The Local Paper Your Friend and Business Ally
A long reflection on how a community newspaper records births marriages losses and achievements and public notices highlights the editor’s role in promoting local business and civic life. It urges readers to subscribe and participate, noting the paper’s service from announcements to obituaries and advertising. The piece ends with civic appeals and notes on a proposed treaty offer related to Pacific islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond Ind
Enterprise
Notes on Soil Fertility and Local Livestock in Porto Rico
The damp soil favors fertility and Guinea grass dominates, though it grows in tufts and is coarse and slow to mature. Sheep are dwarf, short-wooled, and not in demand. wool is not valued by the climate. Hogs are stalls and inferior, with little effort to improve them due to customary consumption patterns at home stead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castoria
Ginee
Mothers of America
Centaur Company
Chas. St. Fletcher
Porto Rico
United States Demands on Open Door in the Philippines
The document outlines U S policy toward Spain and the Philippines, calling for open door for world commerce and trading terms for American ships. It proposes a price of 20 million dollars for expenditures related to Pacific lands and mutual relinquishment of public and private claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Spain
Pacific
Philippines
Lincoln letter to Mrs Bixby praised by Henry Watterson
A professor extracts from Oxford a highly framed Lincoln letter to Mrs. Bixby Boston mother of five sons. The public is urged to reprint, seen as sublime English and a rebuke to brutal theories of war. The Cedar Rapids Republ. singles out the document as timeless testimony to sacrifice and freedom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford University
Abraham Lincoln
War Department
Adjutant General of
Massachusetts
Lincoln
Henry Watterson
Charles Riot
Norton
Cedar
Repids Républigg
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jo. Hardie & Co
J. A. Spies
Cravttinger
Coal
Cameron
Camiomue de Kalb Fence Co
de Kalb
Obita Id
Asi
WAL
Caroline Islands
Ronsale Oi Strong
Carolines
Watson
M. F. Kerwick
Mueller
Graettinger Savings
Miship
WM. Mueller
S. Barringer
Teheal
Koreeceey
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