Southland Tour Describes St Louis and Memphis
The writer recounts arriving in St Louis amid heavy thunder, noting its factories tobacco output and markets, river activity, the Majestic Range Factory and Mississippi Glass Works, and bridges. Then travels to Memphis, describing its rail lines, cotton market of one million bales, hardwood lumber trade, and population of 162,351 as the Mississippi valley’s growing hub.
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Royal fellowship meeting and New Orleans impressions
An attendee writes of a noon luncheon at City Club Memphis, key civic group, then describes a train journey via Mississippi to New Orleans. He notes the river state’s cotton farming, lumber, and many trees, and contrasts Old New Orleans with the French Quarter, Canal Street, and canal history.
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Words on a Mississippi trip from St Louis to New Orleans
An account of a travel journey from near St Louis to the Mississippi River and New Orleans aboard steamers. Highlights include the Father of Rivers voyage, a 40 mile harbor trip, a lecture onboard, the world’s largest steel float dry dock, a major sugar refinery, Illinois Central docks, a vast cotton warehouse, a government industrial canal project, and notes on New Orleans cemeteries and Louisiana sugar cane and forests.
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Gas and Lumber Prompts Ask for New Shed
A terse notice urges readers to buy gas and use lumber to build a machine shed. It mentions keeping costs low while addressing rust and decay, implying a practical, budget friendly project. The fragmented text suggests a local, utilitarian tone centered on affordable home repair.
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