Apple Salesman Brings City Market To Country Farm
Douglas Gordon, a city salesman, convinces Abner Andrews and family to ship snow apples to urban buyers. He shows how direct selling beats low farm prices, arranging barrels at two dollars each. The venture nets nearly one thousand dollars, proving the method works and earning the farmers a grateful note from Susan.
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White
Douglas Gordon
Gordon
Abner Andrews
Cinda
Abner
Susan
Oregon
Hort City
Andrews Farm
Andrews
England
Perrill’s
Acquittal in Wagener Homicide Ends Long Case
In Aiken South Carolina on June 5 1924 Hugh Long was found not guilty of the murder of Pickens N Gunter after a two day trial. Long testified detailing threats and self defense amid a tense campaign season in Wagener. The verdict brought relief to Long and his wife as the court adjourned.
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Augusta
Aiken
S. C
Hugh Long
Long
Pickens N. Gunter
James R. League
Gary
Lea
Gunter
Croft
Wagener
Wagoner
Pickens Gunter
Mr. Long
Robert L. Gunter
Picken Gunter
Mrs. Long
J. W. Lybrand
North Carolina
Union County
Monroe
Wake Forest College
North
South Carolina
New Holland
Perry
Windsor
Langley
Warrenville
M. T. Holley
John Permenter
van Jones
E. B. Gunter
Alken
Rusbee
Busbee
Aiken County
Mr. Lybrand
Lybrand
Dr. Portwood
Joe Brown
Brown
Mr. Holley
Hays Gunter
Mr. Gunter
Mr. Croft
Nathan Gunter
Henry Gardiner
Baldwin
Grain of Wheat Method Triples Yield in Ancient Practice
Read of a method using seed-bed spacing and repeated transplanting to boost wheat yields. An Algerian farmer reports 1800 pounds per acre of oats and 1600 of wheat without fertilizer, while neighbors yield far less. Also notes remarkable long naps cases and aquatic animal swimming feats.
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France
Bourdiel-Humbert
New York American
Law, Prohibitionists and dispensary join to enforce liquor law
The Manning Times advocates a joint effort by Prohibitionists and dispensary supporters in Colleton County to run out blind tigers and test if the law can be enforced. The piece argues that impartial enforcement could reduce liquor sales, drawing in temperance supporters who prefer legal sale for revenue but want enforcement to curb illegal traffic.
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Colleton
Manning Times
McReynolds Eyes Tobacco Tax in Wake of Trust Decree
Washington June 4 Attorney General McReynolds criticizes the final tobacco trust dissolution decree as a miscarriage of justice and suggests a graduated excise tax on tobacco manufacturers. He contemplates possible further anti trust actions and may reopen the decree if needed while reviewing the Standard Oil dissolution outcomes.
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Washington
McReynolds
Tobacco Trust
Congress
Standard Oil
Michigan Man Invents Moving Letter Sign
An inventor from Michigan creates an electric sign that forms words letter by letter at the right, moves them across the display, and makes them vanish at the left as the message unfolds.
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Michigan
Remarkable Kukubuhus Ethnology Described by Dr Beheim
Dr Bruno Beheim recounts the Kukubuhus of New Guinea a reclusive mountain people near the English German border who spurn outsiders yet trade via a cautious barter system with salt, dried fish and skins. They avoid contact hide in camps burn fires and remain a cryptic ethnological marvel. A mammoth oil driven harvester trials on Australian wheat fields harvests about sixty acres daily.
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Bruno Beheim
New Guinea
Lakehamu
Behelm
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Don Cameron Shafer
Cinda Andrews
Pretty Susan
Ordon
Sordon
Harper's
Caroline Qlison
Okwo
Sweden
Froderstrom
Paris
Carolina Ollson
Minnesia
Margaret Bongenval
Menelles
Belgium
Spain
Burgos
Philadelphia Ledger
New
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