Roosevelt appoints five to study farm life improvement
A five member commission will report on methods to improve social conditions for farmers. The plan emphasizes making farm life attractive to keep the best workforce in rural areas, alongside ongoing gains in irrigation roads and rural services. Suggested measures include postal savings banks rural parcel post cooperative buying and better rural schooling to prepare children for farm work.
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Lfe
Department of Agriculture
Lami
Ife
Last traces of East India Company fade from India office ties
The article recalls Sir Philip Hutchins retiring from the council of India on July 21 and the dissolution of the old East India Company’s role after 1858. It notes his career from 1857 in Madras civil service, his 1898 appointment to the council of India, and the end of the company’s influence as the empire modernizes. It shifts to Paname excavation progress, dam and lock construction plans, and remarks on aircraft fuel needs, citing Delagrange’s speed on a 24 hour flight and Chicago poll issues.
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East India Company
Government of India
Sir Philip Hutchins
Council of India
Sir Philip
Old Company
Madras
India
Judicial
India Office
Paname
Agsiant
Excerpted Romance of Stella and Alfred Ends in Transformations
A long, tangled fiction follows Stella Anthony from a dangerous railroad plot and a murder accusation to wealth, high society, and a stormy romance with Alfred. Key figures include Gideon, Vincent, Cadwallader, and Esther, with Nina, Sally, and Alvin Carter shaping social upheavals in a rail town. The narrative blends danger, elopements, disguises, and a dramatic reunion as Stella becomes Esther and navigates loyalty, love, and charity.
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Anthony
Ler
RTE Oby
Eee
Vincent
Diana
Deine Bune
Stella
Ste
Gideon
Jetter
Ste Flora
Alfred
Alfred Vincent
Esther Anthony
Wassar
San Francisco
Ing
Stalin
Alvin Carter
Viola
Sally B
Sally Band
Saya
Stata
Varrant
Worlis
Silent Rails and Secret Plans on a Winter Ride
Alfred recalls his past and Gideon’s rescue as Esther tends his head wound on a long journey north. They discuss Max Ober’s ruin, their future finances, and Alfred’s resolve to earn his name while facing danger, poverty, and a looming deadline before the train stops at the frontier.
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Alfred
Esther
Stella
Max
Max Ober
Mephistophelian
Boston
Gideon
Sally B.wen
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Ad Claims Cure
A dated testimonial recalls backache relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter from Mrs Will Young and others touts the product as a standard female remedy for displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors and related symptoms, urging women to try it.
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Lydia EF. Pinkhart
Will Young
Columbia Ave
Lydia E. Pinkham
Augustus Lyon
East Earl
Pinkham
Sixty Avenue Transfer and the Hot Sunday Church Scene
A letter to the New York Times recalls a crowded Thirty-third Street car at a heavy transfer point. A youth slips into a seat a stout woman claims, she threatens to strike, another young man asks for permission to sit, and she calls him a gentleman while others stare. In a separate tale, a boy questions church attendance on a hot day, only to hear his father say Satan is more around in heat.
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Alfred
Esther
Anthony
Dooly
Arcadia
Annabel
Virginia
Amabel Hamilton
Sacramento
Gideon
Saint George
San Francisco
E Company
Healiay
Cadwallader
Dad
Elke
Toano
Billy
Sixt Avenue
New York Times
Hoga
Satan
NO GUSHER Sut Tells Facts About Postum
A Wisconsin woman testifies that eight years of using Postum three times daily relieved dyspepsia bloating after meats and headaches from coffee withdrawal. She says her parents and husband also improved after switching, and they now drink Postum with every meal.
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Postum
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