Dillon News Letter Reflects Trials of Weevil Era Cotton
Dillon South Carolina October 27 1921 commentary notes shift work transit strikes and an optimistic take on co op marketing for farmers including dairy city delivery systems while analyzing boll weevil impact across the south. The piece discusses court cases in North Carolina and evolving justice procedures plus regional crop realities and economic adjustments in Dillon county. It highlights judges governors and local officials as well as farm ratings and credit conditions in boll weevil zones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
South
Fox
Gappins
Kirby
Youre
Fitzgerald
Supreme Court
Giust
Evers Sitizen
API
General Assembly
Court of Appeal
Triumpha
Gappina
State of
South Carolina
Dillon
Court of Common Pleas
G. D. Barlow
R. J. Johnson
Minnie Johnson
Jas. E. Pourtfoy
Fourteenth Circuit
Fourth Circuit
Dillon County
Court House
Dillon Cotton Mills
Lonnie Lee
Jack Simpson
Mary 5
Marion County
A. B. Jordan
Bell weevil debate in cotton belt over starvation fear
A conservative business figure dismisses panic about starvation while noting the weevil infestation has dominated county discussion since midsummer. He argues there are two sides to the Bell weevil issue and that starvation does not follow the pest's presence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Busines
Mr J A Hursey Plans Visit to Wilmington
Mr J A Hursey travels to Wilmington, N C, where he will spend several days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Hursey
Jeff
Wilmington
Boll Weevil Fears Span North Carolina
In Maxton and nearby areas stories spread among Black residents about the boll weevil. An elderly woman fears them in peas, a man claims a neighbor burned the insects in a bottle and thereafter fell ill, and others report weevils in corn husks, plants, and even inside cracked nuts as far as Rockingham.
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Maxton
N. C
Jabe
Rockingham
Blood drains the body from overwork and fatigue
The article explains how overwork exhausts energy and thins the blood. It describes signs such as sunken cheeks and lifeless feeling, attributing them to stale blood and reduced oxygen. It notes workers seek Gude's Pepto-Mangan in liquid or tablet form to enrich the blood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ket Gude
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Ridgecrest
Raleigh
Judge Carter
Aounset
North Carolina
Carter
Toen Harris
Cotton
North
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Bates
Han
Fay
Gude
Ady
Lehigh Portland Cement
British Columbia
Bennett-Medgpeth Company
Clio
5. C
O. C. Hayes
Cherry Grove Beach
N. F. Nixon
Wampee
S. C
Ford Auto
Morris Fass
Herald Office
Sayzanak
Daily Mail
Home Land Co
J.G. Layton
Dunn
N.C
Lehigh Portland
Colombia
Ben Hetl-Hedgpeth Company
Cape
Battey & Co
Bethea
Florence
Palace Marevet
Stafford
Smith and Underwood
Herald Publishing Co
Oly Dillon Hotel
J. R. Hatch
Dillon Market
Savannah
Lumberton Marble Works
J. H. Floyd
Lumberton
American Products Export and Import Corporation
Leeco
WM. C
Sand Clay, Real Estate Co
Sanford
Oaklang
A. B. Jordan’s
A. D
Bransford
Southern Secure Co
Rock Hill
Lawrence Berry
Little Rock
Berg
8. C
Latta and
Fork
Rogers
Secretary of State of
Planters Warehoue Company
Warhouse
Lake View
Miller
Joe Cabell Davis
Albert M. Calder
Lazarus Calder
Anne Domini
Jor Cabell Davis
Merk
Watson
J. Jennie C. Clerk
Lee
Harnett
Moore
Chatam
J. B. McCutcheon & Co
Victor
Actinte
Artions
Billy East
DE Mont
Taylor
Snyder
Vaughn
New York
Crosland & Tyson's
Bennettsville
F. C. Small
Cleveland
A. A. Campbell
The
Southern Cotton Oil Co
Little Rock, S. C
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