Cotton Famine Fears Stir Cotton Industry Experts
Cotton experts warn of a possible future famine as consumption grows while crops shrink. Causes cited include seed pricing and inferior planting seed, soil impoverishment, and boll weevil damage. Analysts fear overproduction and price instability if supply and demand fail to align, with some predicting higher prices for farmers next year despite last year’s conditions.
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Thomas Dusty
Manufacturers Record
Hales
Columbia Record
Desperate Negro Captured in Deputy Murder Case
Sheriff Coleman arrests Alfred Wright in Cleburne county Alabama for the murder of a deputy sheriff. Wright admits involvement in the crowd but denies direct action. He was located sleeping in a basement after days of prowling at night. The State, Sth inst. The Led editorial warns towns to avoid street carnivals as fake shows fleece crowds, recounting Rock Hill and Yorkville incidents and a $2000 heist.
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Coleman
Alfred Wright
Cleburne County
Ala
Rock Hill Journal
Yorkville
Greenville
Rock Hill
Cotton Crop Report Signals 1903 04 Growth
Preliminary figures from the Bureau of Statistics show U S cotton growth for 1903 04 at 9 962 039 bales with an average net weight of 490 8 pounds. Area picked estimated at 28 013 860 acres, down 892 495 acres 5 09 per cent. National lint cotton production projected at 4 889 796 267 pounds, averaging 74 4 pounds per acre. State yields listed for Virginia to Todian Territory with ratios from 22 to 232 pounds per acre.
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Washington
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Agriculture
United States
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Arkansas
Tennessee
Missouri
Oklahoma
Todian Territory
Wood and Drum Again Named by Roosevelt in 1903 Senate Nominations
President Roosevelt sent to the Senate the nomination of General Leonard Wood for major general along with about 167 other army officers and roughly 25 civilian appointees including W. D. Crum for collector of the port of Charleston. Recess appointments are deemed valid by the administration, with pay and authority attached. Also notes a Toledo Cathedral roof collapse and a Grove tonic advertisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Leonard Wood
Wood
W. D. Crum
Charleston
S.C
Congress
Aank
Plain Talk to a Jury by Judge Neal in Laurinburg
The December term of the Superior Court convened at 10 a.m. with Judge Walter H. Neal addressing the grand jury of five months on duties related to cotton futures gamblers. He warned action would follow if jurors neglect their duties.
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Walter H. Neal
Laurinburg
Neal
George H. Brown, Jr
Charlotte Observer
Columbia Loses Army Post Decision Heard
Special to Greenville News Columbia December 5 Columbia will not receive the army post the chamber of commerce governor Heyward and Maj. Micah Jenkins urged the government to establish here. The War Department cites three existing posts Fort Moultrie Fort Sumter and Fort Fremont Port Royal as sufficient. Separately the dispensary board completed purchases as usual for the season with thousands of barrels of whiskey and hundreds of cases bought due to Christmas demand. The U N crop estimate in England stirred talk of moving mills to the United States.
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Columbia
Chamber of Commerce
Heyward
Micah Jenkins
War Department
Fort Moultrie
Fort Sumter
Fort Fremont
Port Royal
Board of Dispensary Directors
Local notices and ads mix in Mount Olive robbery report
A fragment from a Lancaster paper shows a dentist J. E. Rutledge calling creditors to settle debts. A Mount Olive North Carolina bank and post office were robbed for about 400 dollars. An ad offers wallpaper services with assurances of quality work at low cost from Chas Kitchel of Lancaster District.
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Mount Olive
N. C
Chas, Kitchelt
Lancaster
D. C
Lancaster Hotel
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the Ledger
Wehdnespay
Bureau
Toledo
Spain
Foley
Birmingham Age—Herald
Remy
Grove
Ivor
State
Greenville News
England
J. E. Rutledge
Kome Vast
Cherry & Co
Strouse & Bros. High Art Clothing
Douglas & Godman Shoes
Lancaster, S. C
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