Many lives ruined by politics and discontent in congress
Special Washington Letter notes how departure of congressmen often ends private life with few chances for happiness. It contrasts two careers, cites Sam M. Clark and Dolliver anecdotes, reflects on wealth as power, and argues ambitious young men should abandon politics for private work to avoid disillusion.
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Washington
Congresses
House of Representatives
Congress
Congressional
Sam M. Clark
Keokukla
National House of Representatives
Monttent
Congressman Dolliver
Iowa
Eikins
West Virginia
Dolliver
White House
Mammen
Senate
Sherman
Ohio
Stockbridge
Michigan
Sawyer
Wisconsin
Quay
Pennsylvania
Hale
Maine
Platt
New York
Brice
Depew
Clark
Montana
Connecticut
Colorado
State of
Kansas
John de Ingalls
Ingalls
Jay Gould
Tama
Smith D. Fry
Government Roads Debate Prompts Federal Road Building Plan
Col J B Willebrew of Nashville urges that the constitution allows post roads to include all mail roads, enabling a nationwide road system. He argues annual spending of 150,000,000 on roads would cost each person about two dollars, with counties gaining 50,000 yearly for road work. If adopted, surplus war taxes could transform farm life and American society.
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J. B. Willebrew
Nashville
Wy Ho
Spain
America
Wide tires and road wear across the globe
A Sydney correspondent describes roads worn by narrow tires where six inch tires carry five ton loads with shallow sinkage, while dust and rain degrade surfaces. He notes gravel as good but impractical for heavy loads, and that broad tires save road maintenance costs. He cites engines with wide tires reducing bogging and ground clearance issues.
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Sydney
Best of Proof in a Cleveland Plot Dealer Tale
A dramatic exchange centers on alleged encouragement and proof. One speaker asserts a father borrowed money from them, claiming strong evidence. The fragment hints at family finance and trust, with sharp rebuke and a claim of decisive proof.
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Cleveland Ploip
Not a Very Bad Idea in Mayor Jones Paper
In Toledo Mayor Jones writes for a St. Louis road convention that millionaires should spend idle wealth on highway improvements to provide jobs. He argues that using all idle funds on roads would end unemployment for six years and eventually make the country a veritable elysian field offering a year of rest for all.
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Jones
Toledo
St. Louis
Intensive culture a farmer's fall plow and spring peas plan
A gardener outlines a profitable system of intensive culture using fall plowing and winter manuring. Early peas are planted with a one horse planter, then corn between pea rows, with remaining rows for celery cabbage or turnips. Peas market in late June and the crop supports later plantings. Emphasizes soil, market conditions, and gradual learning.
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W. H.jenkins
How to Measure a Tree Height by Geometry
The article explains a simple geometric method to determine a tree’s height. From a distance, place a four to five foot pole upright in the ground and set a second longer pole at a distance so all lines of sight align in the same vertical plane. Sight from the top of the small pole to the base and the tree top, mark where those lines cross the longer pole, and measure the three distances. Multiply the first crossing distance by the ground distance to the tree and divide by the distance between poles to get the tree’s height. An example gives six feet between intersections, 30 feet to the tree, and two feet between poles, yielding 90 feet.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Maferybody
Shake
Earth
Napoleon
Christopher Columbus
Dot
Manila
Dewey
Blanco
Havana
Cuba
Ash
Fadder
Harbor Lights
Dot Machine
Orchard and Garden Pruning and Planting Tips
The article advises pruning plums and cherries closely, avoiding stubs, and applying well rotted manure in winter. It notes thinning slim wood before buds to improve fruit, saving wood ashes for spring top dressing, and warns quince grafted pears stay dwarf. It discusses grafting various trees and urges long-row planting for easier cultivation, recommending new locations over reusing exhausted old sites.
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St. Louis Republic
State Roads in New Jersey Plan for Higher Funding
New Jersey built five miles of road under state supervision last year and total state aid road costs since 1893 reach 565,826 dollars. A proposed 426 miles of roads would cost about 1,472,429 dollars with the state share 500,000 dollars. At 100,000 dollars yearly appropriation, five years are needed to complete. The state road commissioner urges raising the appropriation to 300,000 dollars.
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New Jersey
Phonograph proves a haunting fail for Dutch farmer and son Shake
In 1898 Carl Dunder recalls a phonograph party with his son Shake that spirals from curiosity to chaos. The device speaks, sings, and mocks, provoking tears, fights, and a near assault before the narrator vows to silence the machine and his unruly helper.
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Hans Schmidt
Peter Littlefield
Llaus Schmiidt
Bingen
Rhine
Carl Dunder
Dot Phonograph
Hane Schmidt
Peter Kleinfeldt
Nafery
Vienna gun factory crafts world’s costliest bicycle
A Vienna gun factory creates a jewel encrusted bicycle valued at 275000 dollars. The owner, a South African diamond king, bought the frame after a Vienna exposition and plans to gift it to his wife on her next birthday. The machine is studded with diamonds and precious stones.
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Vienna
Austria
Nutriment in Common Foods List of Percentages
A historical table lists foods with their nutriment percentages. Items include cucumbers 2 percent, melons 3, cabbage 10, apples 16, peaches 20, beets 14, oatmeal porridge 75, rye bread 79, bread 90, butter 93, boiled rice 88, barley bread 88, beef 26, roast pork 24, broiled venison 22, boiled codfish 21, fried veal 24, boiled beans 8, boiled peas 94, raw oils 94.
If You Smoke a Pipe Statistician Cartoon
A short vignette describes a statistician who smokes a medium pipe and exhales smoke clouds with each fill. He averages four smokes daily for twenty years, totaling about 20,000 smoke clouds in his lifetime.
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S. M. Clark
John P. Dolliver
Peekskill, N. Y
Australia
Carl Dounder
der Grafe
Hans Lehmia@t
der Oldt
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