Federal Land Bank interest hike blamed on war costs
The farmer who planned to raise money by mortgage through the Federal Land Bank now faces a five and a half percent rate instead of five percent. The Land Banks were to fund bonds at four and a half percent and loan to farmers at five percent. Officials suggest war accounts or rising costs push expenses beyond estimates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Land Bank
Federal Land Banks
Land Bank
Federal Farm Loan Board
Free Trade Exodus From Washington
The piece claims 3,000,000 foreigners in the United States are ready to return home after peace is declared. It links a postwar tariff policy to further alien labor exodus and predicts layoffs for American workers as competition rises and wages shrink.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Sterling Resolution aims rail traffic director for wartime
Senator Sterling introduced a conservative war time rail traffic director measure to the Senate approving a president appointed official with Senate consent. The director would oversee freight trains only and settle priority disputes with penalties for noncompliance. The bill awaits action by the Interstate Commerce Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thomas Sterling
North Dakota
Senate
Berator
Sterling
Interetate Commerce Committee
Chamberlain Cough Remedy Helps Boy Recover
A five year old boy in Pittefield New York suffered a two to three week cold. After trying several medicines without relief, Chamberlain Cough Remedy was used and the boy improved rapidly and recovered within days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Georges Lewis
Pittefield
Where Did You Lunch in a War Time Mixup
Jane and Bob clash over lunch plans when misread signals trigger jealousy. Jane suspects Bob is hiding a lunch with another, while Bob reveals he avoided tea rooms yet secretly dashed to his usual Italian table d hote, leading to a reconciliation as they explain their actions.
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Bob
Jane
Ivey Lane
Thirty-ninth Street
Tve
Bob Lane
Mrs. Carter
Ivy Lane
Eighteenth Street
Lane
Mr. Lané
Pol Lice
Father
Executors of Strah FE Gigs seek settlement of accounts
The Subscribers Executors of Strah FE Gigs deceased intend to exhibit their Anal account to the Orphans Court for Middlesex County on Friday January 18 1918 at 10 AM in the December 1917 term for settlement after audit by the Surrogate Dated December 6 1917. David Guides Clarence Griggs Executors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Dye
Orphans’ Court
County of
Middlesex
David P. Dye
Harry O. Dye
Waren St. Dye
Strah FE
David Guides
Clarence B
Griggs
Professor in a Quandary Over Missing Kiss
Senator John W. Smith of Maryland recounts a tale at dinner about a forgetful professor. The professor returns home to a reproachful wife who says he did not kiss her goodbye. He wonders aloud who he kissed, revealing the joke about absent mindedness and memory.
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John W. Smith
Maryland
John
Mary
Biding His Time on Chicken Prices
In a backwoods exchange Mr. Erastus Pinkley asks about the price of a chicken while a dealer rebukes him. The dialogue reveals Pinkley’s plan to wait for prices to rise and then accuse theft as a pretext to profit.
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Mr. Erastus Pinkley
Vera’s Ingenious Hatpin Sterilization Practice
Vera plans a daring idea that involves long hatpins. She stresses careful sterilization to prevent danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vera
Wwe
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Jersey
Jase
Eno Sed
Webster
Saat and Union
By Annabel Wade
McClure
A F Williams
Jeweler
Williams
E. State Street
Trenton, N. J
Earth
Eags
Newton
Stockholders Meeting
Cranbury Water Co
S. H. Perrine
Secty
Allen & Stults
Charles EH. Stults
WM. N. Cunningham
Hightstown
Addie F, Stults
Hightstown Garage
Ford
East Windsor
Mercer County
Washington Township
Cranbury
Township of
Middlesex County
N. J
ELY & Cottrell
We Hightstown, N. J
Charles G. Groves
Office North Main Street
Cranbury, N. J
SUN Oprical
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