policemen, for they know that
their work borders ON the illegal, and
that if they are not arrested they stand
a chance of being famed with a
night stick by the indignant patrolman.
Ash cans they regard as their special
prey, but boxes, coal bins, sidewalks,
wagons and grOcers' carts, as well as
anything else ON which a bill can be
made TO stick, and which is not too val
liable TO deface, are Ornamented with
strip of paper. In the morning the shop
keeper swears volubly. but the bill
poster has done his work and gone, SO
there is no redress.
Sometimes very efficient advertising
is done in tHis way. Several years age
New Workers woke up one morning to
find the word ''ZazeI' staring at them
IN big blue letters from every cOnceiv-
able place. The biIlposters had put out
$50, 900 of these 'snipes'' in a single
night. Everybody wondered what Ia
zel'' meant, but the mystery was not
explained until few days later, when
P. T. Barnum advertised in the news
papers that "ZazeI'' was the woman
who was to be shot from a cannon in
his circus.
Another ''snipe'' which caused much
interest in New York was circulated
during election time number of years
ago L was a white poster with Il red
shirt in the center and bore only the
words, 1.-The Bloody Shirt. - Every one
thought the poster had some political
significance until merchant followed
it with an advertisement III which it
was shown as a novel scheme for at
tracing attention TO his business
Posters are as much better inequality
as they are larger in quantity today
than they were half a dozen years ago.
Even the circus posters have been im-
proved, although the small boys in the
country still stare at rather crude effects
in red and blue. Theatrical posters,
however, have come to be works of art.
They are marvels of delicate cOloring
and artistic drawing and a generation
ago would have been considered worthy
of frames. Altogether bill posting is an
interesting and progressive industry.
CYRUS SYLVESTER.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-11-20
EXPERT BILLPOSTERS.
They Are to Be Found In Every
City Now.
HOW THE BUSINESS STARTED.

Began In London a Hundred and Fifty
Years AgO-Has Developed Into a Great
and Important Industry Methods of the
Modern Bill Poster.
The bLlpOster of today Is a far different
individual from what he was a dozen
years ago. At that date all the capital
he required was enough TO buy paste
pail and "a brush. Now the business is
In the hands Of few big firms in each
large city, and millions of dollars are
invested IN it. Some bill posting firms
employ hundreds of men and take con-
tracts that seem enormous.
Bill posting, in fact, has grown to be
an immense business. Most of the
growth has come within the last four
or five years, too, and it has been so
rapid that the general public has failed
TO comprehend its magnitude. Ten
years ago IL was only the circus and
theatrical people who did much adver-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-11-20

IL
Using by poster, but today there is
hardly a business concern in any line
which does not take advantage of this
means of advertising.
Next to circus and theatrical folks
come the patent medicine people, and
they spend money like water in bill
posting. The big dry goods, clothing
and department stores have only recent
ly entered the field, but they have gone
into the business with a rush and threat
en- to eclipse all other billboard adver-
tisers. The very newspapers who d
to decry this form of advertising have
now adopted it and In some cases have
proved to be the most extensive bill
stickers The manufacturers of prepared
foods, corsets and other patented articles
of feminine wear, bicycle makers and
dozens of others have all rushed to the
biIIposter and made him man of no
little Importance.
There is good authority for the state
ment that billboards first came into use
as advertising mediums in Lon Ion
about 1740. A street crier named
Loomis, so the record states, obtained
permission from the authorities To erect
ON vacant lots number of boards, upon
which he placed official advertisements
of the city The boards were constantly
surrounded by the pOpulace, who read
the announcements instead of hearing
them shouted out by the cTier. a Jew
clothier, with the characteristic shrewd-
ness of his race, saw an excellent OppOr
tunity to get bafOre the people an adj
vertisement of his goods and of his bust
ness. He applied to LOomis for permits
sion TO have his business announcements
placed by the side of those of the au-
thorities. The proposal was referred TO
the London city council, and after long
debate it was decided that the jew
could have the privilege by paying so
much year to the city. He agreed, and
thus the first poster was stuck up.
OF course the Jews example was fol-
lowed by other merchants, and LOomis
who received a commission for posting,
soon had billboards all over the city
His business grew to enormous proper
tions, and he retired a rich man From
that small beginning the custom has
spread until billbOards are now the
most prominent features of civilization.
A few years ago bill posting, even IN
the big cities, was done III a haphaZard
sort or way, without any system or reg
ularity. Dead walls and board fences
were utilized in an indiscriminate man
ner. and it was common thing for one
bill to be pasted over another before the
paste on the first one was dry. Rival
advertisers would hire different gangs
of bilIpOsters to cover up each other S
bills. OF course this often resulted in
scrimmages between the knights of the
brush, and pitched battles were some
times fought. In those days bill posting
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-11-20


with small engines.
Why not generate your power from
one CENTRAL Station? One gener
atOr can furnish power TO your Pump
Centrifugals, Elevators, Flows, Rail-
ways and HOSTS; also furnish ligh
and power for radius of from 10 to q
miles.
Electric power being used saves tn
labor OF hauling coal in your field, ais
water, and does away with high-priceC
engineers, and only have one engine Il
look after in your mill.
Where water power is available II
costs nothing to generate Electric
Power.
TIE HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC COM
PANY is now ready to furnish Electri
Plants and Generators of all descrip
lions at short notice, and also has OF
hand large stock of Wire, Chandel
iers and Electrical Goods.
All orders will be given prompt al
tention, and estimates furnished foI
Lighting and Power Plants; also at
tie" ion is given to House and Marine
Wiring.
THEO. HOFFMAN, Manager.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-11-20

mutual agreement, to the benefit Of both
the advertiser and the billposrer.
There is still great rivalry for the
possession Of advertising space, but il Is
conducted on purely business principles.
Surprising a building on one Of the prin-
cipal business thorOughfares of d big
city i 10 be torn down Before a single
brick is displaced either the contractor
or the owner has. been seen by the wide
awake billpOster and the advertising
privilege has been let. Perhaps an alter
alton Is TO be made and the work Is TO
occupy but a few weeks time. The bill
poster wants the space for that length
Of time and if the building is III prom
ineut position be Is willing 70 pay a
good round sum for 1t. He dOesn't
bother about selling it until he has the
contract securely drawn. Advertising
space Is always easy enough to sell
that Is, good space-tOT there Is always
a lack of it and never a surplus.
Each bill posting firm has its thou
sands Of boards scattered all over the
city and located in the most slightly
spots available. Boards of any size are
called Stands and that is the word
always used in referring to them. The
prices are reckoned by the square foot.
The advertiser furnishes the bills and
the billposter furnishes the boards and
puts them up. These Stands" are all
the way from o 10 25O feet long and
from to 80 feet high. Large paper
posters are usually put up to stay for a
month, but sometimes for a shorter pc
Rod Painting signboards is another
e no hT,u
1t IS in these big boards and in the
rent which the billpOsters have to pay
for the use Of the space that their mon
ely is invested. One big firm of bill
posters pays out more than 800, 900
annually III rents alone. Each firm has
besides its gang of pastors gang of
carpenters who know just how to put
up a billboard so that it Will not be
blown down by the first high wind.
Then there are agents who are constant
~ on the lookout for new locations. 1t
is their business to hunt up vacant lots
and induce the owner to allow them to
be inclosed by neat board fence on
which all sorts of posters may be placed.
Boards 700 feet long and from IL to
10 feet high are not at all unusual.
So important a business has this be-
come that the billposters have organ
lied, and the International Bill Posting
Association of the United States and
Canada is a most powerful combination.
Big patent medicine firms frequently
give an order to have the entire United
States billed with their paper, and the
transactions frequently run up into the
tens of thousands of dollars
Formerly the billpOster used to do
most of his work either at night or very
early in the morning, in order that he
might not be interrupted by some irate
property owner. But now he does most
of his work in broad daylight without
fear or favor. Occasionally an advertiser
wants a city billed with small posters,
which are not meant to go on the regu-
lar boards These the billposter calls
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-11-20
CHAPTER III.
REVOLUTION OF 1898.

Return of the Observation-Disclosures Propagation
Conference in the Foreign Ofice-Scenes in the Pal
ace-Appeal to acknowledgements of the Coup
d'Etat-Features of the Queens Consttuton-Com
mittee of Safety Organized Interview with Stevens
Conference held Saturday Evening-Ofer made to
COlburn and Peterson-SecOnd meeting of Commit
tee of Safety-Proceedngs of the Queens Friends
Sunday Aftemoon-The Queens Retraction-Third
Meeting of Committee of Safety-Request for the
Landing of q. S. TroOps-Mass Meeting at the Ar
mory-Report of Committee of Safety-Mass Meet
ing at Palace Square-Landng of y. s. Troops
PrOtests-Meeting of Committee of Safety Monday
Evening-Mr. Damon's Interview with the Queen
Last Meeting of the Committee of Safety-PrOceed
ings of the Queens Party-Final Action of the Com
mittee of Safety-The Shot fired on Fort Street
Proclamation of the Provisional GOvernment-The
VOlunteers-VariOus Comm nicatiOns-Last Appeal
by the Cabinet to Stevens-The Queens surrender
Surrender of the Station House and the Barracks
Recognition of the Provisional Government-Dis
patch of Annexation COmmissOners-The .. S. Pro
tectorate Pages ............... %