Cotton’s resilience amid floods and boll weevil damage
The South pivots from cotton dependence as floods devastate Mississippi Arkansas and Texas while boll weevils hasten pest spread. Despite shortages and late maturity, cotton demand resumes and prices may rise as farmers diversify to truck crops small grains corn peaches cantaloupes watermelons and livestock. Refrigerated car shipments to the North signal broader producing pursuits boosting Dixie wealth.
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South
Mississippi
Arkansas
Texas
Augusta
Dixie Land
Chinese Wages Rise and World Price Trends Highlight Shifts
The article discusses rising wages in China with unskilled labor and craftsmen earning a few dozen cents daily, notes higher living costs, and cites intermittent Chinese employment. It contrasts Chinese labor competition with American jobs, recalls the Chinese Exclusion Act, and surveys global price uptrends, consumer impacts, and industry shifts including corn by products turned into fuels and asks how these trends affect American industry and careers.
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Chung Meng Fui Goi
China
Orient
Mechaniqsr
America
Athens 27 Years Ago Novelty Cigar lighter featured
A Athens store showcases an electric battery lighter that ignites gasoline with a spark when a lever is pulled. Local updates note people traveling, officials visiting, and prospects for an oil mill in Crawford with talk of a broom factory to come to the Crooks mill area.
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Athens Daily Banner
A. H.o'farrell
Henry Brown
Barrow
Augusta
Fred Davis
Georgia
Athens
E. C. Howze
Birmingham
J. W. Long
Milledge Avenue
Anna Hamilton
McLendon
Thomasville
Oglethorpe County News
Crawford
George Little
Martha E. Moore
Clem C. Moore
Mont’h
N. D. Arnold
Vince Arnold
Crooks Mill
Stanocola Yoann Roeneee
Prizes Awarded at Georgia Commencement Exercises
Numerous awards honored students across fields from general excellence to ethics and government. Recipients included Hamilton McWhorter Prize winner in the freshman class and W. J. Bryan prize for an essay on Our Form of Government, with many other gold medals, scholarships, and prizes announced for the 1921 1922 academic year across Georgia.
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Hamilton McWhorter
H. B. Rothchild
Columbus
Board of
Mary White
Cannon
E. H. Dixol
Wrens
W. Bruce Jones Macon
Wilcox
W. J. Bryan
Nebraska
H. M. Cook
Blythe
L. H. Charbonnier
J. F. McGowan
Augusta
C. M. Slack
Gainesville
Bert Michael
Joe Brown Connally
Georgia
Wiliam J. Hart
American Law Food Company
Coursy
T. J. McGee
Clark
E. A. McWhorter
Savannah
W. G. Thomas
Jesup
Board of Trustees
Cotto Productions
L. M. Harmon
Carrollton
Virgingaroling .Chemcal Company
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company
Essay Prizes Awarded for Home Garden and Soil Fertility Studies
The text notes prizes of $10 in gold from Hastings & Company for essays on "The Importance of the Home Garden" and "The Influence of Legumin and Crops of Soil Fertility" awarded to students N. D. and D. Scarborough by H. G. Hastings & Company.
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H. G. Hastings & Company
D. D. Scarborough
D. Dd. Scarborough
Warning Against Calomel Based Liver Remedies
An advertisement warns that calomel salivates the user and harms the mouth and tongue. It endorses Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe, effective substitute, promising quicker relief without sickness and a money-back guarantee. The copy targets bilious symptoms and urges trying the herbal product instead of mercury-based calomel.
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Dodson
Eceaeaey
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