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Newspaper
The Dillon Herald
Location
Dillon, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1920
Page
4
The column reflects on Bolshevist fears, the cost of Britain’s battleships, and civic life in Dillon. It notes public interest in candidates, jokes about editorials lifting spirits, and contrasts village debates with Congress activity. It comments on fashion, air quality, and mock future communication with Mars or Venus.
Western women fear a soldier president would push military training of youth and rely on military mind. Gen Wood and Gen Pershing were seen as strong candidates, but political leaders worry about the women’s vote and have cooled on a soldier candidate. The convention talk shifts to other prospects.
A former South Carolina writer visits the postwar South and observes a surge in prosperity. He notes rising living costs, car-dominated mobility, rising bank deposits, and booming mills. Stores sell higher quality goods, wages rise, and new roads and sidewalks appear. Negroes gain economic footing amid social tension as industries expand. Farms thrive with cotton, potatoes, corn, and poultry fed by improving economies and investment.
A narrator recalls how prosperity alters life in the hills as wagons carry farm produce and luxuries to towns. He notes rising prices, scarce labor, and the pull between remaining in farming or moving to city work. An old covered wagon and apples evoke the past amid modern travel and a popular car in New York Times reporting.
1919 state totals show 1,466,000 bales from 6.9 million acres at 231 lb per acre. Orangeburg county leads with 87,000 bales from 155,200 acres. Marlboro records the highest yield at 380 lb per acre. Counties list acreage, yield and bale totals, with Jasper and Beaufort among the lowest yields due to boll weevil impact.
Urys Threaten to Ain Bryan, New York, Feb. 9 The prohibit ton forces of the country will gladly accept the challenge of the wets if they attempt to force a wet plank in party platforms. Wayne Wheeler, general counsel of the Arib Saloon league, declared in a statement here tonight. The drys will back W. J. Bryan or any other man who opposes the effort of the liquor interests to tie their outlaw traffic to any party platform.
Raleigh cor reports Greensboro News notes rivals to real property reforms. An individual taxpayer listed seven million dollars in intangible personal property, not corporate assets, signaling broad responses to proposed revaluation laws.
A weather prophet predicts the cotton crop will run about half a bale below 1919 levels due to excessive rainfall. He cites ultraviolet rays as a factor in frost risk and foresees a wet spring with improving conditions for early vegetables. Special temperature forecasts will follow.
Washington reports from Warsaw via American Red Cross indicate potatoes have become a common currency in rural Poland. In Grondo a weekly wage of about twenty pounds of spuds funds ordinary work, and a landowner rebuilt his mansion with potato money, using roughly twelve thousand potatoes for drawing room furniture.
A February meeting of the South Carolina Landowners Association marketing committee discussed a statewide membership drive for the development organization. The plan, led by the committee, aims to fund and promote marketing and the anti-bell weevil program, with Clemson extension support and home markets to market farm products.
Philadelphia February 4 Captain Claude R Collins president of the aviator's club of Pennsylvania proposes a one way space leap to Mars aboard a rocket. He seeks public backing to spur air force growth and would oversee rocket construction radio link Mars and a pre landing trial by scientists with $10000 insurance funded by heirs. The launch would occur by December 31 1920 if approved.
A Savannah Street resident in Atlanta reports his daughter’s 14 year battle with kidney trouble ended after using El Vigor. He says the medicine cured her insomnia, weakness, and pallor, restoring weight, cheer, and vitality. The Dillon ad lists McLaurin Drug Co as supplier.
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