Tilled Soil in Silks. Grouchy's Son a Pioneer
A Southern newspaper recounts Napoleon era exiles who founded a colony in Demopolis Alabama to grow vines and olives. Officers and nobles backed the venture but hardship and mislocation led to its collapse, with cotton agriculture later transforming the region into prosperous plantations and notable houses like Gainswood and Bluff Hall. The tale links Marengo county to French history and the region’s shift to cotton prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Demopolis
Bordeaux
Post
Alabama
Europe
France
Napoleon
Paris
Elba
Colo
Nicholas Raoul
Col
Cluis
Ferdinand I
Spain
Greensboro
Count Bertrand Clausel
Mobile
Algiers
Lefebvre Desnou
Russia
Moscow
Fontainebleau
Henry V Avemande
M. Peniers
French National Assembly
Louis XVI
Marshal Grouchy
Waterloo
Congress
Philadelphia
Mobdile Bay
Gainswood
Gainswood Is A Demopolis
America
Nathan B. Whitfield
George Strother Gaines
Tme
Gen. Polk
Marengo County
Morals Talk by YMC A Secretary on New Year Eve Tour
William Knowles Cooper, general secretary of the Y M C A, urged a morals court to handle social vice after a Washington New Year Eve tour. He condemned fashionable gowns and praised moving picture managers for censoring content. He warned Christian workers against overinvestigation of red light districts and endorsed Bible classes in churches to reform young men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Men’s Christian Association
William Knowles Cooper
Association
Cooper
Morais Court
Red-Light
Harlem
Moving Picture
Washington
Church
History's future as the nation’s richest region foretold
A 1913 statement from W. W. Finley, president of Southern Railway Company, proclaims that history is facing a future with immense promise. He predicts the region will become one of the wealthiest and most prosperous sections of the country, signaling strong confidence in economic growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Finley
Southern Railway Company
Washington, D. C
Join Good Shepherd League At St Patrick’s Church
The Rt. Rev. Mgr William T Russell urged all non Catholics to join the League of the Good Shepherd at St Patrick’s Church last night. He said there are no obligations beyond attending meetings and after the benediction he received names of men who wish to join. They will be formally admitted at a forthcoming reception. The league already has several hundred members from across the District in diverse walks of life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mgr
William T. Russell
St. Patrick's Church
League of the Good Shepherd
League
Mgr. Russell
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W. Finley
Grouchy’s
Saka X& Company
Pennsylvania Avenue
Seventh Street
Star
Cluett
Mazda
Potomac Electric Power CO
14Th St. N. W
Marine Barracks
United States
Marina Bang
William H. Santelmann
Butte
Weiss
Stuermitch
Strauss
W. F. Frederick Piano Co
Knabes
Hardman
Chickering
Estey, Mehlin
Ludwig
W. F. Frederick
Heyser
Price & Teeple
Brewster
Knabe -Angelus
Emerson -Angelus
Angelus
Hardman-Autotone
Frederick-Autotone
Heyser Player
Harmotone
WEBER
Fischer
ESTEY
Kimball
Lindeman
Gabler
Steinway
Shoninger
Steger
Cable-Nelson
Cecelian
Harrington
Hazleton
PEASE
Shomacher
STECK
Smith & Barnes
Knabe
Frederick
W.f.frederick Piano Co
D. G. Pfeiffer
Brooklyn
Russell
Masonic Temple
Baltimore
Good Shepherd League
St. Patrick’s
City Bulletins
Virginia
Hsts
District of Columbia
Edward J. Stellwagen
Pres
C. A. Muddiman & CO
Gig
Byron S. Adams
St. N. W
Fineman & Goldsmith
Enearey
Fourteenth Street
Judd & Detweiler, Inc
Prince Albert
the Sunday Post
Burchell
N. W. Burchell
Strayer
Business College
Ninth & F Sts. N. W
Emerson
Bose
ST. N.W
Wuroanrrr
Angus Medora
Evenin
College
West Point Ter
Marine Corps
Consular
Yale
Institute
Washington, D.C
Randolpa
BPORD
Principate
Anaspolia
Emily Fred Baraca
Eleventh St. N
Wyoming Ave
Cancoel
Tonasns de Cassitse
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