The Weather Bureau Trust and its Expensive Pace
A critical examination charges the Weather Bureau with being an unduly expensive and unprogressive agency. It argues that twenty years of experiments failed to improve forecasts while costs rose from 15000 to 1 6622 200 annually, driven by large appropriations under Willis L Moore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hydrographic Office
Land of the Free
Washington
Weather Bureau
Willis L. Moore
United States Weather Bureau
Georgia grape harvest fuels Chicago market sting
An artist, based in Chicago but owning a Georgia fruit farm, boasts of the crop and buys a dozen baskets of his own grapes from a South Water Street commission house. The sale looks promising but the farm produce later arrives in poor condition, deflating his profit and exposing a possible scam.
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Chicago
Georgia
South Water Street
Basket Returns Reported in June Market
The article notes large portions of produce dumpable as unsalable and a gross average price of twenty five cents per basket. After freight and commission deductions the net average fell to nineteen cents per basket, as discussed by Forrest Crissey in the June issue of Everybody's.
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Forrest Crissey
Everybody's
Prohibition Debate Shapes Missouri Public Service Voice
The Missouri Senate and House members who opposed statewide prohibition are praised as public servants defending commonwealth interests. The piece credits business leaders of St Louis, Kansas City, and St Joseph for halting the prohibition wave and urges continued enforcement of liquor regulations. It cites local option logic and notes brewing ads from Anheuser Busch, with editorials from the Warrg Journal Democrat.
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Senate
House
The
Commonwealth
South
St. Louis
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Jefferson City
Missouri
Oklahoma
Georgia
Alabama
Chariton
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Co
Warrg Journal-Democrat
Public notice on daily phone call service at Lexington Barn
Boyle and Henry of Lexington Transfer Company announce a man will be at the barn every day from 6 30 am to 7 46 pm to take calls over the telephone. The notice directs customers to use the service during these hours.
Free Liver Trouble Remedy Promoted by Dr Caldwell
An advertisement urges individuals to diagnose liver trouble by common symptoms such as yellowing whites of the eyes and skin, pimples, or biliousness. It touts Dr Caldwell's Liver Cure as a quick, pleasant laxative and offers a free test bottle by sending name and address to Dr W B Caldwell, Monticello, Illinois.
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Eyidale
W. B. Caldwell
Caldwell
Bidg
Monticello, TL
Digestive Aid Ad Promises Benefit With Kodol
An advertisement urges wholesome food with thorough digestion and claims Kodol digests food for strength. It promotes buying a dollar bottle from a druggist and offers a full refund if no benefit seen after using the entire bottle, limited to the large bottle and one per family.
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Guara
Manufacruned
Ono
York
Angel Pace
KG Rowner
the Weather Bureau A Trust
Emerson Hough
May Byery
Real Public Service
Pau
Boyle & Henry, Lexington Transfer Company
C. W. Loomis
Emedy
Farm Insurance
F.R. Howe
Whiteh
Ballard-Snow Liniment Co
Moo
Crenshaw & Young
Ann
Aeee Co
Scientific American
Handaimely
Dallas
FT. Worth
Houston
Galveston
VIA
Missouri Pacific
Iron Mountain
Texas
Pala
A.S. Loomis
Santa Fe
California
Grand Canyon
Yosemite Valley
Colorado
Salt Lake City
West
Leavenworth
Atchison
Los Angeles
San Diego
San
Seattle
Elkay
N. E.A
G. W. Hagenbueh
Main Street
Missouri Pacific Bv. Co
Kabdas
St. Lous Dia Sedalia
Lexington
A. S. Loomis
Kodol
E. C. DeWitt & Co
GEO
Wittenberg
Frankh
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