A Lesson for Farmer Boys from Gungawamp Chronicle
Jace Cone recounts Sile Grover of Gungawamp a steady farmer who lived humbly and died peacefully with a life of simple faith. Tom Jason left home at sixteen chasing wealth and status, rose through labor, then fell from overwork at thirty, leaving two contrasting monuments in the village churchyard.
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Sile Grover
Gungawamp
Tom Jason
Sile
Tom Jason Witz
Gunzawamp
Grover
Jace Cone
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
A Farmer's Cart: Building a Two Wheeled Cart
A practical guide notes that two wheeled carts suit farmers with heavy loads better than barrows. It suggests using a token town or disused cultivator frame, with a 2x4 frame bolted to the axle and handles for proper balance, extending about a third of the length in front of the axle to balance the load.
Care of Monthly Roses in Winter
The article explains two wintering methods for tender roses: lift and store roots in a soil-filled box with moisture, or leave plants in place and cover stems with soil, litter, and evergreen branches. It advises extra protection with a boxed, board-covered surround to keep out wetness if available.
Vick's Magazine Promotes Winter Protection in Boxes
A fragment cites Vick's Magazine advising that a large dry goods box or similar container, when covered, provides good protection alongside evergreen boughs or leaves. The snippet reflects a practical tip for seasonal protection.
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Vick’s Magazine
Method for Splitting Sound Wood in Dead Timber
Farmers preparing for a large season should ensure fuel stocks by April 1. The piece explains why diseased hardwoods deteriorate and how to split blocks into usable stove wood, emphasizing striking toward the heart to avoid waste and preserve sound timber. American Agriculturist.
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American Agriculturist
Laundry Pin Bag Apron for Easy Clothespin Access
The article promotes practical home embroidery focusing on a laundry pin bag apron. It describes using heavy fabric like bed ticking for durability, proper fit with hip darts, a top pocket shaped like a half moon, and a wide bias edge. It advises storing the finished apron where needed to reduce wrinkles.
Excellent Water Fountain Craft Note at Five Cent Counter
A vintage instruction describes choosing a gallon size fruit can from a five cent counter, placing it upside down in a tin cake dish, making two dents in the can edge, and fitting one wire from the edge as shown for a simple fountain craft.
Water Fountain for Poultry and Seed Distribution Critique
A practical poultry water fountain design is described with a can and a two inch hole. The piece then critiques government seed distribution, arguing it benefits contractors rather than growers. It suggests redirecting funds to rewarding innovators who develop new fruit, grain, and vegetable varieties, citing Wallace's Farmer.
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Wallace
Saving the Trees for Paris Exposition
Ingenious method lifts trees with roots and earth in heavy plank bins to suspend them during construction. After excavations and foundations, trees are lowered back if space allows. This simple, practical plan may be adopted to protect trees in building operations.
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New York Mail and Express
Armour venture in eggs enters canning and separation
Armour Packing Company completed arrangements to enter the egg business by separating whites and yolks, canning them separately, freezing, and marketing. The venture aims to save money for large egg handlers, with can sizes around thirty dozen eggs per two gallon can. The move follows Armour's expanded activity in the egg trade and growing demand for the new product.
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Armour
Egis
Armour Packing Company
Armours
New York
Beef Tea and Mincemeat Recipes From an Old Kitchen
The article describes beef tea made from the juiciest part of the meat using a pint of water per pound, boiled and strained, with salt to taste. It notes serving warm for nourishment in consumption and similar diseases, with caution about high temperatures coagulating blood. It also provides a long mincemeat recipe combining beef, suet, apples, sugars, molasses, cider, jelly, dried fruit, citrus, spices, and salt, to be mixed, refrigerated overnight, then scalded and stored.
Women propose cooperative housekeeping plan for New York society
The Woman's Philharmonic Society of New York hosts meetings on stock company housekeeping. They consider women organizing to control all distribution of food clothes and household supplies. Proposal includes women running stores bakeries and laundries modeled on English cooperative stores with a bakery start under this plan.
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Woman’s Philharmonic Society of
New York
Tomato Butter from a Historic Household Recipe
Scald twenty pounds of ripe tomatoes, skins removed, and place in a porcelain kettle with four pounds of apples pared cured and quartered. Cook slowly for one hour, stirring occasionally. Add eight pounds of sugar, juice of four lemons, and one tablespoonful of powdered ginger. Cook until marmalade consistency and seal in tumblers.
Onion Sauce For Roast Turkey
To make onion sauce for roast turkey place a dozen tiny white onions in boiling water until soft. Drain and press six through a fine sieve. Make a smooth paste of one tablespoon flour and two tablespoons butter, then slowly add a pint of boiling milk. Remove from heat when thickened, add salt and the sifted pulp with the remaining onions, and serve at once.
In the Last Ditch on Export Prices and Protection
The piece argues that protectionist tariff policy revived domestic trade and prosperity while criticising free traders. It cites rising U S exports, especially boots and shoes, with detailed year to year comparisons across the United Kingdom, West Indies, Mexico, Africa, and other regions. It also notes industry leaders and export efforts amid a broad global market.
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United States
United Kingdom
West Indies
British Australasia
Mexico
Africa
Asia
Oceanica
Central
South America
France
Germany
Wilson
Philadelphia
Protection and Prosperity in McKinley Era Tariff Debate
The article argues that tariffs burden Americans by raising prices on foreign goods, but Treasury data from Austin shows manufacturers are operating at full capacity with rising orders. It cites eight months of 1899 foreign trade, with exports up and input imports rising, refuting claims of weak domestic demand and portraying tariffs as pro growth under McKinley.
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Great Britain
America
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
Mr. Austin
New England
Middle States
Austin
Cleveland
McKinley
Plain Enough. Two plain men discuss looks at a hotel bar
The Golden Penny tells a Yorkshire tale in which two men settle a football bet at a hotel bar. One man bears a homely frontis piece and the other bluntly notes his lack of "two-facedness." The homey scene ends with the Yorkshire retort about going home.
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Yorkshire
Mark Twain
A Means of Defense Against Secret Telegram Reading
A discussion notes that embryoscope or egg glass can reveal sealed letters without opening envelopes. If a writer’s billet is exposed for five minutes, contents may be read in sunlight or by electric or magnesium light using this device. Cartridge-paper or coloring provides a defense, but telegrams cannot be protected unless delivered directly to addressees.
Non-sinkable Boat Promises Safer Boats and Tonics
An article extols a non-sinkable boat as a life saving invention and urges attention to life preservation. It promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a life preserver, claiming cures for dyspepsia indigestion and all stomach troubles and describing it as an excellent tonic.
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Hostetter
Those Loving Girls dialogue on marriage joke
Clara and Maude discuss marriage with playful logic about marrying Dashleigh. Maude argues that uniting extremes creates a satisfactory average, while Clara hesitates and deflects. The exchange humorously questions readiness and suitability for a proposal.
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Clara
Dashleigh
Maude
Not to Be Bluffed Promenade Banter in Punchline Exchange
A brief humorous dialogue plays on mispronunciations as a couple debates the term promenade. One challenges the other to say lemonade in the same stylized way, prompting a playful concession. The exchange captures a lighthearted mood and regional speech quirks.
Grain-O New Grain Drink Promoted As Coffee Replacement
Advertising copy urges readers to ask grocers for Grain-O the new grain drink that substitutes coffee. Claimed to be safe for children and adults, it imitates mocha and java color but is grain based and gentle on the stomach. Priced at 14 the price of coffee and sold by all grocers.
Street Crossing Exchange With New Policeman
A street crossing overheard interaction captures a large woman asking the officer if he can see her across the street. The new policeman confirms yes the distance is within tin terms, illustrating a quaint exchange between civilian and law enforcement.
Lane's Family Medicine Moves the Bowels Daily
An old time health notice promoting Lane's Family Medicine as essential for daily bowel action. Claims to act gently on the liver and kidneys, cure headaches, and lists prices of 25 and 50 cents.
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Lane
Oldest Jewish Alphabet Linked to Egyptian Ideographs
Scholars propose the earliest Jewish alphabet stemmed from Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Siloam inscription in Jerusalem is commonly cited as its oldest known monument use.
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Jerusalem
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