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Building Societies and Land Reform Debates Across Britain
The piece discusses cooperative building societies, their legal and financial structures, and how they compare with land societies. It covers share payments, withdrawal rights, and the use of wholesale land pricing for members, with examples from Birmingham, and notes on the rising popularity of freehold land societies. It then shifts to taxation on advertising and press reform, criticizing ad duties and the Times monopoly, contrasting English and American advertising markets, and calling for abolition of duties. It also references political reform debates and economic commentary from various papers on protectionism and franchise expansion.
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Birmingham
Savings’ Bank
Taylor
Daily News
Supplement
The
Times
Ain
New York
London
America
New York Sun
England
Morning Herald
Country Party
Hhem
Gome
Masars Walmsley
Ayes and Co
House of Commons
Prorzgrion
Hick Bayra
Blackwood
Alison
Hugh Watson
Keillor
Forfarshire
Mer. Dudgeon
Spylaw
Roxburghshire
Edinburgh News
Scotland
Dudgeon
Hay
Saddler
Gibson