The Commercial Appeal

75 years ago: 1938

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John and Mack Rust are ready to organize the Rust Foundation, through which they propose to apply a large part of their share in the proceeds from their invention, the Rust cotton picker, to the uplift of Southern workers. Under their plan the brothers-inventors will fix a ceiling on their own incomes from the picker at 10 times that of the lowest paid employee. stery, mohair top and flush doors with disappeari­ng hinges, is now selling for $950. The company this year plans to manufactur­e 50,000 cars. to outdo each other in hospitalit­y. At the Workhouse yesterday there was a barbecue and general jollificat­ion presided over by Squire Dick Mason and his secretary, O. Brown; and Squire Hughey entertaine­d his friends with old-fashioned barbecue at Buntyn Station.

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