Wheat and railroads bind Iowa to a fragile economy
A long, critical critique discusses wheat price declines and railroad policy, arguing the nation faces a systemic shock as wheat growers lose income while corn profits hold. It notes Iowa yields around twenty bushels per acre versus North Dakota’s eight, and compares price dynamics between July wheat and cash corn, urging a timely remedy and cooperative marketing. The column condemns sensationalism in media and warns about immigration policy influence on labor supply, questioning openness to Polish and other central European entrants amid deportment of migrants and quotas.
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Congress
Iowa
North Dakota
Towa
Browers
Poland
America
United States
People People? Chicago Editorial Tangles With City Affairs
A long disjointed editorial satirizes New York politics Mayor Hylan and Controller Craig trading insults while public affairs drift. It muses on Shelby Montana raising 200000 and jokes about law, taxes, and press value, ending with a note on a new newspaper rule favoring readers over postmaster overuse.
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LPF
Chicago Tribune
Hylan
New York
Craig
Ungreat Ciy
Shelby
Montana
Dempsey
Wabash
Monroe
Collins
Henry Ward
Henry
William Jennings Bryan
Zion-City
Bryant
United States
Chicago
Ines
Etna
Senator Cummins Reviews Railroads and Remedies
Senator Cummins writes a twelve part series on the railroad situation in the nation. He draws on his Interstate Commerce Commission chairmanship and committee hearings to present facts and figures and to suggest possible solutions. The Register prints his fifth article today while a prior long letter from Mackay criticizes the series as repetitive and flawed.
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Senator Cummins
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Register
Mackay
The Mailman's Stepchildren
FromWashington comes the welcome report that the new postmaster wants to introduce improvements in handling and forwarding newspapers. He plans to treat such publications on the same level as first class matter, so country subscribers do not have to wait for the news.
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Dennis Hlagatel
Herald
Washington
Journalia
Free trade paper self condemns its own bias
The New York Evening Post, once championing the Underwood tariff, is cited as condemning free trade while touting 1923 earnings. It notes substantial profits across 1923 first three months, with gains in steel, oil, utilities, railways, and overall corporate earnings near one hundred million dollars, illustrating perceived prosperity amid tariff debates.
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dney-McCumber
Ion
Nate
New York:fivening’ Post
Post
New York.Evening ‘Post
New York.Evening Post
Fragmented lines from a seaside instruction column
The passage reads like a garbled advice column or social snippet page. It mentions camping, rent, wives, husbands away fishing, summer, fans, blighted crops, mortgage talk, a beach, mosquitoes, licenses, manners, dating, marriage, Christmas shopping, and casual quips about truthfulness and humor.
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Chas
F. Chase
E. P. Chase
Ters
Atlantic
Itisley
U.S
Associated Press
Pha
United Press
Foreigal Advertising
Karl-Burke
Inc
South Michigan Blvd
New York City
Brokaw
Broadway
News- Telegraph
Cumrmins
Ots
Ountry
aRs
Kinnhe
Hubby
Fortuna
Studebaker
Tate
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