Big Georgia Farm Shows Wealth From Substantial Tilth
A large Georgia farm owned by M Amith of Oglethorpe county demonstrates intensive management and soil improvement. Col Smith drives a mule and labor over a few acres, rotating crops and pasturing cattle to enrich the soil. The operation yields 100 head of Jerseys and other cattle, producing 20,000 to 25,000 pounds of butter yearly, with cattle grazing in movable enclosures and monthly field rest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oglethorpe Ty
ColSmith
Welles William
Lewspape
Timwire
Smith
Peter Mit
Tapa
Col Smith
Marst
Jerseys
Attlc
Enormous Farm Operation Records Vast Wheat Output
A detailed description outlines an extensive plantation with 70 to 85 bushels per acre wheat yields and 70 to 75 bushels per acre for another crop. It notes a full timber and brick making facility, a private 17 mile railway line, and complete processing shops. The estate includes numerous kilns, sawmills, irrigation, and breeding facilities. Cal Smith manages, reporting 229 Wales of land, 10,000 barrels of oil, 4,000 tons of fertilizer, 190,000 pounds of bacon fat, and related agricultural outputs and stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acre
Col Smith
Mantyardan
Sted Pillerhs
Faetoey
St . Jous
Temgeth
Ayani
Baad Bates
Petriale
Cal Smith
Lightning Kills Boy and Wounds Four Near Lexington NC
O Dell Young, a boy, was killed by lightning while hunting plums near Lexington North Carolina. Four companions were seriously injured in the same incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
N. C
O'Dell Young
Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company
Texas
Clinton
J. F. Shaw
Fouke
Texarkana
Sanders
Louisiana
Adair
Okla
Martin Rapes
Creek County
Oklahoma
Sapulpa
Bristow
Black River Flood Strikes Northeast Louisiana
A Plaquemine dispatch notes a catastrophic Black River flood in northeastern Louisiana. About 2,300 people have been displaced or confined to upper stories, with miles of farmland underwater six to ten feet deep. Families camp on rooftops, improvised drift-wood rafts form temporary pens for livestock, and many residents lack food as swamp fever spreads among the vulnerable communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
New Orleans
Black River
Plcayune
Jonesque
Red river levee breaks flood Marksville area
Red river levees broke in two places below Moncla on Sunday. The worst breach spans about 500 feet, with floodwaters 16 to 20 feet deep. Both breaks occur on the left descending bank within about thirty miles of the Mississippi, threatening the Red river vicinity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marksville
Red River
Moncla
Mississippi River
Winston Pensioned First UT President Receives Carnegie Pension
George P. Winston, first UT president from 1896 to 1899, retires from teaching and receives a $2,500 annual Carnegie fund pension. He later led North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College. His leadership helped UT adopt university standards and begin its era of growth and long term success.
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University of Texas Carnegie
Austin
George P. Winston
University of Texas
Carnegie Fund
Winston
North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College
Fatal Pistol Pastime in West Nashville
Roy Simpson aged sixteen killed Clellie Brien, also sixteen, at the home of the boy's father in West Nashville. The girl was visiting. While playing with two pistols the boy says the pistol fired accidentally, killing her instantly by a head shot. He was held at the police station pending investigation.
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Nashville
Roy Simpson
Clellie Brien
Simpsons
Spectacular Chicago Fire Draws Massive Crowd
A huge crowd of about 150000 watched a long burning blaze at the old city waterworks along the west riverbank near Twelfth street. The fire raged over three hours until the structure collapsed, with $650000 in losses borne by S Krug Wrecking company and an additional $15000 from burning railroad cars.
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Chicago
Tvery
Union
Old City
Twelfth Street
S. Krug Wrecking Company
Not Prohibited Says Colquitt
Railroad Commissioner Colquitt writes L Benedict of the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio railway in San Antonio stating his opinion that the anti pass law does not prohibit free transportation of fee and fresh meat to bridge men or other bona fide railroad employees though the commissioner has no jurisdiction over the proposition.
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Atson
Colquitt
L. Benedict
Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway
San Antonio
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Prescott Daily News
Prescott, Ark
Telephone
Frame Corporation
State
Tibet
of State
Ludwig Beere
Mines, Manufactures and Agriculuury
Guy DR. Tucker
LL. Coffman
George I. Coon
Supreme Coast
Rifdick J.chart
Supreme
Vouet
Carroll D Wood
GEO. J. Terry Company
Commercial Union Assurance Company
London
England
Thos. C. McRae, JR
Prescott Pantatorium
McDaniel How. Co
Airdome
Kansas City
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