davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-06
Entertainment at Insane Hospital.

a correspondent at the Maine Insane
hospital writes that the entertainment
given at Coburn hail on Friday even
ing. by the Cony Ministries. was very in
teresting and pleasing
This organization is always welcomed
by the officers and patients of the insti-
luton on their annual visitation, and ev-
cry seat was occupied. very largely by
the patients of the institution. In fact.
the additional room in the balcony was
entirely occupied by officers of the inst
tuition and invited guests The apprecia-
ton of the audience was shown by ire
quent and prolonged applause The jokes
of the end men were well ;akcn and Gre
ated much laughter and the songs ard
choruses were executed with that vim
which brought about frequent encores.
The entertainment was Hastily varied in
character which presented a pleasing ef-
feet. and in the second part the Cony
Band created much delight. All the 9TH
ar specialties Were well rendered
Much credit Is due to the management
and the principal of the High school. MIR.
Cook, who was present, is to be conerat-
uiated in having for his pupils such
bright and enterprising young gentlemen
md ladies. The Cony High school min
itrels can regard their entertainment a
The hospital as a fixture
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-06
PERSONAL MENTION.

Ralph w. Leighton, Esq, of Mt. Yer
non, is in town for a few days.
Miss Alice M. Cakes, bookkeeper at
]. \. Folsom. left, Saturday night, for
Richmond. where she will spend Il
month with her sister, Mrs. c. +. Day.
Mrs. III. II. Scribner and daughter.
Miss Vina. who have been spending the
past two weeks with Mrs. c. b. Head.
have returned to their home in Bruins
wick.
Representative Frank A. Thompson
of Bristol. was in the city, Saturday.
He has just returned from North Caro-
lima and Texas. where he has been on
business. He will shortly returned to
North Carolina, where he will have
charge of a big menhaden factory
there.
Walter r. Clarke, assistant secretary
of the Senate, was in Augusta, Satur-
day. Mr.. Clarke is a student at the
Harvard Law School. and he has just
made n five weeks trip to California
and Arizona, on business and pleasure.
After short stay at his home In
Nobleboro, he will return to his studies
at the law school.
Hon. p. o. Vickery returned from
California on Saturday. He left here
Decemb er 30. with his family. secured
for them very comfortable home foi
the winter and Immediately started fol
Maine, as he desired to attend the
Maine Sportsmen's Association meeting
| in Bangor on Tuesday. Mr.. Vickery
thinks Maine winters are as good al
those they have in California.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-06

Lieut.. John Il. Morris of the United
States navy who has been the recruit
ing officer On the Wabash, will visit
Augusta, Saturday and Monday, Jan.
II and Is. for the purpose of securing
recruits for the navy. Lieut. Morris
will be accompanied by full quota OF
officers and the custodian's office at the
post office will he used as an office. The
opportunities for mechinists in the ser
vice now are exceedingly good and it is
the hope of the navy department that
large number of men of this class may
be obtained here in Maine. The right
man in the machinists' rating can climb
rapidly. while the pay he receives is
very much better than he could obtain
for similar work on shore. All men
who have trades are wanted and the
pay table shows that they are well re-
Enumerated for their work in the ser
N-irp
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-06

periodicals by express, or other means
outside the mails, to be sold or deliver
ed on their routes. they, as news
agents. will be required to pay postage
OIL sucn matter, at the second-class rate
Of postage Zone cent per pound). excert
in the case of county newspapers,
which are mailed free to subscribers
residing in the county in which they
are published.
This order is not intended to prohibit
carriers from Performing private COM
missions FOR the accommodation of pat
rons on their routes. so long as their
doing so does not interfere with the
regular and prompt performance of
their duties.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-06
Great Alteration Sale.

Tremendous sacrifice sale of boots
and shoes. BY reading F. l.. Herseys
large ALTERATION Sale ad. it will be
clearly seen that Mr.. Hersey means
business and that he proposes to have
the room for making his extensive
alterations in his two stores and is
willing to make a great sacrifice on
all his extensive stock, except Sorosis
shoes. This is no sale of odds and
ends, but a genuine reduction of the
whole stock, and the people know Mr..
Jersey so well, being aware that what
he says he will do, they are likely to
come many miles to take advantage
of such an important saving. 1t will
surely pay to have an extra pair for
the whole family. Sale commences at
once. az
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-06
BRIGHT OUTLOOK.
George N. Lawrence Speaks Of Ice
Situation on Maine Rivers.
American Ice Co. Will Cut 100000 Tons or
Kennebec and 10000 on Penobscot.

George N. Lawrence of this CITY. gen
can Ice Co., spoke as follows of the
situation on the Kennebec and Penob-
scot rivers, Saturday evening:
The kennebec is clear of ice Jams
from the lodges at Pittston, a short
distance below Gardiner, to Thwing' s
point at the foot of Swans Island, five
miles below Richmond. The ice which
has just formed varies from to 4
inches in thickness If the cold weather
continues in "A hours the ice will Just
about double in thickness. No har-
Vesting, however, will be done until the
crystal freeze reaches at least II
inches.
'Adviccs from the Penobscot say
that four tugs are at work trying to
break up the several jams which have
formed on that river. but of course
only weather conditions can determine
when those jams can be broken.
Il have received dispatch from an
agent in which he states that there 10
solid inches Of ice on the Sheepscot
river at Wiscasset and that there is
about the same thickness at East
Boothbay. North Boothbay and Booth
bay Harbor.
THE American Ice Co. desires to cut
100000 tons of ice this season on the
kennebec and will do so. if the cold
weather continues. There is now Co.
006 tons on hand. On the Penobscot
there is not one pound on hand and
the company will endeavor to harvest
$50 900 tons
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-06

The annual meeting of the Maine
Sportsmen's Association will be held
at City hall. Bangor, tomorrow. The
regular business session will occur in
the afternoon, over which President p.
o. Nickery will preside. Secretary Il.
G. Harrington will submit his report
for the year. and officers will be elect
ed In the evening speeches will be
made by leading citizens of the State
interested in hunting and fishing, on
subjects of special interest to Maine
sportsmen Half fare tickets on all
railroads will be sold, which ought to
assure a large attendance from this
city and vicinity.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-06
Thousands Sent Into Exile.

Every year a large number Of poor
sufferers whose lungs are sore and
racked with coughs are urged to go to
another climate But this is costly and
not always sure. Don't be an exile
when DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption will cure you at home.
It's the most infallible medicine for
Coughs. Colds and all Throat and Lung
diseases on earth. The first dose
brings relief. Astounding cures result
from persistent use. Trial bottles free
at BOwditch e Websters. Price Soc
and S1.00. Every bottle guaranteed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-06

The acting custodian of the United
States court house and post office has
received instructions from Washington
to call for sealed proposals for the re-
construction of the plumbing system at
that building. This comes as result
of the inspection made a short time ago
by agents of the treasury department.
The specifications which have been re-
ceived call for a thorough overhauling
of the plumbing. 1t is the intention to
put it in perfectly sanitary condition.
The material called for is to be the best
on the market. The whole is to be sub
jected to the peppermint test as soon as
constructed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-06
CONvALESCENCE
The Remedy That We
Rec0 m m nd To Be
Taken After Sickness
Is vinoI, 1t Pro-
notes Strength and
Quick Recovery.

The worst part of being sick is the
getting well. That is the time when
patience is virtue.
The sufferer cannot see from day to day
that any strength is gained The appe-
title is titful; the hours drag YEARLY and
1t seems that Nature would never be able
to resume her natural course.
Nature finds hard work after the pair
ing process she has been going through
to do much more without aid. She cries
out for help. We know at such times
Vino is of great assistance.
We have posted ourselves concerning
the scientific action that takes place when
VinOl is taken into the system. We would
be very glad to tell you what we have
learned in this direction and how Vinol
acts upon the body. We have in our
experience had many opportunities to
notice the result that has actually been
accomplished where Vinol has been used.
These results have always been salts
factory, often astounding even to us.
If you are getting well from any
trouble try Vinol. You will sleep better;
your appetite will improve, and, above
assimilate. 1t will be only day or two
OClOlC you w ia AOSAAC ludl Jul
Is increasing.
If anyone is skeptical we only ask one
thing; that is, that such one call on us
and let us at least endeavor to convince
him. Such a conversation cannot do any
one harm. Here is letter concerning
Vinol, from Mr.. Isaac Champagne Of
keene, N. II. He says:
sit is with great pleasure that endorse
Vinol. My little girl Cora, after hard
case Of scarlet fever took it with the very
best results. do not believe she would
ever have recovered if it had not been for
Vinol she was SO weak. Now she is in
the very best of health"
Remember we guarantee Vinol and
always stand ready to refund to the
purchaser the price paid for it il com.
plete satisfaction 10 not given.
BoWditeh, Webster { Co.
DRUGGISTS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-06
A Cure Tor lumbaqo.

wv. c. Williamson of Amherst, Va,
says: For more than year Il suf-
fered from lumbago. Il finally tried
Chamberlain's Pain Balm and it gave
me entire relief, which all other reme-
dies had failed to do" Sold by John
Coughlin, III Water street; ]. c..
Houlehan. Gardiner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-06

Secret service officials have discover
ed in circulation new counterfeit 81
silver certificate of the series of 1899
check letter G.. This counterfeit is sign
ed Lyons. register, and Roberts. treas
urer. II is Of Very crude workmanship.
The back of the note is printed upside
down. The paper contains no silk, and
the word washington" on the face is
printed in ordinary script type.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-06

The installation of the officers-elect
of Henry G. Staples Camp. S. of w.,
which was to have occurred at G. A.
r. hall. this evening, has been post
poned until the third Monday in jan
uary This was made necessary by
the fact that George G. Sheldon, who
was to have been installed as captain,
was obliged to go to SkOwhegan. to-
day. on important business. The reg
ular meeting of the comp will be held,
this evening, as usual
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-06
Augusta. Me. ian. G

To Editors Daily Kennebec Journal:
Gentlemen: An item in your paper
of last week, in relation to limited
members of the Union Veterans Union
of this city, is misleading, though,
perhaps, unintentionally so. Now l do
not hesitate to say that out of $50
members in good standing of Seth Will
liams Post, No. 13, G. A. r., 100 of
these could meet the equirements of
the bylaws of the U. V. o., but think
the G. A. r. is good enough for them.
A VETERAN.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-06
Child worih miIIions.

.Mv child is worth millions to me,
saws Mrs Mary Bird of Harrisburg. Pa.
..yet / would have lost her by Group mad
| not purchased bottle of One Minule
Cough Cure" One Minute Cough Cure
is sure cure for coughs. Group and throat
and lung troubles. An absolutely sale
cure which acts Immediately. Percy W.
Means.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-06
Apro,itabIe investment.

II was troubled for seven years with
my stomach and in bed half my time. !.
saws E Demck, Someryille. Ind. 1
spent about $1,000 and could get nothing
to help me until l tried kodol dyspepsia
Cure have taken few bottles and am
entirely we'll" Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
does the stomach's work by digesting the
food Percy W. Means.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-06

About 20 members of p. b. Capen
Rebekah Lodge will visit the lodge at
Richmond, this evening. They viii
leave here on the Accommodation train
instead of at $40 as at first intended,
and will be joined at Gardiner by a
delegation from the Gardiner Lodge.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-06

The last regular meeting of the board
of directors of the Augusta City Hospi-
annual report for the year was con-
sidered and arrangements made for it's
presentation at the meeting of the in
at City building, tonight.
1t is hoped that large attendance of
will be had this evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-06

Many new summer cottages are to be
erected at Cobbosseecontee the coming
season by Augusta citizens. During
the fall several We're built and plans for
others are now being made.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-06
Daily kennebec JosIrnx
AUGUSTA LOCALS.

The adjourned meeting of the stock
holders of the kennebec Steamboat co.
has again been postponed-the date OF
the coming meeting to be subsequently
announced.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-24
C...nese Proverbs About Women,

Respect always a silent woman :;
great is the wisdom of the woman that
holdeth her tongue.
- vain woman is to be feared, for
she will sacrifice all for her pride.
A naughty woman stumbles, for
she cannot see what might be in her
way.
trust not the woman that thinketn
more of herself than another; mercy
will not dwell in her heart.
The gods honor her who thinketn
long before opening her lips.
A woman that respects herself is
more beautiful than a single star;
more beautiful than many stars at
night.
Give heed to her to whom children
have come; she walks in the sacred
ways and lacks not love.
A mother not spoken we'll of by
her children is an enemy of the state;
she should not live within the king
dom's wall.
A woman without children has not
yet the most precious of her jewels.
Give heed to the voice of an old
woman; sorrow has given her wisdom.
A woman that is not loved is a kite
from which the string has been taken;
she driveth with the wind and cometh
to a long fall.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-24
WHEN THE SWALLOWS HOME
WARD FLY.

When the swallows homeward fly,
When the roses fade and die,
When the nightingale's sweet lay
With its warbler passed away
Asks the heart with bitter smart,
Asks the heart with bitter smart,
Shall 1 e'er see thee again?
Parting, ali, parting, parting gives
pain.
When the wild swan southwark roves
To the bloss ming lemon groves;
When the setting suns red ray
Through the green woods fades
away
Asks the heart with bitter smart,
Asks the heart with bitter smart,
Shall I e'er see thee again?
Parting, all! parting, parting gives
pain.
0 poor heart! Why sing sad lay?
Thou wilt too find rest some day;
What on earth must live in vain
Shall we ever meet again?
Asks the heart with bitter smart,
Asks the heart with bitter smart,
B'lieve that thee I'll see again,
Though today parting gives pain.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-24

laughed at if assumed in real life.
That has come to be the test in Chicago.
If pose is suggested that would Gre
ate deprecating comment the photog-
rapher, unless he is taking a costume
or a character picture, rejects it. If a
man or woman wants his or her pict-
ure taken in street clothes the picture
man insists that he or she stand or
sit as he or she would if, not in stu
do.
There are what are known as
'drawing-room pictures and street
pictures" With them it is not neces-
sary' to say Look pleasant, please"
Rather, the admonition Of the present
day photographer is to Look natural
please Among patrons of the CALLER
les these pictures are the ones most
in demand. Eery picture man would
rather take one of this sort than a
picture that does not look characteris-
tic of the sitter. Among the other
changes which have taken place in the
course of photography is the decrease
in the demand for babies posed as
cherrbs. This is not done any more
as much as it used to be. AS it is
with adults it has come to be with
babies. The thing that is sought is
characteristic picture-not a stilted
composition in which tie baby, CARRIED
as an uncomfortable angel. is made to
suffer because it's parents or the
photographer want a look pleasant,
please picture. The day of that pict-
ure is dead. Photographers hope that
it will stay so.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-24

visit at Reuben Langdon's on Pratt
street, we went to cur home on tue
daily Litchfield stage.
This simple story is only useful as
a faint illustration of the great
changes made in American life dur
ing the last half century. The few
living who have experienced these
changes can hardly realize them
The very many who have not been
through them can hardly be made to
believe in the truth of them. A num-
Der Of years ago in an interview with
Charles Adams, for many years editor
and proprietor of the Litchfield En-
Quirer, | asked him after an hours
talk Of the many and various changes
he had seen if he could realize them.
His answer was that he could. After
moments reflection he said, 81 can
not" One Of the best pictures of life
in New England in the early part of
the 18th century is found in an ad-
dress by DR.. Bushnell at county
celebration in Litchfield in the SOS,
entitled, THE Age of Homespun," and
also in a poem delivered on that oc-
casion by Rev. John Pierpont One
cannot help wondering whether those
who live through the larger part of
the Goth century will experience so
many and so great changes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-24
SPIDER-WEB.

4 slender filament is yon
Bright bit of gossamer wherein
The sunlit spider swings-what if he
fall?
A coucn of grass is all.
A doing architect, he lays
His skilful courses on my ways
But see how idly! For with one light
blow
I lay his rafters low.
Yet he'll go building still, as I,
Whose castles oft in ruins lie,
Begin and spin anew my filament
By some vast being rent.
Mayhap, because I choose to lay
My darling rafters on his way,
He sweeps his vexed forehead with 6
froWn
And strikes my castles down,
james Herbert Morse in Atlantic
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-24
HOW 1T is DONE.
How Maine Trees Are Turned Into
United States Postal Cards

OniteQ StateS postal Cards.
The entire United States is depend
ent for its supply of postal cards upon
Rumford Falls, Me. From this Maine
town are shipped on an average 15,-
100000 postal cards each week. And
every card, from the time when it was
one of the sturdy trees in the country
of the pointed frs until it is a mailing
card ready for messages of life or
death, of business or pleasure, of sor-
row or joy, is entirely a Maine
product.
A staunch monarch of the forest is
leveled, and coming from up-Andro-
scoggin, is chemically transformed at
the Oxford mill. That yellow pulp,
looking so like tina last of rich
churning, and filling the big digester
vat, is the body in solution of the
postal card. Here in solution are all
the cards that shall later be used t.
herald the commercial travellers ap-
pearance, or to carry the messages of
busy folks, who have no secrets to
write their friends.
The wood pulp is flowed out on a
screen OF such fine mesh that the pa
per is long in gathering, and the re-
suit OF more than ordinary thorough
shaking is a firm, smooth card, of the
familiar cream yellow, free from all
flakes of shadow when held to the
light. In the big, clean, finishing
room of the Oxford mills, where the
floor is Uttered with delicious clutter
Of elegant book paper, sit a score or
more neatly gowned women, busy and
happy, smoothing the great sheets of
books and postal stock into piles.
The least defect in the surface is de-
tected at once by the supersensitive
finger tips, and sheet after sheet is re-
jected for a blemish invisible save to
touch.
Great trucks convec-- the postal pa
per to the printing establishment.
Each sheet Of stock fed into the print
ing press is registered automatically,
so that an exact tally can be kept of
! all cards printed. The two presses
have united capacity Of 100000
| cards daily.
From Rumford Falls, which is the
| agency, shipments are made to the
! sub-agencies, which are Washington
! D. c.; Cincinnati, O.; st. Louis, Mo;
, and Troy, n. Y. All smaller offices IN
the United States must make requisi
ton to these sub-agencies for cards
unless they are in the list of cities
| whose business is so extensive in pos
tails as to require carload shipments
These, by the way, are Baltimore
Pittsburg, Buffalo, Kansas City
Brooklyn, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit
San Francisco, Boston and New York
The average amount of message:
written on postal in these cities il
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-24
al AM so SORRY.v

A child came to her father yesterday,
Wet-eyed and rembling-lipped, yet
unafraid,
And pardon for some wrong deed
sweetly prayed
II am so sorry" low I heard her say;
Father, did not mean to disobey."
Quickly the sorrowful father bent
and smiled,
And drew her to his breast. Then,
reconciled,
The little girl went singing on her
way.
So, dearest Father, $50 old in years
And yet child, in that blindly DO
Wrong deeds that hurt and grieye
you every day
Come, unafraid, yet trembling and IN
Fl am so sorry have troubled you.
Father, I did not mean to Gf,-
obey"
Ella Higginson in Woman's Home
COMPANION.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-24
SCIENCE NOTES.


between individuals. Rats, mosquitoes
and vermin alone convey it.
The wasp, like the bee and almost
every other insect, is infested with
parasites. Wasps have been captured
which had two or three dozen para
sites clinging to their bodies.
The average duration of marriages
in England is % years; in France and
Germany, 26; in Norway, "a, Russia,
80.
Vesuvius has taken to emitting
vapor saturated with hydroclortc
acid, which, falling as rain" has
done great damage to vegetation.
Analysts say that butter is the
most nutritious article of diet, closely
followed by bacon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-24
PLEASANTRIES.

Fat Party-"What. Forty-five cents
for q shaver"
Barber-"Yes, sir; Is cents a chin -
Yale Record.
A little boy was asked by his Sun
day school teacher why a certain
part of the church was called the altar.
Because it is where people change
their Names he promptly answered.