Excerpt from The National Magazine, Vol. 25: An Illustrated American Monthly; October, 1906-March, 1907 The Agricultural Department reports nu paralleled bumper crops from all sections; the Department of Commerce and Labor records unusual industrial activities and 1906 is certainly chronicled as a golden era of prosperity in the history of the nation. As one grim philosopher remarked, standing before the mint. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.