Cotton price row tied to southern bankers warned by Wilson aide
In a letter to John L. McLaurin secretary Tumulty says the cotton situation hinges on southern bankers and urges stability. The missives discuss high interest, New York bank influence, and potential effects on 1916 cotton output, with a Georgia farmers’ meeting planned in Atlanta. A Swansea boy, 15, boasts a remarkable cotton-picking feat of 601 pounds in a day.
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Columbia
J. P. Tumulty
Wilson
John L. McLaurin
State Warehouse Commission
Harding
Birmingham
Ala
Messrs
McAdoo
New York
South
Georgia
Atlanta
Swansea
John Rowell
Ryan
Market Report of South Carolina Agricultural Prices
Weekly prices across South Carolina markets show cotton and grain rates with corn at about 1.00 per bushel and wheat around 1.25 to 1.60 per bushel. Oats rye peas and butter eggs and other staples vary by town from Abbeville to Chesterfield with small differences in cents per unit.
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South Carolina
Allendale
Belton
Bamberg
Charleston
Tidgefield
Arlington
Fort Mills
Jonesville
Lancaster
Bridgeland
Walterboro
Winnsboro
County Consolidation Advocated by Columbia Leader
N W Brooker of Columbia urged the consolidation of Lexington and Richland counties. W J Timmons secretary of the chamber of commerce and York County Fair Association attends fairs in North Carolina Virginia and Tennessee representing the Union Chester and York fairs to secure amusements and concessions.
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N. W. Brooker
Columbia
Lexington
Richland
W. J. Timmons
Chamber of Commerce
York County Fair Association
North Carolina
Virginia
Tennessee
Union
Chester Fair
York Fair
Two Country Churches and a Pastorate Ideal
A veteran pastor reflects on supplying seven rural churches each month and the joys and challenges of cross‑country ministry. He argues for splitting duties between two churches, recounts ministry from Mt. Vissah Church in Anderson County, and recalls baptisms and the aged, influential rural congregation.
Baptist Church Growth And Baptisms Highlight Pastoral Ministry
The article notes enlarging church houses as congregations grow and recalls Dr J E Vines aiding a lengthy South Carolina meeting. In thirty eight years the pastor has baptized over two thousand people, including one hundred sixteen this year, with a current membership of two hundred thirty and a monthly pastor salary of three hundred dollars.
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Mt. Vissah
Anderson County
South Carolina
J. E. Vines
Home Mission Board For
Brother Hiett
Universal Baptist Heart
Uome
Unconquerable Soul and Oak Carvings at St Pauls Vaults
A discussion of the unconquerable leader who never yields and shapes history, followed by news of valuable oak carvings from St Pauls cathedral stored in vaults and sent to the Geffrye museum. The relics include a prayer desk overdoor stall brackets trusses and an oak capital from the Wren era with Tijou ironwork.
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St. Paul's Cathedral
London
Christopher Wren
Geffrye Museum
L. Co. C
Tijou
Judge chides defense remarks in old case
A judge interrupts a defense lawyer after remarks about religion, saying the arguments are going in one ear and out the other. The lawyer replies with a quip about preventing the hearing in the courtroom. The exchange hints at a long history between them.
Narrow Teaching on Morality and Duty by Mazzini
The quote argues that focusing on morality and duties to family or country fosters egoism and harms others and the self. It compares country and family to two circles inside a larger one and as steps of a ladder needed to ascend yet forbidden to remain on.
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Mazzini
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Market Report
Abbbeville
Oto
Bey
Grengel
Home Field
Home Mission Board
The
Southern Baptist Convention
Aisocatea
D. Weston Hiott
Plckens
W. Hiott
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