Coeur d Alene Case Defense Argues Martial Law Lawful
Idaho's attorney for Gov Steunenberg contends that martial law was properly proclaimed and that federal troops were lawfully summoned. The debate centers on whether the state constitution was violated by martial law declarations without legislative request. Prosecutors focus on alleged constitutional breaches.
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Idaho
Coeur d’ Alene
John C. Chaney
Gov
Steunenberg
State of Idaho
Gen. Merriam
Chaney
A Business Lesson Seven Million More Trade Now Daily
Bank clearings show larger national business volume across administrations. Bradstreet figures compare years under Cleveland Harrison and McKinley tariffs, indicating seven million more dollars transacted daily under McKinley. Moral urges pro tariff Republican continuity. Senator Jones cited in campaign note.
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Cleveland
Bradstreet
McWinley
Harrison
United States
Dingley
McKinley
Porto Rican Tariff Rates Under Dingley Law for Puerto Rico
The article lists duty rates for imports from the United States to Porto Rico under the Dingley Act. Flour is duty free, corn 2.14 cents per bushel, bacon free, corn meal 3 cents, rice free, oatmeal 1.14 cents, oats 2.44 cents, pork free, dried apples 4 cents plus 3 mills per pound, codfish free, brooms 6 mills per broom, mutton free, candles 5 cents per pound plus 1.44 mills, fresh beef free, coal 10 cents per ton, cooperage wares free, cotton cloth unbleached varied by value per yard, and shirting cloth 12% cents per yard with 6 mills.
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Porto Rico
United States
Martial law action in Idaho discussed by Cha ney
In a detailed address, Mr. Chaney argued the Constitution places duty on federal and state executives to enforce laws, that militia served in the Philippines while national troops aided Idaho, and that martial law was legally declared amid Shoshone County’s six years of insurrection. He defended the permit system as a curb on dynamiters and defended military conduct as proper.
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Idaho
Philippines
Shoshone
Chaney
Steunenberg
Merriam
Bartlett Sinclair
Shoshone County
The Free Trade Idea and the Democracy Debate
The Democracy is accused of worshiping free trade denouncing the Porto Rico duty as national disgrace. If the party controlled government it would push free trade with Europe causing goods we buy with cheap money to be made in Germany or England rather than in the United States.
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Porto Rico
United States
Europe
Germany
England
Treasury reports rising U S money in circulation
The Treasury Department shows current circulation at 2,060,525,468 dollars, up from 1,933,867,892 a year earlier, a gain of over 120 million within twelve months. Since 1896Bryan nomination, circulation rose from 1,528,629,463 dollars, an increase of 35 percent.
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Treasury Department
United States
Bryan
Rural Free Delivery Expands Under Republican Rule
Rural free delivery is being extended among farmers under Republican rule in the executive departments and in Congress. The Republican Congress has increased the appropriation for this purpose to 1,750,000 dollars, enabling more farmers to receive mail at their doors.
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Executive Departments
Congress
Oberlin M. Carter Praised as Democratic Martyr Hopeful
A Democratic note urges recognizing Oberlin M. Carter, a former U S Army member now at Leavenworth Kansas, as a martyr of the party while cautioning against using him as an administration victim.
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Democratic Party
Oberlin M. Carter
United States Army
Leavenworth, Kaw
Texas Republicans back airship venture after Senate choice
Windy political climate follows the selection of Hon. Joe Bailey for the U S Senate as Texas moves to organize a company to build air ships. Officials highlight brisk business during a presidential year as a benefit of three years of Republican rule.
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Joe Bailey
United States Senate
Texas
Free list of duties on goods for sugar and machinery
The document lists items and duties under the Dingley law for Puerto Rico and other regions. It includes bags for sugar, machinery for refining sugar, various metals, agricultural implements, clothing, footwear, textiles, household items, and food products with specified per unit or per dollar values. It also notes a general free list with a special duty on coffee in Puerto Rico, and a political remark about Claude Duval advocating a loose currency.
Cow Bears Two Lambs Fostered by Jersey Cow
A Jersey cow and her foster lambs, two purebred Southdown orphans, form a touching scene captured in a photograph. The cow’s gentle expression suggests happiness with her unusual family as the lambs, spared from recent ewe injuries, are raised beside her calf.
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Jersey
Timely lessons from dairy and lamb care on a Jersey farm
The piece notes the good temper and disposition of Jersey cows and explains a method for docking lambs at ten days old. It describes using pruning shears to remove the tail at a joint, covering the wound with pine tar and twisted wool to seal it, and observes that the lambs show little pain due to their underdeveloped nervous systems.
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Jersey
Various Grafting Methods in Orchard Practice
The text outlines grafting timing and methods for fruit trees. Scions should be cut while buds are dormant and grafting done in spring. Bailey notes top grafting works best when leaves push out. Other methods graft as stock buds swell. Work often starts a month or two before leaf onset and continues after leaves grown. Cleft grafting is first illustrated.
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Bailey
Saddle and whip grafting methods for trees and stock
Saddle grafting suited to large stocks used for top grafting of old trees, with close scion-stock contact and waxed wound. often used late in the season on small plants, usually with a terminal bud and secure tying. Whip or tongue grafting used on small stocks one to two years old, held by a bandage and waxed if above ground.
Pollination of Fruita
Pollination in fruit orchards affects fruit size and quality. Self pollinating varieties may mature with reduced seeds. Tomatoes show growth linked to pollen quantity during bloom. Insect visitation rates in orchards influence outcomes, with more visits often yielding fuller fruit development.
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Munson
Maine Experiment Station
Fruit Growers Urged to Plant Mixed Varieties and Keep Bees
The article advises farmers to plant three or four varieties of fruits together to ensure cross pollination. It notes that pollen from apples and pears often fails to produce in quantity or proper consistency for wind dispersal. It also recommends every fruit grower maintain at least one hive of bees.
Extermination Tips For Poultry Lice And Calf Parasites
An authority warns that a single female mouse can become a grandmother to 10 000 in eight weeks, while other parasites breed even faster. The only sure remedy is to kill the first breeder quickly. Reliable treatments exist such as kerosene emulsion or kerosene mixed with skim milk, applied with a sponge to the skin. The writer notes past lice problems in calves and hopes poultry still fight lice, aiming for broader elimination in time.
Use of Plaster in Corn Hills for Ammonia Capture
An old agricultural note argues land plaster or gypsum around each corn hill can boost color and growth by absorbing ammonia. It claims chemists missed plaster’s value and favors plaster use despite modern fertilizers, noting benefits when manure decomposes in soil releasing ammonia.
Practical Chicken Cholera Remedy and Farm Advice
A rural column repeats a home remedy for chicken cholera using ash bark corn meal cayenne and pepper with feed and notes that clean water and good drainage prevent the disease. It then offers farming strategies on seed selection soil suitability and marketable crops followed by a quip about swill for pigs contrasting poor and good feeding practices.
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Martha E. Norris
To Tie an Animal With a Ring Harness Tie
J. H. Stitz describes a rope neck loop method for tying horses or cows without a head stall. A splice harness-snap is joined to one end, passed through a small ring, and secured so the ring slides for neck size. The movable ring prevents slipping and neck injury.
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J. H. Stitz
To Kill Caterpillars With A Firecracker Pole
A reader describes a method to suppress caterpillars using a drilled pole, a sliding ring, and a firecracker placed at the end. The device is ignited and inserted into the caterpillar nest to destroy them.
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J. P. Tribbett
Secret Preparation for Paste and Glue in Home Use
This historical recipe instructs dissolving alum in hot water then adding flour to a thick cream, followed by cloves and rosin powder. After boiling water is stirred in, the mixture forms a paste when cooled and can be stored in a cool place. A small amount softened with warm water makes a smooth scrapbooks paste.
Cleaning Men's Clothes with Home Mixture and Dutch Cheese
For cleaning men's clothes mix one pint deodorized benzine half drachm sulfuric ether half drachm chloroform one drachm alcohol and a little good cologne. Use on coat collars and outer garments with silk. For war neckties apply with white silk. Wash soiled black goods with a tablespoon in a gallon of warm water. Dutch cheese method details skim clabber heat drain press salt and melt with butter and cream for serving.
Cream Tomato Soup Recipe Serves Ten
A traditional soup recipe combines tomatoes and water with milk butter flour soda salt and white pepper. Simmer twenty minutes then mash and sieve to a cream consistency and serve with croutons. The quantity makes ten servings.
Household Remedies and Vintage Strawberry Pie Tips
A classic household remedy from Carron oil for burns is described as effective, cheap, and easy to prepare by mixing equal parts limewater and linseed oil. Recipes follow for a Delicious Strawberry Pie with a meringue topping, Entire Wheat Muffins, and Eggs on Fried Bread with a flavored egg accompaniment. The pie uses fresh berries, sugar, meringue, vanilla, and ovens browning.
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Carron Iron Works
Scotland
Pieplant dessert and oil spill cleaned carpet tale
Pieplant prepared with sugar lemon peel and ginger baked until tender then set in a gelatine lemon juice mix to mold and chill served with whipped cream. Oil on the carpet after a lamp spill was absorbed with oats and swept up, leaving the hall carpet appearing cleaner the next day.
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Charlotte
Nut and Cheese SandwichCard
Nut and Cheese Sandwich offers a quick mix of fine chopped pecans and grated Edam cheese with salt and paprika. Spread on buttered bread rounds, assemble, and press slightly for a ready to eat snack.
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Democratic National Committee
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Sippur
Goiverigg
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India
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Kansas
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