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Cotton Tariff. No longer may U. S. cotton enter Russia free of duty, for the Council of People's Commissars calculated that at present prices U. S. lint can stand a tax of three and one-half cents a pound and still be cheaper than Turkestan cotton. This tariff was promulgated last week, the current price of cotton in the U. S. being only twelve cents...
...July 31, 1925, there were on hand 1,610,455 bales, of which 866,259 were held by consuming establishments, 514,196 in public storage and compresses and 230,000 bales elsewhere. During the year ending July 31, home consumption of cotton amounted to 6,191,349 bales of lint and 651,065 of linters, comparing with 5,680,554 of lint and 536,738 of linters for the year ending July 31, 1924. Exports have likewise increased; during the year ending July 31, 1925, 8,195,896 bales were sent abroad, as compared with 5,772,000 bales...
...does seem as if, when a thing is so cheap, and abundant as water, and withal so necessary, we might have the pure article. The water furnished at Memorial is naturally a little turbid. But the animals which now infest it are conspicuous, even among the floating particles of lint which thicken it. If anyone will take the trouble to look in his glass in the morning he will see them skipping about in high glee. Better water than this can be found in any pond. If set on any other table than in Memorial Hall it would be thought...
...fair sized audience gathered in Sever 11 last evening to hear Mr. Thomas Pray speak on the "Cotton Industry." The lecturer opened with an account of the early history of this manufacture. In 1787 the first cotton mill was started in Beverly. At that time to separate the lint from the seeds was the hardest work. This difficulty was removed by the invention of the cotton gin in 1793. About 1810 power looms were put into general use. The speaker then continued to briefly trace the history of the industry down to the present time. During...