It was another cold and rainy day in Rome. At the Kiwanis Club meeting, the speaker was a Mr. Brooks from the Cotton Co-op, who “spoke to us about marketing, and the establishment of a cannery.” One of this post’s readers did some research and found that cotton mills would set up canneries for the residents of their mill villages who grew vegetables, ma…
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