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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1927
Page
7
The Greenville county auditor found 2000 gasoline vehicles escape property tax after checking returns. He believes all counties should adopt the same method to tax autos, though some argue the vehicle license should replace property tax. The issue centers on two thirds taxed versus one third evading.
Opinionated critique argues that wars are sparked by inflamed public sentiment shaped by vested interests and sensational press, a pattern the author says has recurred since World War I.
A humorous article describes a recurring meeting where designers debate men’s and women’s fashion. A persistent motion favors a brown evening dress suit, but the group clings to the black evening dress as a timeless symbol. The ritual ends as always with no one seconding the brown proposal.
Washington police must know international law well as 53 embassies and legations lie in the capital. Legation compounds are treated as foreign soil with diplomatic immunity, so Marines guard liquor consigned to them until delivery to ministers and ambassadors. Bootlegging suspicions exist but dry agents avoid involvement.
Southern investment bankers estimate the 1927 cotton crop will yield 13,500,000 bales and sell for 1,600 million dollars. Higher production costs and world market competition erode profits for planters. Propaganda abuse is possible only among those who swallow it without question, enabling manipulation by a power elite.
Report notes Tex Ricard won the prize fight while others connected drew their shares, with newspapers singled out as the remaining recipients of nothing, described as bright and shining suckers by the author.
Executor of the Margaret Weaver estate will seek final discharge at the Probate Judge in Aiken County on November 7 at 12 oclock noon. The hearing is to occur at the judge's office in Aiken as part of the final return and discharge proceedings.
By end of 1926 the United States had invested about 4.5 billion dollars in Latin America and the figure is expected to rise materially by the close of 1927. The rise reflects Latin America’s vast raw materials that Europe and the United States cannot fully produce.
A. W. Reynolds prohibits hunting and trespassing on all his lands with warning of prosecution to the fullest extent of the law. Notice dated October 20.
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