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Near Kirkwood, N. 3., three small boys bailed from a creek 200 one dollar bills in a bale...
...loss and expense of its operations will be paid by an equalization fee. This fee will be collected (in transit and in other points) as an internal tax on every unit of the crop in question? bushel, bale or pound...
...when analogous overproduction occurred, the relief cry was "Buy a Bale." The present cry is "Wear Cotton." Last week the only woman judge in the South, Virginia Henry Mayfield, at Birmingham, put out a reason: The adoption by southern women of more cotton clothing, instead of sensuous silk, would reduce work in the divorce courts; the return to past styles would give contentment in the home and aid to the farmer...
...President sealed up a neat little bale of newspaper clippings telling of deaths from poisoned alcohol and letters of protest which he had received, despatched them to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Winston without comment...
...India 396 Ibs. of cotton constitute a bale, in Brazil 220 Ibs., in Egypt...