How to Make a Billion Dollars through Liquor Sales
Opinion piece advocating ending prohibition and adopting a government liquor sales system modeled on Canada. It argues the plan would generate about 1.3 billion dollars annually in revenue, reduce racketeering and corruption, and improve public health, while criticizing prohibition advocates for blocking sensible fiscal reform. The article cites Bishop James Cannon Jr. and notes the view that prohibition has not met its aims.
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Associated Press Dispatch
Treasury
Canada
One Ray of Hope for Pipe Organs Under Tariff Cut
The article argues that President Hoover’s tariff reduction on pipe organs will lower prices for homes and cottages, challenging Democratic claims that tariffs cannot be adjusted. It notes the political debate, praises the move as benefiting workers and farmers, and contrasts Austrian or German organ imports with American-made organs, suggesting broad availability and potential mortgage-free access for churches and lodges.
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Herbert Hoover
Congress
Tariff Commission
Hoover
Indiana
United States
Washington
Smoot
Austria
Germany
President Hoover Cuts Duty On Pipe Organs
A historical newspaper excerpt notes President Hoover lowered duties on pipe organs to ease imports and spur domestic purchases. The move may enable families to buy larger organs, including swell organs with multiple pipes and nuanced tones. The piece contrasts this with higher duties on eggs and hemp cordage and humorously suggests workers in natural gas should seek other jobs.
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Jon
Bevy
Hoover
Congress
Adopting U S Methods as Trade Rivalry Grows
A Commerce Department report by George Jackson Eder shows Europe and England copying American methods to boost foreign trade in Latin America. He notes European rivals can’t match U S. production in many goods and warns tariff policy, not slogans, is the real threat. Gist: U S methods shape Europe’s ads and importer liaison. European gains limited. tariffs loom large.
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U. S
England
Germany
Prince of Wales
Argentina
George Jackson Eder
Department of Commerce
Europe
Wales
Mr. Eder
South America
Elder
Sermons of Pastor Roy L. Smith at Minneapolis church
Do not confuse the right to do a thing with the wisdom of doing it. The ability to do a thing with the necessity of doing it. The wish to do a thing with the arguments for doing it. The weight of your prejudices with the soundness of your reasons. The legal right of a thing with the moral rightness of it. The reciting of a creed with the growing of a soul. The patience of God with the justice of God.
Population by age groups studies reveal regional contrasts
The Haskin Letter surveys U S age structure showing North Carolina and other southern states with more children aged five to nine than adults in the prime class while northern states show larger adult groups. Michigan Nebraska Maine Maryland and Nevada display diverse patterns reflecting migration, foreign born population and regional conditions.
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States of the Union
North Carolina
South Carolina
Mincianipp
Michigan
Maine
Maryland
Free State
Kentucky
Connecticut
New England
District of Columbia
National Capital
Nebraska
Nevada
Rena
Mississippi
Green Mountains
Vermont
Editorial on farm taxes and policy shifts across America
The Fort Worth Lian Telegram analyzes farm land taxes versus urban rates, noting rare declines and overall rising urban taxes while farm taxes show limited relief post-1930. It cites federal data from 1913 to 1928, reports land value drops, and highlights revaluation effects in states like Kansas, arguing city property taxes burden owners far more than farm taxpayers.
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United States
Kanaan
Araessment Boarda
Wild party in Idaho ends in death of man
Orofing Idaho June 29 One man was killed and another injured as they were thrown from a car following a wild party. Driver John Sullivan was arrested after the car left Pierce for Headquarters and veered into a ditch. Tom Scamitn, 120, was killed in the crash. An unidentified man was found two miles farther, intoxicated and incoherent.
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Orofing
Idaho
Here
Ohn Doe” Sullivan
Sullivan
Pierce
Tom Scamitn
Man Thought Dead Found Alive After Fire Near Priest River
June 29. Frank DeBecker, once believed dead in his burning Priest River home, was found unconscious on a trail near Coolin, northwest of here. Sheriff Henry Traue investigated as bones found at the DeBecker home after the blaze were thought to be human. his wife reportedly left with their four boys to see a lawyer about a divorce just after the fire.
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Land Point
Ids
Frank DeBecker
Priest River
Coolln
Here
Henry Traue
DeBecker
Boms
Summer clothing and health according to Dr Fishbein
A health bulletin notes summer wear should favor cotton or lightweight silk and avoid wool. It stresses keeping skin garments clean, frequent changes to reduce bacteria, and avoiding tight garters belts or bands that impede circulation. It also warns against open meshes increasing sun exposure and heat retention.
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Ife
Sarah Mackride
Killen Beers McGowan Diacuse
Othara
Infante
Kia
Answers to Questions From The Helena Independent
The Helena Independent Information Bureau answers reader questions on topics from theater attendance in Russia to Lincoln Nebraska architecture, Tweed origin, Mark Twain’s anonymous publication, Lindbergh home location, rail construction by machine, first library school, airport manager salaries, Miss Universe pageant, Bobbie Jones children, international stamp show in Hamburg, the Eclectus parrot, lighthouse origins, AMA president, and state return goods totals.
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Helena Independent
Helena Independent Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
London
Mark Twain
Joan of Ate
Lindbergha
United States
Columbia College
New York City
Melvil Dewey
Colege
Dewey
American Library Association
Nome
Pras
Fratt Institute of Library Scienes
Clara
Malone
Bobby
Mary Ellen
Germany
Flamburg
Lha Vighthouse
Lower
Egypt
Lesehes
B.C
Sigeum
Cape Indhisari
Troad
American Medical Association
Edward Trenvy Cary
Torre
Dean Beatie
College of Medicine
Baylor Uiversity
Eat
Outlaw Aviators Threaten Minnesota Skies Says Inspector
Minneapolis June 24 federal aeronautical inspector Langewas warns a hard summer ahead as unlicensed pilots flout regulations in Minnesota. He urges public cooperation to curb dangerous flyers while noting commercial lines remain compliant and accidents have occurred, including a school roof crash. Congressmen denounce abolition of political army posts.
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Minneapolis
Af FF
OM Langewas
Minnesota
Hag Hlaney
Longeway
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Cigaretta Company
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Helena
Morris Fishbein
Journal of the American Medical Quaciation
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Moscow
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Spain
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Bobby Jones
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