House Debates Free Seeds Subsidy During Agricultural Bill
The House of Representatives clashed over removing the free seeds provision from the agricultural appropriation bill. Debate highlighted the cost to government and voters, with Henry of Connecticut and Mondell of Wyoming among speakers praising and deriding the policy. Burleson of Texas challenged supporters while defending farmer reliance on government aid.
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House of Representatives
Committee On Agriculture
Henry
Connecticut
Mondell
Wyoming
Burleson
Texas
Reubens
Bur
Memorial Day Reflections On Union Sacrifice And Patriotism
A 1906 piece notes no fixed holiday names yet recalls Memorial Day origins after the Civil War. It highlights Grand Army posts and Confederate camps honoring Union soldiers, with veterans and their descendants decorating graves and preserving a national watchword of patriotism amid North South memories.
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Bull Run
Gettysburg
French Anti Cornering Laws Set Example for Monopolies
The piece describes France's historical ban on cornering essential goods since 1793. It explains criminal penalties for manipulation of prices and shortages, including imprisonment, fines, and police supervision of offending businesses. It notes tobacco exempt as a government monopoly and holds directors and managers accountable.
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Republic
France
Lmited
Clara Dosne public school tie to Bostow case
A public school matter in Bostow involves Clara Dosne as a central figure in a local controversy. Details remain sparse in the fragment.
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Bostow
Clara Dosne
Pettus election planned though people praise long-serving senator
Alabama voters admire Edmund Winston Pettus and want him to keep serving in the U.S. Senate, but fear he may not live to finish another six-year term in 1909. Pettus, 88, resists age claims, boasting vigor and a ruling party platform of “Amar is as young as he feels,” amid talks of succession.
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Alabama
Edmund Winston Pettus
United States Senate
Uften
Pettus
Amar
Osler
Vicksburg
Texas
Ae Pat
Tree fakir and the spring garden plant scam
In early spring a hustling vendor prowls for buyers with cheap foreign shrubs. He digs up common sprouts like sumach and maple, trims and bundles them, and markets them as rare Japanese or East Indian plants at a steep discount. Delighted buyers later discover the common stock and the vendor vanishes.
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Fakir
Japan
East Indies
Mixed snippets of 19th-century notices and literary quips
The item surveys a collage of odd claims and remarks including marriage fraud ratios, bandit activity comparisons in New York, a Mawhhukee poetess winning flour in a contest, and critical jabs at Henry James. It also notes a Chicago comment on stockyards and a Lakeshore road birth vagary, plus a state court award and Dr. Wiley examining refrigeration limits.
Panama era red tape reminiscence from Civil War veteran
A Civil War veteran recalling the Panama circumlodution office criticizes red tape. He describes serving as quartermaster sergeant with a New York regiment and being tasked to assist in handling recruits. He notes a broom shortage observed after the first week and being told to fetch supplies at the ordnance store.
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Panama
New York
United Daughters of the Confederacy Founder Mrs Goodlett
Mrs. M C Goodlett of Nashville Tennessee founded and led the United Daughters of the Confederacy uniting Southern women to aid veterans and preserve Confederate memory. Her work connected Tennessee leaders with national charities and culminated in the 1894 organization and a 1905 Richmond museum portrait unveiling.
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Confederacy
Confederate States
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Daughters of the Confederacy
Tennessee Daughters
National Conference of Charities and Corrections
National Prisoners Association
National Humane Association
Society of the United Daughters of the Confederacy
Nashville, Tenn
Tennesseans
Mrs. Goodlett
Richmond
Scrutinize your change careflly and counterfeits
A garbled OCR style note mentions counterfeit money and a stolen vessel by pirates. It references Dr Wily and the Astecul tural Department and discusses bottled whiskey, flirtatious behavior attributed to a Chicago News item, and political party spending. The text is fragmentary with many nonsensical phrases.
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Wily
Astecultural Department
Grant kin toast echoes at town dinner
Major General Frederick D. Grant recalled a family dinner where the toastmaster praised him by comparing him to his father. The guests gave attention yet he felt unable to meet expectations and ended his speech with a sense of relief as the toastmaster quipped about his speaking skills.
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Grant
Frederick D. Grant
Delights of Gardening and home life magazine offer
Circulation grows as April issue expands with new features. Sample copy available for a few cents a year. Content covers Stories and Sketches Home Gardening Health Cooking Sewing and more. Offer includes Overhore Year’s Stascarbox twelve issues mailed for ten cents or five two cent stamps to Maxwell's Home Magazine Chicago Illinois.
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Maine
Surite
Max Well
HOM Magazine
Fisher Building
Chicago
Til
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