Plain word to cotton growers on bale types and prices
J H W Steele explains that round bales lower value and that square 24x54 inch bales weighing 500 to 550 pounds with 24 lb bagging yield higher prices. He argues compression harms fiber and urges standard square bales, citing foreign spinners’ preferences and recent ads claiming large savings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galveston
Texas
Texas Standard
Cotton Ginners Journal
American Cotton Company
Waco
South
Europe
Fire destroys North German Lloyd wharves and ships
A flash of fire on pier 3 Hoboken sparked a blaze that swept the North German Lloyd wharves. Three liners the Main Bremen and Saale burned to the water, with estimates of up to 200 lives lost as workers fled and jumped overboard amid exploding whisky barrels and drifting flames.
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New York
Lloyd
Hoboken
New York Harbor
Bremen
Saale
Lucy on Bravery and Wartime Echoes in 1900
A long reflective piece critiques chivalry and bluff in war, elevating ordinary courage in a woman named Lucy who questions patriotic pieties. It blends social critique with anecdotes about men, women, and the Spanish American War era, ending with an ad for Hunt’s Lightning Oil and other notices.
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Lucy
Stars and Stripes
Cuba
Viscaya
Sam
Blue Excellency
Old England
United Kingdom
Belt of
Earth
The Sumptuous Pullmans on the Denver Road
The Denver Road offers luxurious Pullman cars built in natural woods with spotless linen and prompt service. The cafe car operates between Fort Worth and Denver via Union Station, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, and Denver, with stopovers for summer tourists. It departs Fort Worth at 9 45 a m and reaches Denver by midday next day for lunch.
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Fort Worth
Pueblo
Colorado Springs
Denver
Texas
Colorado
Promote Dr Simmon’s Sarsaparilla
Advertisement urges readers to try Dr Simmon s Sarsaparilla for scrofula boils humors on the face catarrh and related ailments. It offers fifty cents for fifty doses.
Illustrator and General Narrator advertisement in Texas
A handsomely illustrated monthly magazine by I. & G. N. R. R. highlights Texas resources and counties for each issue from March 1899 to February 1900. It invites investors, sportsmen, tourists, and home seekers to subscribe or request back numbers, offering an ART MAP OF TEXAS & MEXICO for 7 cents.
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F. W. Brode
Memphis
Texas
Houston County
Montgomery County
Cherokee County
Leon County
Anderson County
Palestine
Rusk County
Walker County
Bexar County
San Antonio
Brazoria County
Harris County
Houston
Fort Bend
Trinity
Texas & Mexico
No One Needs to Apologize For Riding This Line
An advertisement extols a rail line with broad vestibuled trains, fast service, solid roadbed, and courteous employees, offering an unequaled variety of scenery and a perfect baggage system.
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Aviu
St. Louis
Chicago
Kansas City
J. H. W. Steele
Hunt
BRAV
EY LU
the Crushers Association
Gus A. Baumgarten
Schulenberg
Texas Cotton Seed Crushers Association
Hav
Superintendents Association
To Crushers Association
Halletsville
Louis Kahanek
Berry Ermend
Cheatham
Denver Road
Ft Worth
Teras
Moulton
Mountain
The
EF. Wagner
Southern Pacific
S. F. B. Morse
Tras. Mer
Houston, Texas
L. J. Parks
G. P
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