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Newspaper
New Ross Mail
Location
New Ross, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1899
Page
2
A critique argues trusts and combines threaten the American economy and farmer independence. It warns capitalization reaching about 6 trillion dollars, labor displacement, and price manipulation, citing iron and wire costs as examples and stressing the farmer’s vulnerability to monopolies.
A rustic editorial warns farmers of growing trusts controlling wool, sugar beet, and farm implement markets. It describes railways and foreign capital owning vast land, pressuring prices and independence. Local notes praise Ladoga horse show despite poor weather and a budding farm press effort.
The article surveys various trees with edible or usable byproducts. It notes bread fruit in Ceylon, a South American tree yielding feeding mill from the trunk, an African tree producing butter, a Sierra Leone cream fruit, candles from berries at Table Bay, a vegetable tallow tree in Sumatra Algeria and China, oil and tallow from frit in Chusan, soap from bark in China, and soap berry trees in North Africa rich in saponin.
Listings show excursion rates for the Grand Lodge and other Indiana gatherings with certificates signed by lodge secretaries. Adds trips to Terre Haute and Louisville with sale dates in May, plus a Travelers Protective Association trip with May 20 return limit. Also notes local events and a lost umbrella report.
A reader touts Frank Dale's restaurant as the place for the best eating and a large quantity for the money and suggests sampling it to discover the quality.
A 4 by 8 inch album with 160 half tone engravings from photos of our army in camp on transports and in service. It includes Dewey Wheeler Hobson Roosevelt Sampson Miles Schley Shafter Lee Brooke Carroll and other officers, ships, landscapes, Cuban and Manila scenes, and portraits of Clara Barton and rough riders. Free in the United States Canada or Mexico for 12 cents via Big Four Route.
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