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The Farmer's Wife and the Call for Rural Reform
In a reflective oration aimed at Illinois farmers, the speaker extols farm life while highlighting the burdens on farm wives. She urges husbands to improve conditions, address taxation and monopolies, and value health and hospitality as a path to a better rural future.
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