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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1902
Page
2
The text argues prosperity under Republican policy spans five years, benefiting all Americans including workers, farmers, and manufacturers. It cites export growth, higher crop values, and wage gains as proof, while criticizing Democratic Bryanism and praising Roosevelt era prosperity as a national achievement.
A long article traces how peat land at Smeltzer Orange County was bought and converted into a thriving celery farm. Chinese and Japanese laborers harvest and process stalks, with a drainage system and specialized machinery enabling 1000 acres of crop. Last season yielded about 1,200 cars and over 128 million stalks valued around 300000 dollars with notable returns to growers.
J A Adams deputy county surveyor of San Bernardino County and grandson of abolitionist John Brown perished in the Colorado desert after straying from the camping group. J P Fay, returning from a desert crossing, described Adams as deranged and starving as searchers tracked his bootprints for days without success.
A night incident at the Adam residence ends with a neighbor hearing a harsh cry and the head of the household venting fury at the neighborhood. Amid drifting rain, the scene shifts to discuss labor, soil, and a peat swamp in a broader, reflective account from the Portland Oregonian.
The passage extols a vast South Australian farm as the world’s largest averaging holdings. It notes marriage to an improvident man as a swift corrective to folly, reflecting cultural attitudes of the era on land, wealth, and matrimony.
A poem-like piece titled The Boy from Town describes Cecil, an eight year old visitor from town, staying a week with rural children. The speaker contrasts Cecil’s manners and skills with farm chores and games, noting his unfamiliarity with milking, riding, swimming, or handling animals, while acknowledging he can fight.
In a penny dreadful style tale, engineers on the Rio Grande and Colorado & Southern recount superstition and premonitions preceding wrecks. A married man credits his wife’s dreams with predicting a fatal crash that claimed a substitute engineer’s life, while others note unlucky dates and thirteen passengers in a Denver sleeper tragedy.
The Paconia Ledger notes Americans favor regular bathing and soap use, even soldiers protest water shortages. Foreign-born adults often adopt towels and cleanliness as they become good citizens, contrasting with Russians and nearby locals who initially resist bathing rituals. The piece humorously recalls a child sent home for washing and described as sewn up for winter in the old world.
A collection of stray phrases mentions the Detroit River as a water outlet and claims about lawyers in Pennsylvania, with references to Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, plus a Turkish order banning Armenian education and a moral observation about hypocrisy.
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