Political Change and Party Loyalty in Early 1900s
The piece argues that progress through republican-led reforms has shaped U.S. policy on industrial combinations, railroads, and federal agencies. It suggests the Republican party’s legacy includes the interstate commerce act, anti trust and anti rebate laws, and the Hepburn railroad-rate bill, shaping future governance beyond party lines.
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Culkins
John Sherman
Senator Elkins
Department of Commerce and Labor
McKinley
Congressman Hepburn
Southern Tariff Sentiment
TI. Clay Evans, who was nominated for Governor by the Republicans of Tennessee, is not unknown to Iowans. He spoke in Grimes Hall Burlington, several years ago and made a favorable impression as an able debater and attractive orator. He is a man of a good deal of force of character and will un-
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Clay Evans
Tennessee
Paternalism and federal power in party history debate
The piece argues Republicans favor strong central government as paternalism and cites history from abolition to anti trust. It notes Democratic caution on federal power, contrasts state rights with interstate commerce, and cites Tennessee and North Carolina shifts under tariff and industrial conditions. Burlington Hawk-Eye commentary.
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Supreme Court
Saratoga
New York
Parker
Bryan
New York Mail
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Natron
Davery
Roosevelt
Democratic World
Natie
Tennessee
North Crrolina
North Carolina
Missouri farmer debates roof costs and politics
A Missouri farmer and neighbor discuss barn roof lumber prices with a Democratic jab about the Cleveland era. The exchange illustrates political shifts toward the Republican column and a public mood favoring Republican times.
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Missouri
Cleveland
Hnd
Augusta
Quotable Quip on a Hog in a Streetcar
A Milwaukee Sentinel item records a humorous exchange about a hog appearing in two places at once. The caption notes the witty remark about the animal in a streetcar, highlighting the paper’s light, anecdotal humor section.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
Clod Masher and Corn Pest Notes for Farmers
A farmer's guide describes a clod masher drag for breaking clods and leveling fields, plus steps to construct it from logs, chains, and rods. It also discusses dodder on alfalfa and clover seeds and warns of the cornstalk borer, its life cycle, and control by burning stalks to protect corn crops.
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New York
Cart Belt
Town
Kansas
Denaturized alcohol aims to boost southern industry
The article argues denaturized alcohol could become a major southern product using cottonseed oil machinery to convert potatoes into industrial alcohol. It notes idle southern mills could run year round, lowering costs and boosting potato demand, with Cuba already producing inexpensive alcohol for fuel but odor issues.
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Dia Cuba
United States
Remedies and setups for poultry care and butchering methods
The article describes tapeworm recognition in turkeys and remedies including powdered male fern and liquid extract dosages, turpentine as a worm remedy, and kerosene for worm removal. It also outlines a kettle setup for butchering, detailing a wagon-tire ring with welded legs to move the kettle conveniently.
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Turkeys
Value of Dairy Products in 1904 Manufactures
Census figures show 12,147,304,550 pounds of milk and 85,? million pounds of cream used in 1904 for dairy items. Butter output reaches 278,141 pounds and cheese 313,085,200 pounds with condensed milk at 308,455,182 pounds. Total material cost $142,920,277 and product value $18,182,789, up 31.8 and 28.6 percent respectively. Establishments number rose to 1826, capital up 30 percent to 47,255,500. Salaried officials and clerks total 3,507. wages $9,789,086.
Virginia Experiment Station Bulletin on Silage for Beef
The Virginia Experiment Station reports feeding silage to beef cattle lowers costs and increases gains. Silage can be safely used as the sole roughage for animals intended for immediate slaughter, producing a high dressed meat yield, good shipping characteristics, and superior finish versus dry roughage.
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Virginia
The Antiquity of an Eye and Jelly Jam Making
A reader learns to age an egg by the air space near the broad shell end after holding it to light. The guide notes the air space grows with age and can pinpoint age within a day after practice. It then provides steps for preparing jelly jam from stalks, outlining washing cutting boiling and sugar additions.
Berry Preserving Method Era Instructions
Cap the berries and allow a pound of sugi for each pound of fruit. Cut the berries and sugar in alternate layers in the preserving kettle beside the range until the sugar melts. Rest hard for twenty five minutes. Remove berries with a split spoon and lay on platters in the hot sun to dry. Boil the syrup until thick. Skim and skim. Set washed glass jars in hot water, fill with berries, and cover with boiling syrup. Seal immediately.
Tapioca Pudding with Egg Meringue Topping
Soak three tablespoons of pearl tapioca overnight. In the morning heat one quart of milk to a boil, add drained tapioca and cook five minutes. Add three eggs beaten with sugar and salt, thicken, then fold in and flavor. Beat egg whites with sugar, spread on pudding, and brown lightly in the oven.
Primitive Steamed Peach Cake and Brown Stew Dish
Instructions describe beating eggs with milk and flour then folding in salt baking powder and melted butter. Add peach slices and steam in a buttered mold over boiling water, replenishing water as needed. The brown stew uses fried onions with great firse pieces, simmered to finish and served over hot boiled potatoes, suggesting mutton neck as a cheap option.
Rhubarb Tapioca and Cherry Candying Methods
A recipe describes rhubarb tapioca with chopped rhubarb prunes prune juice sugar and quick cooking tapioca soaked in water then cooked until translucent and served hot or cold. It also outlines a new cherry candying method involving seeding candying and attaching stems after at first separating them and resealing the cherry.
Leftover Lamb Dish and Kitchen Tips from the Era
Spread crumbed bottom, layer cold roast mutton and tomatoes, season each layer, finish with potatoes and bread crumbs, bake forty five minutes, serve. Then notes advise about hunger sauces, oven heat for biscuits, hashing cold lamb with green peppers, and stain remedies for chocolate cocoa and waxy fabrics.
Diverse notes on science and travel from Stockholm to Switzerland
An assortment of observations covers cement pole construction in Ontario, chemistry on argon and helium, soda drinking habits in German East Africa, a Paris Academy friction effect with spinning glass, iron ore deposits in north Sweden and Norway, the Wetterhorn lift project in Switzerland, and Britain’s electric train staff system with the Whitaker exchanger for smooth train passage.
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P. Cooke
London Royal Society
German East Africa
Paris Academy of Sciences
Sweden
Norway
Wetterhorn
Switzerland
Great Britain
Whitaker
A Man of Nerve and a Haunting Vault Tale
A fearless man bets to enter a haunted vault at midnight and take a skull as proof. After locating a bone heap, a skull is claimed but a gruff voice reveals it belongs to someone else, prompting a hurried exit. The tale ends with a moral about a preacher’s visit to a woman selling fruit.
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New York Weekly
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