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Newspaper
The Dillon Herald
Location
Dillon, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1920
Page
4
A 1920 letter from Dillon discusses tax rates, industrial uprisings, and farming timing. It notes the stock market swing from bulls to bears, predicts cotton prices may rise, and warns against southern stamping by powerful interests while urging steadiness till the market reverses. It mentions Harding betting odds and a physician’s prescription rules.
A Dillon county State Executive Committeeman, T. W. Berry, argues in a State letter that the State Executive Committee lacks right to divert funds raised for one purpose to another and questions using county candidates to cover state election expenses. He calls the issue a matter for the next State Convention.
A critique blames dime novels and films for rising immorality among youth. It cites advertised film themes with sensational titles such as The Discarded Woman and The Leopard Woman, arguing they promote lustful and indecent behavior.
A controversial critique condemns indecent cinema depictions and urges strict censorship. It questions the effect on youths, contrasts lewd posters with higher quality films, and warns of cinema’s staying power despite moral concerns.
Florence Times reports the development of a wilt resistant cotton variety named Dixie Triumph. Dr. L. C. Watson, tied to U.S. government programs, describes a ten year breeding effort combining Triumph and Dixie traits to combat boll weevil and wilt. Field trials span Georgia, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas with noted yield improvements.
A cryptic local note hints at a street event that stirs reader interest in The Herald. Clues reference a promised offer and a puzzling phrase as the campaign gains momentum and attention.
News briefs note California celebrates the seventh tieth anniversary of statehood. A Dutch aviator prize is offered for a Holland to Java flight. The Japanese ban labor meetings over immigration sets a policy backdrop. Peter Vidovitch dies at a New York lodging house with substantial estate. Argentina celebrates large families with a seventh son blessing. Boston girls convert a wrecked 1898 pilot boat into a camping lodge at Scituate.
The world’s largest crane sits in the Philadelphia Navy Yard with a 50 ton lift. U S telephone mileage totals 28 827 188 miles enough to circle the globe. Germany’s beer output last year reached 4 600 000 tons with 3 500 000 tons turned into sugar. cork wood world production is about 396 832 pounds with 45 percent from Portugal and 30 percent from Spain. A new dye-stuff from sorghum husk yields many color shades, signaling industrial interest.
The American destroyer Sa terlee achieved a new speed mark during a standardization trial off Rockland, covering a mile at 28 knots. In another item, ML Gransberry is officially pronounced dead at Horri ton, Texas, after narrowly avoiding burial during the forties two disasters.
A conference of delegates opens this month in San Salvador to discuss a possible union of Central American republics—Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, and Costa Rica—under a single federation.
The State Board of Public Welfare exposes grim conditions in county almshouses, detailing inmates with tuberculosis, paralysis, blindness, and aged distress. It urges creation of district hospital homes to provide humane medical care and prevent such squalor.
Development Board proposes the South Carolina Plan to develop natural resources by creating specialized commissions. These groups would tackle markets livestock credit sanitation grains graves and forage, rates and transportation farm labor land settlement community life publicity legislation assessment taxation education sanitation drainage projects civic commercial organizations inter racial relations and good roads. Preparations and inquiries have come from several Southern states and Oregon for similar efforts.
The South Carolina Development Board, after a year of constructive agricultural work, plans a June expansion campaign from June 21 to 26 to equip itself with membership and resources for a statewide natural resource development program based in Columbia.
A weather observer argues that true cyclones occur only over the ocean and on land the term should apply to tornadoes. Tornadoes, though violent, vary in width and are rare when extending to several wales.
A garbled excerpt describes The Swedish Almanac with unfamiliar terms and references to Lanlon Graphic and Cory Wrove Ce. It hints at daily entries, a mixture of names, and a failed signal of approval, framed by distorted OCR text and unclear authority statements.
A Southern Soil Improvement Committee article urges farmers to boost wheat and oats as Europe remains unable to ramp up production. It notes labor efficiency, soil preparation, and intelligent fertilization, advocating high per acre yields, good seed quality, and resistant varieties to counter winterkill, rust, and Hessian fly.
Rye is a dependable winter cover crop that builds soil organic matter, conserves plant food, and boosts yields of subsequent crops. It uses nitrogen and phosphoric acid, helps prevent leaching, and improves soil structure when plowed under at the right time. Water availability and spring conditions affect its benefits, but when managed well it adds value to poor soils and supports future crop growth.
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