Pension costs mount as wars end and veterans demand relief
This article marks the 100th anniversary of the U S pension bureau and recounts how pension payments to veterans widows and dependents have grown from the Revolution through World War I and beyond. It notes varied relief forms including disability allowances insurance and emergency retirement and highlights historic acts shaping pension policy.
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United States Pension Bureau
Uncle Sam
Bere
Treasury
Congress
United States
Veterans Administration
Pension Bureau
Veterans
Homes For Veterans
Frank T. Iflmes
Continental Congress
America
United States of America
Monroe
House
Senate
Aivelihood
Republic
Secretary of the Navy
Commission of Pensions
Department of Interior
Pensions Bureau
United States Veterans’ Administration
Wara
Washington
Grover Cleveland
Cleveland
Unies
New York Porkers Show Strong Performance in State
New York fruitless pork industry report highlights a $7,819,000 gross income from 10g8 places. Census data place 231,000 hogs on state farms with June totals rising. Chester White leads among pure-breds. most cross-breds sold at weaning to fatten for home use. commercial pork production seen unprofitable, garbage feeding noted.
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Ay Jobn P. Whilam
New York
Piste College of Agriculture
WNY
New York State
Chester White
Berkshire
Duroc Jersey
Poland
China
Tampshire
Mice and Rabbits Damage Fruit Trees During Snow
Winter snows push field mice and rabbits to fruit trees in the eastern states. They gnaw the bark to the cambium and inner bark, sometimes circling trunks. Bridge-grafting is urged with sap rise, cold storage of grafting stock, and dirt mounding to prevent drying.
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Washington Stat
Uses for Dairy By-Products in New England Factories
The dairy bureau reports seven New England factories adopted the new casein method. Two plants using the gram odlr method earned 11 4 cents more per pound than older sulphuric casein makers. Lactose offers two new outlets: confectionery and explosive manufacture.
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Bureau of Dairy Industry
New England
Reed
Secretary of Agriculture
Bureau of Daifry Industry
Trapping Japanese Beetle Across a Wide Quarantine Zone
The bureau of plant quarantine deployed nearly 60 000 traps last year from Florida to New England to detect outbreaks. Traps placed in traffic centers warned officials of threatened invasions as beetles moved northward with the season. In DC about 3 000 traps protected vegetation by luring beetles from flowers and foliage, with trees emptied daily.
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Bureau of Plant Quarantine
Florida
Ohio
New England
District of Columbia
Sheep Raisers Prosper Amid Wool Market Rise
The wool industry steady prices amid growing demand as woolen and worsted manufacture resumes. Raw wool purchases exceeded the five year average by about 2,000,000 pounds, signaling daylight after economic storm for agricul turists.
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Washington Star
Agricultural Chaff Ohio Markets Farm Owned
Ohio roadside markets reported as 94 percent farmer owned in 193. The brief notes demand for boys to work on farms in New Zealand is rising beyond supply. A claim that 370 million tons of farm waste could be used to manufacture drugs perfumes and explosives is included.
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Ohio
New Zealand
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