Rural Free Delivery to Bring Postal Service to Farmers
The Postoffice Department will furnish official letter boxes on rural routes at no cost to farmers. Women may work as rural carriers at about $50 a month, with a neat gray uniform. The system aims to cover over a quarter of the US within three years, employing about 40,000 staff with a $24 million annual appropriation. Rural delivery boosts farm knowledge, improves roads, and connects farmers to urban life, while easing isolation for farm wives who gain access to periodicals and fashion trends.
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Rural free delivery spreads across the nation
The article details rural carriers, their duties, and the expanding rural free delivery system. It notes carriers work from post offices, deliver mail to farm boxes, sell stamps, and handle receipts. Growth from 44 routes in 1897 to 11,650 routes today is highlighted, with funding rising from initial trials to current appropriations. It also explains the social role and community support for rural carriers.
Rural Free Delivery to Reach Rural Dwellings
The Post Office Department outlines routes twenty to twenty-five miles long feeding at least 100 homes. Farmers must petition via their Congressman with a route diagram. A favorable agent report can establish the route, expanding mail use and long term benefits despite short term deficits.
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Double Tracking Rails for Safer Faster Travel
An early 1900s rail safety argument credits double tracking as the key advance in American railroading. It notes growth from 12,000 miles of double track in 1901 to 1,200 miles of third track and 900 miles of fourth track, with single and main lines expanding toward full double tracking to reduce accidents and improve efficiency.
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Vermont
United States
Rabies Eradication Success Through Law and Quarantine
The article notes England and Australia have stamped out rabies via medical science and strict legislation. It explains rabies spreads only through contact with an infected animal and details quarantine for dogs entering England to check for rabies.
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England
Australia
Stagecoach Robbery In Indian Territory Baffles Robbers
A stage coach with passengers is held up by robbers in the Indian Territory. Everyone is forced to exit and raise their hands. A boy jokes about the robber’s power while $5,000 hidden on a passenger’s garments remains undiscovered.
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Little Chronicle
Umbrella priced high for cheap look hides its quality
A dealer extols a bargain umbrella made from top material yet styled to seem worthless. In England a bullock near Spalding died after swallowing a tennis ball, its illness discovered during slaughter. A socially skewed view suggests abusers rarely hit a limit despite harm.
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Spalding
England
Ram's Horn Blasts Warning for Repentance and Virtue
A sermon style notice urges readers to repent and seek virtue, warning against dissection of doctrines and stressing the Gospel in life over literature. It contends passions explode if controlled poorly and fairness comes from God shining through actions.
Troy Collar Industry Shapes Nation and City
Leslie's Weekly notes Troy New York as the global collar center producing about 60 million collars cuffs and shirts annually. The industry employs nearly 18 000 people with wages around 8 to 9 million dollars and relies on women workers both in factories and homes within fifty miles.
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Leslie's Weekly
Solicitous Drummer Plans Insurance Twist on Trip
A drummer explains taking out accident life and disability policies while traveling. His wife jokes about avoiding injury after he starts a new journey, as the Detroit Free Press and New York Times quip about married life and contractor irony in a collection of witticisms.
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Detroit Free Press
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Words of Washington on Liberty and Virtue
The speaker extols the sacredness of the constitution as the people’s explicit act. He warns against party spirit and tyranny, urges enlightened public opinion, and emphasizes religion and morality as supports of political prosperity. Retaliation is discussed with prudence, and civil liberty relies on lenity over rigor.
Washington remembered as father of the nation in tributes
Daniel Webster Rufus Choate Lafayette and Shelley praise George Washington recalling his birth in Virginia February 22 1732 1782 Mount Vernon schooling and early life and his lasting impact on the United States across war and peace messages of devotion to country and liberty.
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America
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Westmoreland County
Virginia
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Fredericksburg
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Thackeray
Pennsylvania
Ontario Faces Coal Era as Wood Runs Short
Ontario forewarns of a coming wood shortage with ten years ahead of scarce firewood and rising coal use. In southern Ontario about 90 percent of farmers rely on coal and 60 percent have no timber on their lands, signaling a broader environmental decline and shifting climate as trees vanish.
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