Washington Post and poultry along with farming shifts
The Washington Post discusses regional farming shifts in Texas Mississippi Alabama and Georgia with crop rotations involving potatoes followed by cotton. It notes that good cotton seed yields strong results and references shifts away from cotton as food production remains important. The piece also contrasts farm labor wealth in Mississippi and Iowa and includes publication and postal details from July 11 1910.
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Texas
Missisasppi
Alabama
Georgia
Faravere
Bull Alexandria
Mississippi
Iowa
Washington Post CO
Washington, DC
Washington, D.C
Forsium
Paul Block
Fifth Avenue
New York
Steger Buffalo
Chicago
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Senor Creel and Taft Clash Over Mediation in Nicaragua
The piece reports Senor Creel’s mediation proposal for Nicaragua drawing a cool US response from President Taft. It notes Mexico’s antagonism toward the United States, Zelaya’s ouster context, and the prospect of a Pan American Congress in Buenos Aires as Latin American nations voice disapproval without openly scolding the US.
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Senor
Taft Mihile
Art
Presseleo
Washington
Elata
Mexico
Tafts
Nicaragua
Madriz
Fis
de Ois
Knox
Fants
Iohn Rodriguez
United States
State Department
Puaragua
Buenos Aires
A Comment From India On Western Women And Royal Etiquette
The Maharanee of Baroda and Princess Indiraraja share a rare interview in Manhattan. They note no pins on their silk robes, implying steady restraint, and discuss gender roles, industrial education for women, and their views on American and European manners. Thessekwar comments on robert Roosevelt and the kinship of sportsmen worldwide.
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Maharanee
Baroda
Indiraraja
Manhattan
London
Thessekwar
Col. Roosevelt
Southern Farm Products and the boll weevil’s indirect boon
Harria Dickson, after inspecting the boll weevil impact, argues that the pest has prompted credit diversification for Southern farms. The shift moves away from single-crop dependence on cotton toward varied crops and livestock like cattle and hogs, aligning with agricultural education campaigns and improved regional credit structures.
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Harria Dickson
Department of Agriculture
Air Law on the Air Beyond Legal Control
English legal journals analyze air sovereignty and international jurisdiction while Curtiss tests expose the limits of existing law. The piece argues that aviation outpaces statutes as airships defy military confines and question policing schemes for the evolving airspace.
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America
Curtiss
Washington Eyes Grand Army Reunion For Atlantic City
The Washington Chamber of Commerce convention committee aims to explore a Grand Army of the Republic reunion in Atlantic City. Washington has not hosted the survivorship rally since 19%, but veterans across the country number over half a million and may convene for a final grand gathering near Pennsylvania Avenue, where veterans once passed in review in 1865.
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Washington
Washington Chamber of Commerce
Atlantic City
Grant
Sherman
Shendan
Pennsylvania Avenue
American Securities Leaders Back Market Amid Bears News
London dispatches quote Elbert H. Gary and Carlsbad reports carry views of Paul Morton James Speyer and Daniel G. Reid supporting American securities. They say crop yields will be average and the nation can endure legislation with confidence. They condemn bears undermining public trust and urge continuing to gather the crop.
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Bears
Wall Street
London
Elbert II
Gary
America
Carlsbad
Paul Morton
James Speyer
Daniel G. Reid
Gary, Speyer
Reid
Morton
Schools clash over standards and college control
High school principals at the National Education Association convention in Boston challenge college admission standards and critique collegiate training. They condemn professors as ineffective, claim students focus on trivial pursuits, and argue high school graduates think more clearly than many college students. The piece also surveys postwar migration and Southern demographic shifts, noting debates on education, immigration, and politics shaping the era.
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National Education Association
Boston
H. P. Kingsley
Brooklyn
New York City
William McAndrew
Alma Mater
Michigan
Freeman
Marquette
Mich
Raleigh
Upper Peninsula
Sault Ste Marie
Ontonagon
Post Philosophy and Idle Musings on Life and Time
A fragmentary meditation on money excuses for nonsettlement and patience. It notes that listeners are scarce, delaying can reveal wisdom, perseverance matters in revival, and boasting over others' wins pays little. It also jokes about adding water to loads, invention progress, hesitation improving forecasts, and idle hands untying lovers’ knots.
Remembering Hens and a Glittering Dinner
A wealthy New Yorker, newly enriched, hosts a grand dinner with a wife in jewels. Amid the feast he recalls a humble past, noting how his wife once shook the tablecloth to feed hens, while a servant clears crumbs.
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New York
Jennie
Small Depositors and Banking Costs Debate
Readers react to a New York Times letter by Paying Teller that attacked the cost of serving small bank depositors. The piece argues the cost division is flawed, notes indirect benefits of small accounts, and urges bankers to value customer goodwill and public favor.
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Oll
New York Times
Tellier
Telier
Return of the Natives From the New York Sun
A gray haired man describes jubilee across Onarga Illinois Mount Pisgah Ohio and Salem Iowa as venerable locals return home for a week long visit. He notes how society pages trumpet distant summers and reveal native roots of adopted New Yorkers amid tales of lawyers bankers and doctors visiting small places.
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Onarga
Ill
Mount Pisgah
Ohio
Salem
Yowa
New York
New Yorker
Wall Street
Sun
Tam
Lawyer Green
Olive Branch
Oh.o
Ibsen and the Business of Drama in His Time
The article reflects on how Henrik Ibsen’s works like Brand and Peer Gynt, set to music by Grieg, connected with commerce and practical affairs. It notes that his focus on prosaic business matters and logical, unconventional treatment broadened his influence beyond Scandinavia.
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George Rockhill Craw
Henrik Ibsen
Grieg
Ibsen
Curse of Monks on Newstead Abbey and Byron lore
The article recounts the Newstead Abbey saga tied to Lord Byron, noting a curse on the estate, monk’s skull drinking cup, and violent deaths in Byron’s lineage. It follows ownership shifts to Sir Herbert Chermside, travels to Australia, and return to Europe. Also mentions Boatswain’s tomb and Sir Hudson Kearley’s peerage amid tea fortunes.
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Andermatt
Switzerland
Newstead Abbey
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Childe Harold
Don Juan
Henry II
St. Thomas
Becket
Henry VIII
John Byron
Newstead
Order of the Skull
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Annesley Hall
Mary Chaworth
Annesley
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Greece
Chermside
William Frederick Webb
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Col
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Lora Byron
Kingacote
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Boatswain
Byron
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Lipton
Hudson Kearley
Sir Thomas Lipton
Ceylon
Assam
Messrs. Kearley & Tong
Devonport
Privy Council
Hetas
Marlow
Denbigh
Wales
Reform Club
Tondon
Tany
Marquire DE Fontenoy
The
Brentwood Company
Critics warn against overgeneralizing student outcomes
The passage argues earning capacity in teaching the young is shaped by individual factors rather than superstition. It notes alumni reverence for college, the potential for ethical aims over money, and the idea that advanced study does not preclude business success. It highlights high schools as a potent democratic element.
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King Lear
Money to Burn in the Western States
A New York Commercial article reports that Missouri Kansas Iowa and Nebraska banks found about 18 million dollars sent west for land purchases and 50 million for automobiles recently. It argues this drain on regional resources risks future hardship as wheat hog prices and other gains vary.
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New York
St. Joseph
Graham G. Lacey
Missouri
Kansas
Iowa
Nebraska
Women and Suffrage From scribner's
An essay argues that maternal instinct drives women more than reason, praising rooted natural law over masculine argument. It contends that women act from inherent nature, not for abstract causes, and notes that strong-minded women often possess deep affection and true womanliness, despite masculine skepticism.
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Scribner's
Lucifer
Hens Not Stupid Merely Following Instincts
Opinion piece from the New York Times argues that hens and other animals behave instinctively when faced with cars and predators. It contends that flight patterns reflect ancestral lessons and that only in rare cases might hens adapt, while praising natural limits of animal intelligence.
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New York Times
Envelopes Without Stamps and Farm Queries Reach Congress
A Texas congressman cites a constituent letter as an example of Washington overreach. The note asks for white, prepaid envelopes with the sender’s name, and includes requests on hog mange cures, training pointers, and fish tanks. The writer signs as J J Saropson.
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Success Magazine
Texas
Washington
Professionals in Demand in Success Magazine
Irison Swett Marden argues that high fees for top professionals reflect years of specialized training and readiness for rare emergencies. Surgeons and lawyers earn large sums because exceptional skill, nerve, and precise technique enable life saving, high stakes operations when ordinary methods fail.
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Irison Swett Marden
Success Magazine
Mike Elihu Root
Parole System Upheld by Illinois Supreme Court
The 1899 Illinois parole statute, granting a board power to release prisoners on parole under conditions, was upheld by the state supreme court after earlier reversal. The ruling affects hundreds of paroled inmates, with about 400 to be released soon, while sparking debate on penology and judicial influence.
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The
Philadelphia Inquirer
State of
Ilinois
Board of Parole
Supreme Court of
Supreme Court
Angler's Faith Endures Through Hard Luck in Verse
From the Denver Republican a poem in mock rustic diction praises the fishing hobby. It muses on gear repairs, friendly misfires, and patience as the angler faces a dry spell yet remains hopeful, clings to a fisher microbe, and imagines triumph after a day of scant catches.
Cannibalism in an Odd Old Book Poem
An archaic verse in a Chicago Record-Herald fragment muses on a mythical history where bread and fish are savored without dishes. It parodies biblical Lot and ends with a provocative line linking salt to kinship as the reader imagines eating what one is born from.
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Kendal
Chicago
Roosevelt
George A. Manning
Cheyenne
Woo
Ebbitt
Africa
Rocky Mountain States
Roches
The Fattening Season in a Rural Met Magazine Excerpt
A satirical piece contrasts the mass export of farm wealth with local feeding practices, warning that long-standing habits fatten external markets while left lean at home. The mock dialogue and dialect scene from Puck adds texture to the observation of economic shift and cultural voice.
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Metropolitan Magazine
Reflections of a Bachelor from the New York Press
A compact observational piece notes that excuses cloak failure while faith in unprovable things sustains women. It jokes that money works when ahead of pursuit and that inner ribbons prove true dress, and it laments the mean impulse of men who beat others rather than let them prevail.
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New York Press
Pointed Paragraphs From the Chicago News
A compact, satirical look at public life from Chicago journalism. The piece mocks flattery in politics and the paradoxes of influence and power, noting shifts from witch hunts to political roasting and the evolving reach of wireless politics.
Interviews with Capital's Visitors Highlight Sea Surprises and Women's Rise
At Riggs House John Cornwall of Albany recalls a magazine tale of a man washed overboard saved by a rope and a ship’s lucky lurch. Elia Flagg Young’s Boston Educational Association win signals growing female influence amid suffrage talk and political clout.
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John 4. Cornwall
Albany
N. Y
Riggs House
Egypt
National Line
Sumner
Goods Not Cheaper Abroad in Atlantic Shopper View
In a cheeky column the writer argues American goods rival foreign wares at lower prices. It notes travelers seek Paria and London for wardrobe replenishment, while domestic shops offer equal style for less money. The piece comments on seasonal price swings and urges shopping at home during winter months.
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Trances
Frear
Leake
Atlantic
Paria
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