Farmer's Congress and Road Improvement News
In Navasota a fund drive for road and bridge work continues with about 418 dollars raised and plans to reopen traffic via a river ferry until a new bridge is ready. The Farmer's Congress at College Station outlines representation rules and invites all Texas agricultural groups to participate.
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Navasota
Millican
Washington County
Brazos
Brazos County
Navasota Examiner
Farmer’s Congress
College Station
Eagle
J. H. Connell
Congress
Houston and
Texas Central Railroad
College
Texas
J. H. Connett
Farm plowing method to prevent cotton rot in Texas field
H Scuurer of Manor Texas describes a seedbed and furrow system to sun and drain rot prone cotton. He details alternating furrow rounds on rows and hills, then middle plowing to dry soil, aiming to keep the bed undisturbed and reduce dead cotton with late season bolls.
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H. Scuurrer
The Erudite Woman and the Blue-Stocking Debate
The piece defends women’s colleges against claims that erudition turns women into blue-stocks. It argues educated women gain broader life insight yet remain integrated in society, contributing as wives and mothers and as actors in new 20th century roles.
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Winchester Donald
Trinity
Boston Transcript
Donald
Jane Austen
Floating Fresh Air Hospital Brings Infants Aboard
For twenty years a floating hospital sails from New York each morning carrying infants to breathe the sea air unavailable in tenements. The ship provides cots for ill cases, deck time for most, meals for mothers and babies, and baths on the lower deck to refresh bodies and minds with sea breezes and new sights.
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New York
Sunshine Hours in Europe Favor Spain Over Italy
A French agriculture report compares sunshine across Europe. Spain tops with about 3,000 hours annually, Italy 2,300, France 2,200, Germany 1,700, and England 1,400 hours.
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French Bureau of Agriculture
Spain
Italy
France
Germany
England
The Beauty of St Muggins and Sweetlow Exchange
A fragmentary dialogue excerpt contrasts Browning poetry with readers in a Boston Transcript style. Sweetlow admits misunderstanding yet declares the poems' beauty while Muggins prompts deeper insight.
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St. Muggins
Browning
Muggins
Paid in His Own Coin and A Clean Sweep
A humorous exchange about a greedy grocer and a farmer's wife over butter, with the line blame yourself and a pun about sugar. A second quip recalls a joke where a thief stole harness parts leaving no trace but the traces themselves.
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Gilmore
the Daily Eagle
The
Brian
Connelly, Palmer & Carnes
Malcolm CaRyEs
EMMEL
Emmet’s, Prescription Pharmacy
Barkail
Dansby’s
Dansby
Cracers
Telephone
Europe
Clapp
Webb Bros
Hartman
Wooten
M. F. Heenan
LlcorwRe
Tyler Haswell
Cy I& GN. R. R
D. J. Price, G. P
T. A
Palestine, Texas
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