Traveler's and Writer's Sourcebook, circa January-February 1911, Number 3

Amen saw gin rather destructive to fiber

[crossed out work] Doesnt [end crossed out word] ginned by roller gin yard get a penny more Labor cost

Shanghai staple too short for saw gin mk it unmrktable

Small hand gin

Saw cotton seed broadcast no selected seed Beans no depth

Shanghai Thksgvg Day address by Amos Wilder

Rsvlt's name cheerd only apls in [adrs?]

Then on perils first, the negro

So Bpt Mission School 20 x 21 Shanghai room containing 17 beds (were 20)

Board & Tuition $30 goes "[ditto] $1.75 sold a month (good food)

Dinner Rice, vgtbls, fish & or eggs

With 100 boys wd be self supprtg outside my [colony?]

Girl at school, offended, threatened suicide went in drank cold water!

Drowned people, Spirits in water will pull you under

1 ^(Am) carpenter = 5 or 6 Xns 1 ^(Am) negro = 3 or 4 Xns

Famine in Anhwer

Caused by overflow of river & destcn of crops

Homes swept away; not Even seed left for a new pltng

Commercial Press Shanghai Issues School books in Editions of one million

Salt smugglers beheaded Yangchow (favor to behead)

[begin crossed out text] What Xna is tnkig thr can be no dbt, but whether she can dev mil strg in tm to [prot?] hrslf frm [???] [???] Evtly may be dbtd

Then need be & shd be no war --lst of all a war btw Jap & th Us in as other ntns hav a grtr stk there than our own

If Jpn is only and in [???] that th grt powers of th Earth will not talk fthr agsn in Mch, she will adopt polcs tht will gv th pc grth [end crossed out text]