Cotton crop forecast shows 15 226 000 bales expected
Department of Agriculture estimates probable cotton production at about 15,226,000 equivalent 500-pound bales based on October 18 reports on yield, abandonment, and ginnings. The forecast notes 164.7 pounds lint per harvested acre, 44,231,000 acres to be harvested, and state by state abandonment and production figures including Texas 4,050,000 bales and California 130,000 bales with about 70,000 extra bales in Lower California and Mexico.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Missouri
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
States
Blevins Found Guilty in Mail Fraud Conspiracy Case
Houston jurors convict Jacques E. Blevins, former president of Southern Motors Company, on 17 counts of conspiracy to defraud and using the mails to defraud. Co-defendants M. J. Kain, W. J. Murphy, Bram Ridley, R. V. Keith, C. E. Shively, R. Y. Keith, Lamar Ramel and seven others also found guilty on a single conspiracy count.
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Houston
Tex
Jacques E. Blevins
Southern Motors Company
M. J. Kain
W. J. Murphy
Bram Ridley
R. V. Keith
C. E. Shively
R. Y. Keith
Lamar Ramel
Resignation Accepted of Dr Lindsey Blayney at College of Industrial Arts
Fort Worth report: after a drawn out dispute with the faculty, Dr Lindsey Blayney, president of the College of Industrial Arts Denton, has resigned. The board of regents accepted the resignation effective June 1 1926, a year after his unanimous selection from Rice Institute's modern language department.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Lindsey Blayney
College of Industrial Arts
Denton
Italian debt mission lands under guard in New York
In New York 2000 anti fascists gathered near the pier as Count G Volpi di Masurata finance minister led the Italian debt mission ashore. Seventy two security men mounted police and a bomb squad escorted the party to Pennsylvania Station. A State Department delegation led by Ambassador Henry P Fletcher met them at Quarantine.
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New York
Italian Debt Mission
Count G. Volpi di Masurata
Pennsylvania Station
State Department
Henry P. Fletcher
Rome
Grade Crossing Mishaps Rise in First Half of 1925
Interstate Commerce Commission figures show 2276 grade crossing accidents in the first six months of 1925, up 22 from the same period in 1924. There were 941 killed, including 871 automobilists, and 2662 injured.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mitchell Pleads Not Guilty at Court Martial
Washington. A brief Friday session of the court martial trying Colonel William Mitchell resulted mainly in recording his not guilty plea. The court denied Mitchells request for a bill of particulars, marking little substantive progress in the proceedings on charges of conduct prejudicial to military order and discipline under the ninety sixth article of war.
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Washington
William Mitchell
Death and Recovery After Dogs Dig Nails in Stomach
Hop and Skip, two four months old police dogs, swallowed nails from a store counter. Skip died after surgery to remove a pound of nails. Hop survived after removing 558 nails and a three inch nail. Jump was later examined. no nails were found in him. Doctor Alfred W. Meyer performed the operations at the Max Goldman trunk store in New York.
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Hop
Skip
Jump
Max Goldman
West
Houston Street
Goldman
Alfred W. Meyer
Doctor Meyer
New York Herald- Tribune
California Fig Syrup Ad Promotes Gentle Bowels
A vintage mother’s plea extols California Fig Syrup as a harmless laxative for children of all ages. It claims a teaspoonful cleanses the liver and bowels, sweetens the stomach, and urges mothers to demand the genuine product with printed directions on the bottle to avoid imitations.
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California
Truth and Truth Telling in Upton Sinclair's Pasadena Picnic
Upton Sinclair at a Pasadena picnic cautions that truth telling is a rare virtue and criticizes modernist divisions for honesty about beliefs. He recounts a joke about a hack writer who admits to making up facts for an article in Scribblers and notes the risk of sensational titles drawing attention.
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Upton Sinclair
Pasadena
Scribblers
Color It New With Diamond Dyes
Diamond Dyes promises simple directions so any woman can tint delicate shades or dye rich permanent colors in lingerie silks ribbons skirts waists dresses coats stockings sweaters draperies hangings and coverings. Buy Diamond Dyes only and tell your druggist the material is wool silk linen cotton or mixed.
Bright Boy Teacher Ad Replies to Child’s Grin
A lively schoolroom exchange centers on a pupil named Jimmie who denies making a scowl. An advertisement claims Roman Eye Balsam, used nightly, freshens and strengthens by morning. An unrelated note cites reduced profits from South African gold mines due to ending the gold premium.
Musterole Cold Remedy Ad Claims Quick Relief
Musterole is advertised as a line to loosen a cold with mustard oil and simple ingredients. The ad promises warmth as it penetrates then cooling relief for bronchitis sore throat stiff neck pleurisy rheumatism lumbago and other pains, claiming it may prevent pneumonia. It cites nurses and doctors endorsing its use.
Dutch Anderson Killed by Own Revolver in Muskegon
In Muskegon Michigan Detective Charles Hammond forced George Dutch Anderson to surrender his weapon, and the notorious gunman, ally of Gerald Chapman, was fatally shot by a self-inflicted or weapon-taken pistol blast as law enforcement closed in.
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Arthur R. Robinson
Jackson
Indiana
United States
Samuel M. Ralston
Catherine Robinson
Robinson
Ray Robinson
Muskegon
Mich
George “Dutch” Anderson
Anderson
Gerald Chapman
Charles Hammond
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Firestone Plantations Company
John Brege
Chicago
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Robinson and Family
Georges Thenault
Sara Spencer
Mra Oliver M. Spencer
Chicago and && Joseph
Lower
Mexico
Blevins
Mitchell
Pap
Jimmie
Pearl St
Clee
Paul Boner
Pitcairn Ave
Jeannette
W. H. Forst
Mfg
Scottdale, PA
Lea
Koenig Medicine CO
N. Wells ST
Chicago, Ill
Grove’s
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Bayer
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