Vegetable Immigrants and Agricultural Exports in California
A reflective piece traces how diverse crops and foreign introductions reshaped California farming. It notes 600000 acres for tomato culture, alfalfa from Asia Minor, olives, orange cuttings from Brazil, and rippling profits, including a $100 an acre gain in a New Jersey county. It also discusses social commentary on wives and housework, citing Schwab and a mix of anecdotal wealth figures and cultural observations.
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Asia Minor
Chile
Malta
Vienna
Appletonn Magazine
Colombia
Peru
Central Asia
England
Europe
Algeria
Russia
Maryland
Kansas
Will a Patriciate Ever Rule the United States
A historical essay argues that a British rooted elite dominates American governance. It asserts over half the public figures, including presidents, Supreme Court justices, governors, and lawmakers, bear British or Irish surnames. The piece suggests a lingering patrician class rooted in colonial and early national families and claims the modern American elite resembles Rome’s aristocracy, especially in New England.
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America
Endicotts
England
Rome
United States
New England
The Enemy's Shield and the Hero’s Crown of Victory
The passage urges healthful minds to embrace struggle against enemies as the path to wisdom and goodness. It likens life to climbing hills, fighting battles, and earning the seven crowns of happiness through victory, with memory storing the shields of vanquished foes. It concludes that living bravely and never fleeing defines true manhood.
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Heaven
John
Paradise
Walla
No Show for Poor in Spirit in Modern Life Debate
A fragmentary editorial critiques the phrase poor in spirit as a misfit for citizens, unions, and employers. It argues that society wants resourceful, action oriented men who think quickly, act decisively, and pursue results, contrasting labor ideals with the need for resilience in industry and politics.
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Citizens’ Alliance
Noisy Streets Inspire Unlikely Tales Across Town
A collage of humorous snippets and parlor jokes from Chicago and Yonkers papers paints town life with zest. Bits feature beauty doctors blundering, a groom’s misgivings, jokes about gender roles, and brisk quips about trains, telegraph, and daily chores.
Leader a KillJoy band remark cited by Free Press
A Detroit Free Press line quotes a concert critique where a band leader’s demeanor and lack of a handspring are noted. The remark implies strict, humorous disapproval of the leader despite the performance.
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KillJoy
Detroit Free Press
Not Needed, You Look Well, Chicago Record Herald
A fragment from the Chicago Record Herald notes a comment that an apparent upset involving medicine occurred after a baby received only one dose. The item is brief and lacks full context or names.
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Essary
Chicago Record-Herald
Deacon and Jasper Debating a Chicken Centipede Joke
A humorous exchange from a Chicago Daily News piece features an old deacon and Brug Jasper debating a claim about a chicken’s legs. Jasper, smiling, asserts during dinner that the fowl is a centipede, adding a playful regional dialect to the banter.
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Brug
Jasper
Chicago Daily News
Feeding Mash for Fowls Divides Poultry Opinion in Times
A poultry writer argues that mash feeding, with sprouted and soaked grains, mangels and meat as supplements, improves digestion and reduces sickness. He urges farmers to feed fowl once daily in the morning, using a simple mash made by soaking meal or middlings in boiling water overnight and serving next day.
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Notier
Fordine
Air CouriEed
Tin Gust
Makes Cleaning Easier For Chicken Houses
Dropping board under a chicken house cleanly handles waste. Fifteen minutes once a week suffices to clean after 100 hens and prevent dread entering the coop. After cleaning, cover the board with ashes or slaked lime. Keep roosts level and arranged so hens won’t crowd.
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Missouri Valley Parmer
Chicken Chat for Clean Coops and Steady Poultry Supply
Practical guidance for small poultry keeping emphasizing clean nests daily, sufficient charcoal and grit, clean water, and avoiding stagnant pools. Notes that demand is strong, small country families can earn yearly income by keeping flocks, and suggests measures to reduce pests and maintain health.
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United States
Globe
The Cure All in the Poultry Yard
The cure all in poultry yard is good management. It is a principal virtue that preventive. With it there is no need for mutants regulators or other makenhitta.
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Silver Messenger
Challis
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Mr. Schwab
At. Schwab
Nfal
New York
Tran
van Buren
Roosevelt
Supreme Bench
Henry D. Robinson
Racine College
Dustiens
Mudiess Rondash
Harnelias
Winceat
Mautien Mutherford
Chicago Journal
Kent
Puck
Persia
Thomas Rott
Peraia
Milwaukee Sentinel
Eve
Chicano Daily News
Yonkers
Arazia
Patrice
Washington Star
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