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First bale of cotton.

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Charlotte News, 11 September 1914.

Jonah Williams rolled into Wilson on opening day and sold the first bale of cotton of the market season. From what I can glean from newspapers, $8.585 was not a good price, and 1914 was a poor cotton year.

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