Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spot over dere." And at the base of that statue will be the inscription: The Good Darky of Louisiana. Erected by the City of Natchitoches in Grateful Recognition of the Arduous and Faithful Service of the Good Darkies of Louisiana. Donated by J. L. Bryan, 1927. Mr. Bryan, cotton planter and banker, had been lulled to sleep in his babyhood by Negro spirituals, and had played with little slave boys on his father's old plantation, so he recently felt the urge to do something big for the Negro. The bronze statue of "The Good Darky," completed last week...
...Crops Worth Less. Steadily since 1923 the dollar value of U. S crops has been growing less. In 1923 the 55 principal crops were worth $9,468,128,000. This year they will be worth, the Department of Agriculture calculated last week, $7,801,313,000. Cotton alone depreciated by $555,477,000 in the period, although 8,478,000 more bales were produced. Morgan Partners. On Wall Street there was talk that two new partners might be added to J. P. Morgan & Co. after Jan. 1. Present partners are: J. P. Morgan, Edward T. Stotesbury, Charles Steele, Thomas...
...place to take it; he goes into a hotel washroom, a taxicab, even a telephone booth. Out of his pocket comes a piece of candle. He wants to sterilize his injection. He puts water in a spoon, heats it over the candle, dissolves his morphin, filters the solution through cotton, fills his needle, injects. It is to him a holy ritual. He is happiest when he has an acolyte; someone who wants to try dope-to watch the slow fire of rot filter through the novice's veins. He keeps the papers his powders come in. When...
Engaged. Mrs. Margaret Ross Lansdowne, widow of Commander Zachary Lansdowne (killed in wreck of naval dirigible Shenandoah, Sept. 3, 1925); to one John Caswell Jr., cotton man of New York and Boston...
Died. Joseph Newburger, 68, Memphis (Tenn.) millionaire, cotton merchant and philanthropist; in Manhattan, of pneumonia and heart disease...