Southern lands offer cheap farming opportunities for enterprising Americans
The article extols the South as a prime target for settlers with capital big or small, citing fertile lands from $5 an acre, far cheaper than the West or Midwest. It argues readjustment postwar left Southern prices low, irrigation as a value booster, and urges policies to subdivide land and foster independent homes, boosted by schooling to prepare youth for farming livelihoods and national economic efficiency. It closes with a view of Atlanta and Grady’s statue, urging national development through southern potential.
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Republic
Colorado
Utah
Idaho
Washington
California
Ilinois
Iowa
Prairie States
United States
New England
Mother Earth
Atlanta
Henry W. Grady
Friends of National Development
Southern opportunities and railroad policy urged for colonization
The passage extols Southern settlement aided by rail access and waterways, arguing rail policy should foster colonization and irrigation, forestry, and national unity. It calls for broad loyalty to Georgia and Massachusetts, and envisions building the unfinished republic through internal improvements and extended trade. A fragment mentions a man ordering a plate of fly specks.
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Mason and Dixon
South
Memorials Erected at Gettysburg Civil War Parks
The Gettysburg battlefield and other Civil War scenes are rapidly filling with granite, marble and bronze memorials. These artistic designs mark the conflict and illustrate Yankee ingenuity. The monuments will enhance visitor interest in these national parks, especially for arriving travelers and history buffs.
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Gettysburg
Stafe
Congress of
United States
Mari
Orett
Union
Irish revival crafts in Dublin village impress visitors
An Irish revival project near Dublin unites women in three crafts printing Irish books embroidery on Irish linen and weaving tapestries and carpets. The aim is Irish style and design with authentic motifs in carpets and other works. The passage notes memorial sculpture and the shift to pneumatic machinery for faster stone carving and inscriptions while praising local craft training for Irish peasant girls.
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Dublin
Why We Are Right Handed and How It Happens
An anatomist explains handedness as largely hereditary with early humans using the right hand in fighting to protect the left side. Repeated use of the right hand would influence brain development, enhancing the region that controls the right hand.
Scholarly Woman of Society Mrs Henry Cabot Lodge
Mrs Henry Cabot Lodge, a leading society figure in the National Capital, hails from Rear Admiral Charles H Davis' family. Reared in culture, she trained at Wellesley College and studied at other institutions. She pursues Greek research and reviews proof sheets with interest.
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National Capital
Henry Cabot Lodge
Charles H. Davis
Wellesley
Word Game Contest Promises Gold and Cash Prizes
A Postum cereal promotion invites 331 winners to submit word lists built around Grape-Nuts. Top prize is 100 in gold, plus many 10 and 5 boxes and 1 prizes, with entries due by April 30 1906 to Postum Cereal Co Battle Creek Mich.
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Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battle Creek
Mich
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