davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26
Director Smiths Attitude.
portland Press. }

A singular report comes from
Washington in regard to the attitude
of George Otis Smith, director. of the
geological survey. towards White
Mountain forest conservation. The
statement is on the authority of the
Springfield Republican. 1t is we'll
known that the Weeks bill, which has
become law, provides for the making
of a government forest reservation
out of the wooded slopes and ravines
of the White Mountains and their
neighborhood. For a beginning the
forest service has examined and APP
proved of the taking of $4,000 acres on
the northwesterly slopes of the
Presidential and Franconia ranges.
from which the water drains into the
Connecticut through it's tributaries.
But under the law the recommends
lions of the forest service must have
the approval of the Geological Sur
vey before the appropriation for this
reservation can be drawn upon. The
amount appropriated for expenditure
this fiscal year is $4,000, 900 and it is
said that the money will revert to the
treasury and be lost for the purpose
unless it is brought into requisition
before July /. But Director Smith. it
is stated, has for some reason omitted
to take action. Governor Bass of New
Hampshire and others have been to
Washington to see Mr. Smith about
it. He has denied holding an I'M
favorable attitude, yet he does not
move and the time is growing short.
The people Interested. and that means
practically the whole of New England.
are beginning to get worried, and
some of them to suspect a design of
obstruction.
AS to us here in Maine, we are loath
to believe any such thing of Mr..
Smith. He is a son of Maine, a ma
tive of Hodgdon and connection by
marriage of the Coburn family. whose
forest holdings are large. He has
thus every reason to know how deeply
his native State is concerned in the
matter of conserving the forest reser
voirs of the head waters of the New
England river system. He has been
connected with the Geological Survey
since 1896, and since 1907 he has been
its director. He received his appoint
ment to this post under the Roosevelt
administration, and everybody knows
of the active interest of Mr.. Roose-
Welt In forest conservation. He set
aside millions of acres of forests and
he appointed Clifford Pinchot chief
forester OF Mr.. Smith it seems as if
there was a report at one time that
he was skeptieal as to any connection
of cause and effect between the for
ests and the rainfall and stream flow.
That may be, Nevertheless it is in
credible that he should take the re-
sponsibility of allowing the initial APP
preparation to lapse and the beginning
of this great work to be defeated be-
cause OF any preconceived opinions of
his own. We confidently anticipate
his seasonabie approval of the recon-
mendation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26
Dangerous Drug Frauds.

Pres Taft transmitted to Congress,
Wednesday. a message which he had
prepared in New York and submitted
through the White House. calling at
tention to drug frauds and urging new
legislation in the nature of an emer-
gency measure. The President scath-
what he denounces as dangerous drug
frauds" and declares that he believes
that unless the law is amended forth
with the country will again be flooded
with injurious nostrums," cure alls"
which were common before the first
pure food law was first enacted
Among other things the President
said:
AN evil which menaces the general
health of the people strikes at the life
of the nation. In my opinion, the sale
OF dangerously adulterated drugs, or
the sale of drugs under knowingly
false claims as to their effect in dis
ease. constitutes such an evil and
warrants me in calling the matter to
the attention of the Congress.
Fraudulent misrepresentation of the
curative value of nostrums not only
operate to defraud purchasers, but are
a distinct menace to the public health.
There are none SO eredulous as suffer-
ers from disease. The need is urgent
for legislation which will prevent the
raising of false hopes of speedy cures
OF serious ailments by mis- statements
OF fact as to worthless mixtures on
which the sick will rely while their
diseases progress unchecked"
The President also called attention
to the fact that at the time the food
and drugs get was passed. there were
current in eommesce. literally thou
sands of dangerous frauds labelled as
cures. He said that these so-called
cures We're not only atterly useless in
the cure Of the disease. but in many
cases We're positively injurious. He
called the attention of Congress to the
recent decision of the Supreme Cour,
by saving that prior to that decision
the officers charged with the enforce.
ment OF the law regarded false ane
misleading statments concerning tbs
curative value OF nostrums as mis-
branding, and there was a general ac.
quiescence in this view by the pro.
prietors OF the nostrnms Many pre.
tended cures were, In consequence
withdrawn from the market. ana tn,
proprietors OF many other alleged cure
eliminated false and extravagan
claims from their labels.
The Presidents message might b
styled q conservation docriHenE ES II
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

ii is not only in prohibition Maine
that liquor laws are violated. 1t was
discovered few days ago that 400
places were operating without excise
licenses in Manhattan borough of New
York city and had been since, April /.
Dance halls. wine rooms, restaurants.
small hotels, furnished room houses
and clubs are included in the list of
violaters of the law We hear much
about the failure of prohibition from
some of our Maine contemporaries, but
the failure of regulation of the liquor
traffic is something they do not often
mention. Why not be honest? Why
be SO hypocritical about the liquor
question? Let us have the whole
truth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26
The Dust We Breathe.

Science with her wizard appliances
has done marvellous things for man.
kind in the matter OF protection
against disease, says ]. Gordon Ogden,
in July Popular Mechanics Magazine.
She has searched out the causes of the
scourges that formerly played havoc
with the human race. Smallpox.
diphtheria, cholera and typhoid fever
have been hunted down and made to
reveal their death dealing secrets We
have learned to be cautious as regards
the character of our drinking water.
We know the danger of the malaria
carrying mosquito. We appreciate
the insidious menace OF the common
house-fy. We understand the i'm
portance of enforcing pure-food laws.
Nevertheless, there is one broad ave-
nue. along which disease and death
march arm in arm, right into the very
heart of the citadel of life: 1t Is the
highway that leads from the Kingdom
of Dust. The myriads of dust notes
are the real executioners of mankind,
especially in those occupations where
coneomitant.
The writer says an average man
breathes about q cubic feet of air per
hour Under the very best condi-
tions possible the air he breathes is
never entirely free from dust. Under
ordinary conditions. the average BUSH
ness man in his comparatively SAM
tary office, breathes in thousands of
dust particles every hour. The
workman who earns his livelihood in
shop, factory or mine, has his proper
ton OF notes enormously increased.
Unfortunately also the character of
| these particles is too often changed
from the innocuous kind to the DEATH
dealing splinters due to certain occu-
pations.
An artisan working with keen edged
tools must exercise extreme care in
order to prevent harm to himself. If
he Is surrounded by circular saws re-
volving at lightning speed, or with
watts of corrosive acids. or furnaces of
molten steel, these perils are at least
In open view. and may be guarded
against. 1t is different. however. with
the dangers lurking in dust. They are
Invisible. but none the less deadly. In
steel-grinding factory, the air is
charged with flying. jagged spiinters
OF steel. infinitely sharper and more
dangerous than the razor edged tools
10 which he is accustomed. Every
breath sends bits of metal. keener than
the far-famed Damaseene blades
right into the midst of his delicate
hung tissue.
E movement Is on foot in Soutf
s4nrert-s-tookfng to the renewarsof tn,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26
Editorial Comfieht
A Gracious Thought.

NSprlngheId RepubIican.)
1t was a gracious thought on the
part of Mrs. Taft to have the White
House grounds thrown open on We'd
nesday evening that the public while
listening to an open-air band concert
might delight in the elaborate illumi-
nation of the grounds which had been
arranged for the silver wedding cele-
bration the evening before. The
White House grounds are of more pic
turesque beauty than is realized by
the average visitor. who pays chief
attention to the White House itself,
and with their fine trees of many va
rleties, and the fountain, which was
played upon by a searchlight Monday
and Tuesday evenings. they are much
at their best at night.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

chief aim is the preservation of HUI
man life. TheAnecessity OF a prompt
amendment of the food and drugs act
so as to remedy the defect revealed by
the Supreme Court decision, will APP
peal strongly to the public as being
required at the present extra session
of Congress.
Perhaps the injury worked along
other lines at the extra session may
be in measure redeemed by this
legislation which the President de-
mands.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

A banner of much local interest has
recently come to light at Livermore
Falls. The banner is made OF white
satin with a hand painted scene in the
center and is about three feet square.
The Temperance Watchmen's Club In
|1840 presented 1t to the Ladies Band
of Hope of East Liyermore, during the
temperance agitation of those days
which led up to the passage of Names
prohibition statute in 1851. The ban
ner was in the custody of the secre-
tary, Mrs. Levi Richards up to 10
years ago, when 1t came into the care
of the late Mrs. Ellen Folsom. the
mother of Mrs. A. ID. Cole 1t Is now
in Mrs. Coles keeping. This banner
will be a prominent feature of the
Fourth of July parade at Livermore
Falls. The old banner helped to bring
prohibition and it wiAtsnow have a
share an the fsfaQ EoIhfAti 0scentipn of
prohibition in our constitNtion-,ouA
IHhaaH ggsssgaS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26
26-27-2s-Calais Town Fair.

~ 8-27-2S-Ca1ais Town Fair.
Sept. 26H-2S-West Penobscot FAIR
Exeter.
Sept 26-27-2S-North Knox Fair Union.
Sept 26-27-2S-Bristol Fair, Bristol Mills.
Sept. 27-28-Northern Oxford Fair, An
Sept. 27-2s-Cumberland Farmers Club,
Fair West Cumberland.
Sept. 29-30-Somerset County Fair,
Arson.
oct. 3-+Unity Park Assn, Unity.
Oct 3-4-5-West oxford Fair, fryeburg.
Oct. 3-4-5-Franklin County Fair. Far
Oct S-4-5-Lincoln County Fair. Dam
Oct. 4-5-Freeport Agricultural Society
Fair, Freeport.
Oct 1O-ii-l2-Sagadahoc County Fair.
Dec. i2-13-14-15-Maine Poultry and Pet
Stock Association. Portland;
Dec 6-27-28-29-Freeport Poultry AssV-
Jan. Pa. isi2-western Maine Poultry
Assn, South Paris.
Pomona Dates.
June 27-East Kennebec Pomona, Wind
June 27-waldo Pomona. Lincolnville.
July North Aroostook Pomona, Lime
stone. . b.
July 4-Cumberland and oxford iomo-
july 5-North Waldo Pomona. Troy.
July Invest Washington Pomona Al
Aug. 2-Androsciggin Pomona, Auburn
Aug. 9-Kennebec Pomona, Monmouth
Aug 10-York Pomona, Newfeld.
Aug 12-Cumberland Pomona, Cumber-
land. ,,,
Aug 14-Hancock Pomona Field LAY,
Blliehill Mineral Springs
Aug. I.-North Franklin Pomona, New
Vineyard. ,, ,,o.,,z
Aug. 1S-ARdroscoggln fieio Meeuhs'
East Auburn.
Commencement Dates.
June 25-2S-Bates College fg
June 25-28-Colby College.
Reqimental Reunions. .,,t.
June 27-2s-29-The 4fth Annual Reunion
9Th Maine Regimental Association,
Peaks Island - n
July l3-l5-6th Maine, Ellsworth. I bust
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26
Where's the Iimit2
New York Evening Post.)

NNe" iorK Evening PoSt.)
Inasmuch as the giant ocean steam
err is proved financial success, there
is no apparent limit to the length or
tonnage which we may see in the
course of the next few wears. But
popular enthusiasm for big ships has
grown somewhat satiated. 1t is only
a question now of adding seventy five
or hundred feet and a couple of
decks. ltis different With pace The
Mauretanniia and her sister Ship hold
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26
Editor S Letter Box

The publication OF letter In
this department is not to be taken
as an endorsement of its views by
the kennebec Journal. This col
umn Is maintained for the discus
sion of matters or general public
interest when kept within bounds
of reason and not of libelous
or abusive nature.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

That England is loyal to the back
bone to her institutions is one of the
lessons to be learned from the corona
ton of King George and the attendant
frenzy of rapture for the king and
queen, which Marie Corelli the novel
list, notes in her description of the
coronation in the London Daily Mail.
II is remarkable that such a scene
should take place when socialism is
supposed to be rampant in England
and one is inclined to agree with
Marie Corelli that in England at least
socialism is no more than ripple of
discomfort in stagnant pool"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26
VOICES OF THE PRESS.

Business generally speaking is good
because someone is complaining be-
cause he cannet find work, or the work
he wants is not sign of dull business
An honest. Industrious and temperate
man never need to be idle.-Oldtown
Enterprise.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

Diaz is going to live in Spain. King
Alfonso having conferred a title upon
him and made Nine. Diaz a lady-in-
waiting to the queen. 1t is a much
more glorious wind-up than comes TO
the average Spanish American presi-
dent.-Bangor Daily News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

Livermore Falls. ~
Sept. 12-14-Waldo and Penobscot Agri-.
cultural Society, Monroe.
Sept. 12-i3-lEWest Washington Fair,
Cherryfield.
Sept l2-l3-l4-North Penobscot Fair.
Springfield.
Sept 12-l3-I4-Oxford County Fair.
South Paris.
Sept. 12-l3-l4-Kennebec County Fair,
Readfield
Sept. 14-15-l6-East Somerset Fair.
Hartland
Sept 19-20-21-Cumberland County Fair.
Gorham
Sept. 1s-2O-N Androscoggin Valley
Fair. Canton.
Sept. 9-20-21-South Kennebec Agricui-
tural Society, South Windsor.
Sept. 20-2l-Eden Fair, Eden. -
Sept. 26-Richmond Farmers Club Fair,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

old reunion of the iiye- republics,
which Originally formed the grand re-
public of Sbuth America. IL is to be
hoped that the personal ambitions of
the different leaders will not defeat
the object of the proposed conference
and that the South American republics
will succeed in adopting agreements
similar to those already adopted be-
tween the Central American states.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26
u ra' ~ }
Maine Gossip
Touch Your Lips With eIsdnsss.

Are you growing weary of the long and
rugged road,
Weary of the burden, oh nv brothers?
Men have found the surest way for light
ening the load
Is Just TO try and tighten IT for others.
Hearts still hold the most of love that
most their love bestow
on lonely lives of those who are for
forming;
Roll the store from out the path where
tired feet must go
And touch your lips with gladness every
morning.
Touch your lips with gladness and go
singing on your way
Smiles will strangely Tighten every
duty,
Just little word of cheer may span a
sky of gray
With hopes own heaven-tinted bow of
beauty.
Wear a pleasant face wherein shall shine
a joyful heart
"a AS shines the sun, the happy fields
adjoining.
In every care beclouded life some ray OF
light impart.
And touch your lips with gladness
every morning,
Nixon Waterman.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

Alderman II. L. Grinnell of Bath.
who is employed as a master joiner
at the Kelley Spear Co. yard. had
narrow escape the other morning
from losing the sight of his left eye.
He was at work near the planning ma
chine when the belt broke and one
end snapped around hitting him in
the face. bruising his nose, giving him
black eye and also slightly bruising
his left wrist. He was just about to
put on his glasses when the belt
parted and he thanks his lucky star
that he had them off, for the blow
from the belt would have smashed
them and the result would probably
have been serious.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26
Monday, June rs, 1911.

II is the narrow heart alone
that does not grow; the wide
one becomes larger with the
lause of yea.s.-Jean Paul
Richter. .kqhgafa -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

The officials of Lubbock. Germany,
have sent their namesake, Lubec, Me-,
two wood cuts in honor of the CEN
tennial to be held next month. One
represents the province of Lubbock as
it was in 1900 while the other shows
Lubbock as it appears today. The re-
quest was that these cuts should be
placed in some public building.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

The Albany correspondent for the
Norway Advertiser says that dogs or
wild animals are making bad work
We're turned out to pasture. The
marauders have visited six or seven
differnt fiocks and killed about 25
sheep and lambs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

Should think these young graduates
would all have moral dyspepsia from
their efforts to digest the wise counsel
they have been obliged to listen to-
Portland Express Advertiser.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

The foundation for the sun dial to
the class of 1886 has been placed in
the center of the High school grounds.
The gift will be source of added at
traction to the well kept High school
lawn,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

OF the unofficial Americans In
London, only Charles P. Taft and
family and j. Pierpont Morgan had a
pull strong enough to obtain seats
in Westminster Abbey to see the cor
onation ceremony. Recognition of j.
Pierpont as brother king, the king
of finance, seems to be UNIVERSAL
Portland Argus.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

No notice whatever will be taken OF
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held RESPONSE
bic for the preservation or return OF
rejected communications.
Address all communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
to BURLEIGH & FLYNT. Publish
ers. Augusta. Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

Governor Plaisted and his Coun-
cillors will attempt to remedy condi-
tions at Malaga and they'll find they
have quite a contract on their hands
before they finish, too.-Bath indie
pendent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

If you hope to be an up-to-date on
big city daily you must make up
your mind to unhesitatingly accept as
signments to take airship flights with
daring aviators.-Portland Express
and Advertiser.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

A new batch of A. BIS will now
take back seat on the worlds stage
and begin thinking how they can
work front.-Ossipee Valley Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

AS things now look, it is going to
be harder job to float the wreck of
the Maine than 1t was to float that
Panama canal bond issue.-Biddeford
Journal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

Owing to the difference between the
wording of the original draft and the
printed copy of the city ordinance of
the city of Portland regulating the
sale of fire works on the Fourth of
July, some dealers thought that they
were authorized to sell blank car
tridges on that day. This point is now
settled by the city clerks office, which
advises all persons that the ordinance
forbids the sale of blank cartridges as
we'll as the firing of the same.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

A movement is on foot in South
nferfea-fcoking to the renewaIof the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

CAPITAL AERiE NO. 1860, f. o.
Eagles meets In F. o. f. Hail. 27s Water
St, first and third Monday of each
month at s o'clock.
FRED w. HEFFERNAN, Pres.
WALTER c. SMITH. Sec.
tanan rn-w-ftf LID.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

The Norway Advertiser feels that
the people of Norway have just
grievance against the Army and Navy
Register. A few days ago E. G..
Schwartz engineering chief L. S. r. c.
S., who has been at the Beals Hotel
for the past three weeks, received a
communication from the Army and
Navy Register, stating that Engineer
Schwartz direction that the publica-
ton be sent to Norway, oxford county,
Me-, was corrected to read Norway
Lake, oxford county. Me. because
there is no such postoffice .in the State
as Norway. Editor Sahborn COM
ments: We are little, Oh Army and
Navy Register, the United States Mill
tary Gazette, but we have a military
record that ante dates the Revolution
and we have a postoffice. 1t is a
Presidential postotfice, just simply
named Norway. Not very large. but
large enough for our town. There is
also a worthy suburban office at Nor
way Lake."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

j. X. Estabrook of Brunswick this
week completed the planting of &c
acres of potatoes. BY using plant
er he was able to plant the whole &c
acres in less than three weeks. He
makes the rows three feet apart from
center to center, with IA bushels of
seed to the acre and 400 pounds of
fertilizer to the acre at the time of
planting. He win use 500 pounds of
fertilizer when he begins to cultivate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26


A painter living on the Ferry road.
Saee, was driving to town a few morn
ings ago in a one-horse rig. He over
took and invited to ride with him a
helghboring painter, who was riding a
bicycle. The owner of the wheel
placed it on bag OF hay in the rear of
the wagon The two were engaged in
earnest conversation when passerby
screamed "F'ire!" The two men looked
around and discovered that the hay
was in flames. The bicycle was con-
siderably damaged and the wagon
seorched before the bag of flaming hay
could be dumped into the street.
The war against flies is being waged
with vigor throughout the State. The
hockland board of health has ordered
the citizens to clean up rubbish and
materials that have a tendency to
breed and attract flies ard efforts are
being made in other cities to prevent
'heir breeding. Flies have been
charged with conveying all manner of
diseases and now comes a physician,
VINO says that infantile PARALYSIS is
communicated by them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26

Omer Methot of Foss street, Bidde-
ford, is the proud owner of a four
Tuesday. This chicken is one of a
flock of IL, the product of a setting of
IA eggs. The two extra legs. which
seem to be of no use except to put the
chicken in the freak class, protrude
from the body. just behind where the
working legs are attached and are per-
fectly formed. The chicken is as we'll
developed as any others of the brood
and struts around the coop, as if con-
scious of the distinction the surplus of
legs produce
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1911-12-06

Call Lloyd's stable, phone 281
fog Will Bean for baggage. Also
hans carriage that will m let all
ftrNns, 25 cents each way. 17tf