A short 1904 magazine piece from the 'Highways and Byways' section of Cosmopolitan on child labor in the United States, especially in Southern cotton mills. It reports that about twenty thousand children under fourteen worked in those mills, and that mill-owners, including New England investors, resisted legislation. It also notes violations of age laws in the East and in New Jersey glass factories, and reports that the General Federation of Women's Clubs resolved to campaign for stronger laws and better enforcement.

A short 1904 magazine note in Cosmopolitan's "Highways and Byways" section summarizing a set of maps by Edward D. Jones, first published in Leslie's Weekly, that show where American textile mills were located. It covers New England textile mills, North Atlantic woolen mills, Southern cotton mills and the silk mills around Paterson, New Jersey. It comments on Paterson as the "Lyons of America," silk throwing mills in northeastern Pennsylvania, the concentration of knit-goods and woolen factories near Philadelphia, and the growth of Southern cotton manufacturing.

A popular 1904 magazine article surveying the American cotton industry, from cultivation, ginning and the two main U.S. varieties to the mill processes that turn baled cotton into cloth. It follows the machinery in sequence (opener, scutcher, lap-machine, carding, drawing, slubbing, roving, throstle and mule spinning, warping, slashing, power-loom weaving), then covers bleaching, calico printing and starching. It also gives statistics on mills, labor, the growth of Southern manufacturing and the New England concentration, and contrasts mill output with handwoven Indian muslin. Illustrated with photographs of mill machinery and cotton plants.

A 1900 magazine article describing how Pomo Indian women of northwestern California make baskets. It covers the three classes of baskets (burden, domestic and decorated 'family jewels'), the willow, slough-grass root, redbud, fern and tule materials, the coil weave, decorative designs and feather and bead embellishment. Illustrated with photographs of storage baskets, burden and baby baskets, sifters, fish traps and domestic baskets.