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Cotton medallion
Cotton

Cotton

Growing cotton fields often touch prosperity ripening — abundance gathered, business advancing, a change for the better in the work of your hands. The dream may ask where your enterprise feels ready for harvest, what favourable turn you sense approaching, and whether the season ahead promises plenty to bale and store.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for cotton, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

To dream of young growing cotton-fields, denotes great business and prosperous times. To see cotton ready for gathering, denotes wealth and abundance for farmers.

For manufacturers to dream of cotton, means that they will be benefited by the advancement of this article. For merchants, it denotes a change for the better in their line of business.

To see cotton in bales, is a favorable indication for better times.

To dream that cotton is advancing, denotes an immediate change from low to high prices, and all will be in better circumstances.