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Posted: September 22, 2009 at 4:33 a.m.
100 YEARS AGO Sept. 22, 1909 Penitentiary officials estimate that the cost of gathering and placing upon the market the cotton crop on the state farm this year will be greater than elsewhere in the South. They base their estimate on the price paid for convict labor, which is $1.50 per day.
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