Fourth of July Hope Fails Then Gallup Changes
In Drummond three bachelors debate a public Independence Day, meet Minister Wager, and pressure Ezra Gallup the town’s richest miser to fund celebrations. Gallup’s hard heart softens after the minister’s sermon and a gift, leading to a fireworks night and a life change for Gallup and his daughter Eudora.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nahum Jones
Solomon Ripley
Silas Nelson
Crammond
Mississippi
Ohio
Jones’ General
Ripley
Jones
Nelson
Drummond
Eudora Gallup
Silas
Eudora
Mr. Wager
Ezra Gallup
Gallup
Dora
Mr. Gallup
John Adams
Dan Webster
Ma Gallup
Cincinnati
Mr. Ripley
Wager
James Franklin
Fourth of July Poems Celebrate Patriotism in Verse
A selection of patriotic verses notes Fourth of July festivities with marching crowds and fireworks. It includes M. Thayer Rouse's praise of the day and a call to bells and cannons as Boston readers revel in national pride and public displays.
The Night After The Fireworks Cost Of Fun
A reflective verse recalls the heavy sighs after celebrations. The speaker notes the high costs of the day’s fireworks and noise. A boy endures pain and loss, eyeing the damage to his vision and fingers as the evening fades.
Desolate Ohio Man Wanders After Friends Vanish
A lone man stands on a sunlit street in a peaceful Southern Ohio town and laments that all his friends and neighbors are gone. He voices alienation in a reflective monologue, noting how the town’s beauty contrasts with his isolation before departing forever. The fragment is attributed to the Chicago Tribune.
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Dickens
Tom Walker
Ohio
Washington
Chicago Tribune
Oddball Notes From Puck Themed Week
A column of quirky anecdotes from various locales includes a disappointed Arizona hen failing to brood ostriches, a gendered sample of gala-beaters in New York, and humorous vignettes on a Washington child, an Omaha man’s legacy of coins, a Boston girl not wearing spectacles, a retired pugilist’s career as an expressman, and peculiar characters from Michigan to Georgia and Brooklyn.
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Arizona
New York
Washington
Medical
Omaha
Boston
Beacon Street
Vermont
New England
William Ellis
Michigan
Canada
Horace Moody
Pineville
Chin Bill
van Peyster Hicks-Worth
Hogmet Club
Prince of Wales
Puck
Kansas Tramp Mister
A dialogue exchange describes a Kansas tramp asking for help. A stranger scolds the man for not working and suggests going to the river to bathe and earn a living. A merchant traveler and a tax critic feature in the banter about appearances and livelihoods.
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Kansas
E. T
Cheap irrigation promises profit for small farms
L. B. Pierce describes a simple irrigation system using a $7.50 single action pump and $12 sweep power to draw water from an inexhaustible spring. With 150 feet of hose and 8 feet head, it could irrigate an acre in a day, costing about $20 per thorough irrigation. The piece notes potential savings and profits for berries, strawberries, celery, cabbage, and other crops, citing drought losses and past yields as context.
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Kent
Mill Creek
Cincinnati
Ohio
Pittsburgh
L. B. Pierce
Weighing Versus Measuring in Purchases and Trade
Prairie Farmer argues scales are fairer than measures for selling goods. Weighing reduces fraud, ensures buyers get bargained quality, and protects both sides. Farmers should own scales and weigh all sales. measuring only when scales unavailable.
Farm and kitchen tips from Rural New Yorker column
Practical notes on feeding cows and hogs with clover hay and scalded cotton meal or oil meal for milk production, plus shad baked in milk and potato water to protect fabrics. Milking skill, jelly and jam tips, corn cultivation, strawberry shortcake recipe, and roof painting advice for preserving shingles.
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New Yorker
Training Peach Trees for Strong Branching in Pruning
The speaker favors a moderately high head for peach trees with first limbs starting four and a half to five feet above ground. He explains training to form obtuse angles, using pruing, bending, and ties to keep limbs in position, and warns against limbs starting at same height to avoid weak, dead spots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. H. Riehl
Manure Use Outlined As Superior Fertilizer Guide
The article argues barn manure is more universally useful than special fertilizers in all soils. It notes its carbonaceous content aids moisture retention and nutrient absorption, improves soil texture, and suggests mixing bone dust plaster marl air-slaked lime and superphosphate with yard manure in thin alternating layers for better intermixture.
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Chicago Journal
Granging and Garden Tips for Small Fruits and Potatoes
Practical farming guidance on choosing acreage use for better returns, tool upkeep, and crop care. Tips cover hoeing versus digging for weeds, sharpening tools, preserving implements, cultivating sweet potatoes and lettuce, soil prep for lettuce, breaking soil crusts, weather effects on crops, daily weed control, and managing white clover as a persistent weed.
Commercial Gleanings and Industrial Notes
Belgium produces about one third of Europe’s zinc and bone ashes lead in phosphorus. Waite pine found in South Carolina rivals Oregon timber for masts. New England oleomargarine output averages 4,000,000 pounds annually. U S wool imports total 3,000,000 worth of goods in 25 years. California raisins and figs may be displaced by domestic production. Cocoa war grows with new German Dutch and French varieties. Frans Wade, twelve, travels for a Buffalo oil firm. Sawopost fuels Pacific coast mills as wood and coal rise. Brazil supplies 69 percent of coffee imports at cheaper per pound costs.
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Europe
Belgium
Oregon
South Carolina
New England
United States
California
Frans Wade
Buffalo Oil Company
Pacific
Brazil
Dr. Pierce’s Medicines Promoted With Guarantees and Ads
An array of patent medicine notices tout Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Pellets with money-back guarantees, plus boastful claims for other tonics and soaps. The page includes theatrical notes, household items, and humor about nerves, indulgent lifestyles, and consumer goods like Dobbins’ Soap and Hill’s Dye.
Grain and live stock prices from New York markets
June 24 market report lists prices for wheat corn oats pork hogs cattle and wool with standard quality grades from Chicago Kansas City and Omaha exchanges. Prices shown include No. 2 red wheat 94 1 0. corn 42 43. oats 34 34% and cattle hogs and sheep values across regions with dairy butter eggs and lard also noted.
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New York
Chicago
Lehees
Orcas Kansas City
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Paul
Revere
Penn
Hancock
Jefferson
Franklin
Morris
Helen Chase
Good Housekeeping
Mirko
Walt
M. Thayer Rouse
North America
The
Illinois Horticultural Society
Dr. Pierce
McVicker’s Theater
Carter
America
Americans
Glenn
Hill
Persimmons
B. F. Johnson & Co
Richmond
Adams
Oregon Immigration Board
Portland
Brooklyn
Ead Sea
Isaac Thompson
Tue
Charles A. Vogeler
C.o
Baltimore, Md
Tutt
Murray St
Swift
Joan Dem
Peru
Ind
Joan F. Hearn
Auburn
Ala
Swipt Specific Co
Atlanta
McMullen Woven Wire Fence CO
North Market
Ontario Sts
Ill
Adfield Regulator CO
Atlanta, GA
Clybourn Avenue
Chicaco
Wissina
Dickey
Soo” Railway
Minneapolis
Minn
Ax 'Jones
Binghamton
B. Chamberlain
Frances E. Re
Evorz
Aki Almacy CO
Washington, D
Ziegl
Adams Beeel
A. Cormick & Sons
Cincinnati, O
RS Stee
Holly
Mick
Canoa
D. WV. de Wit
Washington Street
Ingalls & Co
Louisville
Geo
A. Scott
York
Loomington
Nice L. Law School
Circularad
Kk. M. Benjamin
Amazoo
Americn School OF Telegrapily
Madison
Win
Amma
Nake Nio
Hood
Bae
Ella A Gorv
Terrace Street
Maia
C. J. Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowell
Maat
U.S. A
Garriron
Jofn Hall
18Th St. N.Y
Dearborn St
Paris
W. Baker
Channon CO
Market St
Catalgue Price
Joseph H.hunter
Washington, D.C
C. M. Henderson & CO Custom Ae
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Lac
Dexiand
C. Ms. Henderson & CO
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