Burn Cotton Bears and Burners Urge Massive Fire In South
A 1904 polemic urges southern farmers to destroy cotton surplus to drive up prices. William O Whitner of River View Farm argues bears on New York exchange fix prices and proposes burning bales to force a 10 cent plus market. He cites past panics and urges collective action despite risks, naming W P Brown as an ally and detailing farmer commitments.
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Cotton World
Census Bureau
New York
New York Cotton Exchange
BEARS
New York City
Delmonico’s
Exchange
William Mitchell
W. P. Brown
Frank Hayne
New Orleans
South
William O. Whitner
River View Farm
Rock Hill
Killing at Magee Dispatch Details Prisoner Transfer
Jackson dispatch reports Simpson county Sheriff D O McInnis arrived Friday with Charles Woodward and M J Everett charged with complicity in the killing of Ed E Mangum by Magee High School principal Prof Woodward. The prisoners were jailed after a tense transfer aboard the Golf and Ship Island train, with officers arming themselves to deter interference.
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McInnis
Mangum
Migs Fleming
Woodward
Jackson
Magee
Friends of
D. O. McInnis
Simpson County
Charles Woodward
M. J. Everett
Ed E. Mangum
Magee High School
Golf
Ship Island
Death of Mrs Mary McIntyre Murray at Alpine Texas
Obituary notes the death of Mrs Mary McIntyre Murray near Alpine Texas on November 14 1904 born near Brandon Mississippi with relatives there survived by husband a brother and a sister she joined the Dry Creek Baptist church as a youth and remained faithful last words quoted meet me in heaven plus a ministerial note about delayed teacher payments due to treasury constraints and brief real estate notices from Rankin County listing Allen Nugent Co holdings and local Brandon agents Henry and May offering homes truck farms and cotton farms
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A. A. Murray
Alpine
Texas
Brandon
Misa
Baptist“church
Dry Creek
Hencefordh
Henry
May
Strayed or Stolen Ball Described by Abe Gordon
A note from Abe Gordon of Clarksburg Mississippi seeks information on a stray or stolen black sided yearling ball three months overdue. The animal has a white back face and belly with a crop and under bite marks described as crop and underbite in the swallow fork and left underbit. Please contact Abe Gordon with any information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abe Gordon
Clarksburg
Miss
Also Mentioned on This Page
William C. Whitner
Rock Hill, S. C
Seeman
Mitchell
Wendman
Mary McIntyre Murray
R. Myers
Rankin County
Allen, Nugent & Co
Memphis, Tenn
Henry & May
Santa
Claus
A. M. Shields
Mercantile Company
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