Cotton Standards Aids Duth’s Growers
The United States official cotton standards are distributed to county agents to educate growers. Sets of nine forms, in white cotton, are placed in counties under guardianship of a competent steward. The program aims to standardize grading from farm to market and improve accuracy in classifications across major South markets. Judge Valuation. With the forms of the standards in hen Permit Growers
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United States
States Department of Agricule
States’ Rations Service
Department
George A. Maloney
Mobility Farm Demonstration
United Sates
Searen Boards of E
New York Bakers Raise Five Cent Loaf Price
The largest New York baking company will raise the five cent loaf to six cents next Monday and add weight. The smaller loaf drops to five cents while the ten cent loaf remains unchanged. Flour price increases are given as the reason and other bakers are expected to follow. National bread committee delegates meet with Housewives League officials to discuss a wheat embargo.
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New York
National Bread Committee
Chicago
Buffalo
Housewives League
Annual Convention of American Bankers Opens
The American Bankers Association opened its annual convention in Kansas City Missouri with committees meeting today and bankers arriving by train. Group conferences begin tomorrow and continue through to Friday when President James K. Lynch of San Francisco will open the convention.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
American Bankers’ Association
James K. Lynch
San Francisco
St Mary's School to Open with Mass Tomorrow
St Marys Parish School will reopen at 9 o clock tomorrow morning with a church mass at St Marys church. Classes will resume after the services. The Sisters of Mercy in charge expect the largest enrollment in the history of the institution.
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St. Mary's Parish School
St. Mary's Church
Sisters of Mercy
Cotton valuation system linked to nearest spot markets
The report describes using daily papers to publish trade prices and enable growers to value cotton grades. County agents will compute local valuations considering handling costs and bulletin figures from markets. The markets and rural organization will supply quotations from the nearest spot market and other designated markets under the cotton futures act.
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Office of Markets and Rural Organization
Postal Service Throughout U S Is Much Improved
Immense improvements in postal service across the United States are attributed to the Wilson administration. The parcel post department notes simplified mailing, two rate cuts, larger size and weight limits, extended express facilities to rural routes, and benefits to producers and consumers with reduced waste. Annual traffic reportedly reaches one billion packages.
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United States
Washington
Thornton
Parcel Post Department
Government postal reform expands rural and urban delivery reach
The program reports growth in postal savings deposits from 310,000 to 616,000 and deposits rising to 92 million dollars. City and village delivery extend to millions, rural routes serve over 3.2 million and 5.7 million families, with substantial increases in parcel and mail car services. A surplus of over 5.5 million dollars is turned to the treasury.
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Railway Post Office
the Treasury
Prisoner John Hall's songs charm 2000 visitors at Atlanta prison
New York composer John T. Hall, serving a fraud mails sentence, staged a prison concert in Atlanta drawing about 2,000 external visitors. He premiered several songs written since imprisonment, including a hit dedication to an old sweetheart, and received an ovation as he exited. Hall has two years remaining in his term.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
John T. Hall
New York
Federal
Hall
R. C. Jones
Philadelphia
Waynesville
N C
Ballots to be sent to New York border soldiers
New York state soldiers stationed on the Mexican border will vote with an eight foot ballot on election day. A carload of election supplies departs October 29 and a bureau representative will travel to Texas to set polling for the soldiers. Each company headquarters becomes a polling place with company inspectors named.
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Albany
N. Y
New York State
Hugo
Election Bureau
Texas
Local News and Travels from Mobile and Nearby
Dr Joseph M Thuringer arrives in Mobile to assume anatomy teaching duties at the University of Alabama School of Medicine. Other items note car dealers, civic leaders, visitors, and a sea incident as the liner Caucase arrives safely after submarine firing off Marseilles.
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Joseph M. Thuringer
School of Medicine
University of Alabama
Mobile
General Hospital
Tacoma
Wesh
Harvard College
Switzerland
South Dakota
Marseilles
Mexican Envoys Demand US Troop Removal at Border
Mexican and American joint commission members enter the fourth week of border condition talks in New London. Mexican reps insist the Mexican army can keep peace in northern Mexico and seek withdrawal of American forces, while Americans push for further study of Mexican internal affairs before any agreement.
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New London
Conn
Summer Religious Services in Bienville Square End
The summer services in Bienville Square closed Sunday night drawing a large congregation. Rev. John W. Phillips preached on Take the World As You Find It under the Federation of Protestant Churches with Mr. J. S. Burgett coordinating and Rev. S. P. Spiegel leading prayer.
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Bienville Square
John W. Phillips
D. D
First Baptist Church
Phillips
Federation of Protestant Churches
J. S. Burgett
Federation
S. P. Spiegel
First Christian Church
War Department reports detail threats in Chihuahua during Villa activity
The War Department cites broad concerns for American life and property in Mexico as reports surface that Villa’s reappearance increases the outlawry in Chihuahua. Mexican counter reports argue the significance of Villa’s return is overstated while Americans hold the evidence.
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Mexico
War Department
Chihuahua
Villa
British Reply To American Mail Note Due This Week
The British reply to the May 24 mail censorship note left London Friday and was enforced today at the British embassy in Washington. It should arrive in Washington late this week. Informal negotiations in New York with exporters led by Sir Richard Crawford aim to align any arrangements with the note, though these talks will be informal and outside direct diplomatic authority.
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Washington
London
Waelton
New York
Richard Crawford
Young David Holt Enters University of the South
David E. Holt of this city leaves Mobile for Sewanee Tennessee to enter the University of the South. He won the Hill scholarship and will study for the ministry. Holt, son of Captain and Mrs. David Holt, attended Barton Academy and graduated with high honors in 1916. He spent much of summer with his grandfather Rev. David E. Holt at Pablo Beach Florida.
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David E. Holt
Mobile
Sewanee
Tenn
University of the South
Hill
Wis
David Holt
Young Holt
Barton Academy
Pablo Beach
Fla
Say Small Investors Keep Off German War Loan
London Sept 25 small investors are not subscribing to the new German war loan in the same numbers as prior issues a Reuters Amsterdam dispatch quoting the Cologne Gazette. The Gazette says subscriptions by the million would not be a great success without small subscriptions while farmers fear Germany faces bankruptcy due to the war costs.
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Associated Press
London
Reuter
Amsterdam
Cologne Gazette
Gazette
Germany
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