Why the Farmers are 30 Poor in the Iowa Valley
A critique of tariff policy and its impact on farmers, arguing that artificial profits favor manufacturers and railroads while farmers face rising costs and collapsing real income. The piece laments lost citizen sovereignty and condemns Congress for enabling corporate power over l measures. It ends with a domestic note on sharing wood and rest for stressed wives.
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Lynn
Iowa
Congress of the
United States
Congress
Iowa City Press
Poultry packing tips and farm fuel woes from 19th century column
A Maine Farmer correspondent urges better poultry handling to cut losses in transit and better winter packing. He notes cold weather favors dressed poultry, warns against moist packing, and cites 190 degree scalding water, dry picking, and straw wrapping as practices. A broader slice covers fuel woes for families, plus assorted biographical notes and agricultural statistics from 1872.
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United States
West
American Artizan notes gap in corn cutting machinery
The American Artizan observes that despite many agricultural inventions, no machine exists to cut corn. Much of the U S still uses the old corn knife and manual shocking. It suggests American genius may eventually produce a successful threshing or cutting implement.
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United States
From farm life to curb appeal and value gains
Col Curtis laments dreary farmhouses and urges improvement with modest costs. He claims two lawn and trees plus a neat walk and fence add charm and can be built gradually. Even small investments, like fifty dollars, may yield a later boost of three thousand five hundred dollars when selling.
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Col. Curtis
Mulching Guidelines Protect Young Trees From Mice
All young trees one and two years planted should receive four to six inches of coarse manure or litter around them. Ensure mulch is at least four inches from the tree body to prevent mouse injury.
Railway Progress in 1872 and Past Five Years
The article reports that despite financial embarrassment, railway progress in 1870 71 and 72 remained strong with 6 145 miles added in 1872 and earlier years. It notes 7 925 miles fully completed and 6 742 miles under advanced preparation across 35 states territories and Canada with 853 roads progressed and a total of 14 667 miles influenced by construction activity.
National Debts and Paris Beguilards in 19th Century News
The New York Bulletin compares national debts of 27 governments for 1862 and 1872 showing a ten year rise of about 10 billion dollars. Seventeen men calling themselves Beguillards Assommeurs are arrested in Paris for trick beggary using wooden legs. One hundred women study law in American colleges.
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North Carolina
Texas
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
Tennessee
West Virginia
Kentucky
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
New York Bulletin
Beguillard’s Assommeurs
Paris
Solferino
Miscellaneous notes on cities and industries of the era
A collage of statistics and curiosities including Cincinnati crisis reports, St Louis steel plans, Pennsylvania nickel mine, English Catholic population, Massachusetts debt, Philadelphia smallpox deaths, St Paul housing costs, an Indian girl's broomcorn haul, Newark manufacturing value, a bankrupt show's elephant sale, and numerous other urban, industrial, and demographic figures. It also mentions ice thickness on the Maine river, coal under Earth, Europe and America's coldest year, and varied public notices.
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New York
Philadelphia
Maine
Europe
America
Union
Tuey
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Farmington
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Belmont
Memphis
Rosa Bonheur
Oakey Haut
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E. H. Taylor
Missouri
Glen Rock, Neb
Cann Wrebderkench
Hoosae
Lacy Doventy
Tichborne
Roger Charles Tichborne
Joan Crevenanp
Martha’s Vineyard, Mass
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