Farmers urged to diversify crops beyond cotton in Texas
The Houston Post highlights that vast numbers of Texas farms lack cows pigs and poultry and many do not grow hay or sweet potatoes. It argues farmers should diversify to utilize by products and reduce risk, warning those who rely solely on cotton face losses as European demand shifts and wartime blockades persist.
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Houston Post
Cotton Belt
The
Post
Texas
Washington West
United States
Practical rural credits gains support from life insurer leader
In New York City President Jesse R Clark of Union Central Life, addressing the National Association of Life Insurance Presidents, cites a practical rural credit program. He notes an institution has aided 5,323 farmers with loans totaling 183,479,728 secured on 12,952.47 acres, with 45,982 borrowers repaying largely in installments and releasing 7,676,261 acres from mortgages.
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United States
National Association of Life Insurance
New York City
Jesse, R. Clark
Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati
Clark
Amortized farm loans show profit and farmer aid promise
The piece argues that a 6 to 7 percent amortization loan model used by Union Central and other life insurance backed lenders offers cheap money to farmers, compares it with bond investments, and urges the U.S. government to adopt a rural credit plan under an armillar system, warning of Republican resistance.
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Clark
Ite Insurance Company
Re Insurance Company
Union Central
Georgia
Life
United States
Europe
Armilar
Democratic Congress
Writers as Fighters in Wartime Journalism
The New York Times notes journalism in Britain shows strong patriotism, with 1,465 newspaper workers on active service including 1,460 editors and reporters in the United Kingdom and colonies. Overseas reporters come from Australia, Canada, India, and more. Six reporters have seen battle, six wounded, eleven missing, and ten mentioned in dispatches or decorated for valor.
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The
New York Times
Great Britain
the Times
Lord Derby
United Kingdom
Australia
Canada
Ceylon
China
Africa
India
New Zealand
South Africa
Straits Settlements
Rural Philosophy and Sunshine in a Spring Preview
A Charlotte Observer page compiles humorous rural quips, verse excerpts, and aphorisms. It includes remarks from Soloman and Atlas Bean on marriage and widowhood, Don Marquis poetry from Dreams and Dust, and light wind-swept musings about spring’s approach with lines about shine and optimism.
Light on His Trouble from Everybody's Magazine
Three friends traverse a dark dry ravine after drinking. One man slips down a steep bank and lies still. The others rush to help, believing him badly hurt, when he suddenly cries to be struck to light a match.
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Everybody's Magazine
The Plant Body and the Ferment Helpers
A lecture explains how all living tissue builds from non living matter using sunlight minerals and the ferment and vitamin helpers in plants and animals. It notes chlorophyll enzymes and bakers yeast as key agents and warns that wrong foods or poor preparation disrupts these processes and invites disease.
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Earth
Placto
Fms
Prophetic Spring Imagery Amid Desolate Oaks
Fragmentary poem voice invokes a prophetess amid dead buds and sombre oaks. The speaker pledges honor to the spring seer, mentioning bees, a great red giant, and a winter passing as April songs edge toward renewal.
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Satan
Preacher Calls for Bold Faith in Apres Now
The article reports a Presbyterian church gathering where Dr Leone urged bold service and confident faith. He quoted Can ye I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me and encouraged congregations to undertake courageous projects in coming weeks. An addendum notes pastors will preach in their own churches during the meetings and honors for Dr Lyona include a birthday gift car.
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Lyon
Zebedee
Christ
Leone
Atlanta
Lyona Expr
Pastors’ Society
Bix Hudson
Federal Reserve Bank Report Shows Strong Atlanta Year
Chairman MB Wellborn releases annual report covering year ending December 31, 1915. Atlanta made a leading note issue total of 18,260,000 with collateral of 4,751,246.69 and $14,200,000 in gold. bank discounted 23,253 papers totaling 35,013,278.67 while aiming to expand open market operations when funds idle. District business improves as cotton prices stabilize, crops rise, and industry momentum grows across Tennessee Florida and the Southeast.
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MB. Wellborn
Federal Reserve Bank of Atflants
Atlanta
Atlanta Bank
Staads First
Oae
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Board
Gold Settlement Fund
Federal Reserve Bank of
Athlete
New Orleans
Eixth Federal Reserve District
Federal Reserve System
Aouth
Banka
Rica
Tennessee
Florida
Itis
Rippling Rhymes by Walt Maids
Poem fragment reflecting on virtue and honest friendship. Critiques shallow pretensions and the value of sterling worth over appearances. Mentions social circles and the judgment of those who demand integrity and true character.
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Walt’ Maids
Mayor Woodward to Name New Secretary on March First
Secrecy surrounds Atlanta city hall as Mayor Woodward is expected to announce his new secretary on March first. Speculation runs as allies refuse to name the pick while political maneuvering shapes council and legislative actions on water rates and a potential fall white primary.
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Woodward
City Hall
Sas
Fayow
Sady White
Atlanta
Weedward
Mayer Woodward
Hima
Attanta
Ward
Strest
Atti Arncon
Boston Idles Its Pride In Old Times And New Growth
A fragmentary nostalgic piece on Boston describes the city as rich in history, intellect, and institutions yet revealed through hazy prose. It notes the city's universities, libraries, and memorial plates, while contrasting old family influence with modern civic life and architecture.
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Tod
Iis Pyebrary
Bumker Hill
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