A 1915 New Republic article on tenant farming and financial control of the cotton economy in the South. It draws on Joseph T. Holleman and federal commission figures for Georgia and Texas to argue that absentee landlords and local merchant-bankers impose the single-crop cotton system. It ends with proposed remedies, citing Texas under Governor Ferguson, state banking ideas and the Federal Reserve Act. It has no weaving content.

A 1915 editorial from The New Republic by Alvin S. Johnson criticizing Britain's decision to put cotton on the contraband list during World War I. It argues that the policy depresses American cotton prices, costing Southern growers an estimated $300 million, while failing to wear down Germany. The scan also includes the opening of an unrelated article, "The Chances of Being Married."

A 1915 New Republic article by C. T. Revere arguing that the First World War will increase demand for cotton. Military clothing consumption is projected to exceed the world's wool supply, and the flax crops of Russia and Belgium are disrupted, so cotton is expected to substitute for wool and linen. The piece includes figures on soldiers' uniforms, wool per garment, sheep numbers and cotton prices. The scan also begins an unrelated article on Emerson and reform.

A short personal essay from The New Republic in which the narrator describes her elderly, illiterate immigrant grandmother in a New York flat, who weaves lace on a small shuttle. The grandmother tells how two foreign strangers sheltered in her Russian village one winter taught her mother the lace pattern. The narrator concludes the men were stragglers from Napoleon's army in 1812, while the grandmother has never heard of Napoleon and cares only that the lace is unique to her region.

An unsigned editorial from The New Republic (December 25, 1915) on the effect of World War I on the Southern United States economy. It argues that falling cotton prices pushed Southern farmers toward crop diversification into corn, oats, wheat, hay and livestock, and discusses growing Southern industry, low farm productivity, and the need to educate the Black and white rural population. Textile content is limited to cotton as a crop and the Carolinas' and Georgia's cotton manufacturing.

A single page from The New Republic (September 14, 1918) printing a group of short free-verse poems by Phoebe Crosby Allnutt. The poems include Morning, Kings, Paints, Nature Study, The Crazy Pine Tree, April Night, Windows, Old Thoughts, Weaving and A Visit to Hagerstown. The poem titled Weaving is a brief metaphor about a weaver at a loom given bright colors by a Master to make a design on a plain background; it is not about weaving technique.