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Newspaper
The Echo Register
Location
Echo, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1909
Page
7
A neglected garden can be revived with prompt effort. Pull weeds, burn them, plow and replant, aiming for orderly rows of abundant vegetables. The piece contrasts a weed-filled plot with a tidy garden and warns against overextending effort. It also mentions a homemade cheap corn cultivator device for frequent field work.
A detailed description of a five foot long oak cultivator with adjustable rear, forty spikes, an iron front ring, and handles from an old plow. It promotes ingenuity for DIY fabrication and claims it as the best ever used.
A reflective piece contrasts a grandmother’s quiet sacrifice with a scholar’s single minded pursuit of knowledge and a rich man’s restless worry. It argues life is a market of bargains where every choice trades away one value for another and urges readers to set ideals high and pay with intention.
A compilation of 19th century court summaries cites Continental Paper Bag Co v Eastern Paper Bag Co and Pierce v Creecy on non use of patented products and extradition scope. It notes Goldfield Consul Mines Co v Goldfield Miners Union on workers’ rights and complicity with pickets. Delmar Jockey Club v Missouri concerns quo warranto and franchise violation. Includes terse, unrelated fragmentary lines about cameras and social manners.
Arthur Hooker, secretary of the National Irrigation congress board of control, will seek a 3 percent gold bond issue worth up to 5 billion dollars at Spokane's seventeenth session August 9 to 14. Proposed uses include 1 trillion for drainage, 1 trillion for irrigation of 40 million acres, 1 trillion for deep waterways and transport, 1 trillion for roads, and 5 hundred billion for forest protection. The plan argues bonds repaid by project returns, with vast tracts in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kansas, Nebraska, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi, plus eastern and western lands, ready for reclamation. The note cites existing irrigation and the Erie canal expansion, asserting substantial economic gains and reduced rail costs. A large delegation from all states will back the memorial to Congress.
The readable text shows a disjointed mix of quotes about political tax debates and a stray reference to an ailment remedy Wizard Oil. It includes fragmentary speech from a minister or editor, mentions of a young man with copper cents and political names, and assorted ad-like lines.
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