Seeing America: Alaska Vacations And A Parallel Money Crisis
The piece urges Americans to explore domestic travel due to unstable exchange rates abroad. It highlights Alaska as an affordable destination with surprising agriculture and calm seas. It also discusses silver’s decline against gold and its impact on global buying power, urging support for American industry and travel within the United States.
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Europe
America
Alaska
Artic Circle
North Pole
Fairbank
School of Mines
United States
Indiana Roof Ballroom to Host Jane Garber Orchestra
Jane Garber national radio and dance favorite brings his orchestra to the Indiana Roof Ballroom Indianapolis for a one night engagement this Saturday. Lee Bennett to be featured with Garber. Garber to play violin in special arrangements. Admission 80 cents before 6 pm, 1.10 thereafter. table reservations 1.00 per couple. Also performing Soldiers of Fortune under Chic Myers with nine singers and Ken Sprong as featured soloist.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Jane Garber
Indiana Roof
Garber
Yeast
Trianon
Chicago
Netherland Plaza Hotel
Cincinnati
WLW
Lee Bennett
Soldiers of Fortune
Chic Myers
Money in a Nutshell and the Value of Wheat
A reader explains a barter economy using wheat as the standard of value and a house trade. With 1009 bushels of wheat per house, only one tenth of buyers have wheat, leaving many unable to purchase. Barley, valued against wheat, then serves as a second medium of exchange to clear the market.
Revival of construction seen as key to economic recovery
The piece notes 1930 building and related construction jobs totaling about 3.6 million, with ten percent of workers tied to the industry. It argues the large drop in construction drives unemployment and urges individuals to build or repair property now while prices are down, framing homeowner renovation as a blow to depressors.
Merchants urged to fold tax into contracts and signs
Officials advise retailers to include the tax in total prices or add a notice in stores. Indiana gross income tax contrasts with a 2 percent sales tax, with examples showing how buyers at different income levels would pay under each system. Proponents cite ease for independents like J C Penny and hotel associations.
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Indiana
J. C. Penny
Hotel Men’s Association
Generation of Public Debt and Market Movements
The fragment questions who will bear the public debt and why stock prices rise, with a focus on alcohol stocks and overall resource exhaustion. It ponders deals, misdeals, and the value of exhausted resources, asking whether an exhaust can exist unexhausted.
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Knightstown
Howard E. Henley
P.J. Sattler
Carthage, Indiana
Attorneys-At-Law
Henley & Ingle
O. F. Ingle
Rushville, Indiana
Rushville
Schrichte
St Ananth
Alantic
the Alantic Monthly
Arlington St
Boston
Rush County National Bank
Bruce H. Stephens
Mgr
S. C
Plymouth
Kennedy Motor Sales, Inc
Me Magazine
Better Homes & Gardens
McCall’s Magazine
Pathfinder
Pictorial Review
True Confessions
Radioland
Ea A
Eho Tora
Vealyy
American Poultry
the Country Ho
the Farm Journal
Capper’s Farmer
Home Circle
Household Magazine
Mother’s Home
Needlecraft
Successful Farms
Woman's World
Iesume 4
Wonder
Lee R. Highten
Hoosier Farmer
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