Cotton price and supply report from 1919 crisis
Columbia report notes cotton should fetch 75 cents per pound at middling basis. Wannamaker and American Cotton Association warn of a large supply shortfall and looming cotton famine, with production costs rising and minimal price safeguards to guide 1920 planting and sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredericksburg Standard
Columbia
D. C
J. 5S. Wannamaker
American Cotton Association
Wannamaker
Reading
Europe
Japan
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Department of Agri
Germany
Henry C Maier Advertises Feed Goods in Fredericksburg
Henry C Maier dealer in feed stuffs hides poultry and country produce offers cold drinks tobacco and cigars in Fredericksburg Texas. Business lists fruit jars jelly glasses stone jars crocks and flower pots with contact details and location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredericksburg
Texas
Cameron
Poet Receives Rough Check For Impromptu Verse
A young man offers a poem to an editor who pays with a rough draft check. The editor assures payment and invites more work but forgets to fill the check, prompting the poet to offer corrections. The exchange ends with the editor allowing edits to the check.
Platform Rivalry On Jim Crow Car Sparks Debate
Sam and Rastus ride a Southern railway to a plantation for cotton picking and discuss State elections. Rastus mocks the incumbent’s platform as worthless, insisting political platfoems are just tools to get in, not to stand on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Rastus
Prohibition Measure Passed by House Enforcing Bill
Washington July 22 the House voted nearly three to one to pass a prohibition enforcement bill with drastic penalties. One hundred members abstained from reporting it while 287 supported the measure. Prohibition leaders celebrated as the Senate could modify or strike some restrictions. martial law was not requested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
House
Senate
Bloody Race Riots In Washington D C
Riot clashes between white and black residents persist in Washington D C with multiple shootings. Reports say a white home defense guard was killed and another white man fatally wounded by a black assailant as cavalry and marines deployed in the ne gro district near Eighth and M Streets to quell violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
Home Defense Guard
Eighth
Camp Meade
Quantico
Coal Miners' Strike Threatens Britain Amid Turmoil
London reports quote Victor Hartshorn warning that without government concession at the miners conference civil war could follow. Observers describe no coal stock, collapsed production, and escalating tensions across industrial Britain in a volatile hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Britain
England
Victor Hartshorn
South Wales
Universal Service
House of Commons Ratifies the Peace Treaty
London July 22 The House of Commons finished its all night session approving the German peace treaty and the Anglo French convention. The German treaty passed all stages without amendment while the Anglo French pact was unanimously adopted after a brief debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
House of Commons
Lloyd George
John Devlin
Ireland
Tragic Gasoline Tank Fire Incident
A man struck a match to check an automobile gas tank and it ignited injuring him. Another man accelerated to view the blaze as investigators worked at the scene.
Also Mentioned on This Page
F. M. Jones
Palmer, Okla
Mrs. Jones
United States
Bates
Liverpool
Manchester
U S
U. S
Hes
Mite
Maier
Remington
Risht
Henry C. Maier
THE
Coca-Cola Co
Atlanta, GA
Scott's
Scott & Bowne
Bloomfield
N. J. Ae
Otto Aden
Spahn
B&b
San Antonio
Secor Sanitarium-Hospital
Kerrville-on-the-Guadalupe
America
Kerrville
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!