Corn crop offsets cotton in traveler's view of outlook
A Mississippi traveler predicts a record amount of corn planted this year, offsetting cotton downturns. He notes twenty years on the road and urges agriculture to balance gains with corn.
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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1909
Page
7
Deficit Shown for 1909 by AT and T Company
Two reports to Pass Christian domicile show a 1909 deficit for American Telephone and Telegraph Company. For the quarter ended June 30 the firm reports a slight net revenue. The annual receipts total 38,228.99 with expenses including operating taxes and fixed charges at 34,785.74 leaving a net deficit of 1,566.75.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Pass Christian
Mics
New York
Water Level Disappears and Other Mississippi News
Hon James F Bennett president of the State Bank of McHenry and mayor of the town has drilled a well on his residence lot to obtain drinking water but after thirty to thirty five feet no water was found yet he continues drilling through a semirock formation hoping for a self flowing supply. Also Hattiesburg mayor J D Donald receives a letter from Miss Emily Butt urging reform school efforts and confidence grows that a bill will be proposed in the next legislature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James F. Bennett
State Bank of
McHenry
Bennett
Jig
Hattiesburg
J. D. Donald
Emily Butt
State Penitentiary
Mississippi
Polk Talbert
Amite County
Japan
Sensational Suit For Slander In Decatur Circuit Court
Mrs Pearl Hunter Johnson of the Decatur area sues eight neighbors for 30000 dollars alleging slander and alienation of her husband s affections. The suit has stirred local interest and will be heard in the current circuit court session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Pearl Hunter Johnson
Builders and wreckers in Mississippi era column
In a prescient Mississippian essay, H. E. Blakeslee urges readers to join builders who drive progress while resisting wreckers and scavengers. The piece calls for cooperation, growth, and practical steps like farming diversification, bamboo interest, weevil prevention, and cooperative wool pooling to bolster state development and health.
Mississippi Sees Growth in Agriculture and Trucking Plans
The piece argues for packing houses near Mississippi, backing a gulf coast truckers convention, and notes rising agricultural reading in the state. It predicts further gains of two bushels per acre corn and 35 pounds per acre cotton in five years, urging belief the next five years will double these gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce
Mississippi
Taft to Visit New Orleans October 29
Washington notes cover Taft departure for summer in Beverly Mass and schedule for next winter’s legislative program. Other items include global and domestic events such as executions, strikes, tariffs, colonial disputes, and notable travels and speeches.
WIRE FLASHES AND MURDERS IN STEADFAST NEWS
A flurry of brief items reports slight shocks in San Francisco and San Jose, a murder of Nashville merchant Herman Henning, a canal project in Concordia Parish for rice irrigation, and political notes including Judge W H Mann’s Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Virginia. Other items note kidnappings in St Louis, Thaw sanity proceedings, a Calgary suspect suicide, Elkins attacks, Prohibition advances in Alabama, and various international tensions with Greece, Spain, and South American affairs. The jumble includes missing judges, fires, road projects, and legal actions across several states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
San Jose
Alexandria
Sweden
Herman Henning
Nashville
Harry K. Thaw
John Gagins
John Dugan
Kelceyville
Senator la Follette
Wisconsin
Senator Elkins
West Virginia
Detroit
Baton Rouge
Japan
Antumg- Mukden
China
State Department
Europe
Alabama Senate
House
Idelfonso Gomez
Brownsville
Texas
Eliseo Camtu
Robert W. Sears
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Chicago
Sidney Lemoine
Mansura
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Jas. K. Holder
Meridian
Ollie Williams
Stonewall
Olie Williams
Coahoma
Martin L. Vanlandingham
St. Louis
J. D. Watson
8S. H. Dalton
Taomsuba
Portland
Ore
Kosciusko
Miss
Watson
Gulfport
Norway
Colon
Jackson High School
Rankin Prison Farm
Bill For Reformatory School
Moore & Co
Nashville, Tenn
Moore
Mayes Longstreet
Jackson, Miss
Poplarville Lumber Company
Roy Chinn
United States Court
Yellow Pine Manufacturing Company
Board of Supervisors
Perry County
Margaret Merriwether
Virginia
Christian Society
Ed Hinton
Honolulu
Wesson
Honlulu
Mason Lumber Company
Seminary
Pickens County
Ala
Ducson
H. E. Blakeslee
Agricultural Department
United States Department of Agriculture
B.H. Suttor
Mississippi Department of Agriculture
Harrison County
Farmers’ Union
Union
Memphis
New Orleans
Gulf Coast
South Mississippi
Washington
Taft
Beverly
Mass
Czar
Cowes
Paris
Crete
Barcelona
Gonzales Valentia
Colombia
Reyes
Heflin
Stockholm
Chile
Count Zeppelin
Frankfort
Cologne
Brest
France
Roosevelt
Nairobi
Spain
Berlin
Hildegarde Hoffman
Lord Kitchener
Duke of Connaught
Tariff Commission
Nagal
Sweeden
Ransdell
Caribbean
Treasury Department
Salonika
Panama
Congress
Marina
Kimball
Bernard N. Baker
Baltimore
Panama Railroad and Steamship Company
Viviana Children
Alabama
Senate
Muskogee
Okla
Montjuich
F. R. English
Cincinnati
Rust University
Ethel
J. J. Holtgrove
Plaquemine
Louisiana Retail
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