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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1922
Page
4
The piece lampoons the tariff by tauntingly listing everyday items from alarm clocks to coffee as subjected to rising duties. Economist William O. Scroggs is cited describing how the tariff burden would touch routine purchases from bedtimes to breakfast, claiming coffee and water escape duty.
The piece argues Chairman Lasker would sell public ships to private buyers for a fraction of cost and pay 750 million to operate them. It decries the attorney general’s ban on bootlegging as a blow, insisting bonuses and stimulants are essential for private ownership to run the ships.
Septembers reports by Bradstreet show a drop in commercial failures to 1,469 and reduced total liabilities to $31,920,466, marking the smallest monthly totals since 1920. The Democratic National Committee urges turnout to counter Republican dissatisfaction, while William G. McAdoo argues tariffs shift $3.6 billion to protected interests, hardens consumer costs, and offers little public gain.
A long running dispute over Eastern Shore trade with Baltimore seeks solutions. A. E. Beck of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association finds duplication of boat and sail lines, poor connections, and rising road transport cutting rail and boat demand. He recommends trimming boat routes, coordinating sail lines as feeders, and shifting to gasoline cars on branch lines to boost earnings and shorten trips.
Neighbors with machines set fare for towns or markets as freight and passenger rail decline. Ferries from Baltimore and Annapolis, plus a Baltimore cargo boat tied to Eastern Shore trucking, show evolving transport links. The Merchants and Manufacturers Association probes to boost boat rail trade between the Eastern Shore and Baltimore for closer Maryland ties.
The United States Department of Agriculture reports that only about 64 bushels of corn are harvested from each 100 bushels potential over thirteen years. Weather, seed quality, disease, and pests reduce the crop. about one half bushel per harvested bushel is lost before harvest. The average under real conditions would be about 2,805,000,060 bushels, far below the potential 4,374,000,000 bushels if no losses occurred.
In sad remembrance of my dear father Richard Evan who died on November 2, 1922. In my heart your memory lingers sweetly and tenderly. There is not a day I do not think of you. The silent heartaches are known only to those who have lost. By his daughter Grace.
Notice to judges clerks and voters that the General Election will run from 7 am to 7 pm in Caroline County across seven districts with polling sites listed. Voters will elect a U.S. Senator and a Representative in Congress and vote on state constitutional amendments from acts of 1922. Returns are due by noon the Thursday after the election to county officials.
Trustee offers at public sale the farm once occupied by Irving G Coleman in Caroline County second election district near Greensboro to ward Denton. Items include one bay mare one sorrel horse one pair hay mules one red cow one red cow one Holstein cow two year old Holstein heifers one sow and four pigs.
The sale by Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Hingle and James Temple presents a large farm and household auction including a wagon set, plows, tools, seeds, harness, wheels, rope, furniture, books, lamps, textiles, and canned goods. Credit offered on sums over ten dollars with bankable notes. arrangements to feed attendees.
Attorneys Henry R. Lewis and J Owen Knotts will sell mortgaged personal property on the L Frank Bloxsom farm at Tuckahoe Neck Friday November 3 1922 at 10 a m. The listing includes horses mules cattle farm implements and about 24 acres of corn now in the shock. Fodder not included.
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