Ta. Trigg Copyrighted 1902 by J. and Rockford
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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1902
Page
8
Correspondence Solicited on Farm Land Values and Labor
The piece surveys land prices near 100 degrees west in the Dakotas Kansas and Nebraska, noting manure terms for Shorthorn cattle and milking duties. It warns against demanding excessive rents, urges clear hired man contracts, and discusses tenant quality and farm equipment with a mix of agricultural anecdotes and opinions.
The Country Loafer in Rural Life and Change
A critical portrait of a rural dull witted man driven by greed and vice contrasted with the industrious farm boy who rises to prominence. The piece muses on gender roles, dress and independence, farm labor hours, brome grass as semiarid pasture, and a West prairie transformation from barren plains to tree filled, high priced farms with windbreak groves.
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Thig
Why Not Dressmaking Skills For Rural Ladies
In many communities only a few skilled women know dressmaking, leaving many with nothing to wear. The text notes these capable women are busy, while others seek ways to repair and embellish clothing through tasks like teighborhood needlework, tile painting, and delicate trims.
Mortgage Grip Ends A Farm Family’s Hard Fate
A man loses his farm to a mortgage while his tools lie abandoned in the fields. Three grain stacks stand unthreshed as February passes. Once trusted by neighbors, the young owner’s decline into vice brings ruin to his wife and children.
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Glear
Uncle Bill and the telephone line test farmers' plight
In a comic rural tale Uncle Bill explains how telephone use forces farmers to hire more help. He recounts misadventures with neighbors and wives, including misread signals and a prank call chain, ending with him calling for aid while claiming he must sleep to rest from overwork.
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Uncle Bill
Bill
Zeb Bowen
Cy Prewett
Goa
Asparagus Bed Renovation and Local Civic Bid
Garden notes advise cutting old asparagus roots into three pieces, preparing a bed to a foot deep, heavy fertilizer, and no cuts in the first year. Renovating a weeded pasture with deep disk, clover, and timothy will rejuvenate bluegrass. Evansville plans a city owned telephone system costing 260000 with four bidders. existing franchise expires in July.
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Timothy
Thia
Bvansville
Ind
First Harvard Law Doctor of Laws Award Disputed
Heyty H. Boles at a Colonial Society of Massachusetts meeting read a paper arguing that Prof. John Winthrop was the first to receive Harvard College's Doctor of Laws degree, not George Washington. The claim centers on early Harvard honors and the college’s colonial era practices.
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Colonial’Society of Massachnaetts
John Winthrop
George Washington
Harvard College
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