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Newspaper
Pratt City Herald
Location
Pratt City, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1901
Page
2
A couple riding through a storm dispute and drift apart yet seek shelter in a country church. The preacher tells a tale of peace among neighbors as rain falls and the couple, now reconciled, hold hands and listen as the sermon echoes their own quiet vow.
A critique argues rhetoric values perspicuity energy and elegance and warns line misuse. Examples show redundant phrases like thought to himself and together misuse real meaning, urging writers to trim words and follow good manners in prose.
A long essay argues for rotating stock away from fields during winter to build soil fertility and store plant nutrients. It claims permanent pastures, manure, and water access improve yields, with stock returning in spring for a triple increase in output versus past methods. The author notes regional climate in eastern Ohio and cites Geo. K. Scott.
Mr Editors and Mr Mitchell of Hawkinsville urge a persistent cooperative effort to develop a sentiment against unlimited credit in cotton country. They argue that credit on crops and related items has paralyzed intelligent farm engagement and propose steps to curb it.
The piece extols sheep farming as essential to national prosperity, noting sheep care, feed use, and breeding quality shape meat and wool output. It urges careful selling decisions, warns against fattening or genetic faults, and highlights sheep forage benefits to land, soil, and broader economy.
In Alabama the long battle over restricting child labor in textile mills heats up as Miss Irene Ashby produces data on nearly 12 000 operatives with six percent under twelve. The American Federation of Labor and local press push for reform while manufacturers seek a temporary compromise limiting under twelve workers to school terms and widows or disabled parents’ children.
The article notes a planned largest tannery in the world at Binghamton and outlines how East African natives are being taught cotton cultivation, Texas oil fields drawing labor, and rapid industrial shifts including Michigan lumber mills forming a giant output. It mentions salt production in multiple states and Porto Rico salt works planning 5 to 6 million tons of ant year.
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