Seaboard Air Line Plans Traveling Industrial Training School
The Seaboard Air Line Railroad proposes a traveling Industrial Training School to teach home canning preserving jelly making butter and cheese production and to display labor saving farm implements. It aims to improve home life and promote railroad and regional development with free instruction and expert demonstrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Seaboard Air Line
J. T. Patrick
Pinebluff
N. C
A Call to North Carolinas Alliance Members to Boost Hillsboro Factory
A speech urges North Carolina Alliance members to patronize Hillsboro shoe factory, noting state assets including ownership of a large plant, land, and a tannery. It stresses equal stock for members, dues, and strong organization to resist political attacks, aiming for 20,000 new Subs by August and urging meetings after harvest. It also contrasts Southern and Northern mills, highlighting labor, fuel costs, and taxation in the region.
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Hillsore
South
Alliance
North Carolina
State Alliance
Alliance Enterprises
Democratic Party
Hillsboro
People’s Paper
Charlotte
New England
Fall River
New Bedford
Lowell
Alabama
South Carolina
Georgia
Southern Cotton Mills Face Competition From The South
Reports from New England cotton goods manufacturers show three leading experts were sent south to study conditions as Southern mills gain market share. The investigations, including input from President Sandford, aim to assess factors driving rising competition and potential impacts on northern operations.
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New England Coton Goods
South
Sandford
Land of the Sky and Asheville Charm Exposition
The Land of the Sky highlights Asheville and Biltmore in western North Carolina as premier year round resorts. It extols the climate scenery and development of Asheville as a resort city with palatial villas and grand hotels, describing the French Broad river and surrounding canyon vistas along with the three famed resorts of Asheville, Biltmore, and Hot Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
Biltmore
Tennessee
Southland
Hot Springs
Imperial Ranges
Ita
Luxurious Asheville Resorts and Rail Route to Tennessee Exposition
The piece extols Asheville and nearby resorts like Battery Park Asheville and Biltmore with Kenilworth Inn, plus Hot Springs Mountain Park Hotel. It highlights favorable climate, scenery, and luxury. It describes Southern Railway through car service, Nashville Tennessee Centennial Exposition access, and mentions a Summer Homes and Resorts folder available by mail.
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Asheville
Battery Park
Biltmore
Geo. Ww. Vanderbilt
America
Kenilworth Inn
Hot Springs
Mountain Park
Southern Railway
Pullman
New York
Washington
Nashville
Knoxville
Chattanooga
Lookout Mountain
Norfolk and Chattanoonooga Limited
Norfolk
Raleigh
Durham
Greensboro
Salisbury
Virginia
Ashville
Neshville
Jacksonville
Cincinnati
Savannah
Columbia
Spartanburg
Harriman Junction
Iredell Populist Executive Committee Statement 1897
The Iredell County Populist Executive Committee meeting at Statesville on May 15, 1897 expresses concern over the national political moment. It condemns the advance agent of prosperity, warns of taxation debates, trusts and combines, party betrayal, and economic burdens on the masses while criticizing tariffs and extravagance of the old parties.
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People’s Party
Iredell County
Statesville
N. C
Political endorsements applaud people’s party and Butler in last legislature
The document condemns protection of corporations and railroads, praising the People’s party and Senator Butler for backing anti-railroad policies and fair valuations. It commends state and national actions, endorses the central committee, and directs publication to The Caucasian, The Progressive Farmer, and Hickory Mercury.
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People’s Party
Butler
Etand
Progressive Farmer
Hickory Mercury
J. D. Extiorr
A. W. CoLson
W. H. Aderholdt
Powder at a Prayer Meeting Lincoln anecdote
General Horace Porter recalls Lincoln at City Point discussing new 15 inch gun powder. Lincoln compares it to a Sangamon county prayer meeting tale where a rival powder boasts oversized grains and a preacher advertises goods.
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Lincoln
Horace Porter
Grant
City Point
Sangamon
Bro. Jones
Mrs Lease and Drummer On Train to Atchison
Mrs Mary E Lease boarded the Santa Fe train to Atchison for a lecture date. A Chicago traveler offered her the only vacant seat and initiated a cordial exchange that led to further conversation. She mentioned living in Wichita, and the man reacted with interest.
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Mary E. Lease
Santa Fe
Atchison
Chicago
Kansag Prairies
Mrs. Lease
Wichita
Mrs. Lease Sees Fun On Board As Traveling Man Chats
On a train ride Mrs. Lease entertains a traveling salesman who trades stories about her. Eugene Hagan defends her time on the Board of Charities and notes her paying his fee of 500 dollars without question. Guthrie laughs, and the man exits at Nortonville after his St. Joseph ticket confusion.
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Mary Ellen
Mrs. Lease
Topeka
Hagan
Eugene Hagan
Lewelling
Board of Charities
Lase
Wise as a Serpent in Open Cars Scene
A doctor face plants the danger of riding in open cars as a pneumonia patient is brought into view. A spouse urges silence while insisting the doctor knows his business. The dialogue hints at risky exposure and public perception.
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Seaboard Air Line Industrial Training School
Land OF the Sky
Iredell Populist Executive Committee
Mrs Lease
Tucker & CO
Tucker & GO
Raleigh, N
Alliance Headquarters
N.c
Alliance Tannery
Hillsboro, N, C
Morocco
D. H. Tuttle
Beaufort, N. C
B. Agro
Black Essex
Occoneechee Farm
American Jersey Cattle Club
Duroc Jersey Swine Club
Hssex Swine Club
Uoseful Books
Tee Warmat
Leon Ware
Wis
Bina Blanks
Barnes
Beo’y-Treaa
BCA Bape
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