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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came last week a farmer. Last year this farmer had raised 500 bales of cotton. This year he hoped that he might make ten bales. That same morning another farmer had talked to Mr. Craig, had said that not a single bale of cotton would grow on his land this year. His 1926 production had been 300 bales. "Dixie" may still be the "land of cotton," but that portion of "Dixie" hit by the Mississippi flood has become the land of the cotton-less. The people of the flood area in Louisiana are as luckless as would be the officeworkers...
...levee system. There are five such major crevasses in Louisiana; nothing has been done about repairing them, and it is feared that so much time has been lost already that the openings cannot be closed in time for the next spring rise of the Mississippi. With much of the land below the level of the river, it is obvious that even a small rise in the waters would cause another catastrophe. It is reported that Federal authorities wish to have one-fourth of the levee repair work (cost estimated at $50,000,000) paid for by the people...
...Holy Land trembled and was shaken last week from Jerusalem to Jericho (13 miles) and very largely along the banks of Jordan. Outside the quake area were Bethlehem and the Dead Sea on the South; and Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee in the North. Between these two seas (65 miles apart), an area roughly 55 miles in diameter trembled. Killed were some 670 persons?not one of these reputedly a U. S. citizen or Jew. Injured were more than 3,000 natives and a few scattered Occidentals. Property damage, hasty appraisers said, exceeded...
...Acts of God." As is usual during an earthquake, there occurred last week throughout the Holy Land numerous examples of what U. S. courts and lawyers call an "Act of God." Examples...
...beginning to sprout the mutton-chop whiskers then in fashion. His name was Tom Morris Jr. With his long-necked clubs, lumpy balls and tarn o'shanter, he had gone over to Prestwick on the west coast andi for the third year running, whipped all the golfers in the land for the British Open Championship. They gave him the champion's belt, to keep permanently. The next year they did not bother to hold the tournament...