Small Farms Held Key to Prosperity Says Excerpt
An excerpt argues large capital and trusts are harming small farmers. It contends big-scale farming struggles due to labor, fertility, and capital limits, urging subdivision into smaller plots with focused, profitable crops and less reliance on vast acreage. Also notes a rattlesnake bite remedy, and a test of new army rifle bullets at San Diego practice.
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Nature
Northwest
Bonanza
San Diego
Character as the groundwork of virtue and resolve
Rev Cortland Myers argues that character defines a man and that true nobility rests on uncompromising principle. He compares weak anchors to quicksand and sea-weed, insisting only the solid rock of right sustains standing power.
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Cortland Myers
Tragic Bowling Green Child Killed by Fast Cyclist
A three year old boy in Chicago died when a speeding bicyclist struck a stone that was flung from under the wheel and hit him as he walked with his mother along a path. The accident occurred as the cyclist rode by at high speed, the shock unlabeled in the report.
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Chicago
Prison population record reported at territorial prison
Superintendent Nugent says 210 prisoners are now confined in the territorial prison, a record high 30 more than ever before. Several more inmates are expected daily from Yavapai County, according to the Daily Sentinel.
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Nugent
Territorial Prison
Yavapai County
Drought Acknowledged In Courier Satirical Hint
A Courier editorial notes that calls of divine displeasure against liars may explain the drought in the local area, framing the remark as a satirical observation on community credulity and weather.
Woman editor quits journalism after harsh critique
A Texas woman editor confesses to her father she will abandon journalism after facing brutal insult in a rival paper. The friendless harsh attack, printed in the Weekly Herald, leads her to vow to stay home and assist her mother. The incident highlights gender barriers in early press culture.
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Houston Post
Texas Press
Great Brotherhood
Weekly Herald
Herald Office
Mystery of Abandoned Child Solved Near La Morita
The skeleton of a three year old girl found near La Morita and brought to Bisbee ends a long mystery. A similar missing child case from about a year and a half earlier involved a girl who strayed from a camp near the line and was never found. Authorities conclude the child died of hunger and thirst, and that the earlier disappearance may involve the same father.
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la Morita
Bisbee
The greatest barrier to true knowledge is conceit
The quote argues that conceit blocks wisdom and that history’s most notable wise figures often contain humility. It suggests that the conceited cannot attain true knowledge, while humanity’s greatest exemplars have often been those considered wise by others.
Easter eggs and indulgences through the ages
The piece notes indulgences linked to Lent eating eggs and butter with origins in medieval devotion and tastings. It also tells of a miner bitten by a spider causing venom illness, and reports near-term plans for a territorial military encampment at Phoenix funded privately, including daily drills and real duties.
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Rouen
Tour de Buerre
Prospector
Schwartz
Franklin
Phoenix
Gazette
Fifth National Irrigation Congress to Meet in Phoenix
The California Fruit Grower reports the Fifth National Irrigation Congress will convene in Phoenix Arizona in December. The event is expected to attract a large attendance and show unprecedented public interest in irrigation.
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California
Phoenix
Arizona
Friends of Irrigation
The Two Frogs and the Milk Jar Timely Lesson
A fable recounts two frogs inside a milk jar. One quickly gives up and drowns as the liquid rises. The other keeps kicking, churns cream into butter, and finally sits on a lump of butter as a morale: persistence pays.
Novel rebel fire tactic targets sugar cane fields
Report describes a new method used by rebels in Quba involving a wax coated phosphorus tail attached to a snake. When released among cane, the wax melts igniting the phosphorus and setting the field ablaze, a tactic said to outwit military supervision.
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Quba
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