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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-29

Aroostook. Pike of washington and Tit
comb of York. Representatives, Tartre
of Biddeford, Thompson of China, Hill of
Winterport, Allan of Portland, Downing
of Sorrento, Libby of Mechanic Falls and
Cole of East Livermore.
XATION-Senators, Gardner of
Penobscot, Randall of Cumberland and
Pike of Washington. Representatives,
Thompson of China, Davidson of Ham
mond Pl.. Poor of Belfast. Howe of Can.
ton, B5dwell of Hallowe1l, Patterson Of
Industry and Farnsworth of Pembroke.
Joint Select Committees.
GOVERNORS Observation-Disclosures
Guernsey of Piscataquis, Alden of Kenne-
bee and Pierce of Aroostook; Representa- :.
tives Burrill of Ellsworth, Buzzell of Old
Town, Cook of Casco. Eaton of Wells,
Hubbard of Paris, McKusick of Parkman
and Coyne of Lewiston.
Morse of Waldo, Knowlton of Penobscot
afld Wing of Ahdroscoggin; Representa-
tives Hawkes. of Windham, Blake of Sid
ney, White of Dyer Brook. F'oss of Han
cock, Jones of Corinna, Nelson of New
Gloucester and Mcintyre of Waterford.
joint Special Committees.
REVISION OF sTATUTES-Senat
Goodwin of Somerset, Wing of Andres
sentatives Putnam of Houlton, Weather
bee of Lincoln, Cakes of Auburn, Manson
of Pittsfield Newcomb of EaStport, Abb
bott of Shapleigh and Thornton of Ash
land.
SALARIES-Sen Morrison of York
Burleigh of Aroostook and Stetson of Pen
obscot; Representatives 5ewall of Bath,
Leavitt of Turner, McGregor of Enfield,
Davis of Waterville, Blake of sydney
PARROT of oxford and Tapley of Brooks
vile.
Standing Committees of the Senate.
{ COMMITTEE ON BILLS IN THE SEC.
OND NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Rankin of
York, Wilson of Washington, Bryant of
Somerset, Guernsey of Piscataquis, Gard
ner of Penobscot, Philbrook of Oxford,
Maddocks of Lincoln, Libby of Kennebec,
Currier of franklin, Randall of Cumber-
land, Pierce of Aroostook, Plummer of
Androscoggin.
COMMITTEE ON ENGROSSED BILLS
Senators Morrison of York, Pierce of
Aroostook, Bryant of Somerset, Alden OF
Kennebec, Burleigh of Aroostook, Sta
pies of Knox, Stetson of Penobscot,
Clark of Hancock, Hyde of Sagadahoc.
Morse of Waldo, Pike of Washington and
Knowlton of Penobscot.
Standing Committees of the House.
field of Rockland, Weatherbee of Lincoln,
Purinton of Gorham, Kurdish of Range
ley Buxton of Abbot. Carleton of Rock
port ami Curtis &C Portland.
ENGROSSED BlLLS-RepfeSeltdt
Barker OF Bangor, Newcomb of Eastport,
Hinckley of Lisbon, Perkins of Wilton.
Carleton of Rockport, Poor of Belfast
and Slower of Brunswick.
BILLS IN THE THIRD READING
Representatives Randall of Freeport,
Mills of Stonington, Abbott of Shapieigh,
Putnam of Danforth, Thompson OF Orono.
Tremblay of Lewiston and Butler of
South Ihomaston.
RULES AND BUSINESS OF THE
HOUSE-Representati Smith Of
Pressure Isle, Drew of Portland and Page
of Skowhegan.
LEAVE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
tives, Coburn of Greene, Albert of
Madawaska, Cook of Casco, Patterson of
Industry, Foss of Hancock. Mcnamara of
Thomaston and Benner of Waldoboro.
WAYS AND MEANS-Representa
Manson of Pittsfield, Davis of Waterville,
Boyd of Linneus, Morey of Lewiston,
Clarke of Nobleboro. Hubbard of Paris
and Tartre of Biddeford.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-29
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-29
DIED..
CUMBERLAND.


| Portland-Jan. Is, Harriet E. Cross,
aged 70 years; Jan. Is, Thomas A. o.
Hare. aged "a years; Jan. 16, Mrs. Mary
Kilmartin: Jan. IA, Henry Kimball;
Jan. 10. Mary A. Jones, aged 70 years,
months. Is days; Jan. %, William E.
DunninS, aged months, II days; Jan.
i20. Martha r. Stevens, aged SO years, 6
months: Jan. Is. James Pelton, aged 70
years; Jan. Is, Olive Ring Morse aged
| 81 years; Jan. 10, Elmer E. Jennings,
aged At years: Jan. 20, George w.
SWEET, aged 80 years, MONTHS Jan. II,
Mary Ann Mcfarland, aged 50 years;
Jan. q. Irene B. Evelith, aged 60 years,
| II months. Is days; Jan. q, William H.
Reddy; Jan. q, John 1. Fitzsimmons,
| aged 80 years.
| South Portland-Jan. Is, Howard M.
Frank, aged % years, 9 months; JAM
| %. Charles H. Waterhouse, aged 72
years, 10 months.
Falmouth-Jan. 16, Jane Sinnett, aged
II years; Jan. Is, Fitz E. Sargent, aged
| IS years. 9 months, S days; Jan. IT,
Chas NJ Morrill,, aged 81 years, 4
months.
Chebeague Island-Jan. Is, Mrs
Elizabeth Soule, aged 80 years, 4
months, days.
| South Windham-Jan. IS. Annie T.
Irwin, aged 60 years, 10 months. 8 days.
Bridgton-Jan. 20, John H. Roes,
| aged SO years.
Yarmouth-Jan. 20, Frances E. Cald-
well, aged so years.
North Yarmouth-Jan. Is, Almira
Whitney Mountford.
YORK.
Limington-Jan. Is, John D. Wee
man. aged A years.
Old Orchard-Jan. 20. Mrs. Sarah NJ
| Chase
shapleigE--Dec. 90, Mrs. Florence
| Gordon, aged AZ years.
Lyman-Jan. Is, John c. Libbey,
| aged rs years.
PENOBSCOT.
| Bangor-Jan. Is, Mary Constantine
aged 70 years; Jan. IA, Charles Hardy
aged rs years, 8 months; Jan. Ia, Mrs.
Mary P. Hopkins, aged rs years, 6
months.
| Hermon-Jan. is, Mrs. Ella p.
Triggs. aged "A years, months, z days.
| Millinocket-Jan IA. Gertrude Walsh,
aged l month, Is days.
OXFORD.
| Hiram-Jan. 16, Monroe Boynton,
aged about IS years
| Denmark-Jan. II, Mrs. Lucy A.
Wentworth, aged 81 years.
| Ncrway-Jan. 9, Henry A., M. Brad
bury, aged 70 years, months.
| Rumford Falls--Jan. is, Mrs. Mary
F. Marshall
! Buckfield-Jan. II, Genie D. Robin
son. aged 36 years; Jan. Is, Harrison
futile, aged y years.
Lovell-Jan IA. Mrs. katharine Far
rington, aged so years.
Waterford-Jan. II, France Abbott
Potter. aged 1 month, days.
Hartford-Jan. 9, William Cole, aged
62 years.
Fast Hiram-Jan 19. Lucie Madeline
WEIGH. aged 4 years, months, "a days.
KNOX.
Thomaston-Jan IS. Jane M.
Thomas. aged 70 years, 70 days; Jan. Is,
Herbert P. Williams, aged 80 years, 10
months. II days.
WALDO.
Belfast-Jan. IA, David Alexander.
aged "a years, months; Jan. s. VIM.
H. Fleming, aged q years, s months.
KENNEBEC.
Gardiner-Jan. 10, Mrs. Angelina S.
Hamlin.
Augusta-Jan. 10. Mrs. Rebecca N.
Kingsbury, aged 79 years.
WatervilIe-Jan. IL. Hazel Russell.
aged years: Jan. IA, Gladys Ola Page.
aged Is years. II months, % days.
SOMERSET
Norridgewock-Jan. II, Mrs. Hannah
E. Craw, aged n years: Jan. II. |
Maurice alexander. aged 81 years.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-29

Harmony-Jan. IL, Amos Brown,
aged about 72 years.
Athens-Jan. IA, Mrs. Elyira Horn,
aged rs years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-29
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.

w. A. Bibber of Richmond, has sold
his driving horse to New York parties
for $400 He has bought another of f.
P. Hawthorne.
Colts that are fed literally during the
winter months must have plenty of
exercise to harden them up for future
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-29
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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-03-19
Beware OF Oiniments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury.

Beware OF Oiniments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury.
AS mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely de-
range the whole system when en-:
terlug 1t through the mucous sur
faces. Such articles should never
be used except on prescriptions
from reputable physicians. as the
damage they will do Is tenfold to
the good you can possibly derive
from them. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Co., Toledo, Ohio, contains no
mercury and Is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. In
buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure
you get the genuine. 1t Is taken
internally and made In Toledo, O.,
by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimo-
malls free.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-03-19

Mrs. T. R, Cowell and chil1ken
left on the GAS train this morning
for their home In Parkersburg.
Mrs. CoWell has been the guest Of
her mother, Mrs. Ira Barber, of
Brown Betty street, for the past
two weeks.
For Sale:-House and lot on
Stocking avenue, eight rooms,
plastered, good cellar, bath, gas and
electric light. In best of order.
Will sell cheap, either for cash or
on time. Inquire II2 East street.
II I2t
County Assessor W. E. Long, re.
turned 10 his home on the morning
train after spending few days In
the city. Mr.. Long will commence
his labors of assessing the property
of the county on the first of the
coming month, and will prosecute
1t with his unusal energy ana abil.
ity until 1t completed.
One Of the most remarkable cases
Of cold, deep-seated on the lungs,
causing pneumonia, Is that of Mrs.
Gertrude E. Fenner, of Marion,
Ind, who was entirely curei by
the use of One Minute Cough Cure.
She says: "The coughing and
straining so weakened me that I run
down In weight from I48 to 92
pounds. I tried a number of lem =
edies to no avail until I used One
Minute Cough Cure. Four bottles
of this wonderful remedy cured me
entirely of the cough, strengthened
my lungs and restored me to my
normal weight, health and strength. {"
Opera House Drug Store
Dr. A. E. Doneghy, the popular
osteopath, has leased the roors In
the McCoach building, formerly
occupied by DR.. Denning, and will
be hereafter found there on Tues
days and Fridays of each week.
Although 1t Is but comparatively
short time since DR.. Doughey began
his visits to this city. he has gained
quite large clientele among the
most representative people of the
community, and on the days when
he Is here, his rooms are constantly
crowded with those who are finding
releit from this rational and natural
method of treatment. Osteopathy
Is becoming more popular as 1t Is
becoming better known. State after
state Is officially and legally recog-
nizlug 1t, and DR.. Doneghy Is one
of Its best opponents and most skill.
full practitioners. Remarkable cures
in Sistersville and elsewhere attest
his ability and grateful patients
extend his popularity. 3I7.tf
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-03-19
Local News

| 40 ID INC SoAoShSA ~ a. o.
den,
Build few dwelling houses to
rent.
Old Sol Is fighting for supremacy
again.
April magazines at McCoy's Book
Store.
George Eba went to Proctor on
the Jos.
We need a big lot of carpenters
here now.
Good show at the Auditorium
Saturday night.
There should be a building boom
this spring.
'Evangelislic services at the M.
E. church tonight.
Spring begins according to the
calendar, Saturday.
We are going to boom this sum-
mer as never before.
Everybody Is talking about the
Electric railroad now.
W. G. Hays left tnis morning on
short business trip north.
McCoy's Bros, new addition to
their store will soon be completed.
A fine line of handsome pictures
at McCoy's Book Store very cheap.
Miss Anna Wittenwas 10 Wheel
ing yesterday doing spring shop
ping.
A. c. Jackson has returned home
from short business trip to Par
kersburg.
R. H. Kennings arrived In the
city last night. and Is quartered at
the Wells
Mrs. Nathan Salisbury left on
the early train for points north On
a pleasure visit.
J. P. Brady, the popular travel.
ing salesman of Baltimore, Md. was
In town yesterday.
Chas. Monroe Is having his house
on south Wells street neatly pa
pered throughout.
L. E. Morningstar has left the
city to accept a position with the
Wheeling Intelligencer.
Mrs. H. D. Applebay went to
Friendly on the morning train to
spend the day with friends.
As Martinsville don't want the
railroad we suggest Its name be
dropped by the railroad company.
We had a gun shoot here yester-
day and 1t did not rain or snow.
Something wrong with the weather
man
The cars for Middlebourne will
stop light In front of the OH Re-
view off ,e. All aboard for Middle
bourne.
w. P. Stewart, Cf the American
OIL Development company, arrived
In the city this morning from points
north.
Five hundred men and teams will
soon begin work on the railroad.
That means a splendid market for
produce here for the farmers.
For Sale Cheap-Five roomed
house on north Water street. A
great bargain for sn early buyer.
Call at residence, No. GA. 2 I3 If
The Pure OIL company have rent.
ed Offices In this city which settles
the question as to where this COM
pauy's main Office Is to be. They
p eser dead town to q swamp.
A car of Ice for the Schmulbach
Brewing company arrived In the
city last night, and was transferred
to their storage rooms on Water
street.
R. L. Lyle, representing the
Worthington Meter company, of
New York, spent the night In the
city, leaving on the fast line for
points south.
Next Thursday Is election day.
Up to date there Is hardly anything
being said about the election. The
candidates are all making still"
hunt. The vote will be very light.
Foster Robinson, of the Eureka
| d. L. foSoa ,,,ack - Drooko. ~,
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-03-19

Until have passed the climax. do not
dread II now, as I am sure that your
Wine Of Card,s' -uill be Of great benetii
at this time"
Wine of Cardui is the remedy to
reinforce a woman against the shock
that comes with the change OF life.
It re-establishes healthy functions
after years of suffering. In doing
this it has saved thousands OF SUI
ferers Just in time. Do not wait
until suffering is upon you. Thor
ough preparations should be made
in advance. Begin the Wine OF
Cardui treatment today.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-03-19

her a new lease on life. Those who
meet this change in i'll health sell
dom live ten years afterward, while
q woman who lays aside the active
duties of womanhood in health sell
dom fails to live on in happiness,
years after she has passed 60. This
is truly critical time.
Mrs. Laura S. Webb, of Toledo,
Ohio, recognizes the change OF life
as a dangerous period and she also
has faith in Wine of Cardui. She
writes:
"As had always been troubled more
or less at the menstrual period, ! dreaded
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-03-19
Explanation!

Each coupon when received Is numbered
and the prizes will be awarded according to
the number. To illustrate, If No. 100 Is tine
If 200 Is coupon guessing the exact or near
est the exact number, 1t will be given prizes
No. and so on. This is the only way we can
devise to make the contest fair, so vote early
and often.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-03-19
Mrs. Laura S. Webb,
NesPredent Of woens Democratic Gibbs OF Northern Ohio

the change Of Life which wa
fast approaching. While Wis
Ting with a friend ! notiesd
that she was taking YOU
Wine of Cardui, and she was
so enthusiastic about 1t tina,
decided to try a bottle. q.
perieneed some relief the firsi
month, so | kept on taking Il
for three months and now ]
menstruate with no pain and
I shall take It off and on now
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-03-19
THERE ARE MANY
sickly women be-
III tween the ages of

Is and IS, but there are
very few invalids over IS
and go years Of age. The
change of life coming to
a woman near her forty
fourth year, either makes
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-28
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2s, 1903.
slim foundation belief but It Influenced
the common people.
What People Say to Themselves.

What People Say to Themselves.
Everybody knows what battlemented towers
and mullioned windows and moats and parapets and
draWbridges and keeps That u.s. everybody knows what
the definitions and perhaps would recognize the
originals when he Them but nobody actually knows
just what they like until them 50
going thru the Tower is succession delightful
second. This is moat," you find yourself say
Ing and suppose that is portcuHs and that round
there's walking along the parape the towers
are all battlemented-anybody would recognize that
who is twenty-five old and had dress cut
in battlements And there, oh, there is beefeater!
wonder how he feels all done that skirt and what
hat! Looks as il it only lined with crnolne and
rested twenty-four hours under ton of clothes
And there's another fat too niddle-aged.
wonder If any young man could be persuaded to wear
such costume in public. And there's" And so it
goes on. all more less unconsciously.
Prisoners of the Bell Tower.
Once past the Middle tower the wall along the
outer side Of the moat which dry and laid out
IN gardens and the bridge which takes the place
OF the ancient drawbridge, the Byward Tower
which guards the inner wall Of the historic spots
in amazingly quick succession and historic
sociations fairly rain down the skies
ss There does not seem to be a Granny, window,
square 1901 OF masonry, hardly which does not fairly
tower, whose two small in the top have har-z
bored famous men and of all periods Henry
daughter Mary put the Princess Elizabeth there,
Elizabeth in turn put the mother Lord Darney there
when she heard of his marriage with Mary Queen o
Scots It was here, too, Raleigh spent the
days of Of his numerous imprisonments fact
when one comes to go carefully over the Tower with
It's associations with Raleigh the prisoner there does
not seem to be hardly not
prlsoned at some time other: Guy Fawkes and his
IeHoW consprators in the Gunpowder plot also spent
a few miserable days in the Bell tower before they
received the punishment that was their just due.
The Gate Under the Wide Arch. >#E.@ s
"A little farther along right Wide
shows just above walk: Beneath S an EN-
trance guarded by iron gratings-none other than
the sombre Traitors gate that played such unhappy
part in early English history very first the
common people believed the spot rested under
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-28

free man in the country. Thru these gates
passed three queens to their death, Anne
Boleyn, katherine Howard and Lady Jane
Grey, that poor victim of worldly mans
false ambition, sweet lady, who as an old
chronicler says, possessed the innocence of
childhood, the beauty of youth the solidity
of the middle, the gravity of old age and all
at eighteen, the birth of princess, the learn
ing of a clerk, the life Of saint, vet the
death of a maIefactor for her parents Of
lenses" Strange enough it seems that Lady
Jane entered the Tower as queen by the
Traitors gate and never left it again except
as a prisoner.
The Bloody Tower is the entrance to the
inner circle, the very heart of the fortress, in
the center of which stands the keep or White
Tower, which until the time of Charles II. was
occupied as residence by the king. There is
no real reason why the Bloody Tower should
have been given such dreadfully suggestive
name. Originally it was called the Garden
Tower it's second story being entered direct
from the garden behind the parapet. OF
course prisoners managed to die there, more
or less mysteriously, but they were only two
or three in number. and there is hardly a
room in any of the towers or houses which.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-28
A "Beefeater."

those that make the reality more or less unlike any
picture
The first entrance to Tower territory to-day is not
all imposing. They call it the stockade entrance We
should call board fence Moreover, it is the kind
of board that builders erect around premises
at work just within this stockade
gate the ticket office, the parcel and lunch
From the time Of William the Conqueror who began
construction of the fortress called the Tower
to 1922 this space was given to menagerie and
going the lions at the Tower the nearest
approach to a circus people in London until
a few years ago live thoroly date Amer-
to show them what the real thing
Isl Each king managed to add animal to
the standard collection of lions leopards and bears
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-28

King Henry Ill had polar bear from Norway, and
people gathered in great crowds day to him
catch his dinner from the Thames But of all
element the greatest was created when he re-
ceived elephant from Emperor Frederic H., the very
first elephant that north of the Alps.
Probably the lions held in the greatest esteem
for the ignorant superstitious people of the day be-
ieved that their health and especially their deaths gov
health the life of the reignng family The
king of the pen died just before Queen Elizabeth
breathed her history states and the thing
happened These two condolences
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-28

the sort king scared from such project
by ghost story, he went right rebuilding the
arch At the time he dedicated the
building st. Thomas himself, to prevent
more ghostly visits in the public mind.
But what "a procession has passed between those
gates, up stairs the roadway and thru the
of Bloody Tower just opposite and SO to
life long imprisonment. What dark, unhappy
thoughts have been aroused they changed to-
and culprit realized matter how high his
that sound stripped HIM of all honors
him where he could not be enved by the lowest
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-28

Twice did the arch coll
lapse, and then the tale
went forth that the ghost
of. st. Thomas of Can
! terbury-the Thomas "a
Beckett of history had
been seen to strike the
arch with his cross and
send it topping down.
The terror-stricken sob-
server asked the ghostly
attendant Of the arch
bishop who he was and
why he smote the arch.
The reply was: 80
st. Thomas, the mar
tyr. by birth a citizen, re-
sents these works under
taken in scorn Of the
citizens and destroys
them beyond the power
! of restoration
Nobody, unless, per-
haps, it was the masons
themselves, knew that
the Wilderness and fairness
Of the arch was too great
a problem for their prim-
tive ideas in building,
and that unless the
stones were sjoggled"
just right, they could not
be juggied into staying
where they were put.
8 King Henry III, was not