Crop campaign closes with roousing meeting along A T N line
Alabama campaign ends after fourteen meetings from York to Mobile as speakers led farmers toward diversification. A special train carried campaigners with officials from the A T and N railroad and Mobile Chamber of Commerce. Crowds heard talks on alfalfa hog cholera prevention and truck farming, with plans for silos and storage, a truck growing center at York, and regional markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
P. G. Holden
County of
Jefferson
York
Mobile
Ward
Halsell
Cromwell
Lisman
West Butler
Bogueloosa
Toxey
Gilberton
George A. Maloney
J. W. Beeson
Chatom
R. A. Hayne
Milky
H. C. Hammock
Calvert
Lindsay Reese
H. A. Clarke
Tennessee
Butler
C. W. Farr
Co. C. Hudson
Woxey
Mr. Hudson
Gilbertown
Edgar Green
Miss Wygent
C. C. Kirkpatrick
H. Guy Hathorn
Mississippi
J. K. Hite
G. H. Mathis
Dr. Wilson
Silas
Mr. Burroughs
Senator Rogers
Greensboro
Nat Barker
Birmingham
Demopolis
Black Belt
Marengo County
C. C. Clay
Kentucky
Clyde B. Funk
N. C. Hammack
Lindsey Reese
J. E. Hite
J. E. Waggoner
Waggoner
W. C. Hinds
Pinola
Charley Brockway
Sumter County
A. E. Chamberlain
Boyd
Alabama, Tombigbee and Northern
John Worthy
Geiger
A., T. and N
Jt. Louis
J. D. Manning
Meridian College
Emelle
T., T. and N
Dr. Beeson
Sumter
Willingham
Southdown
W. Farr
Dixie Theatre
John T. Cochrane
Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railway
Bay
Holden
Chamber of Commerce
Twenty Potato Houses Assured
A special to The Item reports Alabama crop diversification along the Alabama Tennessee and Northern railroad driving the spread of potato houses. Dr J W Beeson of Meridian College showcases a cheap storage system proving sweet potatoes can be kept year round at low cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Alabama
Alabama, Tennessee and Northern
J. W. Beeson
Meridian College
Beeson
Meridian
Miss
Huntsville
Thomasville
Scottsboro
School Teachers Association
Union Springs
Dothan
Ozark
Elba
South
America
Rockefeller Party Survives Atlantic Coast Line Crash
John D Rockefeller John D Rockefeller Jr and wife narrowly escaped injury in a collision on the Atlantic Coast Line while traveling from Florida to New York. Their Pullman coach remained on the track amid wreckage as the express hit a waiting freight train near Milford Virginia. The party arrived safely in New York later, exhausted but unharmed.
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New York
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Atlantic Coast Line
Florida
Rockefeller
Pennsylvania Station
Richmond
Milford
Rockefellers
R. Rockefeller
Alabama Diversification Campaign Greatest in Farm Annals
A statewide effort brings together Farmers bankers merchants manufacturers and chambers of commerce with railroads telephones newspapers Alabama Polytechnic Institute and state education agriculture departments along with farmers unions bankers associations and U S farm demonstrators. Led by Agricultural Extension Department of the International Harvester Company under P G Holden with a fifteen member staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chambers of Commerce
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
State Department of Education
State Commissioner of Agriculture
Farmers’ Union and
Bankers’ Association
U.S
Federation of Women’s Clubs
Agricultural Extension Department
The
International Harvester Company
P. G. Holden
Auburn
Commissioner of Agriculture
United States
Alabama
Holden
Germany Must Pay for the Frye in Sinking Case
The U S state department has the full Frye sinking story. Owners will set damages soon and the U S will present the claim to Germany. Punitive damages are possible but not confirmed. Captain Kiehne gave details while Count Von Bernstorff discussed settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
William P. Frye
Prinz Eitel Friedrich
Newport News
United States
Lansing
W. D. Sewall
Bath
Frye
Alabama
Kiehne
Sewall
Count von Bernstorff
Ehitel
Berlin
Prinz Eitel
Tsing Tao
London
Seaplane Falls In Pensacola Injury To Two Officers
Navy AB 2 capsized during a flight at Pensacola aeronautic station. Lt Richard C Saufley of Stamford Connecticut and Ensign Edward McDonnell of Fort Howard Delaware were aboard and not seriously injured. Investigation ordered into the accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
Aeronautic
Pensacola
Fla
Navy Department
Richard C. Saufley
Stamford
New Orleans Mobile and Chicago officials relocate to Conti Street
Officials of the New Orleans Mobile and Chicago railroad have moved to a new Conti Street building east of Royal. The spacious offices house city ticketing and immigration staff, telegraph and freight departments, and vaults for the comptroller. An elevator serves staff and visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago Railroad
Conti Street
Royal
City
A. H. Hood
H. H. Bolton
Alex Jackson
H. G. Reiser
Telegraph
W. L. O'Dwyer
W. F. Owen
H. F. Ricker
Submarine Sinking Reported By North Shields Crew
The trawler Alex Hastie engaged a German submarine off Northumberland at 2 pm in clear weather. The periscope was seen, a shock followed, the sub surfaced briefly then drifted and sank. crew observed the vessel’s white keel and its final disappearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Evening Standard
Alex
Hastie
North Shields
Williamson
Northumberland
State of Florida Lets Contract for Big Canal
Tallahassee March 13 The state let a contract to a Baltimore firm for construction of a canal from Lake Okeechobee to the St Lucie river as part of the Everglades drainage plan. The twenty four mile canal will have a bottom width of twenty four feet and an average depth of fourteen feet with an estimated cost of about 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tallahasse
Fla
State of
Florida
Baltimore
Lake Okeechobe
St. Lucie River
Everglades
Campaign for Better Crops Highlights Alabama Diversification Drive
The Alabama Crops Diversification Campaign closed with 1 300 meetings across 46 counties and 130 000 attendees. Campaign teams traveled 115 000 miles by rail and 30 000 by road, uniting farmers, business leaders, chambers of commerce, banks, and schools to promote diversification and livestock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Montgomery
Mobile
Alabama
Amer
Arkansas
Holden
Cotton futures rise modestly for week in New Orleans
In New Orleans on March 13 the cotton futures market posted weekly gains ranging from 1 to 6 points with active months up 14 to 19 points from the prior week high. The range was 19 to 25 points, spots gained 38 points to 8.38 middling, and weekly sales reached 10,775 bales compared with 3,940 last week. Sales to arrive totaled 11,107 bales versus 10,110 previously.
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New Orleans
Commissary Car Robbed on Commerce and Earle Streets
A report to the police describes an unknown person entering the Mobile and Ohio commissary car on Commerce and Earle streets Friday and stealing a boiled ham two cigars and a case of Erck Raz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile and
Ohio
Commerce and
Earle Streets
Erick Raz
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Alabama, Tenn., & Northern
David Holt
Cmeroker
Germany
N. C
State OF Florida
Chamber of Commerce of
Montgomery Chamber of Commerce
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
pRtng
Steel 4
Gadsden
Farmers’ Union
Cotton
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