{"id":972,"date":"2013-11-16T14:02:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T20:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/?p=972"},"modified":"2013-11-16T14:02:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T20:02:17","slug":"fire-destroys-memphis-cotton-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/fire-destroys-memphis-cotton-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Destroys Memphis Cotton Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy Loss &#8211;<br \/>\nThe Memphis cotton mills, situated on Wolf river, a short distance north of Memphis, were burned down on the night of the 13th. Loss $202,000; insurance of $90,000. The owners of the mills were<strong> J. W. PAGE<\/strong>, Esq., <strong>George H. CHECK<\/strong>, Esq., and <strong>W. B. WIGGS<\/strong>, Esq. They estimated the loss on machinery and building at $187,000; material $15,000.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85033306\/1866-11-17\/ed-1\/seq-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 17 Nov. 1866, Page 2<\/a>. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy Loss &#8211; The Memphis cotton mills, situated on Wolf river, a short distance north of Memphis, were burned down on the night of the 13th. Loss $202,000; insurance of $90,000. The owners of the mills were J. W. PAGE, Esq., George H. CHECK, Esq., and W. B. WIGGS, Esq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,6],"tags":[1004,1003,1005],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accidents","category-shelby","tag-check-george-h","tag-page-j-w","tag-wiggs-w-b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}