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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1909
Page
7
Washington dispatch outlines President Taft’s horizontal stroll through the capital and his pending railroad policy and tariff ideas. It notes potential fights over stock watering, physical valuation, and a proposed tariff commission, plus a renewed subsidy ship bill amid treasury cuts.
In a short exchange from the Philadelphia Call Bagley admits he slaves from dawn to night to get rich and hopes to die worth a million Pompano counters that tastes vary and he would settle for half a million.
The article projects a vast crop harvest with corn at 3,000,000,000 bushels and wheat at 700,000,000, plus cotton oats hay potatoes vegetables and live stock value. It highlights irrigation dry farming and power farming as paths to fuller production and questions equitable distribution in a rich land.
Howells describes a nightmare in which he feels being kicked by the foot of the bed while Powell and Howell discuss the strange episode in a brief New York Press note.
A quoted exchange about money and guidance reveals a cynical smile and a mother's response as a lesson in financial restraint and family dynamics.
The piece notes ice hardness rises with colder temperatures and cites long ago reports from St Petersburg where an ice house with ice walls and even ice cannons withstood explosions. It mentions ice palaces built in this country and Canada that stood for weeks, illustrating extraordinary ice strength in massive formations.
Peckham greets an old friend Dingley after ten years. They reminisce about life and Peckham asks about his wife while Dingley notes she is still the boss.
A compact proverb stating that profit cannot occur when costs surpass gains, attributed to Plautus.
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