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Diverse 1900s Notes Span Exports Murders and Morals
The item chronicles various era tidbits including New Orleans corn exports for seven months ending July 31 totaling 13 463 652 bushels influenced by freight rate cuts, the national silver committee distributing 10 000 000 documents, and 2 000 000 more by the national democratic committee. It notes fleas at First Presbyterian South Orange forcing a temporary relocation, the death of John Thurman at 73 in Greensburg Indiana as a prominent Black member of a white lodge, copper deposits making Arizona a future wealth center, and cattle feeding efficiency as a profit metric. It adds remarks on smoking and bacteria, a failsafe prophecy about the world ending, Weyler with a flag incident, a 25-woman Pittsburgh dress reform club, and the admonition that a cow yielding more milk per food is most profitable.