Oil mill profits and cotton seed pricing forces in the South
An analysis of the rising oil milling industry in the South and the split between independent mills and oil trusts. It explains seed by products values, profit margins per ton, and the need for farmers to secure fair seed prices while supporting local mills to curb trust power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
South Atlantic
Gulf States
Iti
Cotton Xeed Oil Trust
Ita
Sterl Trust
Meat Trust
Cantona
Camak
Toquity Department
Atlanta Journal
Abe
Weason
Ousa
Oil Mill Trust
Clothes Of Men And Women In Fashion Debate
A Lady's Pictorial essay discusses whether men or women best judge clothing fits. It notes women spot mistakes in ties hats and coats while men may better choose what suits the female form, urging mutual fashion dialogue and less insistence on fashion as virtue.
Venomous Bird of New Guinea Described as Bird of Death
A student of ornithological oddities notes a venomous New Guinea bird called the bird of death. The small gray creature with a red tipped tail is barely pigeon sized, flight limited, and easy to catch. Bites cause severe pain, blindness, convulsions, lockjaw, and Death typically occurs within two hours with no antidote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Guinea
Oriental Logic and the Missing Meat Mystery
A husband buys three pounds of meat for dinner then leaves for work. The hungry wife eats it and claims the cat did. He returns, asks for dinner, weighs the cat, and asks where the meat is if the cat weighed three pounds. The paradox hinges on the cat’s weight versus the meat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper’s Magazine
Foreign rivals imitate American locomotives impacting exports
A Atlanta Journal article notes British and other foreigners shift from denigrating American invention to matching it. U.S. locomotive exports fell from 525 units worth 5.59 million in 1900 to 365 units worth 3.26 million in the year to June 30 1902, with Europe hardest hit and England Ireland Scotland recording zero sales. Canada, South America, Japan and Canada saw gains, while some manufacturers fear Britain uses US engines as samples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
England
Ireland
Scotland
Canada
South America
Japan
Cand
United States
Manly
Atlanta
Jourbal
Wu Ting Fang speaks to Americans to show Chinese views
The article recalls Wu Tingfang’s US visits aimed at countering immigrant stereotypes that fed exclusion laws. It quotes his playful remarks about Treasurer Elis H. Roberta and a church committee visit, then shifts to brief local notices and ads mentioning Chamberlain’s tablets and Prickly Ash Bitters as health aids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wu-ting-fang
United States
Washington
Elis H. Roberta
Roberta
China
Roberts
Mr. Wu
Stops the Cough and Cures a Cold in One Day
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets promise quick relief from cold symptoms with a pay-if-not-satisfied offer. Priced at 25 cents, the ad emphasizes fast action and no risk to the purchaser.
The Graduate Horse Learns to Face Automobiles in Lenox
Despite doubts about teaching horses not to fear motor traffic, Lenox Massachusetts reports excellent results with over one hundred horses completing a course. Before lessons they pricked their ears and balked at autos, but after graduation they were unafraid of even the oddest machines in town, though memory durability remains to be seen. Chamberlain's Cairo Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is advertised as widely reputed and safe, sold by Ort-Gray & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry L. Shattuck
Shellaburg
Towa
Chamberlain
Orr-Gray & Co
Evans Pharmacy
Lenox
Mass
Cairo
Ort-Gray & Qo
Advice From Three Nations On a Problematic Servant
In London a speaker recounted a tale where an Englishman bluntly urged dismissal, a Scotchman advised docking wages, and an Irishman proposed raising wages for a servant who boasted about spurious breath. The master grappled with the conflicting counsel and the servant’s troublesome conduct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
The Busy Bee and Clover Sugar Gathering
The article explains how a bee visits many clover heads to collect sugar. Each head has about sixty flower tubes, and a bee must probe around six thousand flowers to obtain a full load. A bee makes twenty trips daily near the hive, drawing sugar from roughly 120 000 flowers in one day.
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Margie Jordan
Georgia
Massachusetts
Itiaat
Scott
Joe Teena
Scott & Bowne
Ahs
Earl Street
New York
Nenen Oon
Confu
Vandiver
Vandiver Bros
Anderson
Avatr
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W. M. Waeltnce
Tolv
W. M. Wallace
Paul E. Stephens
Easel
John & Campbell
Anderson County
Sevan
Ts G. Een
A. Law
Indeinon
P' Om
Dorpus
Aim
Gold Dust Twins
Beaton
Cnet Cerest Oval Fairy
Connnrom Creek
Walhalla
Churel
Enknol
J. P
W. Stelling
Councross
Oennes County
Evans Pharmacy Special Agents
Pendleton
Pendleton Collegiate Institute
Jusioy Olnas Stave Lleges
D. W. Richardson
W. F. Strickland
Job
The
Peoples Furniture CO
Bank OF Anderson
Brown
BP Mablbos
Ona Osshler
Ry County
Ates Rat
Eee
Aoea Ouatommery
MB. A. T. Skelton
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Nderson Mutual Fire
Buranoce CO
EG. McAdams
Anderbor
Probate
Charleston
Rolina
Mineuaoar Cue
Brangusis
Greenwood
Andoroi
Laurens
Glenn
Besafort
Ae Horleston Ighan
Beenewre
Tlokuis
Augusta
Pia i A
Blue Ridge Railroad
Se Ind
Dasly Bally
Florida
W. Gd Craig
Gen
Passager’ Ant
Wilmleyton
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