Nebraska sugar beets urged as national crop plan
The Daily News reports Secretary Wilson promoting sugar beets to boost agricultural prosperity. He notes rising U S production targets from 36 million tons three years ago to an expected 100 million tons this year. He highlights 40 new factories and says Nebraska could greatly profit by beet farming and beet by products feeding dairy cattle and factory sugar.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson
West
Oamsha
Nebraska
United States
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Philippines
Contemporaries Clash Over Santiago Hero Status
Contemporary editorials from the Baltimore Star and Baltimore American dispute who deserves credit for the Santiago victory. They note the Columbian gunboat lacks manpower, while workers face wage changes that reduce harvest incentives. The Taneytown Record comments on shifting harvest wages and working conditions affecting labor appeal. Maryland crop conditions are also mentioned.
Maryland Farmers Expect Fair Crop Yields This Year
The Baltimore Herald reports broadly favorable conditions with most crops harvests underway in lower counties and the Eastern Shore. Grain crops are fair, potatoes are abundant due to West River demand, and fruit yields, especially apples and Eastern Shore peaches, should match or exceed last year. Overall, weather hurt people more than crops, promising a fair average profit for Maryland farmers.
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Maryland
Baltimore Herald
Minors in Merriness and Stage Gibe Short Bits
A collection of humorous quotes and light snapshots from early 20th century papers. Witty asides include a dream-musing attribution, stage life gossip, and quips about luck and four leaf clovers.
Rural carriers demand higher pay and prompt wages
The Philadelphia Record laments fixed pay for rural free delivery carriers at $500 yearly with horse and wagon, six hours for a twenty mile daily route, and calls for timely salary payments as unemployment in the post office arrears. A separate Philadelphia Times piece criticizes American women in England for royal snobbery and loyalty to the British crown.
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Philadelphia
Post Office Department
Moments With The Muse And Boyhood Haunts In Verse And Prose
A collage of poems and verse fragments including NxXon Waterman and James Wallcoms Riley. It blends themes of love and nature with nostalgic Calls to boyhood by a creek, Pan and old mill race imagery. The page also includes a testimonial for Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy praising its quick relief and cure.
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Chum
Pan
James Wallcoms Riley
J A. Doak
Williams
Oregon
A. L. Pearre
Schley Rabbit Foot Theory Stirring In Frederick County
Frederick sportaman Frederick County offers a far fetched explanation for Schley s squadron maneuver at Santiago. He argues Admiral Schley used a rabbit s foot as a guiding talisman, likening the loop to a rabbit’s escape and return, suggesting bravura and luck influenced the maneuver and provoking consternation among officers.
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Frederick Sporteman
Admiral Schley
Brovatyo
Cervera
Santiago
Frederick County
Schleyn
Admiral Schisy
Schley
Arrest at Plane No 4 Sparks Train Delay
Deputy Lysander Etchison and Detective Young arrested Joshua Brashears of Plane No 4 for boarding the Winchester train and pulling the airbrakes causing about ten minutes detention. Justice Thios Waitz of New Market found him guilty and sent to jail. In a separate case, Katia Barnes was arrested for disturbing the peace and Justice Wood fined her $2.75.
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Lysander Etchison
Young
Joshua Brashears
Winchester
Justice of the
Thios. Waitz
New Market
Brashears
Wood
Katia Barnes
King and Jones
Justice Wood
State Camp S A to Convene in Baltimore
The annual State camp session of the Patriotic Sons of America will convene in the Kolp Building on Gay Street in Baltimore on Tuesday August 15 and continue several days. Over 100 delegates from 47 camps in the state will attend, with about 3,000 members. Three State executive committee members are to be alerted to succeed O. Harvey Pardee as State president, W. A. Valliant as vice president, and R. K. M. Farring as master of forms. Four delegates will be sent to represent Maryland at the national camp in Buffalo, New York, in September. The report of State Secretary P. B. Englar will show growth and bright prospects.
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Sons of America
The
Patriotic Sons of America
Kolp Bullding
Gay Street
Baltimore
O. Harvey Pardee
Arlington
W. A. Valliant
Chastertown
Sod
Advertised Letters in Frederick Post Office Aug 4 1901
A Frederick post office notice lists remaining advertised letters as of Saturday August 4 1901. Names include John H. Aumen, Joseph Berall, George Clatterbuck, Lewis Maritt, Snyder & Son, C. E. Warner, J. N. Wood, Frederick Whits head, Miss Sadie Barok, Miss Ethel Finneyfrock, Mrs. Lucy Foeman and others. If not called within two weeks, letters go to dead letter office.
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Frederick City
Gryt Lemen
John H. Aumen
Joseph Berall
George Clatterbuck
Lewis Maritt
Snyder & Son
C. E. Warner
J. N. Wood
Frederick Whitshead
Lavres' List
Sadie Barok
Ethel Finneyfrock
Lucy Foeman
Bowman and Smith wed in Hagerstown ceremony
Mrs. Cora Bowman of Washington county and Mr Theodora Smith of Foxville were married in Hagerstown on August 1 by Rev. Dr. J Spangler Kiefer.
Rural Delivery Wagons Reach Frederick and Office Upgrades
Two rural free delivery mail wagons marked A and B, painted blue with yellow gear and white tops, arrived in Frederick and were built in Terre Haute Indiana. D A Castle's carriage works hosts them. Mount Airy and Taneytown in Maryland advance from fourth to third class post offices.
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Frederick
Terre Haute
Ind
D. A. Castle’s
Mount Airy
Taneytown
Market Quotations From The Local Mart
Market quotes from Mr. J. E. W. Hargett list corn at 2.50 per barrel shelled corn 0.50 per bushel wheat No 3 red 0.67 per bushel steamer 0.60 rejected 0.50 per bushel hay 12 to 14 per ton.
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J. E. W. Hargett
County Commissioners Meet For Semi Monthly Session
The Board of County Commissioners are convening for their semi monthly meeting today and tomorrow to transact regular county business and official matters. The Fortnightly Review notes a Karroo bush from South Africa and drought resistance via deep underground roots. A quip from Town and Country and a dialogue from an Exchange section appear amid the page.
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Board of County Commissioners
South Africa
Fortnigtly
A Singing Carthworm and Other Odd Tales
A collection of curious notes on a singing earthworm in Malay Peninsula, a humorous Jackson anecdote about tea and cold water, reflections on memory’s value from the London Spectator, and a graphic World War II era style execution description from the Canadian Magazine.
Recipes For Happiness From Simple Life Precepts
Happiness is not a single item but many small acts. The piece credits love in marriage, fidelity in friendship, affection in family, courtesy, duty, and sincerity as the ingredients of a happy life. It ends with the Persian proverb about choosing good thought, word, and deed to enter paradise.
When Turtles Were Bir Ancient Vertebrate Wonders
A trimmed scribe notes on a humorous New York Tribute parrot bath encounter and a brief sketch of ancient turtles. It describes a person nearly startled by a parrot in a window cage and ends with a historical note on how turtles, ancient vertebrates, reached colossal sizes in the Mesozoic era.
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New York
Crank on Clothes and the Brittle Magistrate’s Fashion
A satirical vignette follows Sir Larry Poland, a brittle magistrate, as his family pushes him to Poole to get a fashionably cut suit. The tailor claims all cuts are used up, and the judge quips about preferring comfort and being measured seated, while others remark on fashion and propriety. The Finlanders section extols hardy, spirited people with healthful living amid harsh climates, linking imagination and adventure to air and cleanliness.
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Larry Poland
Poole
de Petpet
Sear
Harry Poland
Unprepossessing Bride and Dining Lectures Highlighted
A BMos lem wife challenges her husband to reveal witnesses before whom she may unveil, while the couple jokes on discretion. In Life, Mrs. Crawford and Mrs. Crabshaw debate cooking courses and frugal living. Also, Japan consumes the most rice globally at about 300 pounds per person annually, versus American use of four pounds, and 90,000 to 100,000 deer roam Scotland with 4,000 stags killed yearly.
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Japan
Scotland
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