Tariff Question and Coolidge Policy Draw Debate on Sugar
President Coolidge keeps the sugar tariff high to shield the domestic beet sugar industry, arguing that lowering the tariff would raise costs for workers and farmers. He notes sugar at about five cents a pound wholesale, with other foods rising about 50 percent, and says the tariff protects the nation from foreign sugar and speculation. The article continues with weather and regional crop updates including beets, corn, wheat, small grains, ranges, and livestock conditions.
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Coolidge
Gas tax trend across states forces reform and critique
The piece notes that last year 13 states had no gasoline tax and only one remained by March first. Arkansas imposed a 4 cent tax, while four states moved to four cents and four to five cents. It cites last year’s fuel tax receipts totaling $76,648,851 and projects nearly $199 million under a new regime. The Standard Oil Company of California argues against increasing gas taxes as misguided public policy and warns against broader expansion of special taxation.
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Arkansas
Standard Oil Company of
California
Standard Oil Company
Operator costs push tuners to seek profit
An unidentified source notes that some operators exceed their income to run, turning into money makers for tuner shareholders, signaling financial pressures and profit focus in the sector.
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Sta S.iegram
FASTER THAN PAUL REVERE AND AIR MAIL NOTES
A collage of historic quotes on communication and speed contrasts Paul Revere with air mail arrival times in Louisville and Chicago. A boot shop anecdote about mistaken telephone numbers is included, illustrating contemporary wartime cynicism and pranksters.
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Lexington
Kentucky
Louisville
New Orleans
Chicago
Louisville Times
Paul Revere
Air Mail
Louisville Courier—Journal
Soothing Syrup and the Gas Tax Misperception
The text argues the gasoline tax is a misnamed burden as a tax tool not a soothing remedy. It states gasoline taxation funds the public treasury and will rise with other taxes, noting few differences in logic or impact.
Weather notes and a sheriff sale notice from Montana
The report details rainfall and growing conditions across multiple stations, noting cool, cloudy, or warm spells and generally favorable crops with alfalfa and wool outputs. It also lists a Sheriff’s Sale in Fallon County where real estate Lot 4 in Section 2 and adjacent lots in Township 3 North are to be sold at 1:00 p.m. on July 18, overseen by Sheriff C. E. Burrell and Clyde McLemore, Attorney for Plaintiff.
Copper from scrap iron in open air at Butte plant
Modern science treats copper recovery as replacement in mine water. Copper is precipitated from mine water using iron and tin cans in gravity fed drip and horizontal tanks, with 85 to 95 percent recovery. Workers manually prep cans and iron, then transport copper mud to reverberatory furnaces at Washoe for reduction.
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Hiln
Butte
James Gillie
M.c'-M. Xatgea
Gillie
Gora
Bay Han
Columbia
Ocean
Meaderville
Anaconda
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BAKER
O’donnell
Oxfords
Dren
Baker Sentinel
Fallon County
Montana
Goran
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telephone
Roosevelt
Sixteenth Judicial District
State of
C. E. Burrell
W. B. Frankland
Clyde McLemore
Plaintiff
Baker, Montana
Ron
Krom
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