Where the Fault Lies in War-Era Luxuries and Wages
An Athens Daily News analysis argues public extravagance after WWI delays normalcy. It singles out women’s wardrobe costs and wartime habits, citing a railroad wage dispute witness who showed $145 earnings with $162 expenses. The piece links persistent spending to broader economic trouble and notes meat and livestock slaughter declines under federal inspection, with quantified shortages across sheep, hogs, cattle, and calves.
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Almot
Woulen
Railway Inder Board
Joseph Cole
New Orleans
Illinoia Central Railroad
Daundry
Meither
Athens Daily News
United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Dairy and Poultry Prices Weather Mild Deflation Drop
Prices of dairy and poultry products suffered the least in the rapid deflation of farm prices that began in 1920 and continued through 1921, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Earning Power of the Trained Farmer
An Athens college study of 7271 Georgia farmers shows education boosts earnings. Uneducated farmers earn 240 dollars yearly. high school graduates 680.50. short agricultural courses 805. agricultural degree holders 1254. Three quarters of Georgia’s population work on farms, urging greater agricultural education funding, including Coffee County.
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Vale of Education
Atiic Gallege
Agricenltire
Athens Hay
Komt
Varna
Georgia
Union
Texas
Coffee County
Caffen County
Carroll County
A. & M. Rehool
Democratic Prosperity vs Republican Disaster Recounted
Senator King of Utah cited 1913 1928 wealth figures to contrast Democratic prosperity with Republican governance. He said national wealth rose from 180 billion to 400 billion under Woodrow Wilson and fell to about 225 billion in eight years, with farmers hit hardest in land and farm product values.
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Woodrow Wilson
United States
King
Dem
Utah
Renite
Watson Foxes Hoosier G O P at Tu Fuana State Meet
Senator Watson criticizes the Wilson and Harding administrations, claiming a mountain of obligations and cheaper peace under the Republican approach. He notes concealed war involvement and credits Republicans for managing government cost during peacetime.
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Jim
Watson
Indiana
Tufuana
Harding
Benitzer
Basia
Yan
Resolutions Adopted By the Democratic Executive Committee
Resolutions from the Democratic Executive Committee of Georgia's Fourth District set primary rules for selecting a Democratic nominee to Congress in the Sixty-eighth Congress. Key provisions include July 1 candidate filings, a $250 assessment, county vote consolidation, and a Columbus convention on September 26, 1922 to name the nominee and elect a new district executive committee.
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Democratic Executive Committee
Fourth Congress
Guoigia
Georgia
Jha
Uamen
Congress
Executive Committee
Anid
A. H. Thompson
LaGrange
General Assembly of Georgia
Toase
Delsgates
Columbus
Walnut trees sprayed with lead arsenate to control butternut curculio
The Bureau of Entomology says spraying walnut trees with lead arsenate at six pounds per fifty gallons of water effectively controls the butternut curculio.
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Bureau of Entomology
United States Department of Agriculura
Four life stages of the boll weevil explained
The article outlines the boll weevil life cycle in four stages egg larva pupal and adult. It covers egg laying in squares and bolls. It notes color size changes with age and food, duration of each stage and the average generation time around twenty one days in summer and longer in fall.
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Carroll Free Press
A. Meeks
Carrollton, Ga
Georgia Weekly Press Association
Hoosier
Gillette
Gillette Safety Razor CO
Becton
U.S.A
Gillette Blades
Goodrich
Silvertown
National Chain Dealer Association
W. L. Folds
Grady Reaves
Newnan ST
Atlanta
Carrollton
New Orleans Mardi Gras
J.P. Billups
Atlanta & West Point Railroad and Georgia Railroad
Atlanta, Georgia
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