Cheaper Money for Farmers
An essay from Collier's Weekly argues farm mortgages costlier due to costly audits and suggests farmer cooperatives modeled on German Landesbanken to guarantee loans. By grouping 200 nearby farmers, loans of up to 3000 dollars per farmer could be issued as bonds bought by banks and sold to investors, with farm land as solid security and lower rates around 3 to 4 percent.
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Landschaften Association of Germany
United States
Pennsylvania
Lancaster
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Kansas
Topeka
Collier’s Weekly
Panama Hats Cut to Three Seventy Five Cents
Panama hats on sale for $3.75 at Punch and Graves, discounted from $5.00 as a promotional event.
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Punch & Graves
Escape of Prince Krapotkin From St Petersburg Prison
George Kennan recounts the 1876 daylight break from Nikolaievsk Military hospital in St Petersburg. Twelve conspirators aided the escape. none were arrested, many later exiled. The escape used cherries opera hats a louse music a black mare and a microscope and ended with the prisoner dining publicly at Donan's.
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Krapotkin
Nikolaievsk Military Hospital
St. Petersburg
Siberia
Donan
George Kennan
Century Magazine
Sambo-So Erastus Jones to wed in bold gamble
Local scribe notes Erastus Jones plans marriage with bravado as friends compare union to a lottery. Powell confirms the tale, describing Jones as a good sport ready to take a chance on matrimony.
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Erastus Jones
Powell
Definition of a Blizzard
A humorous schoolroom scene shows an inspector testing pupils on the word blizzard. The top boy finally answers with a comic misdefinition claiming a blizzard is the inside of a hen.
Clara Barton’s Practical Faith in Red Cross Founder
The article portrays Clara Barton as a devout Christian whose focus on alleviating tenement slums outweighed church attendance. In a New York interview, she argued for sweeping away unsanitary housing rather than awaiting rewards in the afterlife, urging action on local housing issues.
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Clara Barton
American Red Cross
Miss Barton
New York
Jordan
Penitentiary food strike sparks warden remark
A dialogue notes inmates in a state penitentiary striking over food. Diggs jokes the warden faces a tough task since he cannot tell the kicker to leave if he dislikes the meals.
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Biggs
Diggs
Bread Making Tips From Miss CuInn On Fresh Flour And Temperature
Miss Austyn CuInn, Instructor in Domestic Science at the College of Agriculture, urges housekeepers to use fresh analyzed flour and precise temperatures for bread making. She explains mixing ratios, kneading importance, and oven heat, recommending a 90 degree water bath method and a 360 degree oven for even baking.
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South
Austyn CuInn
College of Agriculture
Get in on the ground floor of West farming
Reclamation Service officials seek settlers for irrigation projects, urging Eastern youths to move West or Canada. They warn delays slow further irrigation, stressing individual investment to fund new works. Collier's endorses farm modernizing, while ads promote B and C cakes and Dean's Ointment for skin itching.
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Reclamation Service
Western Railroads
Reclamation Bureau
Washington
West
Canada
Collier’s
Transfer and Carriage Service Ad
Carriage and transfer wagon meet all trains. Phone 21 or 337. W A Sutton & Son offer the best furni ture carpets and rugs locally.
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W. A. Sutton & Son
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Panny Antwerp Ave
MT. Sterling, KY
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Galveston, Tex
Knoxville, Tenn
All Points South
Chattanooga, Tenn
Jacksonville, Fla
Shreveport, LA
Uthwest
Act Pots
Nexcie
Queen & Crescent
H. C. King
E. Main St
W. A. Beckler
Lexington
Cincinnati
W.H. Berry & CO
Stace
J. G. Crabbe
Richmond, Ky
High Bridge
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High Bridge Park
Lexing Town
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