Powers Pardoned by Kentucky Governor Ends Turbulent Case
The Chicago Tribune reports Caleb Powers, jailed in Kentucky for eight years and three months with multiple life and imprisonment sentences tied to the assassination of William Goebel, has received a gubernatorial pardon. The act closes a controversial chapter in regional politics and raises questions about justice, partisan influence, and the fate of Powers amid ongoing debates on the case and its broader political impact.
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Kentucky
Canows
William Goebel
Caleb Vowers
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Chicago
Wheat and Oats Outlook Brings Hope for Prosperity
A Chicago Tribune summary notes a favorable crop report with improved conditions for spring wheat and oats. Analysts expect higher yields and price points, boosting farm incomes and broader economic momentum. The report emphasizes improved moisture, strong wheat states, and the potential for a robust crop year ahead.
Taft as a Great American and International Statesman
A discussion praising William Howard Taft as one of the nation’s best known yet misunderstood figures. It highlights his steady leadership, diplomatic skill, and restraint in avoiding conflicts from the Philippines to the Pacific, noting European perception and his influence on domestic and foreign affairs.
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Faust
Taft
Hind
Punmnuma
Celomibial
Kishting
Damine
Amer Nrien
Philippines
Fatis
Meade
Free wood pulp tariff sparks press debate
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Republican papers urge free wood pulp to lower white paper costs. Critics claim tariff cuts benefit importers and producers, while others warn of market manipulation and increased foreign influence on prices amid the paper mill surge.
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Star” Chivces
Republiccan
Republicam
United States
San Francisco Chronicle
Roosevelt's Policies Backed By Financiers
Baltimore American says Roosevelt's policies shielded the nation from economic panic and that financiers and business experts concede his measures prevented greater suffering. The piece frames the president’s actions as stabilizing and essential amid crisis.
Proper Care and Shoeing of Horses Feet
The foot health of a horse determines usefulness and reliability in emergencies. Proper shoeing and hoof maintenance prevent defects, with cautions against hot iron, excessive trimming, and improper handling by blacksmiths. Oiling during dry weather is noted as beneficial.
New Theory Narrows Gaps in Atmosphere Circulation
A new theory suggests higher currents blow directly across cyclonic and anticyclonic zones, creating storms and fair weather at the earth’s surface. It challenges previous ideas about how the atmosphere circulates.
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Miles
Unprofitable Experimenting and Agricultural Notes
A survey of plant growth dependencies notes soils and climate dictate success and warns against risky experiments. It also reports on a chicken wing attachment to prevent roosting in gardens and discusses horse shoe innovations and a French decree banning a destructive parasitic plant.
Four Year Old Jaw Teething Observations
At age four, both jaws display four pediment teeth with worn taboos along borders. Side view shows small corner teeth and evidence of canine hooks. By four and a half, nipple flowy wear on both edges appears, with corner teeth and canines more evident.
Houses of Corn Cobs Build Europe Style Blocks
In parts of Europe corn cobs are crushed into brick like blocks bound with wire and tar to form water tight, lighter houses. The method showcases European ingenuity over American practice. Even Paris refuse is burned and converted into power.
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Europe
Paris
Depth of Cyclones in Weather Study
A U S Weather Bureau official reports ordinary cyclones crossing the United States are only two or three hundred miles deep, affecting mainly lower air layers, while hurricanes reach depths of up to five hundred miles, reaching higher atmospheric levels.
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United States
Feeding and caring for a flock in lean pastures
The text suggests boosting a poor pasture with feeding such as nettle erin, corn, oats and oatmeal, plus rape roots casiline and turnips. It advises wheat or oats in troughs for 100 head, warns against overfeeding and sudden diet changes, and notes the value of exercise and training for show success.
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Arricig
Household Hot Tamales
The recipe describes boiling two pounds of fresh lean pork until tender, shredding it fine, and making a corneal mush from cornmeal. It instructs adding peppers and onion with melted fat, shaping the mixture in corn husks, and steaming until done.
A Snre Method for Good Bread
A recipe describes mixing four pounds of flour with one cup of yeast and warm water to form a stiff dough. Morning kneading, shaping into leaf sized pieces, lightly dusting with flour, proofing in warm spots, and baking yields bread that stays moist and tasty.
Cookies from a Plain Walnut Dough
Beat two eggs with sugar and butter or lard. Stir in chopped English walnuts and fold in flour with baking powder. Roll thin, bake in a moderate oven. This makes about eighty cookies and is inexpensive if lard is used.
Mispelled Home Sweet Recipe for Walnut Icing
A curious recipe describes mitpte xen a sweet baked without maple sugar. It instructs mixing two cups dark brown sugar with rich milk, cooking until thick, then adding a walnut sized piece of cutter, vanilla and walnuts. The batter is beaten to a creamy texture and baked in tins, then cut into squares.
Unclear Recipe Fragments From a Historic Page
Fragmented instructions describe making dough with milk butter sugar and lemon peel, rising, shaping, and baking. Also includes boiling turnips, making a butter flour paste, and over which crumbs are browned. The text shows garbled measurements and misread terms but indicates a baked dish with turnips and a crumb-topped pudding.
Bohemian Goulash and Berry Biscuits Staged in Home Kitchen
A home cookbook note outlines a butter sugar batter with eggs and milk folded with flour dredged huckleberries for biscuits baked in a pan and served warm with butter. It also details a Bohemian style goulash with onions, beef, browning, water, paprika and salt simmered until tender and thickened.
Practical Baking and Cleaning Tips From A Kitchen Almanac
Warm weather helps exes froth in cold water. A pan of water in the oven prevents pastry burning. Do not ice a hot cake. let it cool first. Lard prevents sticking when greasing pans. Charcont prevents dampness. store with silverware to avoid rust. Velvet rubbed stoves for high polish after blackening. Close oven door gently to avoid heavy cakes and bread. Naphtha softens old paint. rub surface clean after dampening.
Genuine Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna Promoted
An advertisement extols a health product as a world trusted family laxative. It urges consumers to buy the genuine Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. and sold by leading druggists.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Melon Growth Under Muslin Canopies Tested in Imperial Valley
Peter Fedick, a landscape gardener and nurseryman, reports a method of growing cantaloupes under white muslin canopies over each hill on a six acre parcel near Brawley. The covers, supported by crossed wires, protect from wind and frost and aim to shorten the growing period by two to three weeks.
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Fedick
Lao
Imperial Valley
Los Angeles Times
Brawley
Pedick
Holtvillen
Braches Exymental Gardens
Health Brings Happiness From Widowney Pills Claim
Mrs C R Shelton of Covington Tennessee credits Dean's Widney Pills with reversing Rheumatic aches disordered secretions and severe illness. She says medicines failed until beginning this remedy and now enjoys health. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Pleasant Street
Covington
Tenn
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Feeding an Elephant Appetite at a Cooking School
A humorous exchange in which a mother worries about her daughter's suitor Tom an athletic admirer with a famously large appetite. The daughter reassures her by joking she will feed him peanuts and baled hay.
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Tom
Mamma
Fair Cooking School
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Ad Teething Cure
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething infants. It claims gums soften ease inflammation relieve pain and wind colic with a 25 cent per bottle price.
A Tooth Point
Dentists advise children of dentists brush teeth with a circular motion to clean all crannies. The circular motion on front and back teeth keeps them clean and decay free. Teeth should be brushed after each meal and especially at bedtime. Morning brushing alone offers little benefit as teeth clog with food after breakfast.
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