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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1921
Page
2
In Little Rock reports state farmers near collapse as 1920 crops rot or feed cattle. Rough rice collapsed to 20 cents per bushel while polished rice drops to four pounds per quarter. 60 million bushels have no market. Cotton growers face tenant demands, night riding, arson, and deaths as planters are marked for death.
Dewitt Gherett, captain of the band, was indicted on 42 counts and convicted. Twenty six others confessed. Armed riders threatened the courthouse at Jonesboro. special deputies were sworn in for the trial. After sentences, the courthouse burned. Cotton and rice growers face poverty and switch to hoes and cattle to rebuild fortunes.
New York reports only five farms within Manhattan, all near the northern edge by the Spuyten Duyvil creek. In contrast the Metropolitan district hosts 790 farms in full operation reflecting a surprising urban farming footprint.
Rotterdam May 20 The mayor of Bruges has drafted a bill offering a Belgian who marries a German woman in occupied areas a gold medal and a 4 bonus of $100 with education funded by the Belgian treasury The aim is to Belgianize the German Rhineland.
In New York on May 1 2 0 the feminist from Columbia University Professor Algernon Tansin likened suffragists to mermaids saying they fit neither element yet seek both. He warned the vote means little if women remain a separate self conscious group. In New York on May 26 Khartum the Bronx Zoo African elephant received a thorough haircut by a crew of three men two ladders hoses sponges oil and cloth using six gallons of oil.
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