Farming Industry In Pennsylvania Stable After Slump
Pennsylvania's farming sector shows signs of stabilization after wartime and postwar highs. The 1925 farm census reports 200,420 farms, a slight decline from 1920, with ownership rising to 163,674 and tenants dropping to 94,955. Total farm acreage fell by over a million acres since 1920, now 16,298,275 acres. Crop land totals 8,431,792 acres while pasture accounts for 4,583,860 and woodland 2,136,381. Tobacco, hay and barley acreage rose, while corn, oats, wheat, rye, buckwheat, potatoes, apples and peaches declined. hogs, dairy cows, and horses also decreased.
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George H. Manning
Washington
the News
Washington, D. C
Pennsylvania
Keystone
Agis
Sylvania
Peration
Fox Plans Essay Contest On The Ancient Mariner
Fox Films launches a schools essay competition inviting students to read Coleridge's poem and write on The Ancient Mariner and Its Lesson To Humanity. Prizes and theater tickets will be awarded. the film is praised as a landmark production with a dual narrative. Participants include Leslie Fenton Clara Bow Nigel De Brullier Earl Williams Vivian Oakland Paul Panzer Gladys Brockwell.
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Fox
America
The
News
Coleridge
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Clara Bowe
Nigel de Brullier
Earle Williams
Vivian Oakland
Paul Panzer
Gladys Brockwell
Ancient Mariner
William Pox
Crewt Mariner
Pox Film Corporation
Nixon Theatre
Felder
Cress
Ient Marner
Eligi
Gabmit
Lloyd George and MacDonald Court Each Other for Next Move
London reports a close political flirtation between ex-prime ministers Lloyd George and Ramsay MacDonald. Lloyd George commands a dwindling Commons faction but wields a potent war chest. MacDonald lacks funds and faces weakened loyalists amid extremist whispers.
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W. F. Wray
International News Service
London
Lloyd George
Ramsay MacDonald
Britain
House of Commons
Commons
Ramsey MacDonald
People's Party
May Build Penal Colony For Loafers
Cape Town reports that under the Labor Colony Bill soon gazetted, any man who asks for assistance but refuses state work may be taken before a magistrate and committed to a labor colony for one to five years. The act targets men accepting work yet not performing it, vagrants, and those not supporting families.
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C International News Service
Cape Town
South Africa
Babe Found and Adopted in Butler County Christmas
An abandoned three week old baby boy found on Mrs. Calvin Logan’s doorstep near Jefferson Center has been placed in a Butler home to be adopted after a year. The infant named John Leroy is in good health and the couple plan to legally adopt him. State police seek clues to the parents who deserted him.
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Butler
Calvin Logan
Jefferson Center
Butler County Memorial Hospital
J. C. Say
Associated Charities
Children’s Aid Society
Mary Parker
John Leroy
Santa Claus
Declare War On Women Smokers Resolution Sparks Proposals
A Washington society movement backed by three leading women’s groups advocates lengthening skirts to the ankle and condemns cigarette smoking by society women as degade. Mrs Henderson announces plans to publicize letters in London and Paris to boost the campaign internationally with support from the Daughters of the American Revolution the National Federation of Women’s Clubs and the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. The resolution asserts the perpetuity of the American nation is endangered by modern female dress and habits.
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Washington, D. C
America
Washington
Henderson
Hen
Derson
London
Paris
Daughters of the America Revolution
National Federation of Women's Clubs
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Almond Caramel Custard Frozen Treat Recipe
A home recipe outlines blanching and browning almonds, caramelizing sugar, and grinding almonds with caramel. Then whisk three egg yolks into a cream and sugar custard, cool, fold in caramel and nuts, and freeze for a frozen dessert.
National agricultural credit corps taxed under 1924 act
A ruling by Internal Revenue Service solicitor A W Gregg states national agricultural credit corporations are subject to income tax under section 221 of the 1924 revenue act. The decision treats these agricultural credit corporations as ordinary for profit entities with capital stock and dividend distributions.
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A. W. Gregg
Internal Revenue
Washington
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