Arkansas Cotton Rally Urged For Memphis Meeting
B H Burnett calls Arkansas merchants bankers farmers and professionals to attend a November Memphis mass meeting led by Harvie Jordan to raise cotton prices. He cites 1905 price gains and urges cooperation to lift prices from six cents to ten or eleven cents per pound, warning of disaster under current prices.
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Chickalah
Arkansas
Memphis
Harve Jordan
Southern Cotton Association
B. H. Burnett
Burnett
Ark
South
Harvie Jordan
Atlanta
Georgia
Tenn
Three-Cent Fare Debate In St Louis Anticipates Legislation
City officials say United Railway’s fight against the one mill passenger tax could spur eight cent fare moves but public sentiment leans toward compromise. Mayor Wells reiterates the mill tax as preferable to high fares, calling his remark a suggestion of outcome rather than a threat.
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St. Louis
United Railway Company
Wells
Hendrix and Galloway Colleges progress noted
Rev James Thomas, Methodist education commissioner for Arkansas, returns from three weeks touring the state with promising prospects for Hendrix and Galloway Colleges He will remain in Texarkana for several days.
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James Thomas
Methodists of
Arkansas
Hendrix and Galloway
Anti unionists sue for church property in Chan cery suit
Clarksville October 22. The anti unionists filed suit in the Chan cery court asking for the church property now in dispute.
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Clarksville
Antiunionists
Chancery Court
Train Strikes Logan's Coal Wagon In Local Accident
This morning train No 35, overdue by over an hour, struck Sam O Logan's coal wagon at the railroad and Walnut street intersection. Driver Phil Garrison was seriously hurt, the wagon demolished, and the mules jolted. The driver suffered head and body injuries. the mule crew may also be hurt.
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Sam
Logan
Walnut Street
Phil Garrison
Magnolia and Northern Railroad Boost in Arkansas
Colquitt reports enthusiastic Magnolia backers pledge 35000 and Waldo subscribes 15000 Hope businessmen expect 45000 for a Gall Magnolia and Northern line from Hope to Magnolia. Proposed operation by August 1. farmers wary of higher prices while Hope sees strong demand.
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Little, Rock
Col
J.C. Colquitt
State Auditor's Office
Magnolia
Col. Colquitt
Waldo
Hope
Magenolia
Col Colquitt
Mussel Shells Packed for Shipment Along White River
Report states several hundred tons of mussel shells lie ready for shipment along the White River earning ten dollars per ton. A Magnolia area farmer Homer Dean was shot and wounded in an ambush yesterday. Fort Smith girl Goldie Sweet suffered severe injuries in an elevator accident. Little Rock will receive natural gas within six months. The 1909 annual convention of the Society for Municipal Improvement will be held in Little Rock. Miss Halley Smith of Stephens married Fred Bond of Taylor Texas yesterday. A seven pound sweet potato is on display at Hampton. Miss Minnie Livingston and John W Downs were wed at Conway yesterday. Eight hundred eighty five bales of Farmers Union Cotton sold at Clarendon auction for 98.76 to 8.86. Sheriff-elect Rodgers of Pike County posted bond at 65 000, the county's longest ever.
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New Orleans
South
Arkansas
Memphis
B. H. Burnett
The
Southern Cotton Association
Clarendon
Rodgers
Pike County
Storm records fall as Kansas City drenched in rain
A sweeping rainstorm in the Southwest dumps unprecedented totals. Lawre Kansas rain reached 5.60 inches in 22 hours, while Kansas City recorded 4.88 inches in 24 hours ending at 7 am. Flooding threatens crops and washes bridges. Frost and light snow expected in the region soon.
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Kansas City
Lawre Kan
Kansas
Oklahoma
Southwest
Topeka
Wichita
Eggs produced in the United States reach vast scale
About 16 billion eggs are produced in the United States each year. Seventy million dollars' worth of chickens produce this great quantity of eggs, amounting to 208 annually per person if evenly divided.
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United States
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Iil. Burnett
Bank of Prescott
T. C. McRae, Jr
News OF Southwest Arkansas
Arkadelphia
Texarkanaas
Texarkana
Cotton Belt Railway
E. W. Godboild
Texas
Iron Mountain
Joel D. Conway
Washington
Hempstead
Wm. Fried
Fulton
Fried
F. F .Quinn
Quinn
Hanover
Pittsburg
Wadelehta
Standard
EF. Jordan
Prescott
W. TL. Jordan
If Mack of
Bodean
A. J. Hunter
Ouachita
Ft. Logan
Arkadelphia Milling Company
John Mackey
Hot Springs
Mr. Mackey
Presbyterian Church
U.S
Cumberland Presbyterian
State College
W. V. Tompkins
Prescott and
Homer Dean
Fort Smith
White River
Goldie Sweet
Ft. Smith
Little Rock
National Society For Municipal Improvement
Halley Smith
Stephens
Fred Bond
Taylor
Hampton
Minnie Livingston
John W. Downs
Conway
Just
Ozan Mercantile Co
Prescott, Arkansa
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