Revival of River Traffic Aids Railways With Barges Towboats
Steamships long idle on the Mississippi will rejoin freight service to ease rail congestion. A federal backed fleet between New Orleans and St Louis plus upper Mississippi work planned with millions in funding. Mississippi Valley Waterways Association coordinates, with initial 40 barges and 7 towboats to start by September, plus dock and terminal investments in New Orleans Memphis Cairo and other towns as freight shifts from rails to water.
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IS Toys
Mark Twain
Mississippi
New Orleans
St. Louis
Mississippi Waterways Association
Valiey
Upper
Minneapolis
M. J. Sanders
Gulf Shipping
A. W. Mackie
Theodore Brent
Sanders
Chamber of Commerce
Memphis
Cairo
Ill
Greenville
Miss
Arkansas
Mississippi Valley Waterways Association
Association
River traffic revival plan aims to cut costs and boost shipments
Director Sanders outlines a modern Mississippi traffic revival: 2,000,000 tons yearly target, potential joint rail and water rates, water transport about one third the rail cost with similar delivery times, lower upkeep, and a nationwide federal push to shift one third of freight from rail to waterways. He stresses this is a novel, creditful effort to revive river commerce.
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Sanders
Mississippi
Heis County
New Stomach Remedy Brings Relief Says Local Farmer
Julius H. Adams of Gadsden South Carolina credits Dreco with ending his years of stomach pain and liver trouble. He says after trying the medicine his appetite returned and he feels like a new man. The ad claims Dreco is available at local drug stores, including Ring Drug Co in High Point.
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Julius H. Adams
Gadsden
S.C
Ring Drug Co
Americans Asked to Limit Use of Sugar
The U S Food Administration urges a two pounds per month sugar limit per person until January 1 1919 to guarantee supplies for the Army Navy Allies and civilians. Sugar sources include Cuban beet and Louisiana cane while October brings beet sugar and November some Louisiana cane. rationing aims to protect the Allied sugar supply amid reduced world stocks and shipping shortages. Households should preserve fruit crops with minimal sugar and re sweeten canned fruit later when stocks improve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tober
Louisiana
Share Our Sugar With the Allies War Time Ration Facts
Allies share sugar obligations with the United States and other nations amid wartime scarcities. Details compare ration levels in England France and Italy, outline state control in Italy, rising prices abroad, and the relative US price. The piece notes US two pounds per person monthly as voluntary guidance and cites German sugar abundance for home use. It closes with an ad for Foley Kidney Pills.
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America
England
France
Italy
United States Food Administration
Germany
New York
Train Schedule for C Y R R Co November 28 1917
C Y R R schedule shows daily train times with arrival and departure at High Point Thomasville Gordontown Ly Denton and High Rock. The timetable notes times are not guaranteed and No 22 runs daily except Sunday with 1:20 p.m. arrival at Denton and related stops.
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C. & Y. R. Railway CO
A. M
High Point
Thomasville
Gordontown
High Rock
Denton
Foley Kidney Pills Patient Testimony
People who have used Foley Kidney Pills prefer them to other medicines. They claim relief from kidney and bladder troubles backaches sharp pains rheumatism fatigue and sleep disturbance. Mann Drug Co.
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Foley
Bladder Mann Drug Co
Mann Drug Co
Inside bathing with hot water and limestone phosphate
An old remedy recommends drinking a glass of hot water with limestone phosphate before breakfast to flush toxins from the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It claims benefits for constipation biliousness headaches and general well being, urging immediate morning use.
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Service
Ansfer Cn
Orone
Tures
Bank of Commerce
Tion
Quarterly
the Welcome Bank
O. E. Kearns, Pres
A. M. Rankin
J. H. Adams
A. Pollock
H. A. Millis
Ste Ces8
South Carolina
Sym
U. S. Food Administration
The
Food Administration
Europe
United States
Porto Rico
Java
Calomel
Denton Ar
Cid
Broadway
William Fox Presents
William
Farnum
Mack Sennett
Norma Talmadge
Peoples House Furnishing Co
Peoples House Fur
Nishing Company
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