Homemade Well Derrick and Farm Tools Featured
A diagram shows a 13% inch hole well cleaning derrick built from elm scantlings with 4x4 end pieces and 12 inch wooden pulleys. It explains a horse-operated anchor method, plus a sturdy farm drag from three fence posts and timber strips for cheap field use. Also notes on poultry fruit farming mix and navy beans cultivation with care on dew, harvest, and threshing. Additionally discusses oleomargarine law loopholes and calls for stronger coloring rules to protect dairy interests.
The Business Side of Farming Emphasizes Practical Traits
The article argues that while science and new farming ideas aid efficiency, farming remains a business. It stresses hust le, good judgment, system, honesty, economy, self-control and tact to manage workers as core foundations of success, noting that nature and experience teach these business qualities better than bulletins.
Quick Returns from Poultry
A correspondent notes poultry offers quicker returns than fruit crops and livestock. Hens produce a marketable batch in three weeks after setting, cockerels ready for market in four to four and a half months, and pullets begin laying in five to five and a half months.
Farm Notes on Harvester Value and Rural Economics
A rural advisory piece argues for farm investment in productive machinery, notes about 18 million dairy cattle, and urges direct farming profits. It warns about middlemen, highlights bran quality and weed seeds, and compares rural wages to city pay while promising frugal, fulfilling country living.
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Wisconsin
Ice Cream Dressings and Quail Roast in 19th Century Style
A 19th century recipe fragment details making an ice cream dessert from white and colored creams molded in baking powder cans, served with sponge cake and nuts. It also includes a straightforward omelet method and a raspberry vinegar infusion. Finally a method for roasting quails with bacon lattice and watercress garnish.
The American Farmer’s Rise To Wealth And Power
The American farmer emerged as the wealthiest in the nation, lifting from near dependence to prosperity over the past decade. Tariff protection boosted crop prices and livestock returns, making rural households wealthier while farm land values climbed and farming secured a sovereign, independent position.
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Russia
Debt and deficits cloud Democratic policy and canal plans
The piece reflects on past deficits under Democratic rule, noting a large public debt growth since Cleveland. It argues future expenditures for the Panama Canal, navy buildup, and construction require prudent policy and caution against repeating old fiscal excesses.
American farmer praised as king by tariff era cites census
The article argues farmers, including many small plots and a large share of black tenants, earned far more than the nominal average income. It notes farm property values and census counts, credits six years of Republican tariff policy for wealth and independence, and predicts farmers will back the Republican party. It also critiques tariff views on Cuba and Porto Rico as misapplied comparisons.
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Indianapolis News
United States
Little Rock
Ark
American Protective Tariff League
Cuba
Porto Rico
Springfield Republican
Lowell Courier
Cocoanut Pudding and Fish Chowder Recipes
A recipe list describes Cocoanut Pudding with milk coconut bread crumbs sugar butter raisins lemon peel egg whites and serving ideas. It also gives instructions for a fish chowder with salt pork layering fish onions potatoes biscuits water and milk or cream.
Devilled Pigeons Recipe Note From The Epicure
A historical cooking snippet describes preparing devilled pigeons by mincing onions and green peppers, adding chutney and mustard, salting, then simmering with claret. The pigeons are cooked until tender and served with the sauce poured over.
Roasted Leg of Mutton with Currant Jelly Sauce
A leg of mutton six to eight pounds is marinated with wine, vinegar, and nutmeg, then roasted one and a quarter to one and a half hours. Salt and pepper, flour, and hot water are added to baste, with currant jelly sauce. Also prepared are canned corn and freated cherries, served cold with egg white coating and sugar, kept on ice.
Treasury Surplus Sparks Tariff Debate and Memories
The fiscal year closing shows a rough fifty million dollar surplus touted by tariff opponents as a reason to cut protections. Critics argue a surplus is a real condition, not theory, recalling Cleveland’s 1887 stance and the later Democratic push amid changing fortunes.
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Treasury
Cleveland
Congress
Democratic Party
How It Reaches Trusts
Chester Pa Republican argues tariff cuts to target trusts harm workers. It notes the Steel Corporation earned 560,510,000 last year with 427,000,000 in operating costs and 61,000,000 in interest and dividends, claiming wages scale with costs and that wage cuts follow dividend reductions. The piece links reduced tariffs to wage and employment impacts on 168,000 Steel Workers.
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Steel Corporation
Chester
Republican
Billion in imports under tariff help fund public works
The year ending last March saw imports totaling one billion dollars. The so called robber tariff funded pensions rural routes river improvements and public buildings while encouraging continuing the policy. Braymer Mo Comet notes the benefits and prefers no changes.
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Uncle Sam
Braymer Ma. Comet
Model to His People Abbas II Khedive of Egypt
Abbas II is presented as an enlightened ruler of Egypt who abstains from wine and tobacco and has a single wife. He maintains a large private fortune, oversees Nile delta farms with modern machinery, rides daily to consult managers, and is multilingual speaking English French German Italian Turkish and Arabic.
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Khedive
Egypt
Abbas II
Abbas
Nile Delta
America
Local merchants urged to advertise to curb mail order trade
A correspondent from Irvington in the Ashley Gazette argues home merchants should advertise prices and descriptions to educate customers. He asserts local goods are as cheap as big supply houses and that $300 monthly per town is sent to distant mail order firms, a sum that could stay local.
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Irvington
Ashley Gazette
Hair Clipper Terror in Chicago Targeting Girl
In Chicago a man with a hair clipper terrorized a girl, following 12 year old Gladys Henderson, shouting I wanted that hair, drawing shears and clipping a strand before fleeing. The incident highlights a dangerous street assault against a minor.
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Chicago
Gladys Henderson
Widow declines offer in old gold magnate’s death note
In a clipped dialogue from the Public Ledger a widow responds to a suitor’s remark about inheriting three million from a deceased gold magnate. The exchange centers on wealth and marriage prospects with a wry edge.
Principal Point of Difference
Yonkers Statesmax notes a humorous exchange about hens and poultry. The dad explains hens belong to neighbors while poultry is something a man owns himself, highlighting a quirky distinction in ownership.
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Yonkers
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Derrick
Eich
Starry H. Postle
Ohio
St. Paul
Panama Canal
Boston Journal
Jack
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