Gold and silver debate echoed from Churchill speech
Reprinted extract outlines Winston Churchill's July address on gold cornering and deflation, warning that rising gold prices depress trade and threaten debts and economies, urging a world monetary conference with Britain, the United States, and other powers.
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Th. T. Vane
Graettinger
Bailey
Winston Churchill
Exchequer
Royal Empire Society
New York Times
New Coe
London
Winston Urchill
Xchequer Algo
Robert Horn
Churchill
Bureaucracy Spars Over Corn Borer War
Senator McKellar mocked the agriculture department’s war on corn borers as he reviewed the bureaucracy behind the initiative. The piece notes the 1919 push by Senator Lodge to fund $10,000 for eradication and cites costs rising to nearly $1,000,000 annually while a large staff reports few borers found, and mentions related efforts against the Mediterranean fruit fly amid California Florida fruit battles.
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New York Times
Senator McKellar
Department of Agriculture
Massachusetts
Senator Lodge
Wish
California
Florida
Bureaucratic Bureaus and Fruit Worms Dominate Agriculture
A colonial era tone notes wasteful federal spending on insect control and barberry eradication. It cites about 29 agriculture bureaus, with claims of large budgets and little accountability. The piece laments rising costs since 1916, including nearly 12 million tied to pest projects and an insect taxonomy bureau that has not reported in 22 years. It mocks the persistence of government agencies and predicts more bureaus when times improve.
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Supreme Court
Iwice
Harvester Trust
Steel Trust
Federal Reserve
New York Stock Exchange
D.N. Luse
Coventry
Sirea
Kean
New Jersey
Alor
Barberry Bureau
Department of Agriculture
Prevention vs Restoration Health Card Note
A health aged warning column urges prevention over restoration through regular exams. It highlights cancer and degenerative risks detectable early by physical and dental checks, vaccination against diphtheria and smallpox, and preventing whooping cough to shield children and teens from serious outcomes. It cites 1931 diphtheria deaths and 1981 smallpox cases.
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Arblescents
Discretion and Health Warnings Against Excess Spending
The note advises careful self care with proper discretion, adequate exercise and sleep, and warns against overconsumption and hoarding mindset despite advertising temptations. It frames spending as a health concern and urges balanced habits.
Air conditioning as an industrial romance and future impact
The text argues air conditioning is entering a mature growth phase, not sensationalized, with vast potential for expansion, employment, and urban change. It predicts homes and buildings will operate without windows, using conditioned air, transforming atmospheres across cities and nations and reshaping daily life and industry.
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Ain
Record of Depressiony through seventy five years
A compact, period tone summary catalogs recurring depressions by year ranges from 1857 to 1929. It notes durations from twelve to thirty eight months and references varied spellings and garbled dates. A brief dialogue at the end records a price remark of fifty dollars and costs.
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Tate Loy
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