Clarke County Farmers Endorse Stance on Tax and Grasses
Clarke County Farmers Club and Cotton Growers Association met at the chapel to discuss grasses for the region and endorsed the Southern Cotton Convention plan for a three cent per bale tax to fund agricultural organizations. They urged no cotton purchases under eleven cents and appointed a committee to petition the U.S. government to study Argentine grasses, while planning joint future meetings.
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Clarke County Farmers’ Club
Clarke County Cotton Growers’ Association
Snelling
Farmers’ Club
State Agricultural Society
United States
Argentine
Dallas
la Grange
America
Messrs. A. Rhodes
W. H. Morton
G. C. Spear
Southern Cotton Convention
Asheville
South
Io Thie Yen
Left His Reel to Cleveland in Jefferson Will
Baltimore date the Orphans Court filed a copy of the will of Joseph Jefferson. Bequests include 1000 to Mrs. Jang German of Baltimore, once in Jeffersons company, and a painting to Earnest Gilling. A fishing rig is left to Graver Cleveland.
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Baltimore
Joseph Jefferson
Orphans’ Court
Jang German
Jefferson
My. Jefferson
Earnest Gilling
Cleveland
Minimum price for cotton fixed at 11 cents by Southern group
The Southern Cotton Growers Association met in Asheville North Carolina and set a minimum price of 11 cents a pound basis middling for cotton at interior points in the south. The group urged farmers to hold back, coordinate with allied unions, and push the market higher by refusing to sell below 11 cents. The report notes crop conditions and projected yields, with support from the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of Texas American Society of Equity and Farmers Alliance of North Carolina.
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Southern Cotton Growers’ Association
Asheville
N.C
South
WIII
Farmers' Educational and Co-Operative Union of Texas
Calvin
Paris
Tex
American Society of Equity
Farmers’ Alliance of North Carolina
Farmers’ Union
Queer Colony in Austria Promises Curious Air Cure Scene
Vienna’s island air cure, a Danube bed establishment, draws visitors for bathing and sand therapy. About 50 to 69 attend sessions, with crowds of locals paying to watch on Sundays. Men seek tanning while women air themselves in smocks, as an oak-island retreat offers rustic benches, beer, and informal social mixing.
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Austria
Vienna
Danube
Walt
Pegnty
Eurrey
Enchanted Interior Isle Scene with Morality Notices
The text describes a mossy interior isle with moss and green grasses, silver undersides of leaves, and views likened to Elysian fields or Rossetti. Notices urge public morality, with one warning not to tread on the ladies sand bath, a mistranslation reflecting cultural misreadings.
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London Standard
Money Grabbers Target City Bank Employee in Athens
A National Bank worker, Lee Chapel, lost twenty one dollars to a thief who fled across several streets. The suspect, a mulatto about twenty, wore a brown striped suit and white hat. Police seek to arrest the culprit and curb the local grab game as Athens investigates the incident.
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Lee Chapel
National Bank
Chapel
Jackson Street
Baldwin Street
Lumpkin
Rock Quarry
Athens
Ivory price rise linked to African wealth and craft
The article explains the 50 percent price rise for ivory in London and Antwerp, not due to supply or demand shifts in Europe but to Africa's growing commercial value of tusks. It notes natives’ awareness of money, improved transport and telegraphy, and the appetite of American buyers and manufacturers for ivory products, especially in toilet goods, alongside a detailed view of ivory work and its skilled labor demands.
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London
Antwerp
Africa
United States
Bostock
Barnum & Bailey
Colleges Open With Large Grovos GOLLEGES OPEN WITH LARGE GROVOS
Milledgeville Georgia Sept 15 The Georgia Military College and the Georgia Normal and Industrial College opened the 1906-07 session under favorable conditions The Military College reports its largest enrollment ever and may form three cadet companies The Normal and Industrial College also shows sizeable enrollment with prospect of many girls needing rooms in the city
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Milledgeville
Georgia Military College
Georgia Normal and Industrial College
Georgia Normal and MaAuattial College
Che Hearted Prrae
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