Trusts Rampant Threaten Free Enterprise
Attorney General warned about a five trillion dollar merger of fed products organized by J P Morgan Co. Congress passed the Sherman and Clayton acts to curb trusts, yet enforcement failed and monopolies grow. Big banks and key industries tighten control, squeezing small businesses and workers as fear mounts about the nation’s economic future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fed Products
J.P. Morgan & Co
Bread Trust
Congress
Congress May Balk Economy Program
President Hoover backed by strong rhetoric to inject sound business rules into government but faces a hostile Congress and powerful interests. He seeks self‑funding post office and trimming military costs, needing broad public backing to overcome opposition from magazine publishers and a wavering press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Postofice
Post Office Department
The Menace of Taxation in South Carolina
The piece argues heavy taxes harm employment and consumer costs, warning that overtaxation drives industry away and causes stagnation. It highlights how land seizure for unpaid taxes hurts communities and that towns can prosper with prudent tax rates and efficient government, urging South Carolina to curb tax inequities and labor agitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
South Carolina
Summer Daintiness for Working Women in Heat
The piece discusses maintaining freshness and personal daintiness in hot weather, noting economic and practical limits for the working woman. It suggests routines like morning or night baths, deodorant, cooling powders, and fresh clothing, plus portable tonics or powders for the office or home to stay tidy during busy days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Johnson
Josephine Bonaparte
Baby Auto for Two to Be Sold by Mail
James V. Martin of Garden City Long Island develops a tiny two seat car with no chassis or springs using rubber aviator cord suspension. Demoed at speed, it claims 50 miles per gallon and easy mail order distribution with minimal servicing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
New York Times
United States
Department of Commerce
James V. Martin
Martin Aeroplane Factory
Garden City
L. 1
Martin
Wall Street
Europe
Ford
Negro Woman Is Shot Death After Church Service
A colored woman, Mattie Lowe Landy, was killed in the church yard near Selvern after a protracted meeting ended. A gunman slipped up behind her and fired, wounding the woman, an infant, and a bystander nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selvern
Mattie Lowe Landy
Mrs Harry Dell Wheat Dies In Augusta Hospital
Mrs Gladys Wheat 19 wife of Harry Dell Wheat of Langley died Sunday morning in an Augusta hospital after a three month illness. Surviving are her husband a daughter Jeanine Wheat her parents Mr and Mrs W I Ow Bushee of Langley and two sisters Mia B M Aiken and Mildred Bushee of Langley. Funeral services were conducted by Rev Themis Walker and Rev J B Chick at Langley Baptist Church with interment in Kimball Cemetery near Langley. Pallbearers were Ernest Patterson Seth Bn Meliie Mawyer Homer Cumming Allie Gummert and Edwin Brygte.
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Gladys Wheat
Harry Dell Wheat
Langley
Augusta
Jeanine
Wheat
Mra
Wiow. Bushee
Mia
B. M. Aiken
Mildred Bushee
Themis Walker
J. B. Chick
Langley Baptist Church
Kimball Cemetery
Ernest Patterson
Seth Bn Meliie Mawyer
Homer Cumming
Allie [Uumbert
Edwin Brygte
Bodie School Community Meeting Attracts Large Turnout
Bodie school hosted a Thursday night gathering with Rev. W. S. Goodwin and Hon. E. S. Jackson of Wagener giving talks. Candy was sold, watermelons sliced, a cake walk held, and prize awards announced as judges prepared for Friday’s closing at 4 o clock with lemonade and notebooks on display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bodie School
Goodwin
Jackson
Wagener
Smith
Kenneady
Bodice Delegates Set for Clemson Trip Departure
In grateful words to The Standard for its help in adult work, the Bodie Ault Students and Teacher announce preparation for a Clemson trip. Delegates depart at 3 o'clock Saturday morning.
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Clemson
Bodice
Bodie Ault
Home Hints Economical Menu for Leftover Chicken
A thrift minded menu lists Cream or Salsify Soup Broiled little pig sausages in Potato Puff nest and Grilled tomatoes. Cream Slaw Blueberry Cobbler Beverage Chicken Cutlets use 2 cups chopped cooked chicken 2 tablespoons chopped carrots Breen pepper minced parsley onion juice lemon juice 1 cup white sauce eggs and crumbs. Mix cook shape fry.
Pineapple Nut Salad and Ed Education Head Ill
Pineapple nut salad recipe mixed with tomatoes and bread layers, plus a health note on Hon. K. D. Smith, superintendent of education, ill at home after surgery. A medical quote from Major Ranson condemns flies, while an advertisement touts FLY-TOX insecticide from Melton Institute with harmless use and blue labels.
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K. D. Smith
Tabernacle
Mr. Smith
Ranson
Medical Department
United States Army
House of Flies
Melton Institute of Industrial Research
Rex Research Fellowship
ALI
Want Ads Offer Shirts and Sales Reps in Greenville
Want ads promote a White Broadcloth Shirt for wearers with guaranteed satisfaction and refunds. Also seeks two experienced automobile salesmen for Aiken Standard office, and lists sale items including an Orthophonic Victrola and pumps with Columbia Supply Co offerings, all dated 4 9 2tnn.
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Greenville
S.C
Judson
Duncan
South Carolina
Aiken Standard Office
Man Fined for Reckless Driving in Augusta Road Crash
Claude Garland of Atlanta appeared before Magistrate D W Gaston Jr and was fined 50 after a Tuesday night crash on the Augusta road in which his Buick collided with Milweek Cook of Batesburg’s Ford. Both cars were badly damaged and Mrs Cook Laura Muckenfuss and several others sustained cuts and bruises. all three men were briefly jailed.
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Claude Garland
White
Atlanta
D .W. Gaston, Jr
Augusta Road
Milweek Cook
Batesburg
Garland’s
Cook
Laura Muckenfuss
W. W. Muckenfuss
Rosaline Muckenfuss
Aiken
Muckenfuss
Garland
Garland Faces Court After Morning Collision
Garland appeared in court the next morning after a rear collision with the Cook car as it slowed for a parked vehicle near the Idlewood Tea Room. Virgil Denny of Vaucluse is ill at his home, and friends express regret.
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Garland
Idlewood Tea Room
Virgil Denny
Vaucluse
Birth of a Son for Mr and Mrs Ellis Koon Warrenville
Mr and Mrs Ellis Koon of Warrenville welcome a 10 pound son born Monday morning at their home. A man recently held his breath 14 minutes and 2 seconds, establishing a world record. We nominated him to succeed Heflin in the senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellis Koon
Warrenville
A Mani
Heflin
Senate
Springfield Union
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Che Aiken Standard
Aiken Publising Co
Walter £. Duncan
O. Alderman Duncan
Baterad
Ess
Columbia Supply Co
Gervais
J. M. Huber
Charleston
Southern Railway System
A&p
Atlantic
Pacific
PoweLl HarDware CO
Aiken, S. C
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