Virginia Horticultural Bulletin previews fruit crop prospects
The Virginia State Horticultural Society reports preliminary conditions for fruit crops statewide. Apples vary by region with half to full yield in some areas, winesaps mixed, peaches fair where grown, and Virginia peaches expected to fetch good prices. Cherries plums pears are short. spraying has improved orchard care and demonstrations show satisfactory results.
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Virginia State Horticultural ‘Ety
Virginia
Upper Valley
Montgomery County
Rockbridge County
York Imperial
Ben Davis
Roanoke County
Colorado
Pacific Coast
Georgia
South
State issues typhoid bulletin and sanitation guides
A new typhoid bulletin is in press as part of the state literature on the disease. The State Health Department emphasizes water quality sanitary outbuildings and case care to prevent spread. Additional bulletins cover sanitary wells and springs and construction of sanitary outbuildings. Specific directions aid private water supplies and farms to ensure safe water and prevent transmission within families.
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Commonwealth
State Health Department
Augusta county widow claims Civil War pension
Mrs. L. E. Bliss of Augusta County has applied to the Pension Bureau for a pension, saying she served four years in the Federal army as a man in Company G, Sixty third Infantry, Illinois. Described as old and frail, she bears a Confederate sabre scar from Vicksburg and appears to substantiate her four years of service.
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L. E. Bliss
Augusta County
Pension Bureau
Sixty-third Infantry
Illinois
Vicksburg
Remarkable tribute to the Jewish race noted long ago
A classic 1892 opinion essay circulated by the New York Herald lauding Jewish contributions across religion, science, art, and society. It cites Disraeli, Neander, Napoleon’s marshals, Maimonides, Spinoza, and various Jewish figures, arguing for cultural and intellectual influence while warning against anti Jewish sentiment. Dr. Collins Denny, a former Vanderbilt philosophy professor and 1910 bishop nominee, is slated to move to Richmond, Virginia, in the early fall.
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George R. Wendling
New York Herald
Miraban
Assembly
Patrick Henry
House of Burgesses
Sam Adams
Disraeli
O'Connelll
Neander
Napoleon
Soult
Massena
Gambetta
Europe
America
Maimonides
Spinoza
Kant
Plato
Rossini
Meyerbeer
Mendelssohn
Strauss
Collins Denny
Methodist Episcopal Church,South
Nashville, Tenn
Richmond
Denny
Methodist Church
Vanderbilt University
Winchester
Sons to Solve Labor Problem By James Wilson
Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson argues that farmers must educate and employ their own sons and those of neighbors to meet labor needs. The Agriculture Department aims to make rural education attractive to keep country boys on farms, noting possible future urban contributions to agriculture programs as a long term solution.
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Department of Agriculture
Supreme Court Tobacco Trust Ruling Unanimous Victory
The Supreme Court’s decision on the Tobacco Trust, called a comprehensive victory by Attorney General Wickersham, holds the trust as a restraint of trade. It targets 65 American firms, 2 English firms, and 29 individuals, with disintegration options and potential receivership if not within the law within six months. Chief Justice White led a nearly unanimous ruling, while Justice Harlan dissented on key points.
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Tobacco Trust
Supreme Court
Wickersham
White
Justice Harlan
Standard Oil
Hookworm Doom Predicted For Virginia In Five Years
Assistant State Health Commissioner Allen W. Freeman predicts hookworm will be eliminated in Virginia within five years. He notes the disease is limited to certain areas and prevention efforts also combat typhoid fever through improved sanitation. Speaker Champ Clark praises Southern roads progress urging cheap road materials innovation to boost land values and quality of life.
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Virginia
Allen W. Freeman
Freeman
Champ Clark
Pike County
Ardent supporters push local option election drive
Readers note a petition to force a new local option election within months, with 126 signatures reportedly secured to trigger a city judge ordered election. The piece contrasts boosters and knockers, urging calm and faith. It also warns about typhoid vectors and flies, noting their breeding cycle and generations per season.
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Staunton
Virginia Still Leads Others in Presidential Race Talk
The piece argues Virginia, after 60 years, may rejoin the Presidential contest with Woodrow Wilson rooted in Virginia history. It notes Ohio rising fast, potential Virginia vs Ohio rivalry in 1912, and cites that North has produced nineteen Presidents while the South seventeen, with Virginia and Ohio as leading states.
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Virginia
Woodrow Wilson
Staunton
University of Virginia
Old Dominion
Times
Ohio
North
South
Kansas City Times
Field of Fame for the Confederates
A Richmond Times Dispatch report cites former Attorney General William A. Anderson proposing a Field of Fame in Hollywood Cemetery. He urges converting the Soldiers Home tract into a Confederate memorial with statues and dedications from each state honoring notable generals and soldiers.
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William A. Anderson
Hollywood Cemetery
Major Anderson
South
Confederacy
Lee Statue in Statuary Hall Decorated for Decoration Day
Joel Grayson of Vienna Fairfax County an employee in the documents room placed a beautiful array of flowers on the bronze statue of Robert E Lee in Statuary Hall Washington. He urged that Lee should not be overlooked though no flag accompanied the figure. The gesture signified faith and loyalty to the gallant Virginian among sixties heroes.
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Robert K. Lee
Statuary Hall
Capitol
Washington
Joel Grayson
Vienna
Fairfax County
Grayson
Lee
Oil to lay dust in northeast Missouri towns
Montgomery dispatch reports numerous towns in northeast Missouri plan to oil streets to cut dust instead of sprinkling. Elsberry already approves the method and Vandalia and others seek voter support. W Owston for Standard Oil Co says oil can be laid in 6500 gallon tanks at 4 cents per gallon with about 35 per block for oiling multiple blocks, including labor.
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Montgomery
Missouri
Elsberry
Vandalia
W. Owston
Standard Oil Company
Latane to Lecture on American History at UPenn Summer School
Dr John H Latane professor of History at Washington and Lee University will lecture this summer at the University of Pennsylvania Summer School He will offer two courses in American History covering from the French and Indian Wars through the Spanish American era including the Cuban question Isthmian Canal fisheries Hawaii Samoa and Monroe doctrine The sessions run from July 9 to August 16 with many students already registering for the lectures
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John H. Latane
Washington and Lee University
University of Pennsylvania
Latane
Confederacy
Alabama
Mexico
Hawaii
Samoa
Latin America
United States
Latané
Profit in Alfalfa Culture Exceeds Early Hopes
Farmers show growing interest in alfalfa with potential wide effects on soil improvement and hay yields. A reliable green forage in summer and cured clover or alfalfa through fall winter and spring supports profitable dairy farming. The weakness of keeping too few cattle is noted, with home production of fertilizing ingredients seen as a key need.
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Tha
Buchanan News
Mastodon's Skeleton Stirs Roanoke Region Interest
A large mastodon skeleton was found in a clay pit at Adams Payne and Gleaves brick yard on the Roanoke river. Prof S L Powell of Roanoke College declares it a trastodon likely bigger than an elephant. Remains secured for Roanoke College to assemble and preserve.
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Adams, Payne & Gleaves
Roanoke River
Roanoke
S. L. Powell
Roanoke College
Salem ‘Times-Register and Sentinel
Bears Threaten Cattle in Rockingham County Range
In western Rockingham County bears are killing cattle on a mountain range owned by J W Early with Gabrill Rhodes and C C Lilly noted in the area. Several carcasses partially eaten have been found after exhaustive searching, while others have vanished. It is suspected drought-driven bears have driven into the timber and caused the depredations.
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Rockingham County
J. W. Early
Gabrill Rhodes
C. C. Lilly
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Stephen D. Les
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Texas
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van Dorn
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Kentucky
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North Carolina
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Hoke
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Joseph E. Johnston
Fitzhugh Lee
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
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