Commission Finds European Credit Models Favor Farmers
A American commission led by Senator Duncan A Fletcher reports European nations use organized credit and cooperative farming to aid farmers. It notes European short term and mortgage credit are cheap and farmer controlled, contrasting with U S banks serving merchants and industry.
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Duncan A. Fletcher
Florida
Europe
Colorado Springs
American Commission of Agricultural Co-Operation
Conference of Governors
Southern Commercial Congress
American Commission
Commission
United States
Husband Uses Wife to Promote Potato Digger Work
George W. K. Boyce of Farmingdale New Jersey was arraigned on assault charges after he hitched his wife and his 13 year old son to a patent potato digger. He allegedly beat his wife and threw her into a gully when the device failed. Bail was set at 200 dollars.
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Asbury Park
N. J
George W. K. Boyce
C. E. F. Hetrick
Farmingdale
P. F. Dodd
Neptune Township
Boyce
Grace Townes
Elizabeth, N
Widow Buries Husband After Trek With Coffin Burro
A weary widow in Grizzly Gulch Cal walked two days with a coffin on a burro to bury her husband P T Stribling a prospector killed in a cavern and ease the plight of his injured partner. Neighbors aided in preparing the coffin and aiding the burro route to the camp.
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Grizzly Gulch
Cal
P. T. Stribling
Kiss Craze Sparks Health Official Q&A
Chicago health commissioner Young defended kissing as safe when consented to by the partner arguing against bans on kissing in a weekly health bulletin. He insisted the article warning of disease from kissing be struck while noting danger only when excess leads to parental scrutiny.
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Chicago
Young
Weekly
Health Bulletin
C. St. Clair Drake
Dr. Young
Lane spends entire salary on his Washington home
Franklin K. Lane secretary of the interior says it costs him 10000 a year to maintain a home as a cabinet officer and 2000 yearly for ice cream and pink teas. He notes these expenses wipe out his 12000 salary leaving only glory. He rents at 1500 a year and employs two colored servants, denying lavish entertaining.
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Portland
Ore
Franklin K. Lane
Secretary of the Interior
Washington
Lane
Interstate Commerce Commission
Homer Returns From Pribilofs With 2,400 Sealskins
The steam Er Homer brings 2,400 sealskins and 1,000 blue fox skins from government stations on St George and St Paul islands. Valued around $1,000,000, the haul supports Eskimo subsistence. last year the vessel collected 5,000 sealskins.
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San Francisco
Homer
Pribilof Islands
United States
St. George
St. Paul Islands
Norris Attack on Fortunes Proposes 75 Percent Inheritance Tax
In Washington the Senate debated a Norris amendment to a tariff bill proposing a graduated inheritance tax starting at 1 percent on fortunes over 50 000 and rising to 75 percent on estates above 50 million The measure singled out John Jacob Astor and argued the Astor fortune grew from public value created by workers and taxes paid over generations with no wrongdoing by the Astor family and was defeated by a decisive vote.
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Washington
Vincent Astor
Andrew Carnegie
Senate
Skibo
Norris
Nebraska
John Jacob Astor
Astors
Mr. Astor
New York City
Manhattan Island
Astor
New York
Broadway
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American Press Association
Duncan U. Fletcher
Senator
Carnegie
Senator Norris
Stull & Williams
the Courier Press
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