Trans-Missouri Dry Farming Congress in Wyoming
The third Trans-Missouri Dry Farming Congress gathers in Cheyenne with expectations of attendance over 1200. The event focuses on practical education for dry farming, including a bureau of information, bulletins, and a cooperative school for farmers. Wyoming and Montana results show dry farming viability through model farms, with notable yields in wheat, oats, potatoes, and barley under drought conditions.
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Ent
United States
Abraham Lincolns
Alexander H. Stephens
Grover
West
Dry Farming Congress
Bureau of Information
Mississippi Valley
H. M. Campbell
Nebraska
North Dakota
J. P. Pomeroy
Colorado Springs
Kansas
Campbel
Hill City
New Mexico
Colorado
Western Plains
Wyoming
Laramie
W. T. Cooke
Brooks
Montana
Northwest
Minnesota
Illinois
Iowa
Why Union: Critics Cite Theological and Social Detriments
The Religious Telescope argues church union is a temporary frontier expedient limited by friction over ownership and control. It warns that union churches foster selfishness, lack broad world involvement, and fail to sustain denomination loyalty or effective mission beyond local interests.
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United Brethren
Dayton
Ohio
Habits as Moral Mirror and Life’s Limiting Ceremony
A meditation on how habit shapes morality and reality. The text argues that exacting habit dulls ethics, that abstinence can breed intemperance, and that routine reduces free will to machinery. It condemns habitual thinking as stubborn, framing life as a stage tied to habitual behavior.
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God
Cheer Up Buttoning Wives Waists in Lacon Illinois
A humorous moral note from the Lacon Illinois Journal extols gratitude for wives with waists and buttons. It contrasts men with wives lacking waistlines or buttons and mocks those who complain, ending with a light regional pun about rabbits.
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Lacon Illinois Journal
A Poem for Today By Rudyard Kipling
A poem depicts a garden rose split by wind and a dialogue with God. The rose asks why it fell while the Lord replies that Time Tide and Space bound to the task the fall and the inquiry lead to salvation for the seeker.
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Rudyard Kipling
Hell
Glimmer of Joy Amid Twilight in a Mother's Kiss
A lyric vignette describes laughter spilling through a window at twilight. It contrasts cynicism with warmth, noting a mother's kiss bringing love and bliss to a child, whose happiness shines like a fairy bell.
Editors Versus Doctors A Satirical Take
The Rapid River Rustler lampoons editors comparing them to doctors. It contrasts public reaction to editor errors with attitudes toward medical mistakes, noting editors are blamed and mocked while doctors face quiet outcomes. The piece reflects humor about profession status and expertise.
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Rapid River
Don't for Wives A Guide From The Scrapbook
A humorous Rochester era verse urges wives to curb nagging and sarcasm at home. It quips about avoiding morning complaints and bringing harmony to domestic life while joking about common daily irritations and miscommunications.
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Margaret Squire
Willie
Maggie
Open Mind as Virtue and Civic Ideal
Commentary by RESIDENT ELIOT extols the open mind as a fruit of culture and a Christian virtue. It praises the open mind as agreeable and just, warns against closed minds as ignorant and pitiful, and argues closed minds block light and hinder progress.
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Eliot
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