The Carpetbagger and the Mississippi Governor
Melville Crance, the Mississippi governor, wields absolute power in Jackson while carpetbaggers like Willetts and Summers exploit the system. Nellie Crance, the governor’s daughter, stirs trouble as corruption schemes unfold involving land grants to a fictitious railroad company and a looming political crisis.
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Melville Crance
Mississippi
Chicago
Daily Mail
Willetts
Canada
Jackson
S. S. Prentiss
Nellie
Washington
Crance
Summers
Jim
Land Railway Company
Lummers
Jasper
Hilliard County
Ku Klux
Alcohol production progress across regions and costs
The report notes a traveling still in Washington and similar attempts in El Paso Texas and near Hattiesburg Mississippi. It cites a roughly $10 000 cost for an effective still and discusses potential farmer cooperatives to exploit denatured alcohol where coal is cheap. It also mentions rising industrial use of alcohol and the law allowing poisoning pure grain alcohol as a cost saver for manufacturers.
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Washington
el Paso
Tex
Hattiesburg
Miss
Bureau of Animal Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
Man
Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
Denatured alcohol plan for farms deemed futile
Experts in the U S Department of Agriculture say denatured alcohol from waste cannot compete with gasoline due to high fuel and plant costs. The plan to fuel farm power with small stills remains unfeasible for farmers, though hopes persist for larger commercial uses such as from potatoes.
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Omaha
Neb
Department of Agriculture
Harris L. Sawyer
Bureau of Chemistry
Bureau
Congress
Greeley
Uncle Sam
Miller and Farmer Exchange Witty Barbs
A Chattanooga Timesa joke recalls a miller greeting a passing young farmer named George. The miller flippantly remarks about ears flapping after George denies speaking, delivering a light taunt in a friendly garden setting.
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George
Chattanooga
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Opie Read
Frank Pixley
Laird & Lee
Czar
House
Simpson
Mr. Willetts
Gubernatorial
Nellie Crance
Miss Fairburn
Yassum
de Widder Fairburn
State House
Him
His Arm
Dea
Andrew Jackson
Henry Clay
Calhoun
Senate
Francis
James Hill
James W. Witten
Taft
Flathead
Coeur d'Alene
Spokane
Montana
Idaho
Mr. Hill
John Pardue
John
Nat Robey
Dixon County
Robey
Generman
Mr. Crane
Rutherford
Mr. Rutherford
James Strickland
Marionville
Felton
Wiley Jones
Spencer County
Coeur D’alene Indian Reservation
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