A Farmer Hero and a Hustler in Gungawamp
A poem and tale describe Bile Grover living simply in Gungawamp and Tom Jason, a driven hustler who leaves the farm for city work. The contrast spans faith, peace, and ambition, ending with twin monuments: one to style and drive, the other to quiet life and contentment.
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Hoys
Bile Grover
Gungawamp
Allus
Tom Jason
Sile
Tom Jason Witz
Gungawump
Grover
Joe Cone
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
A Handy Cart and Winter Care of Monthly Roses
A Handy Cart describes removable sideboards of wide boards for farm use. Care of Monthly Roses outlines two winter methods: lift and store roses in soil in a cellar or keep them in place with soil packed around stems, then cover with evergreen branches and leaves for moisture and protection.
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Aevere
Vick's Magazine Advice on Protecting Goods with Evergreens
Advice notes a large dry goods box can give protection when used with evergreen boughs or leaves. The tip emphasizes safeguarding merchandise, likely in a shop or market setting, using simple natural materials.
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Vick’s Magazine
Cutting Wood and On Farm Fuel Planning
The article urges farmers to secure a full year's fuel supply by April 1 for heating and cooking. It notes hard wood dies over a decade, diseased trees accumulate, and some farmers wrongly kept diseased timber hoping to use it as fuel before it rotted, leaving many old dead trees in woods.
Method of splitting wool and wood cutting technique
Instructions depict splitting a block into slabs with emphasis on striking toward the heart to avoid waste. The illustration shows a center split forming halves and guidelines for proper slabs. An American Agriculturist note adds advice on securing timber quality and a separate tip describes crafting an excellent water fountain from a gallon fruit can with two edge dents and a wire attachment.
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American Agriculturist
Practical homemaking tips from old New York home arts
The article offers actionable advice for busy households, detailing a clothes pin bag apron to ease laundry, beef tea preparation using lean meat, and a mincemeat mix with apples and dried fruits. It also notes the Women’s Philharmonic Society of New York debating stock company housekeeping and cooperative domestic stores.
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Woman's Philharmonic Society of
New York
Seed Distribution Reform Would Reward Genetic Innovation
A letter argues the government seed distribution wastes funds on contractors and offers a plan to instead reward individuals who develop valuable fruit, grain, and vegetable varieties. The proposal aims to motivate innovation and yield lasting benefits to agriculture, citing Wallaces Farmer as support.
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Wallace
Saving the Trees and a New Egg Venture
Saving the Trees describes a method to lift and suspend whole trees during Paris exposition construction to avoid damage to root systems and soil. Armour’s Venture in Eggs reports the Armour Packing Company expanding into separations of whites and yolks, canning, freezing, and marketing the product, claiming efficiency gains for large egg handlers.
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New York Mail and Express
Armour
Armour Packing Company
Armours
New York Commercial
Tomato Butter Recipe Steps and Measurements
Scald twenty pounds of ripe tomatoes and remove skins. Cook with four pounds of apples cut, over moderate heat for one hour. Add eight pounds of sugar, juice of four lemons and one tablespoon powdered ginger. Cook and stir until marmalade consistency, then jar.
Onion Sauce For Roast Turkey
To make onion sauce for roast turkey, boil a dozen small white onions until soft. Drain and press six through a sieve. Make a smooth paste with one tablespoon flour and two tablespoons butter, add gradually a pint of boiling milk, then remove from heat when thickened. Stir in salt, the sifted pulp, and the remaining whole onions. Serve immediately.
Truth and Protection Debate on Export Prices and Domestic Prosperity
The article argues that protection boosts domestic trade and prosperity while free trade condemns exports sold abroad at loss. It cites large boots and shoes exports, with UK and West Indies as major destinations, and notes other factory lines highlighting strong national manufacturing activity amid rising exports.
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United States
United Kingdom
West Indies
British Australasia
Mexico
Africa
Asia
Oceanica
Central
South America
France
Germany
Wilson
Philadelphia
Prosperity era proof against tariff burden claim
The Treasury Bureau of Statistics report and factory observations across New England and the Middle States show no cut in domestic orders or employment. Cotton textile mills and others run at full capacity, rubber and boot makers struggle to hire, iron and steel firms report months of orders ahead, while exports rise and raw material imports grow. The piece argues protection supports high prices for foreigners and domestic producers, not a burden on Americans.
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Great Britain
America
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
Austin
New England
Middle States
Cleveland
McKimley
Plain Enough in The Golden Penny Tale
In a Yorkshire hotel bar two men settle a football bet. One man has a plain frontispiece, mocked by the other who bluntly asserts there are no two-faced men about him. The exchange ends as they part with a dig at false appearance.
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Bismarck
Yorkshire
Mark Twain
A Means of Defense and a Non Sinkable Boat
An 19th century note on preserving letters from reading through envelopes using an embryoscope or egg glass, and a simple defense with cartridge-paper. It mentions a life preserver tonic Hlostetter's Stomach Bitters and a brief comic exchange about marriage proposals between Clara and Maude.
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Hlostetter
Not to Be Bluffed Promenahd Reveals Lemonahd Debate
A playful dialogue mocks mispronunciations as one speaker insists the term promenahd should be pronounced lemonahd. The exchange highlights linguistic humor and a quick verbal sparring moment.
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George
Grain-O food drink replaces coffee for all ages
A street advertorial extols Grain-O as a pure grain drink with the rich color of Mocha and Java. It claims both children and adults can drink it without injury or distress, priced 15c and 21c per package and sold by all grocers.
Lane's Family Medicine Adverts Health Claim Sale
A vintage advertisement touts Lane's Family Medicine as daily bowel movement aid and liver and kidney gentle, claiming health benefits and curing sick headache. It lists prices at 25 and 50 cents and notes the eldest Jewish alphabet as possibly derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs with a Siloam inscription reference in Jerusalem.
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Lane
Jerusalem
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Obhlo
Iron and Steel Manufacturing
Protection
Samuel Adams Robinson
Chicago Trust
Clara
Dashleigh
Maude
Canada
F. Pedley
Ottawa
J. Broughton
Chicago
M. W. Mcinnes
Merrill Block
Detroit
Mich
D. Caves
Bad Axe
James Grieve
Reed City
Government of Canada
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