Cotton the King Crop and Clarke Seed Cotton Cleaner Boom
The Atlanta Constitution extols cotton as the South’s king crop and praises the Clarke Seed Cotton Cleaner for transforming storm cotton into marketable fiber. It notes rising demand, growing factory capacity, and projected economic boost for farmers as Cleaner technology improves grades, yields, and profits.
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Whitney
Claire Seed
Clark Seed
Edward Atkinson
Oglethorpe Park
Col
W. E. Barrows
B.S. Ricks
Thomas M. Smeads
S. M. Inman
D. Meador
R. J. Lowry
George W. Bradley
Clarke
Marietta Street
South
Atlanta
Clarke Cleaners
Wool Pool Control Hinders Georgia Wool Prices
The Albany News condemns Boston’s wool market pool where Georgia and other states’ fleeces are traded by Boston brokers. It urges interior merchants to withhold shipments to avoid inflated commissions and force fair prices. The piece notes Albany wool sold at 26 cents yesterday, arguing it should fetch double.
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Albany News and Advertiser
Boston
Mass
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Savannah
Albany
New York
Romance of the South Louisiana Letter in Boston Transcript
A writer visits Louisiana sugar-cane country and hears a romantic family legend. An English officer in Rouen wooed a French woman. during a Protestant massacre they were separated, he chased her to Paris, vanished, then reunited in the New World eight years later. The Alabama-origin family links Southern customs to its long history.
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South
Louisiana
Boston Transcript
Teche
Henry III
France
Rouen
Paris
New World
Alabama
Decatur County Georgia Soil and Climate for Immigrants
Avary Avper Wrever writes from Bainbridge Georgia in a June 22 1882 letter series to Tur Democrat outlining Decatur County advantages for immigrants and health seekers. He details geography rivers climate soils water supply timber resources and transport routes along with potential crops and profitability from cotton corn oats sweet potatoes sugar cane and vegetables. He notes rail and river navigation improvements and gives rough land prices to guide settlers seeking cheap homes with productive land.
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Decatur County
Florida
Chattahoochee River
Apalachicola
Gulf of Mexico
Columbus
Georgia
Bainbridge
Flint
Albany
Chattahoochee
Savannah
Bainbridge, Ga
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Sditey
Vic Ny
Andverti
Col. Pardol
Hee Prey Chon
W. M. Harrell
Griey
Law
Pasian
Geemeata
McGill
Yiento
J. Nicholson
Pwilleht
Miller Coun
J. S. Clifton
E. J. Morgan
Farrell
West Street
Shotwell
Charles C. Bush
Turnery
Law ' Iy
Hatton Jute Wiven
Curry
D.D.S
Southtreet
Stair
Johnson
M. O'Neal
McGill & O'Neal
Yarneys At Law
Bainwridge
Byron I. Bower
Bower & Donalson
Kneys
the Court House
ICTOR
Battle
Ilinois
West Side House
Jeff D. Talbert
Torney At Law
M. Beott & Son
L. H. Peacock
Bainbridge and
Vicini
J. D. Harrell & Broidevee
West End
Broughton
Tri
ORGIA
Mitler
T. F. Jones
A.J. Miller
Sis
WM. Grimes
Chigalial Crime
McKay
P.O. Box
Mavon
M. Kwilegki
Warfield
Iroceries
Taue & Co
Augusta Maine
King Cotton
Atlanta Constitution
Constitution
Atkinson
Nothern
America
New Orleans
St. Louis
Messrs
Reeves & Nicholson
Athens
Barnes & Co
Senoia
J. C. Wara
Spartanburg
S. C
J. C. Wilcher
Gibson
Laurens
Washington
Clarke Cleaner
John T. Marbrey
Dover
Pope County
Ark
William Mosely
Draketown
I. N. Nash & Co
Stone Mountain
Norwood
Fort Deposit
Ala
J. M. Waddell
Society
Richey & Telford
Banks
County
Decatur
Tur Dewocrat
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