Protectionism Shifts Abroad While U S Debates Tariffs
The Troy Times notes a global move toward protection as England Germany France and Canada bolster home industries. It argues a rising nationalist trend among colonies and premiers showing a desire to guard jobs and markets, raising questions about reducing barriers to American industry.
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England
Imngland
Germany
Canada
London
Troy Times
Roosevelt Favored But He May Refuse Nomination
The Poledo Blade reports strong Republican and some Democratic pressure for Theodore Roosevelt to accept a 1908 renomination. Roosevelt has repeatedly vowed he will not run, insisting he means it. The piece notes the party’s winter and spring push may grow, but Roosevelt’s stated intent stands, with fate to decide if a convention overruns his protest.
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Roosevelt
Pheodore Roosevelt
McKinley
Chanler urges tariff issue out of politics and Congress
The Philadelphia Record quotes Lieut. Gov. Chanler of New York insisting the tariff issue belongs out of politics. He argues Congress makes the tariff and parties pick its members, calling for abolition of Congress as the first step.
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Chanler
New York
Congress
Philadelphia Record
Compromise Tour World Wide Honeymoon Quote
A lighthearted quote attributed to Meggendorfer Blatter reflects a couple’s playful compromise after planning a one‑week wedding trip. The bride wished for a single stop, but they opted for a globe spanning honeymoon tour instead.
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Meggendorfer Blatter
Do Not Depend on the Tariff and Currency Risks
A St. Louis Globe-Democrat editorial warns against further currency expansion via Panama canal bonds and treasury certificates, arguing it could fuel gold outflow and inflation. It cites historical tensions from 1873 and urges Congress to maintain restraint while improving currency elasticity. It also notes monopolistic risk arises from law gaps, not tariffs, and stresses vigilant enforcement.
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Boston
Chicago
St. Louis
Roosevelt
Cortelyou
Congress
Europe
Jay Cooke
Grant
McCurlocch
Treasury
McCulloch
Durane
Mr. Roosevelt
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Suggestions for Dairymen and Calving Records
Practical dairy guidance covers dehorning calves early, earmarking for records, tracking cow breeding, drying off six weeks before calving, and proper bull management. Milking should be quick and clean, with careful handling of cows to avoid kicks, and using a Babcock tester to measure milk yield.
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David Roberts
Wisconsin
Wheat sowing tips for cotton belt farmers in November
An article advises sowing wheat in early November across the cotton belt with possible late sowing to December 1 if germination stays favorable for two weeks. It stresses smooth, compact soil, thorough land preparation, rolling, and sowing with a wheat drill, plus fertilizer rates of about 400 pounds per acre and a fertilizer mix including acid phosphate and bone meal, with nitrogen top-dress in March if needed.
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Cotton Belt
Southern Authority
Wooden socket hinge for hedge fork sketch
A Prairie Farmer writer describes a block of hard wood with a socket hole. The socket costs the gate piece to turn easily. A two inch hole in the post receives a hedge fork prong. A small hole is bored in the prong end and a pin locks it in place.
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Sockes
Spraying Potatoes Shows Profitable Gains Over Years
Five year tests by the Geneva Experiment Station conclude spraying potatoes is profitable each year. Bulletin No 2 summarizes the fifth year and earlier results, showing gains exceed costs by a substantial margin. Results also align with independent farmer tests, though slightly smaller in effect.
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Geneva
Lamb Values Advancing in Scarce Lamb Market
Over the past decade a building up period in the lamb trade has left lambs in high demand at a consuming center. The market shows no limit with scarcity increasing each year and first class lambs commanding strong prices for many years to come.
Asparagus Bed Burn Off and Clean Up
The guide instructs burning the asparagus beds now and cleaning the ground thoroughly. It advises applying plentiful manure and treating all bushes and surrounding areas as part of the cultivation cleanup.
Red Texas Oats Proves Durable At Kansas Station
The Red Texas oats strain, top yielding for two seasons and third in four years, has been grown at the Kansas station for four years and shows improvement in yield with good culture. Kansas farmers doubt oats suit the state, as they tend to decline and require new seed every two to three years, but trials indicate quality and yield can be maintained or improved with careful cultivation and best seed.
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Kansas Station
Kansas
Pruning Tool Hygiene Prevents Tree Disease
An apple specialist explains that twig diseases spread via pruning tools and recommends dipping knives and saws in carbolic acid before pruning. Disinfect wounds promptly to keep moisture out and reduce decay as germs can enter wounds and cause disease.
Regular Nail Box Handy for Quick Repairs
A brief note suggests keeping a regular nail box in a convenient place for quick, handy repairs. It implies usefulness in small tasks and home maintenance.
Handy nail box for organizing compartments
Easily made wooden box with partitions to separate nail sizes. The number of compartments varies with the desired organization and the available space.
Saving the Clover and Apple Packing Methods
Rural NY advise on clover protection against frost and harvesting timing. Farm Journal describes cutting to preserve clover seed and preventing winter damage. Also explains apple barrel packing with layered fruit and stems down to ensure proper facing and storage.
Beans for hogs must be cooked thoroughly say experts
Benne can be fed to swine only in cooked form. Hogs struggle to use hard beans even after boiling. thorough cooking is essential. Feeding half-cooked beans can ruin appetite and reduce feed intake in a pen of hogs, warns R. S. Shaw of Michigan.
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Benne
R. S. Shaw
Aichigan
Ben Davis Apples Net Profit and Currant Propagation Note
A Maine farmer reports $485 net profit per barrel from Ben Davis apples after eleven years in cultivation. The article also outlines a method to propagate currants from hardwood cuttings by layering and shallow burying, with tips left just below the surface until spring.
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Ben Davis
Maine
Dairy Exhibit Train Showed Corn to Butter Conversion
A placard on a dairy exhibit car touts profitable conversion of corn into butter by saving freight on nineteen cars. The dairy special train recently toured the State of Newsags showcasing this idea.
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Newsags
Buttermilk Yeast for Bread by Tuzab Smith
Buttermilk Yenunst explains a yeast bread method using fresh buttermilk corn meal and yeast. Boil buttermilk, stir in corn meal to a thick gruel, cool milkwarm, then mix in one cup of good yeast and let rise in a warm place. In two hours it should be light, then thicken with corn meal and form curries. Do not add salt sugar flour or hops. Use a cup of this yeast to start new batches.
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Tuzab Smith
Tomato Catsup Recipe From Old Cookbook
Turn a peck of unpeeled tomatoes with six onions until soft enough to press through a colander. Strain, then add cloves, sage, pepper, salt, sugar, cayenne, bay leaves in a cheesecloth bag and celery seeds. Boil six hours, add cider vinegar, boil briefly, cool, bottle, and seal.
Baked Tomatoes with Eggs
Select round smooth tomatoes of uniform size. Scoop out pulp and season the cavity. Drop an egg into each tomato and bake fifteen minutes. Serve on buttered toast with a small pat of butter.
Peach Berry Steamed Peach Dessert with Crumbs
Peel and slice peaches and layer in a buttered dish with cinnamon sugar and butter. Add bread or cake crumbs in alternating layers to three quarters full. No water. Steam three quarters of an hour, then brown uncovered. Serve with cream or sweet sauce.
Making Sugar Syrup for Cake Icing
Goil slowly together a pound of gran ulated sugar and a gill of water. Do not stir. Test by dipping the fork into the syrup. When a hair like thread forms, remove from heat and beat to a creamy paste. If too stiff, work with hands. Spread on cake with a hot knife. If it hardens too soon set the vessel in hot water.
Creamed Oysters Recipe Step by Step
Cook butter and flour into a paste then add cream or rich milk with a pinch of baking soda and oyster liquor. Stir a smooth sauce, add oysters and season, cook until edges curl then gradually stir in two beaten eggs and serve after half a minute.
Homemade Mincemeat Recipe Steps and Ratios
A traditional home recipe combines 1 quart boiled beef 2 quarts apples 1 pint molasses 1 pint sugar 1 teacup vinegar or cider 1 quart chopped raisins or currants 2 tablespoons cloves and cinnamon 1 nutmeg 1 gill of butter. Cook until scalded, seal in glass jars or pack in an earthen jar covered with melted lard.
Preparing Canned Fampkin and Pear Syrup Preserves
A recipe instructs to boil canned fampkin peel and mumpkin until tender, mash, return to heat, boil hard, sweeten, and jar with a syrup of sugar and water. It also covers cooking fresh cherries in syrup, then sealing in air tight jars for storage.
Hickory Nut Cookies Recipe Summary
A recipe describes Hickory Nut Cookies using two cups of sugar two eggs melted butter half a cup milk cream of tartar half a teaspoon baking soda and one cup chopped kernels mixed into the dough.
How to Make Grape Juice and Olive Brown Sauce
Stem six quarts of grapes with one quart water and boil gently. Strain, return juice to the fire, boil once more, bottle and seal immediately. Soak twelve olives in warm water, pare near the stone, and simmer ten to fifteen minutes in brown sauce.
Cure for Scalp Sores After Measles Claim
Mrs Henry Porter of Albia Neb reports severe head and neck sores after measles. She says hair fell out and salves and blood remedies failed for six months. After using Cutura Remedies, the sores cleared in about a week and fully healed in three weeks, with no recurrence in seven years. Aug 25, 1906.
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Henry Porter
Albium Neb
Aguinaldo Takes Up Shipbuilding At Cavite Yard
Aguinaldo, once a Filipino revolutionary leader, now works as a shipbuilder. He runs a shipyard on the Neimos river near Cavite Veno and has sworn allegiance to American rule. At about 38, he rose to fame in 1893 leading revolt against Spain and later fought against the Americans. he was eventually captured by Funston.
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Aguinaldo
Neimos
Cavite Veno
Cavite
Ile
America
Spain
Montojo
Dewey
Funston
Napoleon
Those Delicious Lemon Fies Enjoyable and Easy to Make
A homey kitchen note promotes Those Delicious Lemon Fies labeled as easy to prepare with low cost using "OUR Vie" Preparation. Encourages readers to try and tell friends. Available at grocers for 10 cents with three varieties: Lemon, Chocolate, and Custard.
Ominous Red Rubber Quote Echoes Athens Miser Tale
Senator Morgan cites a Belgian report as seemingly harmless yet hiding an ominous meaning. He recounts an Athens miser who promises a doctor a legacy in his will, only to have the physician request a change to the prescription.
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Morgan
Athens
Ash
Mr Goodwins Tramp Comedy Routine Draws Gales
In New York, comedian N. C. Goodwin extols a celebrated playwright’s modesty by likening him to a tramp and an old lady. The punchline: the tramp, lumped with trials, reveals magistrate hearings are the daily fate for the like.
He Dida. The Ticket Agent's Perpetual Question
At the railway station a ticket agent sighs over the endless inquiry How do you spell your name He Dida The exchange captures a humorous moment of everyday chatter and passenger curiosity in transit.
Silencing Kiss Compliment at a Singing Note
A fan told the singer he wished to silence them with a kiss after a performance. The British Lords librarian post is described as a sinecure, echoing Disraeli on aristocratic reading habits.
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Jack Harkalong
Nan
Yan
House of Lords
Disraeli
Texas girl credits Postum with nerve relief and clearer skin
A Texas schoolteacher describes quitting coffee for Postum Food Coffee and reports vanished nervousness, improved complexion, and relief from indigestion and headaches after about a month. She notes no discomfort switching to Postum and mentions others adopting it after proper preparation. The testimonial cites Postum Co Battle Creek Michigan and the booklet The Road to Wellville.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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