The Ten Great Seaports and Alabama Cattle Growth
The article surveys the ten largest global seaports led by New York with Hamburg Liverpool Antwerp and others. It notes New York’s dominance amid railroads claims and discusses South Alabama cattle compared with Texas beef, plus Southern land syndicates exploring cattle ranges and regional farming progress.
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Alabama
Texas
Mobile
St. Louis
South Alabama
Fort Worth
Denton Live Stock Company
South
Missouri
Louisiana
Charleston News and Courier
Atlanta Journal
Georgia College of Agriculture
Commonwealths
New York Welcomes Out of Town Visitors in Record Numbers
A special investigation shows New York hosts about 200000 visitors daily, spending over 2 million dollars each day and 750 million annually. Visitors average ten dollars daily. dining, lodging, shopping, theatre, and amusements total hundreds of millions yearly. The port records 2068 passenger ships and 5480 sailing vessels bringing 1,102,945 travelers, far surpassing other cities.
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New York
St. Paul
Denver
Chicago
Boston
Philadelphia
Scincinnati
Southern Farmers Fight Cattle Tick Dipping Campaign Progress
Field inspectors report significant progress in cattle tick eradication across Southern states. Alabama logged 7,092 herds and 52,368 cattle dipped in 207 vats during July, led by Jackson county with 21,456 cattle in 79 vats. Mississippi recorded 482,940 cattle dipped in 2,427 vats, Scott and Smith counties topping local totals, while Holmes and Yazoo counties led vats in the state. Tennessee's July totals show 80,801 cattle dipped in 18,187 dips, with overall effort advancing under quarantine revisions and anticipated earlier release from federal rules.
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Bureau of Animal Industry
Alabama
Jackson County
Mississippi
Scott County
Smith County
Noxubee
Holmes County
Yazoo
Tennessee
Marion
Jerome Jailed Over Thaw Show Ad Tactics
Jerome jailed on a charge tied to a Thaw era resort stunt aiming to challenge New York authors and lawyers’ disclaimer of responsibility. The case centers on alleged public showmanship and a Canadian link between poker and old maid style games.
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Jerome
New York
Convict Improvement Leaders Plan Montgomery Meeting
Chairman Moulthrop of the Alabama Convict Improvement Association asks county committee chairs to mobilize support for changing convict labor methods. Attendees will include officials from nearly every county, with many candidates for governor and lieutenant officials backing the plan to use convicts on public roads and in state and county work. The event aims to place convict reform on county campaign agendas and anggota boards.
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Moulthrop
Alabama Convict Improvement Association
Montgomery
John O'Neill
House
State Senate
Boards of
Wheat revival in Alabama as mills loom
A Marion Age Herald piece notes W. F. Moore of Heiberger is building a flour mill with a 300 bushels daily capacity. The article recalls Alabama’s wheat history, cites cotton risks from boll weevil, and suggests renewed wheat planting could restore local biscuit production.
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Alabama
Marion
Age Herald
W. F. Moore
Heiberger
Perry
Age-Herald
A Swedish Laconism From Lumberjack Times
A Birmingham News letter recalls a former United States senator from a Western state who once led a lumberjack gang of Swedes. On a raft trip he was warned to replace Ole who had vanished under the raft and was not believed to return.
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United States
Ole
Birmingham News
Remembering the country school route of a bygone era
George Bailey recalls the old days when a child walked four miles to school before eight, made fires, fed mules, milked cows, and brought in wood, reflecting on the ten block distance some say is too far for a child today.
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George Bailey
Wedding Silence Sparks Debate in Goshkonong
The Goshkonong Gazette recalls a high society wedding where no one claimed to have given the bride away. Tobe Sagg notes the absence of a speaker, prompting a judge to quip about silent chivalry and the party's role.
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Goshkonong Gazette
Tobe Sagg
The New Jealousy Farm Hand Rebuffs Offer
A Washington Star strip presents Plodding Pete declining a farm hand job. He explains he values kindness already shown and would not cause jealous hatred among neighbors by accepting.
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Pete
Washington Star
Claxton Defends Modern Education Against Critics
Washington letter notes United States Commissioner of Education Dr Philander P Claxton argues the modern education system has refined and fused the best of past and present methods. He says critics overstate faults while the federal bureau guides schools with literature, data, and advisory support nationwide.
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Washin
United States Bureau of of the of the Interior
Den
Philander P. Claxton
United States Commissioner of Education
United States
Harvey
McGuffey
Little Red School House
Educatin
Little
Red House House
Claxton
Federal Bureau of Education
United States Bureau of Education
Bureau
Sheriff White Stands Alone as Lynching Threat Fails in Spartanburg
Special to the state recounts Sheriff White guarding the jail yard against a mob. With a pistol and dynamite, he defies the crowd, declaring he will kill the first man who enters. The scene frames a stark warning on the sanctity of oath and law in Spartanburg.
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Spartanburg
South Carolina
Sheriff White
Columbia State
Lookout Mountain Myth Stirs Chattanooga History Query
Memphis Commercial Appeal questions a labeled photo claiming Union troops planted colors above the clouds on Lookout Mountain in 1863. The paper notes no battle there and recalls Missionary Ridge and Chickamauga as the true fierce engagements, with Hooker’s actions pushing his army south and Confederate forces defending lines to the east.
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Lookout Mountain
Chattanooga
Tenn
Chickamauga
Missionary Ridge
Tennessee River
Hooker
Memphis
The Miracle Story of a Polish Sacred Soil Shrine
An elderly Polish veteran named Father Olaus tells children of a sacred soil miracle from a late heroic stand against the Cossacks. A fearless woman fighter prays, bleeds, and dies after smearing sacred Polish earth on her foe, proving Poland’s resolve.
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Father Olaus
Poland
Swiar
Stanislaus
Brody
Olaus
Johan
Line O' Cheer Each Day o' the Year by John Kendrick Bangs
A humorous verse from John Kendrick Bangs reflects on personal fortune and mood, contrasting imagined atmospheric cheer with a modest personal stake, ending in a wry note about value and wealth. The speaker dismisses grand wealth like Reddyman and instead jokes about stacking cheer as currency.
Hawaiians Dying Out Across Census Findings
A Springfield Republican excerpt notes Hawaii’s census shows a 12.6 percent drop to 26 041 native residents in a decade. It warns the native Hawaiian race is dwindling as Orientals and other groups exceed Caucasians, with a favored climate but reduced work impetus.
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Hawaii
The
Passing of Tennyson Described by Doctor Dabbs
Dr. G H R Dabbs, Tennyson's physician at his final illness, records the death scene. The poet, asking "Death?" is told nothing but a bowed head. The moonlit bed holds a breathing marble figure, with Shakespeare by his side, recalling Arthur’s passing.
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G. H. R. Dabbs
Tennyson
Oriel
Arthur
Crane's Hamlet Career Mention in West as Joke
William H. Crane, famed actor, recalls in a quip that he once played Hamlet in the West years ago. An admirer presses for details and Crane reports the audience cried for him before the curtain, but the anecdote ends with a humorous misfire.
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William H. Crane
Buting
West
Hamlet
Crane
Mei
Intercoastal Canal Benefit to Commerce by Holland
New York Sept. 5 Major Bond argued for a broad intercoastal canal system linking Boston to Beaufort North Carolina and beyond He urged government aid alongside state efforts stressing improved Dismal Swamp and Albemarle and Chesapeake canals and a Michigan ship canal to connect Lake Michigan and Lake Erie The plan would supplement railroads and spur long term U S commerce growth through coordinated canal and rail transport efforts.
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Major
Bond
Peake Canal
Norfolk
Virginia
North Carolina
Cape Hatteras
United States
Mississippi River
Mississippi
Texas and Pacific Railroad Company
Reading Railroad Company
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
United
Major Bond
Cape Cod
New Jersey
Delaware Peninsula
Digmnal Swamp
Boston
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Lower Penisula
Michigan
Lake Michigan
Lake Erie
Straits of Mackinaw
Lake Huron
Cne
Lower Michigan
Hampton Roads
Newport News
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North Carolina Sound
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Savannah River
Illinois
Erie Canal
Mississippi Valley
St. Paul
Panama
New Orleans
Holland
A Lesson From Twenty Years In Prison Life
A conditional pardon story highlights a man who spent two decades at the Oregon penitentiary without trouble. He embraced his penalty, followed rules, and focused on duty, showing how resilience and discipline can shape character under harsh conditions.
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Oregon
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