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...bales per year.* In 40 years the production had more than doubled. In 1914 the 15 cotton States of the Union brought forth an all-time record crop of 16,000,000 bales?and the South almost went bankrupt when the outbreak of the War blocked export. In 1892 Boll Weevil had crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico. The spreading infestation over-took expanding cotton production after 1914, reduced the 1921 crop to the smallest (8,000,000 bales) in a quarter-century. But planters learned how to fight this pest, increased their acreage, pushed their production...
Married. Mabel ("Queen of Diamonds") Boll, 32, friend of Promoter Charles A. Levine; and a Count Henri de Porceri, 43 (Polish-born, U. S.-naturalized); in Paris...
...conspiring to forge French coins of small denomination. His explanation: he was having some little medals made resembling French coins with which he was going to surprise his U. S. friends at Christmas. With him at the time of his arrest was his good friend Mabel ("Queen of Diamonds") Boll who subsequently fled to Paris...
Charles A. Levine, rich Long Island scrap-metal man, "first trans-Atlantic airplane passenger," and Mabel Boll, bejeweled publicite who once contemplated flying from France to the U. S., arrived together in Paris. Said he, when asked if he planned to divorce his wife and marry Miss Boll: "The whole thing is utterly absurd. We just came over to spend a little vacation at Carlsbad. There is nothing unusual in the fact that Mabel is in town. We are good friends, you know...
Paradoxically, many a southern planter views with alarm the possibility of controlling or eradicating Boll Weevil. In the South are two schools of weevil thought. One school laments the curse which reduces the cotton yield per acre, increases production cost, is already discounted in the market price. No less stoutly the other group holds that the weevil is really a disguised blessing, "the best thing that evuh happened to the South, Suh! Why, if it weren't for boll weevil, Cotton would be selling for fo' cents a pound right...