Plan to Make Farming More Profitable and Pleasant
The plan aims to expand rural credits to reduce farm costs and curb farmer out-migration. Bulkeley explains Europe’s lower rates and cooperative credit as models, noting the need for an American national rural credit system tailored to U.S. conditions.
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Robert J. Bulkeley
Ohio
House
Bulkeley
United Press
Europe
Germany
Department of Agriculture
Christmas News Briefs From Across The World
A collage of short items reports a New York car crash victim surviving after heart surgery, a 130 person Christmas swim at Coney Island, a fatal bar room shooting in New York, Siamese twins to be separated in Paris, British showbiz contracts balking, a French aviator fined for loop laps, Kansas City divorces rising during Christmas time, and a Chicago football manager revealing she is a man after arrest.
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Coney Island
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Paris
Kansas City
Chicago
Hattie” Kroll
Bloomer
Taft Snubbed in Senate Lifted Rank Debate Sparks War Talk
Washington dispatch notes senate alarm over shifts in precedence as public functions allow cabinet and other officials to enter first. Taft relates a snub at Hollis NH, while Daniels describes editorial discipline for profanity. Oregon's Lane faces new smoking ban in the capitol lounges.
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Burton K. Standish
United Press
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Senate
Supreme Court
Augustus Octavious Bacon
Georgia
Mexico
Congress
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Texas
William Howard Taft
Senat
Taft
Hollis
New Hampshire
Navy
Daniels
North Carolina
Senator Lane
Oregon
Oregonian
Capitol
Senator Tillman
Injustice of System Cited Over Baby Show Winners
A columnist argues the political system's flaws explain why no infant prize winner has become U.S. president. The remark links early acclaim to long odds in national leadership.
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United States
Ethel Barrymore Delights In Family Moment At Home
The famous actress Ethel Barrymore sits with her three children at home. Samuel Colt, the eldest, is beside her, Baby Jack sits on the floor, and the youngest rests in her arms.
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Ethel Barre Colt
Ethel Barrymore
Samuel Colt
Baby Jack
Colt
Germany's Sonneberg Rules Toy World Santa Clauses Capital
Berlin correspondent reports Sonneberg in Meiningen as Santa Claus capital with nearly all residents employed in toy making. Germany exported 20 million dollars of toys last year, and 24 to 25 million projected this year, with America as Germany's top toy customer receiving about 8 million dollars in 1915. Santa ships doll stock to the U S with rail cars of trains and engines, while dolls remain queen of Toyland in a world of diverse fashions and prices.
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Christmas Tragedy in Tomah as Mother Dies During Gift Ritual
In Tomah Wisconsin on December 26 a family scene turned tragic when Mrs. John Boyington died in her sleep as her children finished lighting the Christmas tree and laid gifts around her in her room.
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Tomah
Wis
John Boyington
American opera star asks arrest of blackmailer in Taranto
Miss Dorothy MacVane the American opera prima donna in Taranto requests Italian police arrest a Taranto newspaper man she accuses of attempted blackmail after being under surveillance on suspicion of espionage.
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Taranto
Italy
Dorothy MacVane
Bishop McDowell Resting Comfortably After Gallstone Operation
Bishop William Fraser McDowell of the Methodist church underwent gallstone surgery Christmas Eve and is reported resting comfortably in Evanston Illinois.
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Ill
William Fraser McDowell
Methodist Church
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