Fomento and Labor Shifts in Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands
The piece reviews Puerto Rico's sugar sector decline and the rise of fo mento driven investment. It cites Virgin Islands quotas, slum clearance, new housing, a $74 million two year program, and private loans constraints while noting emigration to the States and local labor supply issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
West Indies
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Lancaster County
Cuba
USDA
United States
U. S
General Fund
San Juan
Tropics
Fifty Years Ago This Week in Lancaster Farming
This week recalls 1906 events such as a Missouri blizzard havoc across farms and towns, coal shortages prompting a rail relief train in Oklahoma, 11 freight trains stuck on the Great Northern line between Grand Forks and Minot, and a bank forgery case at Farmers and Drovers National Bank in Waynesburg with a one million dollar loss. Also noted: a Blair County cholera outbreak in pigs and a Chestnut Level steer weighing 2020 pounds, the largest seen by two local butchers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Mangum
Rock Island Railroad
Grand Forks
Minot
North Dakota
Great Northern Railroad
Farmers and Drovers National Bank
Waynesburg
J . F. Rinehart
John B Cunningham
Rinehart
Tragedy at Lancaster Stock Yards Ends a Youth’s Life
The 1906 Christmas season saw 13 year old William H. Gardner killed when he attempted to board moving cattle cars at the Lancaster Stock Yards. He was crushed between the platform and train as cars passed over him. In December 1906 Dan January filed a peonage charge in federal court against James Patrick of Rankin County Mississippi, alleging involuntary servitude by L. D. Carter. January claimed whipping with a buggy trace and enforced debts spanning years.
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Lancaster
William H. Gardner
PBR R
Dan January
James Patrick
Rankin County
Miss
January
L. D. Carter
Ithat Carter
Patrick
Carter
Heated clash at Pennsylvania Grange Convention in 1931
In Dubois during the 1931 Grange session, State Secretary John A. McSpartan and E B. Dorsett traded sharp remarks over Governor Pinchot and a proposed rural school aid plan. Dorsett attacked the administration while McSpartan defended the Governor and the school measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Grange
Dubois
John A. McSpartan
E B. Dorsett
State Grange
McSpartan
Pinchot
Grange
Dorsett
McSparran
Way of Love Lesson Reflects on Christian Path
A December 16 1956 lesson by Dr Foreman discusses multiple so called loves and contrasts them with the Christian way of love. It argues true Christian love transforms the unlovely and does not seek its own way or personal gain.
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Foreman
Christ
Christan
41 Hunters Killed in 1931 Dees Season
Pennsylvania's 1931 deer season closed December 18 setting a record with 41 hunters killed by guns and seven more dying of heart disease. Many more wounded remained in hospitals. Apples were abundant in Boonsboro as unpicked fruit lingered due to low market prices. Lancaster County Farm Society No 12 met at Mt Nebo with 91 in attendance. Santa arrived with gifts and Mt Nebo Mountainers provided music.
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Pennsylvania
State Game Commission
South Mountain
Boonsboro
York
Lancaster County Farm Society No. 12
Lillie Girvin
Mt. Nebo
Santa
Mt Nebo
Christian Love Vs Universal Blessing across Civil War Echoes
A meditation on love contrasting secular optimism with Christian charity. It cites Lincoln and Lee as examples of steadfast conviction purified by mercy. The text argues Christian love reaches even enemies and cautions against vague universal goodwill that excuses evil.
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Lincoln
Lee
Vistes of
Christian Education
Naenn Cosatil
Churches of Christ U. SB. A
Community Presa Service
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Octoraro
Quarryville
Alfred C. Alspach
Ernest J. Neill
C. Wallace Abel
Robert G. Campbell
Robert J. Wiggins
Fomento
St. Croix
Statesider
Harlem
By Jack Reichard
Blair County
William Boyce
BIBLE
DEES
Farm Society NO. 12
Geetry Sega Er eReoe
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