Indiana Railroad Commission’s Quiet, Effective Public Service
Union B. Hunt leads the Indiana Railroad Commission as it mediates between shippers and carriers, expanding fairness since 1905. The panel reduced car shortages, adjusted grain switching charges, cut passenger fares, and secured coal-rate relief, boasting broad public gains and low annual cost.
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Railroad Commission
Indiana Commission
Railway Commission
Commission Low
Union B. Hunt
Winchester
Indiana
Congress Deserves Credit for Passing Reform Bills
The piece lauds Congress for enacting rate, meat, and pure food laws and other measures ahead of adjournment. It argues months of debate and careful consideration produced stronger, more sweeping statutes than urged by critics and credits President Roosevelt for support while praising the Republican Congress.
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Congress
Betsy
Roosevelt
Republican Congress
United States
Congress Praises Rates and Reform Laws of Fifty Ninth Congress
President Roosevelt lauds the session for sweeping measures including railroad rate reform, pure food and meat inspection laws, Panama Canal funding, naturalization updates, and joint statehood. Critics stress Republican merit, say protections boosted national prosperity and curb corporate excess.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Cullom
Illinois
Republican Congress
Panama Canal
San Francisco
Airman Tawney
Appropriations Committee
Prosperity and Official Tariff Prosperity Figures
The article cites Census Bureau figures showing five years of rising manufacturing activity under Republican tariff policy. It reports 65 percent wage gains, 42.8 percent capital rise, 63 percent manufacturing costs, and a 31.9 percent increase in product value, arguing wage earners gain most. It notes credibility of the data and adds a second piece on personal advancement through frugality, credit, industry, and prudent choices.
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N. D. North
Evi- Los
Gs Pa
On Et Orate
Census Bureau
Landis Fires Back at Cockran Over Tariff Fight
In Congress Hon Charles B Landis rebutted Bourke Cockran who had labeled tariff protection a form of public plunder and demoralization. Landis defended the policy saying the country is the best on earth and would resign if it matched Cockran's views.
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Indiana
Alexander Hamilton
Hamilton
America
England
California
Democratic Party
Cleveland
Congress
Charles B. Landis
Bourke
Cockran
Republic
Landis
New York
Roosevelt Sends Pen to Beveridge for Meat Inspection Act
Roosevelt writes to Senator Beveridge sending the pen used to sign the agricultural bill with the meat inspection clauses. He credits Beveridge for first calling attention to packing-house abuses and for drafting the amendment enabling enforcement.
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Beveridge
Roosevelt
Senator Beveridge
Theodore Rooseivelt
Greeley for president shouted by Chicago Chronicle
The Chicago Chronicle urges Democrats to consider Horace Greeley as a presidential candidate despite his death. The piece mocks the current Democratic nominee Bryan and argues Greeley could unite the party and be a stronger standard bearer posthumously.
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Chicago Chronicle
Horace Greeley
Greeley
Bryan
Feeding Crops Off Field Shows England Style Pasture Practice
The article argues for feeding crops off the field using hurdles to enclose sections of land. It cites England’s method with clover turnip vetch rape crops to fertilize soil and simplify harvesting. A South Dakota farmer fed eighty acres of corn with 1,200 sheep, cleaning weeds and improving land for next crops.
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England
South Dakota
Reflections on the fading pioneer days and hardy frontier life
A nostalgic meditation on old pioneer times marked by prairie fires logging bees sugar making and barter trading. The speaker recalls meat obtained by gun and fish spear wild game daily fare and shared hardship praising honesty and health of earlier communities while noting hardship but praising the era’s values.
The Little Girl's Garden
A twelve year old girl converts two square rods of her father's yard into a neat garden with peas beans potatoes tomatoes cucumbers radish lettuce cabbage and no weeds. She enjoys notable success and plans to expand next year to include flowers and poultry improving her nature study and practical skills.
Proper harvest timing for corn silage in silos
Discussion traces changes in recommended harvest timing for field corn used in silage. Early practice favored very juicy green corn resulting in mushy silage, while later guidance advised allowing corn to mature nearly ripe, with overripe leaves and husks, to produce drier silage with higher nutritive value.
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Srief
Earriier
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Indianapolis
Newcastle
Reformatory
Jeffersonville
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Romana Oolitic Stone Co
Monon
Railroads
Work OF Congress
President Roosevelt
Ee Ee
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pure Food Law
Oklahoma
Indian Territories
Guthrie
Arizona
New Mexico
Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization
Niagara Falls
Republican Party
Edward E. Neal
Furisaur
Ces
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