Cuba grows citrus fruit and challenges western critics
The Havana horticultural show highlights Cuban and American Canadian efforts in citrus farming across Isle of Pines, Pinar del Rio, and eastern Cuba. Harvest quality, soil fertility, and fertilizer costs shape growing profits, with six to one half dozen groves in Cuba offering varied challenges and substantial risk before earnings return.
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Havana
Connection
Frida
Cuba
Unite States
Canada
Samm Felds
Isle of Pines
Central
Pinar del Rey
Contrate
Pinar de Rio Ta
Caribbean Sea
Taco Taco
United States
H.C. Henricksen
Cuban National Horticultural Society
Florida
Porto Rico
Cauto
Elirus
Pinar del Rio
Flelde
Ieland
Toto
Lim
Indies
Lexington Wins Suit Over Water Works Renewal
In Lexington Kentucky circuit court Judge Yorker sustained a demurrer to the plaintiff’s petition in the waterworks case J Slade and others versus the city and Lexington Hydraulic and Manufacturing Co. The court held the city may renew its contract for 25 years, ruling the renewal clause binding though the state constitution later restricted contracts to 20 years. An appeal may follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Yorker
J. Slade
Ita
Lexington Hydraulic and Manufacturing Co
Parker
Samuel M. Wilton
Prisoners Surrender After Governor Order in Kentucky
In Paducah Kentucky and Lyon County guards and civil authorities faced a standoff after Gov Willson ordered the prisoners held for the murder of cropper Axiom Cooper. Col Bassett surrendered the men to Sheriff L L Cash preventing clashes. The shooting at a barbecue near Sinside remains under exam and a trial likely late in the week at Eddyville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paducah
Eddyville
Quarrel Over Tobacco Crop Ends in Fatal Shooting in Kentucky
In Lexington and nearby towns two violent incidents are reported. Roger Hanson Pryor, 47, killed by a shotgun blast after quarrel over a small tobacco crop. Jason W. Bentley, 66, fatally wounded in self defense claim. Coroner’s jury rules Bentley killed Pryor in self defense. Separate suit filed in Montgomery circuit court over alleged malicious assault by former officer Warner Hinson. Ledford seeks $5,000 against Hinson and surety Citizens Guaranty Trust Co. Also noted: Benjamin Hay of Cincinnati to sell trotters and Abdallah park training ground at Cyntulana. plans to auction 74 acres and 70 horses. In Jackson, Ky., Harry Eversole makes an unsuccessful life attempt on R. French at the Combs hotel amid long-running feud.
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Lexington
Roger Hanson Pryor
Jason W. Bentley
Bentley
Pryor
Frank
Kiser
Mr. Sterling
R. A. Chiles
Robert Winn
Montgomery
William Ledford
Warner Hinson
Citizens’ Guaranty and Trust Co
West Virginia
Ledford
Hinson
Benjamin Hay
Cincinnati
Abdallah Park
Cyntulana
Jackson, Ky
Harry Eversole
Perry County
Combs
For Eversole
Big Creel
Eversole
French
Kentucky News Roundup From Various Counties
Kentucky towns report arrests and charges including a murder suspect captured with Cal Miller after escape from Hreathitt jail, a Burlington bridge span plan at Metropolis, and a major gangland cutting case in Louisville. Morgantown eyes rival river packet ops, while Lexington jail holds Robbery suspects T. R. Lewis and Floyd Evans among others. Mayfield incidents include a bridge collapse injuring a man, and Eddyville and Logan county rounds note a prison transfer and typhoid source in dairy supply. Local obituaries and farm labor woes pepper the dispatch as offices announce meeting plans and pool sales.
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Jackson
Ewen Bolin
Hreathitt County
Comepany
Cal. Miller
Buffalo Creek
Owsley County
Paducah
Burlington Bridge
Metropolis
St. Louis
Louis M. Rieke
Kentucky Bankers’ Association
Louisville
John Bel
Hancock and
Madison Streets
Bem Brown
Morgantown
Bowling Green
Hyanaville
Ind
Elinore Bewley
Howling Green
Lexington
T. R. Lewis
Knoxville
Floyd Evans
R. M. Evans
Chattanooga
BE O Sparks
Augusta
Charles
Toleman
Acthors
Pythine
Board of Prison
Addie Martin
Jim Martin
Barren County
Shelbyville
Sarah Dunn
James H. Dunn
Jeffersonville
Leslie C. Dunn
Victor B
Lawrence Dunn
Ada Ballou
Jefferson County
Eve Dunn
Eddyville
Bob Gossett
Rufus Browder
Gossett
Elizabethtown
Cecelia
Walting
James Cunningham
Logan County
Board of Health
J. C. Carrick
Green Bastin
High Bridge
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Ctrus
Lepion Trefs
Kentucky
Dover
Mayeville
Foxport
Epworth
Here
Carl Rayborn
Otha Hayslif
Robert Gash
Franklin
Brad Ragland
Parente Te Ghis
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