Farmers Organize for Southern Cotton Association
At the county courthouse on Monday May 22 Judge Enochs adjourned court after charging the grand jury Senator A J McLaurin introduced Walter Clark president of the Mississippi division of the Southern Cotton Association He outlined plans while an audience listened as members signed rolls Each county parish sends three delegates creating a centralized structure from the bottom up The aim is to unite business and professional interests across thirteen states and territories to protect and promote cotton production and marketing The association seeks rapid mill construction and finished cotton exports to complement raw cotton sales It notes cotton's vast value to the U S economy and calls for broader farmer participation and modest dues to fund operations The text highlights recent market support gains following a New Orleans convention and emphasizes the need to safeguard cotton against foreign competition
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Court House
Enochs
A. J. McLaurin
Walter Clark
Mississippi
Southern Cotton Association
Fisher
United States
South
America
New Orleans
Estimated U S Cotton Acreage 1905 From Latham Alexander
Latham Alexander & Co bankers and cotton commission merchants report an estimated U S cotton acreage for 1905 based on 8 298 replies from banks merchants and planters in southern states. The total acreage shows a 11 5 percent decrease from last year amounting to about 3 558 870 acres less, with planting later by about two weeks and varying progress across regions. Conditions in western belts delayed planting due to rain while stands are healthy where planting is complete. The crop outcome remains uncertain until harvest.
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New York
Brandon News
United States
Cotton Commission
NS Aanga
Latham, Alexander & CO
Funeral in Marble Quarry Provokes Grim Laughter
The piece recounts a grim funeral described by Henry Grady with satirical tone. It notes a pickled paradox of grand marble and pine forest burial, a Ver mont tombstone, a Cincinnati coffin, and iron nails from Pittsburg, highlighting an irony in regional goods and industry.
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Henry Grady
Pickens
Gallus
Vermont
Cincinnati
Pittsh
Burial Without Pride From North to South
The passage describes a funeral where all items used, from wool and coffin bands to the burial regalia, were sourced from the north, while the south contributed nothing. It notes the corpse was laid to rest in a New York coat, Boston shoes, Chicago breeches, and a Cincinnati breech, highlighting the stark regional divisions and a sense of loss and longing for the country fought for over four years.
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New York
Boston
Chicago
Cincinnati
Brandon to Rise Brick Store House in Town
A Brandon man announces plans to build a brick store house, the first in twenty five years, signaling life in Brandon. The piece extols the town as healthy, well watered, with fertile soil and rich mineral waters, urging utilization of its natural resources to improve growth and health.
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Brandon
Calf Love And Its Sensations
A Kansas paper recounts a rural love tale about Oklahoma Dave Pyne, a farm boy in linsey sack, who flirts with a neighbor girl while milking a cow. His feelings awaken a peculiar warmth along his spine until the girl jokes that the calf is chewing the back of his sack.
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Kansas
Commonwealth of
The
Kansas Paper
Theocritus
Oklahoma
Dave’’ Pyne
Pyne
Dave
Davie
Planners in Desperate Condition
Hon A Q May former state treasurer and railroad commissioner has returned from two months on his Sunflower plantation. Continuous rains and late season have left thousands of delta acres unplanted while some cotton and corn survive. Farmers work every day to prevent weeds. Frog chorus fills the air as crops fail. May reports widespread planting delays and losses.
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Mr. May
Centerville Iowa Tops List Without Liquor Saloons
Centerville Iowa, a 7000 resident city, stands as the largest in the state with no saloon or liquor storefronts. Uptown drugstores surrendered permits to sell intoxicants, agreeing not to seek renewal for two years, paying a 300 dollar fine and costs to dismiss cases after a Supreme Court ruling requires permit holders to record street and numbers of buyers on the sale blank. Numerous district Baptist associations in Arkansas held a temperance rally hour.
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Centerville
Iowa
Uptown
Supreme Court
Baptist Associations
Arkansas
Questions in Geography and World Place Puzzles
A playful verse listing myriad place names and questions about distances values and persons. It riffs on world locales including Montauk Point Sandy Hook Long Island Sound Schuyl Delaware Winnipeg Scilly Isles Merrimac Guada... ve rio Fon Du Lac Beloring Sea Magellan's Straits Syracuse Buffalo Cape Clear Glasgow eggs Cahoes Kennebec Amsterdam Leaven Joliet Cedar Keys Chilkoot Table Bay Nantucket Penobscot Yucatan Colon Tennessee Rhode Island and more questioned outcomes and facts.
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Scilly Isles
Fon du Lac
Beloring Sea
Dead Sea
Magellan’s Straits
Shanghai
Kennebec
Amsterdam
Leavenworth
Joliet
Table Bay
Nantucket Sound
Penobscot
Turkey
Greece
Brazil
Tennessee
Rhode Island
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Brandon Mercantile Co
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Dalton Marble Works
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J. L. Tanner, Pelahatchie, Miss
Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph CO
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Louisiana
James E. Caldwell
Gen
Leland Hume
Sec’y & Ass
Mgr
T. D. Webb, ‘Treasa
W. W.kersy Brandon
Capital City Marble & Granite Works
Is. M. Hunter
Jackson
E.R. Hendon
Bee King
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Pelahatchie
King & Palmer
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Law, Miss
Clark
Rankin County
Bankers and Cotton Commission
Wall Street
Alabama
Florida
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Ill
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