Back Health and Civic Advice Share Pages of Mercury
A mix of health testimony for Dean's Kidney Pills from Mrs. W. G. Davis of Groesbeck Texas, plus humor and guidance pieces from Farmers Journal and Southern Mercury. The items urge kidney health, debt avoidance, farming costs, garden work, and promoting the Farmers Co-Operative Union with community outreach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. G. Davis
Groesbeck
Texas
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Canadian Homesteaders Show Vast Northwest Arrival
The interior department reports 41,689 new homesteaders in the Canadian northwest last fiscal year. Among them 12,485 Americans, 12,370 Canadians, 5,897 English, 2,193 Austrians, 1,657 Scots, 1,024 Germans, and 543 Irish. Immigrants from the United States in the first four months of the current fiscal year total 17,907, up from 12,664 in the same period of 1905.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Department of the Interior
Canadian Northwest
United States
Postum vs coffee prompts health recovery tale and farmers note
A Kansas woman recalls severe heart and digestive distress from coffee and credits quitting coffee with Postum Food Coffee for dramatic health improvement. The text then shifts to a broader farmer reflection on seed quality methods marketing and the tension between ambition and honesty in business, urging common sense over passions.
Build Your Split Log Drag This Spring
The message urges making a split log drag while not busy to improve your road with little cost. It emphasizes benefits of a good looking road at no money and minimal time, tied to spring rains and personal entitlement to decent roads.
Be a producer and live by your own labor
The message urges individuals to work hard produce for themselves and others while avoiding wasteful indulgence. It emphasizes fulfilling duties to society, helping others, and leaving no debts before death. It condemns harmful pleasures and urges wise restraint.
Circular Roe Texas Farmers Union Report on Debt System
Calvine warns the greatest obstacle to price control is the debt and mortgage system harming the South since the Civil War. He claims buyers and manipulators depress prices during heavy port receipts, urging farmers to stay out of the market to force declines and challenge organized speculators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Farmers’ Union
Prident Calvine
South
Crop size price and freedom in farmer struggles
The passage centers on crop yield per acre and the prices received and paid. It argues that many seek profit or aggrandizement, but the core issues must not be eclipsed in the fight for independence of the farming class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allcock
Alicock
Mercury Musings on Land Speculation and Farmer Diversification
The writer argues union papers should denounce speculation in necessities of life and in land. Land underpins wealth, and farmers should diversify beyond a single crop like cotton to reduce risk and improve prospects for those who own little besides their cotton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers‘ Union
Mercur
Farmers’ Union
Farmers Union urged to raise potatoes and cabbage patch
The piece urges members to grow potatoes and cabbage while improving farm operations. It stresses grafted trees, entertaining Local Union meetings, and programs for youth to attract non members. It also suggests home smokehouses and incubators for poultry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Farmers’ Union
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