Wealth, Law and Reform in American Industry
A historical column argues for tenant protection through law, notes that justice requires penalties for lawbreakers, and condemns exploiting workers. It discusses tax equity, railway pensions, and the social duty of wealth, referencing Edison, Jay Gould, and general attitudes toward great men. It laments the public burden of wealth on patriotism and contemplates historical shifts in technology and governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Jay Gould
Duperence Poem Fragment by Rotert J. Burdette
Fragment of a humorous poem noting themes of ambition and disappointment with Washington. Mentions Sap Teed Py and Y. Sa but centers on the speaker’s lament that despite many things achieved there is no Washington to celebrate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Rotert J. Burdette
Shadow Lake Morning Mystery on a Quiet Mooring
A lone narrator meets a polite stranger on private Shadow Lake grounds. The man claims Royal Albert’s immortality and soon reveals a dangerous, erratic temperament. After a tense pursuit and a clash, the narrator awakens safe in bed with a lingering fear and a white hair memorial of the ordeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Dayton
Shadowlake
New York World
Physical Culture for Women Sparks Backlash in Providence Journal
An intelligent Providence Journal reader dismisses the modern movement as sensual and harmful. She contends that beauty teachers focus on visions of loveliness and seduction rather than health, urging wholesome sunshine and air over cushions, perfumes, and posed curves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence Journal
The Farm and Home: Fertility of the Soil in Indiana
A Indiana Farmer article argues soil fertility must be maintained at cost. It compares soil to a bank, warns against exhausting capital, and prescribes keeping stock to produce and spread manure, using barnyard fertilizer and crop rotation as keys to long term soil health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
London horses abused by grooms raise concern on welfare
A London paper warns of serious harm from cruel horse treatment after three horses died from bowel inflammation under one groom. It argues many injuries and deaths arise from beating, urging owners to instill humane care and exercise economy in farming to extend horses’ working lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Scarcely Ever Apply to the Next in Thoughtful Alertness
A fragment notes that scarcely ever applying to the next task leaves thinking faculties in a constant state of alertness. The remark emphasizes vigilance and mental readiness as a recurring habit.
The Cruss Checkrein Prolonged Pain for Horses
Advocates remove the checkrein for horses arguing a free head improves balance and load leverage. A tight rein is said to risk neck paralysis and cause great pain, making the harness uncomfortable and harmful.
Agricultural Proverb and Practice Insights from The American Garden
A collection of farm lore on pig husbandry horse value and cattle care. It extols clean food for pork, cost of corn fodder waste, and the benefits of careful animal handling. It discusses timber growth via mulching, portable outhouses for hogs, and clover as essential forage for livestock and cotton or corn crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theg
Nebraska
Domestic Economy and Household Tips From Old Journal
Cleanliness and careful kitchen practice emerge as key. Advice covers preserving stopper safety, sponge cake color with water temperature, doughnut prep timing, substitution caution with baking powder, insect control with copperas and carbolic acid, gravy thickening technique, hosiery washing to prevent shrinkage, pineapple virtues, pepsin-like remedy claims for dyspepsia, lemon water for malaria, and early notes on quinine alternatives. Also mentions rubber protection for footwear and a nod to village cobblers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pt Pde Ee
Solomon and the Queen of Sheba in a spirited sermon
A preacher compares King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba to Christ and seekers, praising vibrant worship over humdrum routine. He cites spices, architecture, and riddles as symbols of religious vitality, urges lively congregational singing, and urges viewers to seek joy and uplift, not dullness, in faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of the of Lebanon
Solowon
Solomon
Jerusalem
India
Acros
Hiram
Bolomonic
Halkis
Toni
Mmessengers
Ani
Sho
Solo Mon
Ani Solomon
King Solomon
Balkis
Bulkis
Shaba
Shiba
Sheba
San Francisco
Clurellene
Nevea
Bheba
Germany
America
Brooklyn
St. John
Heaven
Balkin
Balkia
South
Anil Habold
Solsomon
Soloman
Books Published by Subscription Sells in Vast Numbers
A reader notes hundreds of subscription books circulate unseen in cities yet sell in the country in tens of thousands. An obscure technical manuscript, rejected by several publishers, printed by a subscription house, later earned 70 000 copies in three years and made the author rich.
After Supper a Riddle with Uncle Henry and Tom
In a rural scene Uncle Henry asks four year old Tom what comes after supper. Tom hesitates and answers with a comic mispronunciation that lampoons the idea of “up not whipped mostly” as a playful moral about routine meals.
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Henry
Tom
Pituburg Dispatch
Amateur text fragment recalls a vanished friendship tale
An incomplete dialogue fragment portrays a man recalling a past close friend and a significant favor. The garbled lines hint at a lost relationship, an elevated car, and a girl, but the context and full sequence are unclear.
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Bow York
Merald
Lasdlonds
Tennants
Bextaru
Sword of Justice
Atchison Globe
Themz
Citzen
New York
Edison
Sap
The
Y. Sa
Shadow Lake
Crystal Lake
Beau
Air
Vernon Cheveley
Albert
Prince Albert
England
Scotland
Wales
Great Britain
Tabernacle Pulfit
Humdrum
Talmage
Hermes
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