Betters urged to lower prices toward wholesale quotations
The text complains that bettors offer high fees and small quantities, urging bookmakers to align prices with wholesale quotes and consider the public’s interest for fair terms.
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1920
Page
2
Trench Pen Used to Trap Wild Fowl In Wooded Area
A description explains a crude trap set in a cleared space where saplings form a four foot high pen around the area. Corn baited with fire and other bait lured wild fowl into a tunnel system, with the top sealed by weighted reeds to keep birds inside.
Degree of Wealth Gap Sparks Debate on Manners and Tax
A reactionary piece argues the tax system favors the rich, citing 1918 figures showing 1,516,000 taxpayers earning 3 1000 to 2000 paid scant taxes compared with 97 millionaires who surrendered over 88 million. It contrasts modern manners with old etiquette, lamenting decline while noting how wealth and industry shift costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sinty
Market prices and farmer concerns on meat costs rise notes
The report laments price spreads from producer to consumer with farmers receiving far less than shoppers pay. It cites recent quotations from New Orleans markets showing cattle and hogs at lower producer prices while consumer costs soar, highlighting a system seen as unjust and harmful to farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sapenee
Monroe
New Orleans
Texas
Mississippi
Louisiana
Alabama
Florida
Turkey Hunting Laws Compared With Pioneer Practices
The article contrasts today’s turkey hunting rules with pioneer methods, noting restrictions such as no dawn or dusk hunting in populous areas, prohibited fielding methods, required hunter orange, and reporting illegal kills, while urging appreciation of freer times. It mentions barking references to methods like calling from blinds and baiting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marners
George Meredith
Sir George
The Decline of Poetry and Manners in Modern Life
A critique on poetry and music decline, praising instinctive civility over rigid codes. It argues formal manners are essential, compares social ranks, and emphasizes life’s school as the path to true refinement. Also notes a Bonn-era ad line and a one-year-ago news brief on Germany and U S relations with Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter de le More
Sapeheld de Wel
Alexander Boge
Steiner
Préat
Deneaion
Wm Dorn
Banbury
Cresa
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