The Bell System and the Evolution of Telephone Art
The Bell System credits its pioneering research department and vast engineering staff for defining telephony. It outlines long history of rapid improvements to receivers, transmitters, switchboards, and underground lines, noting milestones from 1905 to 1915 in long distance and underground dialogue.
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Bell
Bell Company
New York
Washington
Boston
Atlantic Seaboard
Denver
United States
San Francisco
Bell System
Four County Fair Manager Sees Big Plans for Athens
Scott Jackson of Commerce Washington talks up a robust Four County Fair model aimed at Athens with early year planning, strong farm exhibits, women’s projects and a strict no racing Midway. He envisions a perpetual Northeast Georgia fair backed by 20 percent returns and railroad access from six directions.
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Scott Jackson
Jackson
Four County Fair Association
Midway
Athens
South
Georgia
Southern Railroad
State College of Agriculture
Macon
Augusta
State Agricultural Society
Macona
Georgia Fair Association
Wheat market firms on higher cables and moisture hopes
Chicago March 18 The wheat market opened firmer on higher cables and bets of moisture in the Southwest. Talk of suspending the Spanish import duty and a drop in Northwestern receipts supported gains, while corn faced profit taking despite a cash demand surge from Kansas.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Argentin
Kansas
Market News Middling Quotations and Cotton Declines
Market activity mixed with oats and corn rising while provisions stay firm despite lower hog slaughter figures West. Liverpool cotton opens steady with futures down 1 to 24 points. near positions ease 4 to 1 point, late months rise 1 point. Spot cotton softer with good middling 7.02, middling 6.62.
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New York
Liverpool
Cotton market overview shows steady tone and futures
Futures closed very steady with 4 to 2 points gains as demand holds. Sales reach 10 000 bales, including 9 200 American. receipts total 2 000 bales with none American. Middling price quoted at 702 100d.
New York Cotton Prices Rise on Active Old Crop Trade
New York cotton opened steady to firmer and old crop months advanced 6 to 8 points as buyers remained active amid wire trouble. By midday foreign and local shorts persisted as buyers, with Liverpool’s lighter show prompting some disappointment among yesterday’s sellers. Active months gained 7 to 15 points in the afternoon with brief 4 to 5 point pullbacks, tone firm, middling at 133 cents.
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New York
Liverpool
New Orleans Cotton Opens Higher on Steady Tone
New Orleans March 15 Better cables push cotton prices up two points at the start with a steady tone. After the call many sales cover shorts while the market rises 5 to 7 points over yesterday. By noon buying for the local account floods the market and prices gain 7 to 11 points over yesterday's close with middling at 12 cents.
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New
Orleans
Southern views on child labor at national conference
Wiley H. Swift cites Southern perspectives on child labor in New Orleans stressing responsibility, data gaps, and the acceptability of long hours. He notes mill owners seek workers, with hundreds of girls in cotton mills standing eleven hours daily in short dresses, highlighting persistent inequities.
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Laor
Real Pocketbook Earnestness to Aid South's Children
New Orleans reports the closing session of the National Conference on Child Labor where delegates urged real pocketbook earnestness to help working children. Miss Josephine J. Eschenbrenner warned that employers value children as producers, not for childhood, urging greater care and action beyond the market's needs. She notes only 8,000 of 89,892,000 citizens have heeded the call, citing 1913 examples of 10 year olds in Georgia mills and 11- to 12-year olds in Pennsylvania and West Virginia factories kept on long shifts.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Josephine J. Eschenbrenner
National Child Labor Committee
Brinz
Carthage
Georgia
Celeven
Pennylvania
West Virginia
Rainey resigns from state executive post to run for re election
Atlanta March 18 State Prison Commissioner E L Rainey will seek to succeed himself this summer and has resigned from the Third district of the state democratic executive committee. He notes no rule prevents serving on the committee while running but chose to resign. Rainey is the only prison board member with a term expiring this year and appears unopposed.
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Atlanta
E. L. Rainey
Democratic Executive Committee
Colonel Rainey
Severe storm and frost threat across the Southeast
A severe storm tracked from the middle states to the eastern seaboard with low pressure, light snow in New York and Buffalo, and expanding cold air lowering temperatures from 38 in Atlanta to 6 in Duluth. Atlanta forecasts a low near 30 with frost, while Colorado faces more snow and a moderating pattern Thursday into Friday.
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Middle States
Pennsylvania
Washington
Buffalo
New York
Atlanta
Nashville
St. Louis
Duluth
Colorado
Rocky Mountain
30 000 Voices Praise Dean's Kidney Pills in Athens Ad
An Athens Georgia testimonial touts Dean's Kidney Pills for backache and urinary issues. Mrs E R Shy of 770 College Ave reports severe pain eased quickly after use. The ad cites widespread public praise and lists Foster Milburn Co as U S agents with price 50 cents. Also promotes 3 Aart Foley Cathartic Tablets for constipation and liver sluggishness.
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Erand
Dean
Athens
E. R. Shy
College Avenue
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
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Suly
Sete Ae
Wiley H. Swift
Greensboro
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H. R. Palmer.'& Sons
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