Strong leadership urged for Farmers union movement
President Charles S. Barrett told the Shawnee Oklahoma convention that the greatest need of the American farmer is effective leadership. He praised the union’s progress, noted strong state treasuries, and warned that without capable leaders in every state the movement risks failure and loss of farmer esteem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shawnee
Okla
Farmers’ Union
Charles S. Barrett
Newt Gresham
Treasuries
America
Farmers’ Organization
Acres
Beattie Guilty in Virginia Murder Case
Henry Clay Beattie Jr is found guilty of first degree murder in the shooting death of his wife Louise Owen Beattie in Chesterfield Virginia. The verdict carries a possible death sentence by electrocution on November 24 with a court of appeals likely to consider a writ of error and new trial. Beattie faced testimony about his alleged infidelity with Beulah Binford while Beattie’s defense asserted self defense against a masked assailant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr
Richmond, & Va
Beulah
Binford
Underworld
Beulah Binford
New York
Beattie
Chesterfield
Virginia
Midlothian
Louise Owen Beattie
Court of Appeals
Staten Island
Thea Pelt
Commonwealth
Beulah Bin‘sora
Richmond
Watson
Cail
Virginia 1
Goa
Cogbill
Hesters Cotton Report Details Record Season and Prices
New Orleans cotton statistics show a record crop value of 1 030 000 000 dollars including seed. The season yielded 12 120 095 bales, up 1 510 270 from 1909 10, with farmers paid about 14.60 cents per pound and mills absorbing the entire growth.</s>
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Henry G. Hester
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Hester
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
de Orleans
Cotton price pact eyed by Farmers Union in Oklahoma
Shawnee Oklahoma reports that cotton to be sold for 14 cents in September and October and 15 cents thereafter under a South hold firm price agreement. Union leaders push good roads parcel post and futures limits while seeking broader farm aids and dairy and sow expansion to boost cotton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shawnee
Okla
South
National Farmers’ Union
Congressional Immigration Committee
America
Comptroller to Inspect State Banks in Georgia and Tennessee
The Comptroller of the Currency plans to send an inspector into Georgia and Tennessee to survey state savings and private banks and trust companies not under federal control. Officials in Georgia and Tennessee gave partial cooperation due to staff and funding limits. The effort aims to publish uniform statistics on bank assets and liabilities as of June 30 versus June 7, 1910, for a national view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Murray
Georgia
Tennessee
National Monetary Commission
Galveston to Winnipeg Railroad Link Extended
Sumner County Kansas commissioners declare the old Chisholm trail from Wellington to Caldwell a county road, creating a new 20 mile link as part of a north South highway planned to connect Galveston Texas with Winnipeg Manitoba. The route already traverses Oklahoma to Red River, extending the transcontinental progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galveston
Winnipeg
Caldwell
Kan
Texas
Man
Sumner County
Kansas
Wellington
Oklahoma
Red River
Supreme Court awaited to interpret clouded Sherman law cases
In Washington, the Supreme Court is expected to clarify Sherman antitrust issues in several high profile cases, including hard coal and turpentine matters, with lower courts having varied outcomes on government interpretations. A central claim alleges a 1895 coal industry conspiracy aimed at monopoly among Pennsylvania coal carriers and producers, with independent output constrained. Fort Worth reports a brutal assault on Mrs. Brown by an iron bar, her husband nearby. he is jailed as the coroner investigates. Atlanta notes Mrs. E W Bender as a 29 year old grandmother of eight, claimed as the youngest on record with multiple generations born within her family and a daughter who married in 1892.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Standard Oil and Tobacco
Turpentine Trust
Supreme Court
Pennsylvania
Fort Worth
Tex
Brown
George Brown
Brownwood
Atlanta
E. W. Bender
Edward Sinclair
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S. M. Gattis
Hillsboro
N. C
John W. Graham
Paul C
Graham Graham
Graham Attorneys-at-Law
Alamance
Durham
Granville
Person
Orange
J. S. Spurgeon
Hilleboro
N.O
Mmcenearet
Rae Soe Ae
A. W. Graham
Oxford
N. O
Perton
Crasette
Bepreme
Eee Boitt Chemical
Jaltimore
TEER
Molec
Guarantéad
Seasia
Chas.s. T
Henry Beattie, JR
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