Coast Rates Increased Across Through Pacific Trade
The railroad commission approved about a 40 percent through rate increase to Pacific ports for exports of iron and steel articles machinery railway equipment and other materials. Smaller increases on imports were allowed. The decision covers Chicago and western origins with ongoing investigations on several rates. The commission signaled a generally favorable attitude toward higher tariffs and reserved rights to adjust specifics later.
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Norfolk
Galveston
Southern Pacific
Pacific
Chicago
Commission
Cunast
Paper reuse in Italy warms homes via sun dried pulp
In Italy households conserve paper by soaking scraps, kneading into balls, then drying in the sun for later heat. Milan's fashionable streets show these paper spheres in the balconies of the rich, signaling a domestic waste reduction practice.
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Italy
Milan
United States Dominates World Banking Power
Washington, Jan 30 United States has become the dominant banking power, with total national bank resources at 18.56 billion and overall banking power at 37.53 billion, up sharply since Wilson's administration. Comptroller John Skelton Williams cites growth under the federal reserve system and urges guardrails to keep capital from diverting to nonessential profits, plus possible federal guarantees for small deposits and state help to support public utilities.
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Washington
United States
Comptroller of the Currency
John Skelton Williams
Congress
Willams
Wilson
America
Williams
Fed
Comptroller
Senate panel backs removing president rate fixing power
Washington date line reports the senate interstate commerce committee approved eliminating the provision granting the president power to fix railroad rates. The 7 to 6 vote favored leaving rate setting to the interstate commerce commission and state bodies.
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Washington
Administration
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Underwood
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pomerene
Gore
Cummins
McLean
Kellogg
Townsend
Smith
South Carolina
Myers
Robinson
Thompson
James
Poindexter
McAdoo
Linguist Bertel Gunlogsen Dies in Tacoma at 79
Tacoma January 30 Bertel Hogne Gunlogsen noted linguist and scholar died in Tacoma at age 79. Born in Iceland he served as a language instructor in the household of Queen Victoria in 1869 and taught languages to Lady Mary Nisbet Hamilton's daughter. He later translated for the North British Review and spent decades as a private language teacher in Tacoma.
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Tacoma
Queen Vicooria
Mary Nisbet Hamilton
Edinburgh
North British Review
Bertel Hogne Gunlogsen
Iceland
Honest Old Remedy S S S Heralded By Brother Drug Trader
A letter proclaims S S S as a proven blood purifier and tonic from Swift Specific Co. The writer, a drug business veteran, endorses the vegetable formula handed down by Indians and claims decades of sales and visible health benefits. The ad offers free medical advice from Swift Laboratory in Atlanta.
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S. Ss. S
S S. S
Swift Specific Co
J-151
Swift Laboratory
Atlanta, Ga
Advt
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