Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following clubs are requested to leave name and address of president or secretary with Dean Hurlbut today or tomorrow before 12 o'clock: Buffalo, California, Cleveland, Cotton Belt States, Fall River, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, Texas, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Western, Canadian, Concord, Wisconsin, Somerville...
There is considerable difference between the two plays that have taken the Craig Prize. The new play is a little melodramatic. Where the first dealt with a doctor's family and his friends, Miss McFadden's play leaves polite society after the first act for the cotton mills of South Carolina. Though its theme is not primarily the abuses of child labor, they have a considerable importance in the drama. Last year the four acts of the prize play passed in only two rooms. This year the play will call for four settings, including the interior of a spinning room...
...leaves her home to try to do what the detectives have failed in, and, of course, she succeeds. A subsidiary interest in the typewritten manuscript, though production on the stage may reverse the values, is the question of child labor. The lost child is found working in a Southern cotton mill under the usual unhealthful conditions; indeed in danger of life and limb from a broken machine. In this purely incidental manner Miss McFadden shows much more vividly the problem and the horrors of child slavery than many another playwright who has avowedly written of it alone...
...Sheldon Fellows were literally spread over the face of the earth: Mr. Philip, Greeley Clapp was studying Music in Germany; Mr. Oscar James Campbell, Comparative Literature in England; Mr. Edgar Davidson Congdon, Zoology in Europe; Mr. Melvin Thomas Copeland, the cotton industry in Europe; Mr. Summer Webster Cushing, Geography in India; Messrs. Arthur Johnson Eames and Edmund Ware Sinnott, Botany in Australia; Mr. Griffith Conrad Evans, Mathematics in Europe; Mr. Augustus Locke, Mining and Metallurgy in the United States and Mexico; Mr. Robert Grant Martin, English Dramatic Literature in England; Mr. Sheldon Osgood Martin, Economics in South America; Mr. Henry...
Ellis, E. W., cotton manufacturing...