Effort to Stem Tide of Negro Migration Northward
Atlanta dispatch reports negro leaders and white economists uniting at mass meetings to warn that no permanent gains await migrants to the North. About 160,000 southern blacks have left since last summer amid high wages offers. Labor shortages in southern cotton fields fear increased exodus. cities pass stricter licensing for agents. scattered aid and cold weather hardships are noted. A telegram tells of a Northbound migrant asking his wife to send money home. Hot Supper Rolls ad.
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Atlanta
South
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Locust Plague Advances Southward Across Argentina
Locust swarms moving from northern provinces threaten to halve crops amid drought. Reports say a 30 kilometer stream of insects darkens the sky as trains clog and farmers burn the pests. Government fights with 20,000,000 meters of barriers and gasoline blowpipes while offering railway discounts to move livestock and aiding trenches to trap swarms.
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Buenos Aires
Brazil
Pena
Department of Agriculture Defense
Republic
Make Certain of Supply Seed
Washington DC December 7 The United States Bureau of Plant Industry advises cotton growers to secure planting seed for next season. High cotton seed prices tempt selling seed or buying better stock but good seed must be preserved. A shortage risk exists as growers may sell seed to oil mills and not plant, especially for the limited new long staple variety.
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Washington, D.C
United States Bureau of Plant Industry
Death Ends Sir John Jenkins's Career As Virginia Bar Leader
John J Jenkins aged 57 president of the Virginia Bar Association died at his Norfolk home from a self inflicted bullet wound. He had been recovering at a northern sanitarium for overwork before the act and returned home in improved health prior to the final tragedy. Temporary mental stress from ill health is cited as the cause.
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Virginia Bar Association
Norfolk
John J. Jenkins
Jenkins
Northern
Farms seek farm loan bank loans in vast applications
Washington officials report more than 59 000 farmers applied for mortgage loans totaling about 1 500 000 dollars far exceeding the funds available at the twelve farm loan banks. Most applications are from the South and West as locations are debated amid bond needs and bank site rivalries in New Orleans Montgomery Jackson Raleigh and Columbia.
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Washington, D. C
Farm Loan Board
Farm Loan Banks
Capitol
New Orleans
Montgomery
Ala
Jackson
Miss
Raleigh
N. C
Columbia
Agrarian League seeks wheat embargo in Argentina
The Agrarian League petitions the government to impose an embargo on wheat shipments to stop public exploitation. It marks the first such request in Argentina a nation known as a wheat and meat storehouse of the world.
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Agrarian League
Argentine
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Tom Draak
Woolivin Hall
Federal
Brothers of
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United States
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Postal Telegraph Cable Company
Postal Telegraph
Queen City Cycle Co
Market’ Street
Rogers Bros. & Kevan
Petersburg
Victoria Theatre
Brunswick Property Owners
Tripp
Gordon
H. Stein
South Second Street
Wilmington
W. B. Klander
South 2Nd St
O. J. Mintz & Co
Peoples’ Market
Castle Street
J. D. Stefano
R. C. Fergus
People’s Building and Loan Association
Princess Street
W. E. Perdew
D. R. Foster
Mickey
Chestnut ST
South 15Th
W. M. Cumming
J. D. McCarley
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Henry Hall
Jas. M. Stevenson
Southern Building
Gordon's News Stard
L. Mazer
S. Fifth Street
Philadelphia
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Youngstown
Ohio
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Dock Street
R. B. Moore
3Rd and
Castle
Winter Park
Ford Automobile
A. A. Avery
C. H. Bathson
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Howard T. Busbee
J. T. Burke
Wrightsville Sound
C. D. Foard
J. O. Hinton
Nord Street
Florida
Bear Produce & Merchandise Co
Holland Old
Ladies OF Southside Baptist Church
P. G. Sellers & Son
Charles Finkelstein
Fifth Avenue
L. L. Shepard
North 4Th ST
the Peoples Savings Bank
North Carolina
State of
New Hanover
J. J. Holmes Davis
Beijing
J. Holmes Davis
Grainger
D. C. Love
Tory
Murchison National Bank
Wilmington, N. C
U. S
Soutl National Bank
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THE
Tide Water Power Company
C. W. Yates Company
Market Street
Ates
Whitman
J. Frank Jarman Druggist
W. B. Thorpe and Company
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W.B. Cooper &Co
Wilmington, N
Coast Line Hotel
North Front Street
Hall & Ross
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A. H. Morriss Co
J. H. Rehder & Co
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Pnenbaum
J. Z
W. Yates Co
Davis Moore Paint Co
G Dannenbaum
Dixon & Kerman
H. Fore & Co
American Bank & Trust Company
Ogt Co
Davis’ & Hintz
Geo. W. Penny
H. L. Fennell
Baxter Tobacco Co
A. D. Brown
Geo. W. Huggins, Inc
Cape Fear Hardware Co
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