Sugar Cane Customs and Rural Schoolyard Chewing
The piece depicts cane pulling and bundling for transport, humorous social customs among plantation youths, and betting on taste. It contrasts rich farm routines with pickaninny scenes, shows girls sharing stalks, and notes playful courtship antics around chewing cane in rural settings. It also touches on sugar cane's cultural role and mentions a New York Sun application and a museum of premailable articles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charley
Land's
Durland's
Jack
John Charley
Flere
Miss Nancy
Darky
Uncle York
N. Y. Sun
Handling Dead Letters in Washington Post Office
Interesting division of the Post Office Department at Washington employs 822 clerks including 177 women. They handle salaries from 900 to 1800 dollars. the dead letter office processes about twenty thousand undelivered letters daily. Each clerk opens about 259 letters per day, with many containing checks or money orders needing identification and return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office Department
Washington
Post Office
Genpal
White Man's God in a Bottle Hits Bendi Africa
In Benin City's dark shadow, Bendi in the Niger protectorate is blamed for human sacrifices. Major Leonard and I. James report that a wary approach to Bendi reveals a fetidi court and juju rites. A soda water bottle impresses locals, tying superstition to colonial curiosity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Benin
Niger
Protectorate
Bendi
Opaba
London
Cleaner narrates economy mood and fashion in Chicago shop
A Chicago Times-Herald vignette shows a clothes cleaner describing how trade shifts with booms and slumps. He notes customers save less by keeping garments longer, pockets hide valuables, and new domestic units influence willingness to spend while young married couples face social rules on in-law visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott
Chicago Times-Herald
Mule raisers ad in Hall's Sub-Division Mena Ark
A notice seeks raisers at a barn in Hall's Sub-Division, Mena Arkansas. It lists a six year old, 15 hands high mammoth Catalonian stock imported, with a disclaimer of no responsibility for accidents and a promise of cautious handling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Mena, Ark
Luke Emmenson
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United States
Mary Nitimon
Luke Emmerson
Texas
Nel
H.T
Ware Sewing Machine Co
Cleveland
J. J. Mershon
Mena
Ark
The
Fire Association
Philadelphia
Home
New York
American Central
St. Louis
Springfield Fire and Marine
Springfield
Mass
North British Mercantile
Edinburgh
Fidelity and Casualty
E. A. Lilly, Agt
Adapf
Crand
Mena Street
Mena, Arkansas
Mena Lumber Co
Sherwood Avenue
W. D. Egolf
Mesdames Phipps and
May
Janssen Park
W. I. Boyer
Pickering Avenue
W. H. Booth & CO
Honert Avenue
Trena, Ark
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