Cotton Acreage Warning From Farm and Ranch
Supplement urges restraint on cotton expansion after a small crop this year. War in Europe keeps prices volatile, and the piece notes higher potential profits from 11 million bales versus 16 million last year, suggesting reduced acreage to ensure future stability and provide food crops. It cites $220 million more gross returns and overall gains of about $250 million when lint and seed considered. Also reports the Thursday Club illness delaying news and recounts a recent meeting at Mrs Geo W Neal, with program on The Caucasus and musical readings.
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Europe
The Lyceum Course Opens in Iuka With Low Ticket Prices
The Lyceum Course opens December 9 in the School Auditorium in Iuka. Season tickets cost 2.50 for six entertainments. high school 1.25. pupils below high school 0.15 at the door 0.50 for non ticket holders. children under 12 0.25. Funds benefit the school, with leftovers to buy curtains. The issue notes local marriages, dry farming concerns, politics, and advertising rates, with editor James S. Davis and Dr. M. Davis among staff.
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Lyceum
Tuka
Odon
James S. Davis
M. D
Col. R. W. Price
Hammerly & Price
Amelia Foote
Iuka
A. L. Pritchett
Levi Williams
Southland
Davis
Tennessee
Bates & Burgess
J. M. Davis & Co
Inka- Drug
R. T. Marshall
I. M. Hamilton
J. W. James
J.S. Richards
Gazette
Morning and Evening Prose Poem by Bob Taylor
A prose poem by the late Bob Taylor of Tennessee describes dawn as it rises with purple light and sunbeams. It paints a vivid scene of morning waking the world, with garden meadows, bird song, and bright waters welcoming new life and hope.
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Bob Taylor
Tennessee
Fortnightly Club Hosts Evening With Mr and Mrs Howard
The Fortnightly members and visitors enjoyed a delightful evening with Prof and Mrs Howard on November 19. The topic was Little Luxemburg. Miss Ida Lee Pyle spoke on John Hall the Bay View Man. Miss Ruth Carmack read Lissaver's Hymn of Hate and Curzon's Prayer for Punishment. After study hour guests tried original conundrums and games. Mrs Howard, with Frances Howard and Robert Moss, served a salad course.
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Howard
Little
Luxemburg
Ida Lee Pyle
John’m ‘Hall
Bay View
Ruth Carmack
Lissaver
Curzon
Fortnightly Glob Program and Local Events
Roll call notes an Asiatic Russia item of interest. Piano solo by Miss Christine Powell and Miss Gladys Elam. Prehistoric Peoples of Oklahoma led by Prof. Howard. Birthday honors for James Whitcomb Riley. Hostesses Misses Mira and Christine Powell. Meeting place Mrs J D Powell. Time Friday evening December 10 at 3 30.
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Asiatic
Russia
Christine Pow
Oklahoma
Howard
James Whit
Comb Riley
Sam Reid
L. F. Campbell
Gladys Elam
J. D. Powell
Mira
Christine Powell
The Tuka Weekly Gazette 1868 Excerpt on Business Colleges
AJune 18 1868 excerpt suggests increasing earnings through business college training. It advertises stenography and bookkeeping demand and offers scholarships in Macon Andrews Memphis Wheeler Birmingham. The notice promotes business college education as a path to a good position.
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Business College
Macon & Andrews
Memphis Business College
Wheeler Business College
Birmingham
Ala
Thanksgiving services at Methodist Church featured readings
Union services last Thursday included President Wilson's Thanksgiving proclamation read by Miss Lucile Walker. Addresses were delivered by W. T. Bennett and J. A. E. Pyle, with a paper by Mrs. S. F. Howe. The choir, led by Ruth Shockley, offered a finest solo and excellent singing.
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Union
Methodist Church
Wilson
Lucile Walker
W. T. Bennett
J. A. E. Pyle
S. F. Howe
Ruth Shockley
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Geo. W. Neal
Marco Bozzarius
McDonald
Neal
Caucasus
R. L. McKnight
E. P
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