Cousin Charles Arrives With Wife at Hollow Ash Hall
In a night visit to Hollow Ash Hall, Marjorie clubs with Charles Cowley in a dare to enter unannounced. Rose and Mrs Macarthy greet the Australian cousins, mistaking Marjorie for Queen Elizabeth in a plaid shawl. The scene shifts to welcome and comic confusion as the guests reveal their true identities.
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Charles
Mr Cowley
Miss Marjorie
Marjorie
Mr. Cowley
Bess
Papa
Queen Bess
Rose
Miss Rose
Mrs. Macarthy
Australia
Queen Elizabeth
Charles Cowley
Melbourne
Sydney
Ghosts, Cradles and a Haunted House Dinner Talk
In Australia Mr George Vernon swore ghosts return and a cradle rocks nightly. Charles Cowley recounts how Marjorie, his wife, fled a past marriage and now faces a kitchen cradle haunting with Rose and Mrs Cowley urging caution and curiosity.
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Australia
Rose
Vernon
Alfred
George Vernon
Ganley
Charles
Banley
George
Cowley
Catharine
Man loses wood leg in Athabasca bear trap in logging camp
John Mcleod a Milford Me sealer in township 31 recounts how a bear trap snapped shut on his wooden leg while walking from one landing to another. He freed himself with a jackknife after whittling away part of the limb and hobbled back to camp with a stick as a cane.
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John Mcleod
Milford
Township
John
Mr. MccLesd
Unjust Tariff Law Against Foreign Makers and Pawnbrokers
The Vincennes Commercial argues tariffs protect American labor and industry. It questions free trade advocates, defends the Dingley law as just revenue and protection, and warns that more imports harm American workers and producers.
Free Trade Trust Slogan and Tariff Debate
The piece rebuts claims linking tariffs to trusts, arguing the slogan origins came from free trade factions seeking to discredit tariffs. It notes misleading attacks and defends a protective policy as not responsible for monopoly ills. The author criticizes low tariffs and foreign labor competition.
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Commercial
Republic
Sun
Cleveland
Sugar Industry Changes Promising Independence for U S
The beet sugar industry in the United States expands rapidly, with Michigan and California leading production and 25 percent of U S sugar usage possibly met by the best works before the decade ends. A shift toward tariff action and greater domestic supply could alter international sugar trade and boost American independence from foreign markets. The Cleveland Leader notes Britain's possible sugar duties and their potential ripple effects.
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Germany
France
Great Britain
Ife
England
South Africa
Presence Ministry
United States
Michigan
California
Cleveland
Protection and Wage Earners in Britain Hit by Wage Cuts
A London cablegram dated March 17 reports 220,000 English workingmen have endured an average wage cut of two shillings weekly over the past 30 days due to weak trade and competition from American and German products. It notes Britain's loss of markets, the impact on wage earners, and compares with the United States pre and post the Dingley tariff.
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London
England
Great Britain
United States
Germany
Farmers Gain 185 Million More From 1900 Crops
The agriculture department reports farmers earned 185,296,172 more from corn wheat oats barley rye buckwheat potatoes and hay in 1900 than in 1899. Total receipts rose to 1,861,466,582 from 1,676,170,410, with greater prices for all listed products and large gains in corn and hay.
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Agricultural Department
United States
Springfield
Mass ) Union
Milking Capacity of Sows and Breeding for Milk
English writer Mr. Sanders Spencer argues sow milk quality is under studied and influential in piglet survival. He warns many sows fail to nurse adequately, leading to piglets starving or dying, and urges ruthless culling of nonmilking sows and selection of dams with strong maternal capacity for robust litters.
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Sanders Spencer
Keep Insects Away
Insects are best kept away by proactive farm and orchard practices. Regular cultivation, removal of prunings and waste, burning debris, collecting fallen fruit, and fall plowing disrupt hibernating pests and reduce infestations. Neglected land with weeds harbors most insect enemies.
Beetle fight finds no arsenic substitute yet
In the battle against the Colorado potato beetle no adequate substitute for arsenical poisons has been found and there is little hope of one. Efforts focus on cheaper or more effective arsenic compounds than Paris green.
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Miss Marjorie
Marjorie
London
Rose
Mr. Cowley
Catharine
Mrs. Magnum
Tam
Charles
Papa
Mrs. Cowley
Charlie
Colorado
Paris Green
February hog prices mark highs in two decades
Prices for top hogs in February 1901 reached 5.05 dollars, the highest February figure since 1893. Comparisons note 1897 saw 5.72 dollars and February 1893 hit 8.75 dollars, illustrating the range of February prices over the past twenty-two years.
Pig Epidemic Strikes Shasta County
Report from Shasta county Cal correspondents describes a curious swine disease that causes blindness and madness before death. No cure has been found.
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Shasta County
Cal
Beavers Provoke Colorado Ranchers Over Property Damage
In southern Colorado beavers are increasingly numerous and ranchers urge killing to protect their land and fences from widespread damage and erosion.
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Colorado
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Ree
Hall
Ags
Mark Oe Au
Ian
Mook
Uoless
Cobdenite
Free Trade Press
The
National Treasury
Postal Department
Vincennes
Ind
Free-Trade Trust
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