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Library of Congress1883

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 14, 1882, a tabular statement exhibiting the number of farms or plantations sold in the States of Virginia, Florida, Arkansas, and Tennessee, under an act for the collection of direct taxes in insurrectionary districts within the United States. February 26, 1883. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance. March 3, 1883. -- Ordered to be printed

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Library of Congress1884

How the public domain has been squandered, map showing the 139,403,026 acres of the people's land - equal to 871,268 farms of 160 acres each, worth at $2 an acre, $278,806,052, given by Republican Congresses to railroad corporations

On sheet below map "We believe that the public lands ought, as far as possible, to be kept as homesteads for actual settlers; that all unearned lands heretofore improvidently granted to railroad corporations by the action of the Republican party should be restored to the public domain; and that no more grants of land shall be made to corporations, or be allowed to fall into the ownership of alien absentees. Democratic platform, 1884." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Conserved; 003273.103 1977 Library of Congress Conservation Division. For treatment information, contact the Preservation Directorate. https://ask.loc.gov/preservation pda Exhibition: Maps for an Emerging Nation: Commercial Cartography in Nineteenth-century America, Aug. 8-Oct. 20, 1977 .

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Library of Congress1859

Map of Floyd County, Indiana : showing the townships sections divisions and farm lands with the owners' names and number of acres, together with roads, rivers, creeks, railroads, &c &c

"Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1859 by P. O'Beinre in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Includes statistical table, views of public, residential, and commercial buildings. LC copy mounted on linen. LC Land ownership maps, 144 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1915

Image 19 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), May 4, 1915

FARMS FOH XALR THE LIFE OP LUXURY FARM LIFE IN VIRGINIA Affluence cannot buy the same quality mind ease and comfort anvwhere else I SELL FARMS AND ASSIST FINANCIAIXY Farms of every sortdairy stok poultry and general lauds J M KINCIIELOE 45 Pa ave nw Washington D C FR SALE OR ETI ANGETRU K AND POULTRY FARM within D C line 7 ares ellar hot water heat screened porch fruit large stable one car fare price 4550 easy erms At once Ilx Star office MR SAlECHEAPSEVERAL SMALL FARMS and modern home near city excellent car service l et lis know yonr wants WILLIAMS CO East Falls Church Va 1000 BARGAIN HOMES AND FARMS Dandy fruit garden and poultry farm 10 acres Sr dwelling barn poultry plant 1000 liens Only S50OO l mile D C In Md near cars BOOTHS FARM AGENCY 70 10th Ft n w 4 MY 5000 NEARBY VIRGINIA FARM home of 40 acres 10room dwelling porches barn fine orchard best of soil near Vienna and trllev pHTHS FARM AGENCY 700 lOth at n w 4 FOR SALEFARMS AND COUNTRY HOMES In northern Virginia and Maryland conven lent to National Capital high and healthful free from malaria lowest

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Library of Congress1907

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 17, 1907

THE FARM HOME MAKER The Importance of Good Citizenship on the Farm President Roosevelt at Keokuk Iowa You in Iowa have many mauutac taring centers but you remain aiul I hope you will always remain a great agricultural State I hope that the means of transporting your com modities to market will be steadily im proved but this will be of no use un less you keep producing the commodi ties and in the long run this will large ly depend upon your being able to keep on the farm a high type of citizenship The effort must be to make farm life not only remunerative but attractive so that the best young men and girls will feel inclined to stay on the farm and not to go to the city Nothing is more important to thiscountry than the perpetuation of our system of mediumsized farms worked by their owners We do not want to see our farmers sink to ttie condition of the peasants of the Old World harelv able to live on their small holdings lior do we want to see their places taken by wealthy men owning enormous estates which they work purely by tenants and hired

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Library of Congress1961

Image 1 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), March 25, 1961

THIS IS NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEEK Patronize Our Advertis P A V iP1 J ackson Gs Advocate VOLUME XIVNUMBER 21 JACKSON MISSISSIPPI SATURDAY MARCH 25 1961 PRICE TEN CENTS President Salutes National Negro Press Week DUKE UNIVERSITY TO ADMIT NEGRO STUDENTS __l NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION MAKES PLAN TO DEDICATE FOUR HUNDRED ACRE TRACT FOR HOMES FOR TENNESSEE NEGRO SHARECROPPER FAMILIES Tract To Be Known As National Baptist Convention Freedom Farm Farm Seen As First Attempt To Put Into Practic J H Jackson Plan Of Racial Self Help A ChicagoAll arrangements for the purchase of this farm were completed last week and it is now in the possession of the National Baptist Convention U S A Inc Dr J H Jackson president an nounced that there will be a re ligious service edication on the land this week The farm is lo cated near Mason Tenn in Fay ette County Two new four room houses are now in the process of being constructed and the other four houses are being repaired The farm will be ready for occu pancy by March 21st The farm can accommodate at least seven families The first preference will be given to the residents of Tent

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Library of Congress1908

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 24, 1908

u 1 Wealth By The Billions Tears Farm Products Worth 7 778000000 Washington December 14th After twelve years of service as head of the Department the Secretary of Agricul ture in his twelfth annual report to the President issued today renders a com prehensive account of his stewardship and presents a review of the progress of agriculture in the United States during this period Concerning the farm pro duction of 1908 he says that the farmer has created wealth by the billions Pro duction has been above the average of recent years with few exceptions and while some prices have fallen others have risen The farm value of all farm products ot 1908 reaches the most extraordinary total in the nations history7778000000 This is about four times the value of the products of the mines including mineral oils and precious metals The gain in value of farm products in 1908 over 1907 is 290000000 and would have been much larger had not the prices of cotton and hay been low Greatest of all crops is Indian corn whose production this year is 2543090000 bushels The value of this crop is 1015000000 It seems likely that the cotton crop is one

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Library of Congress1904

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 22, 1904

MORE WALDO COUNTY HORSES The Pearl Brook Farm String From Turf Farm and Home Last week we noticed some of the horses at Pearl Brook farm owned by Mr M B Smith of Hartford Conn but were not able to mention them all The string is headed by the well known stallion Marston C 219 three years old by Piedmont 219 dam Maiden 223 by Electioneer weighs 1250 lbs stands 10 hands and can brush a two minute gait This is a great horse and is getting some very high class colts They also have in the stud the elegant stallion Directum Poster by Directum dam by Gen Washington This colt is only three years old stands 153 and weighs 1085 lbs can step fast on the trot and is a desirable horse to breed to A very handsome colt on this farm is the three year old thoroughbred stal lion Handunder by the great sire Hindoo sire of Handspring etc This colt is a golden chestnut stands 15 2 12 and weighs 1000 lbs has a trial mile in 141 and is as clean and racy looking as a greyhound Mr Smith uses him as a pacemaker and will

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Library of Congress1907

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 28, 1907

Maines herbalist Abandoned Farm Made to Pay Good Money You Can Smell His Catnip Crop Half a Mile Away Boston Sunday Globe The story of how William K Burgess of East Bucksport has managed one of Maines famous abandoned farms aud won prosperity and considerable fame from land that was cluttered with loose stones and iufested with pernic ious weeds deserves to be elevated into a treatise on agricultural economics and a place in the libraries of agricultural colleges Less than 20 years ago when Mr Burgess went to East Bucksport from a farm in Monroe Me he was rich in health and hope though poor in finan cial resources so when he had bought two adjoining tarms on the shores of Long pondboth of which had been cropped clear down to hard pan and undergone the process which Maine farmers term skinning until there was nothing left to skinhe found himself at 35 years of age without an available dollar in the world and hitch ed to a barren hillside farm which according to local report was not able to sustain a pair of rabbits The first thing which Mr Burgess needed was ready money Local ways of securing

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Library of Congress1907

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 3, 1907

FAR WEST FARMER Bruce 6 Eaton and Bis Farm of 23000 Acres A visitor from the west came to Springfield the other day and has gout away with the impression that the Con neticut valley is the prettiest place that he has ever seen This man was Bruce G Eaton theownerof a little farm in Colorado near the town ol Greeley which is in the center of one of the richest farming sections of the state and thanks to irrigation one ol the best of the country Mr Eatons little farm comprises at present 23000 acres of which 1300 are under cultivation and Mr Eaton is making preparations to till about 500C more the coming year Mr Eaton is the son of one of the pioneers of that section who crossed the plains in 1850 Mr Eaton was married about 1C years ago his wife being a native ol Colorado bat also a graduate of Mt Holyoke college so that they have a tie with the east The town in which they live is Greeley named after Hor ace Greeley and it is a beautiful town about 52 miles north of Denver The homestead was but the begin ning of

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Library of Congress1921

Image 8 of The Glasgow courier (Glasgow, Mont.), May 13, 1921

r H S X New Millinery for Sports Wear Just received a shipment of Sport Hats These are just what you need to complete your Sports oufit We are also pleased to announce that we have Hose to match all our new shades in grey pumps SPECIAL Crochet cottons Coats and other standard makes on sale at 10 and 12 cents per ball Hosiery and Underwear Odd lots of hosiery and un derwear on sale at 25 percent off mpcuiim tyUQccdâCh I nc STATE COUNCIL AGRICULTURE Montana Farm and Livestock Inter ests United On Questions of Common Value Helena May 11Organization of a Montana Council of Agriculture through which farm and livestock in terests of the state can express them selves in a unitçd way on questions of commort interest was launched at the capitol in Helena Monday by repre sentatives of farm brççd and allied associations An executive committee of five was named to draft a consti j tution and bylaws and report back at a meeting that probably will be held at Helena next fair week George M Lewis of Manhattan secretary of the Montana Pure Bred Sheep Association is chairman of the committee and the other members

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Library of Congress1942

Image 2 of The Poplar standard (Poplar, Mont.), December 10, 1942

Poplar Montana The Poplar Standard And Continuation Of The Brockton Bulletin OFFICIAL PAPER OF ROOSEVELT COUNTY DENNIS DELGER PUBLISHER The Best In Newspaper And Job Printing Service Subscription 200 Per Year Entered as second class matter on May 10 1910 at the post office at Poplar Montana under the Act of March 3 1879 FARMISTICE A new word coinage has found its way into the American way of expression and it is due to claim future notice Farmis tice the coinage of farm and armistice means just what it sug gestspeace along the farm front Food will win the war and write the peace Perhaps then the next armistice will be farmistice for definitely the farm will have a place in writing the next peace Our nationalistic views regarding our standpoint are vastly changing and our ideas concerning standards are also undergo ing considerable change For years people of the Eastern states considered those people of the West and middle West as lacking in uptotheminute understanding of national functions and re lations Now it appears that where an individual lives means nothing according to his scope of intelligence Several years ago there occasionally appeared an individual from the interior cap

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