Railroads Urged Fair Pay for Mail Service Expansion
A congressional report recommends adding about 3 million dollars yearly to railroad compensation for hauling mail, citing parcel post expansion. The piece argues railroads deserve a square deal and criticizes past hostility to railroads in mail transport, urging a just financing basis for government and carriers.
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Joint Congressional Committees On
Bes
Joint Committee
Congress
Hitchcock
Screven County Plan Drives Local Cotton Currency
In Screven county bankers led by W. J. Walker organize the Sylvania Clearing House association. The group accepts cotton as payment, advances money on warehouse receipts, and issues lithographed certificates that circulate like gold, easing debts within the county. The Constitution summarized Walker’s plan, noting its success and urging others to learn how it works.
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Screven
Screven County
Bankers’ Organization
W. J. Walker
Sylvania Clearing House Association
Sylvania
Sylvanus
Time to Act on Cotton Crisis Says President and Nation
President Wilson urges action over talk in a letter to Congressman Dorenus, calling for immediate government aid to stabilize southern cotton as markets falter. The piece argues Congress must fund and mobilize Aldrich Vreeland currency relief to back warehoused cotton and prevent a collapse of the southern economy.
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Dorenus
Wilson
America
Congress
House
Senate
Gotton
Washington
Treas
Constitution
South
Aldrich-Vreeland
American Goods in China and the Role of Philanthropy
Sherwood Eddy argues that for every dollar spent on philanthropy or missions in China, a hundred dollars return in trade is possible. He notes twelve hundred Chinese students studying in America will become future governors and leaders, while detailing his travels across eastern railways and American-made goods fueling Manchurian harvests and East Coast opportunities for business.
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China
Sherwood Eddy
America
Republic
Philadelphia
Wilmington
Del
Pittsburg
New York
Oregon
Chicago
Armer
Ioan
Manchuria
East
Packing Grapes in Sawdust as a Shipping Method
California grape growers have expanded markets by shipping grapes halfway around the world using coarse redwood sawdust packed between layers. The new packaging replaces cork with sawdust and a cottonwood liner, enabling ~11 pounds in small packs and 33 to 36 pounds in larger ones. The sawdust proves as effective as cork with a lower cost, and most grapes have shifted from splint baskets with crates to this sawdust packing system.
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California
Europe
Battle Life for Bread in the War of Hunger
Poem fragment portrays a farmer’s vow in hard times to endure the bread shortage. It declares faith in Providence and a duty to toil, hoping for a just world table blessed with sustenance while famine scars the land. The piece namechecks bread, cotton, corn and rural hardship.
Gossip and poems spill from a town paper collage
A quirky compilation from a local editor and lawyer features a tongue in cheek defense of abstinence since November 1911, wartime verse about graves and divine justice, editorials urging global Christian unity and social spirit, plus rural humor and Christmas wish humor from short local columns.
Responsibility Rest in a Waiter Constitution
Milledgeville Ga. letter argues banks and supply men control cotton planting in the South. With rationing and guano cut, Georgia’s 1915 crop could fall from projected highs to under 800,000 bales. The author says lenders and suppliers dictate the size of 1915 and 1916 crops, dampening farmer efforts.
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Georgia
South
Botke
Editorial Urges Immediate Government Action on Cotton Crisis
The Constitution editorial and a response by Harvie Jordan urge swift federal relief to cotton growers facing disaster. They condemn Washington for inaction while farmers lose millions daily, demand emergency government aid, and propose drastic measures such as banning cotton planting in 1915 to protect prices and fund relief. Georgia and Southern leaders back strong federal action and mobilizing support across the cotton belt.
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New York Commercial
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Thia
Banke
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Washington
Farmers’ Union
Gratin Bekord
Billtor
United States Congress
Europe
Texas
New Mexico
United States
Georgia Dally
Georgea
Barrett
National Farmers’ Union
Constitution
National Congress
South
Cotton Remedy Proposals Stir National Debate
Letters to The Constitution urge drastic federal action to stabilize cotton by government buys and currency issues. Emmett R. Shaw argues for a half billion dollar plan to purchase cotton at eight cents a pound. H. Ginrs Lacy proposes a state tax on cotton sales to fund roads. H. W. Laird promotes thrift and savings expansion as key to southern economic independence with October as Savings Month.
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Washington
Constitution
Emmett R. Shaw
Rdtcor
Siarriet
South
Lacy Springs
Ala
Zion smoke ban voided by Illinois court ruling
The Illinois Supreme Court in City of Zion v Bebrene voided Zion’s ordinance banning tobacco use on streets and public buildings. It found no reasonable basis to prohibit smoking in open streets and parks, asserting residents’ liberty cannot be restrained without public welfare justification. The court rejected reliance on the Thompson case and criticized the ordinance as an unreasonable interference with private rights.
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City of Zion
Supreme Court of Tllinois
Commonwealth
Thompson
Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Boston
United States
Supreme Court of Meenachusetts
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Smithville Democrat-Herald
Eve
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Waxahechie Light
Warry
Milledgeville, Ga
L. Sibley
Orilion Bates
Harvie Jordan
Southern Cotton Association
Atlanta, Ga
Frland
New England
Pacific
Hawaii
Society For Thrift
Which
W. Straus
Army of Savers
H. W. Latrd
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