Trial of a Murderer and Alaska Tribal Ignorance Adrift
Trial details reveal harsh ignorance and superstition within an Alaska tribe. The text next discusses trial novelties, winter dairying, potato limits for cows, wood ashes on crops, nitrate of soda timing for spring wheat, and challenges in calculating crop profit. It also notes orchard grass as a permanent pasture, drought tolerance, and cautions about poorly maintained implements.
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Alaska
Alaska News
Johnson
Bennett
Truitt
Frank Murray
Hootchinoo
Fjord
Swedish Agricultural College
Why Has Cotton Dropped Fourteen Cents a Pound Ten Years After the Crime
Greenville News notes cotton prices from 1839 to 1849 show sharp declines before the silver standard era. It contrasts Hamburg and New York rates with libertarian–silver arguments and asks why lower prices persisted despite different monetary regimes. The writer questions silver demonetization and calls for reader explanations.
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Greenville Mountaineer
Hamburg
Lathem, Alexander & Co
New York
Financial School
Joe Johnston
Anderson People’s Advocate
Spartanburg Herald
Ben Tillman
Anderson
Spartanburg
England
Greenville
S. C
National Road Parliament Boosts Better Roads Movement
The Christian Work reports on the National Road Parliament at Atlanta, praising state aid for roads and urging wider local and state effort. Massachusetts leads with 400000 annual state road funds, while New Jersey shows strong progress under its $150000 program. convicts aid Western and Southern road building.
Proposes Highway Commission to Promote Road Improvement
A House bill would create a special commission on highways including one senator two representatives the chief of engineers of the army the director of the geological survey and the chief of road inquiry of the department of agriculture. The panel would operate during the current Congress to study scientific road location materials model roads and education at agricultural colleges and experiment stations and would seek reduced transport rates and state cooperation. The measure requires only 10100.95 to be appropriated and emphasizes federal noninterference with state road construction.
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House of Representatives
Committee On Appropriations
Army
Geological Survey
Department of Agriculture
Congress
Military Academy
Interstate Commerce Commission
Crisp
Smithsonian Institution
House
Treasury
Office of
N. Y
The Improvement of Roads Is a National Concern
Wm H Rhawn argues in Southern Cultivator that road quality affects every citizen from producer to consumer. He notes transport costs rise with poor roads, moralizing that bad roads are costly and ultimately harm the nation, urging a national focus on road improvement.
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Wm. H. Rhawn
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Kake
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China
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Buffalo, N. Y
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Yale
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No.1
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the Mail
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Jamestown
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Newton Cass
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Medicine Co
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