Alabama Crops In Good Condition Says Commissioner Poole
Montgomery July 16 Colonel Robert B Poole state commissioner of agriculture and industries reports the Alabama crop outlook is favorable with cotton likely near average. Rain varies by region with eastern areas best and northern areas weaker. labor scarcity drives smaller acreages and fertilizer use while black lands increasingly respond to fertilizers improving long term productivity.
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Poole
Alabama
Montgomery
Ala
Robert B. Poole
Black Lands
Mr. Poole
Jokes From Across Time and China
A Grand Magazine piece compares ancient and modern humor asking if Chinese jokes hold originality. It outlines three specimens about a barber, a portrait painter, and a doctor, noting cultural caricatures and the enduring wit across eras.
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Hierocles
China
Celestial Empire
Fle
The Newly Rich and the Birth of American Aristocracy
In the period 1865 to 1875 the nouveau riche defined American life as ostentatious spenders with brownstone fronts champagne racks and painted wooden mansions. Many squandered fortunes and passed wealth to heirs while Europe educated Americans in art architecture and refined living, giving rise to a wealth based aristocracy rooted in power and service.
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Europe
United States
H. T. Peck
Bookman
Dr Kings New Life Pills Endorsed By Mrs Mary Brown
Mrs Mary Brown of 20 Lafayette Place Poughkeepsie N Y endorses Dr Kings New Life Pills as a reliable pleasant laxative for stomach liver and bowels Guaranteed by West End Drug Co Elam Ordway Houser at 25e
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Mary Brown
Lafayette Place
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Dr. King
New Life
West End Drug Co
Elam, Ordway & Houser
Paris Groom Flees With Bride’s Jewels and Cash
A man in Paris arranged for his groom to elope with his ugly wife to secure a divorce. The groom complied but absconded with the wife’s jewels and several thousand dollars of the husband’s money.
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Paris
Quip Compares Indians to College Students
In a Chicago Daily News joke exchange, Barbarous Rodrick notes a likeness, and Van Albert jokes that Indians cannot tell their sense from their whoops, reflecting lightheartedRidiculing stereotypes of the era.
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Rodrick
van Albert
Chicago Daily News
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the Anniston Evening Star
First National Bank
U. S. Bonds
Banking House
Alfred L. Tyler, John B. Knox
BE. L. Turner
James ©. Sproull
A. W. Bell, James B. Goodwin
E. L. Tyler, W. L. MeOna
W. W. &Tringfellow
M. B. Wellborn
M. B. Wellborn, A. L., Tyler Jr, Henry A. Young
Cashier
A. J. Goodwin
Moving
Rogers
the Inventor
A.F. Roberts
Elaine
the Miltons
Will
Anniston Electric & Gas Co
Dr. Ray
Diephone
Thomas’ Drug Store
Anniston
10Th St
Carrollton, Ga
J.T. Farta
Atlanta
C. W. C. Medicine Company
Ben
Yours Truly
Claude E. Smith
Brown
Monk & Crumpion
Grocers
Pacific Coast
Northwest
Los Angeles
Ellis
Denver
Colo
Colorado
Portland
Oregon
Southern Pacific
New Orleans
Union Pacific
Kansas City
Chicago
Pullman
Washington
St. Louis
California
R. O. Bean
VIA
Southern Railway
Southern
J. N. Harrison
D. P
Birmingham, Ala
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