Farmers Union urged to expand meetings and membership growth
The piece urges wider participation in the Farmers Union across sections including Atlanta and Birmingham. It highlights plans to discuss cotton marketing and warehouse systems, promote diversification, and aims for 100 000 paid up members by the state meet. S. Barrett is urged for re election as National President based on past achievements.
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Farmers’ Union
Atlanta
Birmingham
Morris
S. Barrett
Farm Notes on Haying and Stock Care
Farmers are urged to spend time prepping mowing guards to save effort during haying. The piece stresses harvesting only what can be quickly handled, storing quality hay, and watering in small amounts. It advises saving clover for sheep, explains clover as good horse feed, and notes blanket care helps cows against flies.
Farmers' Union Guide and South Dakota G A R Encampment
A long Farmers' Union guide offers farming tips on crop timing soil preparation buckwheat and animal care. The South Dakota G A R encampment opens in Sioux Falls with veterans and Relief Corps members visiting for parades meetings and speeches.
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Sioux Falls
Department of South Dakota
Farm Land Values Push Investors Toward Ownership
A rising investor interest in farm land grows from fourteen years of strong crops and rising farm product prices. The piece notes that even cheap lands at 25 to 50 dollars per acre attract farmers and laborers seeking safe income and home ownership opportunities amid improving agricultural demand.
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Union
Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter Reading Sparks Recognition
The first reading of Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter in a biographical sketch reveals his wife’s emotional response to an unfinished manuscript and publisher James Fields’s overnight excitement. Recognition arrives as the author gains renewed hope and vigor.
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T. W. P Higginson
Hawthorne
James T. Fields
Salem
The Moon In Its Second Quarter Shown To Child
Four year old Flossie exclaims to her mother about the moon in its second quarter. She describes the effect as one half pushed into the sky while the other half sticks out.
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Mamma
Flossie
Witty Dolly Photographs Prompt A Playful Remark
A playful dialogue features an exchange where one asks Dolly for a photograph and compliments her appearance. Dolly responds with a witty riposte implying a humorous image on a plate. The exchange showcases lighthearted banter and character humor.
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Dolly
Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Pitch From 19th Century Ad
An advertisement extols Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a cure for biliousness and liver torpidity. It promises gentle laxative action, digestion improvement, and liver stimulation, with testimonials and a free sample offer by mail to Monticello Louisiana.
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Caldwell
Mack Clark
Harlington
Cantwell
Noah B. Hatfield
Zalma
Rome
The Camel and Its Enduring Burden in Asia Minor
A Philadelphia Ledger excerpt discusses the camel as a strong, useful animal. It cites Moltke praising its load capacity and endurance through long journeys, notes its role for nomads, and explains training, dairy usefulness, and continued caravan trade in Smyrna and Constantinople despite railway competition.
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von Moltke
Asia Minor
Anatolia
Cassaba
Aden
Smyrna
Constantinople
Philadelphia Ledger
Irving's Witches Snub Echoes Flood Memories
Sir Henry Irving recalled a pale snub from a high lander after a flood era remark. Touring Scotland he visited Shakespearean sites and paused at Macbeth's witches bath. An amused question about witches prompted the driver to quip Not since the flood in curt Scots style.
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Sir Henry Irving
Scotland
Bath
Macbeth
Sir Henry
Improving the shining hours or shining evers
The professor finds the doctor polishing belongings on a sideboard. The doctor explains he is improving the shining evers, not hours, prompting a quip about ownership. The exchange ends with a terse remark about possession and meaning.
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Chicago Tribune
Worth the Price Exchange Suggests Advice Worth Nothing
In the exchange, Borem offers a nonlegal bit of advice and asks Wise for his view. Wise agrees that the advice is worthwhile, noting its value despite the speaker not being a lawyer.
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Borem
A Lucky Mischance
A dramatic line from the Baltimore American notes Pakem faltered at the last moment and that fate spared others from discovering the outcome. The terse remark hints at a risky choice and a narrow escape in a historic-era scene.
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Pakem
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