New Southern Industries Reported by The Tradesman
The Tradesman items numerous new southern industries and investments listed by city and value. Alabama cities Birmingham Mobile Gadsden Decatur Little Rock Helena Jonesboro Deland Sanford Ocala Jacksonville Madison Cedar Keys Daytona Beach Georgia Dallas Atlanta Macon Union Point Kentucky Bellevue Louisville Franklin Lexington Louisiana New Orleans Baton Rouge Crowley Gretna Shreveport West Monroe Alexandria Lake Arthur Jennings and others appear with projects including factories mills plants lumber, land and development ventures valued from thousands to millions of dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Helena
Hoop and Atave Company
Jonesboro
Florida
Deland
Sanford
Ocala
Jacksonville
Madison
Cedar Keys
Daytona Beach
Louisiana
New Orleans
Baton Rouge
Crowley
Gretna
Shreveport
West Monroe
Alexandria
Markaville
Vast list of regional companies in a business directory
A long compilation lists numerous firms by town with capital figures and industry types across states including Louisiana Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee and Virginia. Entries show sugar factories lumber mills steel and iron works cotton mills hardware firms and various manufacturing concerns along with notes on local economic conditions and market expectations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hendersonville
Franklin
Light and Power Company
Durham
Oklahoma
Bromide
Oklahoma City
Gas and Electric Company
el Reno
Yukon
Electric Company
Lawton
Hobart
South Carolina
Charleston—Machinery and Supply Company
Darlington
Greenville
Hardware
Lumber
Lowndesville
Anderson
Tennessee
East Chattanooga
Nashville
Harriman
West Virginia
Wheeling
Lumbe
xiMu
Alabama
Taft to Speak at African Methodist Jubilee Rally
President Taft traveled to New York to address Carnegie Hall for the African Methodist Diamond Jubilee, marking fifty years of organized missionary work in Africa. Bishops Hartzell and Scott join as speakers, and a $200,000 fund is being raised for extending the work. The note also mentions Christmas shoppers seeking bargains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Taft
New York
Carnegie Hall
Afric
Joseph Hartzell
Africa
Isaiah B. Scott
Liberia
Gossip of New York politics and labor strikes in 1900s
New York dispatch details a fierce patronage scramble as Tamany Hall followers lobby for city posts while Judge Gaynor weighs the party line. It notes a girl shirt strike in sweatshops seeking an eight hour day, and probes into the wire monopoly and rising tenement concerns. The Ashland House demolition ends a chapter in old New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Tammany Hall
Gaynor
Gotham
Strikere
Hughes
Legislative Committee
City Hall
Phone Trust
Wire Trust
Commission
Court of Appeals
Landmark
Doan's Kidney Pills Prove Merit in Athens
Mrs. W H Shy of 920 Lumpkin St Athens Ga testifies to severe back pains alleviated by Doan's Kidney Pills purchased at Palmer & Sons drug store. She reports quick relief, ongoing use, and urges others to buy only Doan's. Voster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sells as U S agents. Remember the name Dean's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Tony
W. H. Shy
Lumpkin
Palmer & Sons
Doan
Voster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Dean
Agricultural Experts Meet in Rome
Rome dispatch notes the second general assembly of the International Institute of Agriculture opening in the palace provided by Italy. Delegates from most European nations and many others, including the United States with three representatives, discuss economic and sociological aims. Reports will cover soil cultivation, crop production, trade and prices, labor wages, plant diseases, and agricultural cooperation and credit. David Lubin of California chairs the executive committee with C. Clark heading the statistics bureau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
International Institute of Agriculture
United States
Department of State
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce and Labor
David Lubin
California
Bureau of Statistics
Foar
C. Clark
Funeral of Mrs Sarah Shore in Cobb Street Home
Yesterday at eleven o'clock the funeral for Mrs. Sarah Shore, who died Friday night in Shore Georgia after a brief illness, was held at the Cobb Street residence of Mrs. John W. Wier. The service featured hymns Asleep in Jesus Lead Kindly Light and Bear Me Away on Your Snowy Wings with Rev E L Hill and Rev Troy Beatty conducting prayers and scripture. Interment followed at Oconee Cemetery with pallbearers Alban Bailey Emmett Wier Albert Wier John N Wier Clifford Parr and P F M Bailey assisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Wier
Cobb Street
Sarah Shore
Shore
Jesus
J. W. Barnett
Co. M. Snelling
T. 8
Mell
J. W. Webb
E. L.hill
Presbyterian Church
Troy Beatty
Emmanuel Church
Beatty
Messrs
Alban Bailey
Emmett Wier
Albert Wier
John N. Wier
Clifford Parr
PF. M. Bailey
Small Fire in the Jester Building at Athens
Fire department responded to a Lumpkin and Clayton alarm and found a blaze on the third floor of the Jester building. The rooms had recently been rented to the Athens Athletic Club. damage described as slight and flames extinguished with little trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lumpkin
Clayton
Athens Athletic Club
New Orleans Cotton Exchange Protest Clarifies Report
President W B Thompson of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange rejects Washington summaries of Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith's report. He says the report condemns fixed differences but commends commercial differences used by New Orleans and does not condemn futures trading in the exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
W. B Thompson
Thompson
Associated Press
Washington
Commissioner Smith
Herbert Knox Smith
New York
Commissioner of Corporations
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Lasione
New Orleans Cotton Exchange Issues Public Protest
W B Thompson, president of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, states that rules and regulations now reflect Commissioner Smith's views on how the future contract should be run and urges the exchange to give this communication the same publicity as the objections already made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Er Smith
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Smith
New Orleans
W. B. Thompson
Narrow Escape On Passenger Train No 2 Near Clarkston
Passenger train No 2 leaving Atlanta at 3 16 pm wrecked near Clarkston eleven miles from Gate City. Engineer S L Davis prevented catastrophe by reversing to stop the engine after a rod snapped and steam hissed. Fireman buried in coal, but not seriously hurt. Davis badly burned yet regained footing and saved passengers before the train halted. Delays followed as No 28 took over to Augusta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Clarkston
Gate City
L. Davis
Freman
Davis
Claiston
Augusta
Athens
Brooks
Also Mentioned on This Page
Talmage Hardware Company
Southern Enterprises
Chattanooga
Tenn
South
Birmingham
Mobile
Gadsden
Arkansas
Decatur
Georgia
Dallas—Insurance Company
Automobile Company
Macon
Union Point
Kentucky
Bellevue
Loulaville
Chemical
Machine and Savage Company
Lexington
New Iberia
Lake Arthur
Jennings
Vinton
Land and Rice Company
Monroe
Ruston
Hippe
Pickering
Breaux Bridge
Mississippi
Icc and Cold Storage Company
Lexie
Moss Point
North Carolina
New Bern
Stanley
Murphy
Dunn
Mt. Pleasant—Automobile Company
Middletown
North Wilkesboro
San Antonio
Galventon
Colorado
Mangum
Rockwall
Houston
Tiasca
Bonham
Midland—Water Works System
Fort Worth
Abilene
Bellville
Beaumont
Iron and Tee Company
Wichita Fallé
Grand Prairie
Cracker and Biscuit Company
Victoria
Teague
Quanah
Benjamin
Banla
Dallas
Rockdale—Coal Company
Virginia
Norfolk
Lumber Company
Building and Loan Association
Bulding Supply Company
Brow
Warren Street
Dr. Tutt
Ashland
Fifth Avenue
Madison Square
Hrs
Knox
Pres
Thomason
Ely Brothers
Georgia Railroad
S. L. Davis
Joe Cannon
Velaya
Nicaragua
Emma Stapler
Commerce
Ny Mail
Brown Mfg CO
St. Louie, Mo
Greenville, Tenny
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