Costly distribution curses business and yields big profits
The column argues distribution costs exceed transport distances, cites rail and ship contrasts, and laments price manipulation in markets. It spotlights Samuel Rubel's rise from coal peddler to head of a $50 million firm, warns about tire prices, cites government probes of wheat futures, and notes the ironies of large scale retail growth and calorie intake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Atlantic
Pacific Ocean
North River
Samuel Rubel
Russia
United States
Harry Walkes
Pittsburgh
Baby farm tales and a teen murderer in Pennsylvania
Reports describe unpaid board bills and a baby buried with a fractured skull in a horrific mortality rate. The piece questions the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children its awareness of the baby farm. Pennsylvania inmate William Cavalier, fifteen, faces the electric chair with a final mercy request as reporters note a contrasting reaction.
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Cruelty To
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Pennsylvania
William Cavalier
Katerina
Warden voices critique of death sentence for fifteen year old
Fred Lennig, warden in charge of the young criminal, laments the idea of executing a boy of fifteen. He questions whether the system of justice truly understands the case and the weight of such punishment.
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Fred Lennig
Incomes, Insects, and Industry Reflections Across 1910s Life
The piece surveys federal tax probes into large bookmaking deposits in Cincinnati, touts an insect zoo as a vital public lesson, and muses on industrial scales led by automobiles and steel. It contrasts disease dangers with mundane daily risks and notes age-related life expectancy trends for women versus men.
European debts to American holders loom large
The text asserts Europe owes the United States tens of billions of dollars in private bonds and obligations. It claims European borrowers will pay about 500 million dollars annually to American citizens for 61 years, with principal due later, and notes private holders in Europe totaling around eight thousand million dollars.
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United States
Europe
Uncle Sam and Europe on war profits and cancer
Old Rome with consuls and riches is contrasted with Uncle Sam and wary European friends. The American Society for the Control of Cancer lauds early action, warns against quacks, and asserts cancer is not contagious or inherited, urging early treatment when localized.
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Rome
Uncle Sam
Europe
American Society For the Control of Cancer
The
American Society
Young Cowan Wins Essay Prize On Electrical Industry
A young writer named Cowan won a $5,000 prize for predicting developments in the electrical industry for 1920 to 1930. By year end 1930, American Superpower Corporation would award $16,000 to the best predictor. Cowan, initially ignorant of electricity, studied its history and used imagination to win.
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American Superpower Corporation
Young Cowan
Bonbright & Co
Prohibition Sparks Rise in Drinking in the South
The Moderation League says drinking in the South rose 120 percent across thirty four cities under prohibition. It argues the South is singled out though drinking is similar elsewhere. the issue lies in stronger whiskey, not higher consumption.
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The
Moderation League
South
United States
Arctic Flight Plan Aims Beyond Spitzbergen Venture
A newspaper discussion notes that flying from England to Spitzbergen with favorable winds and the Patoka as a base could simplify Arctic exploration. The plan envisions patrolling the Artic Ocean a few hundred miles north, with risks minimized by season and routing.
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Spitzbergen
Amundsen
Lakehurst
Minneapolis
Atlantic
England
Artic Ocean
Arctic midsummer voyage cautions and routes cited
A report notes Shenandoah near its base in midsummer Arctic climate. A New York to Minnesota round trip through midsummer storms is considered safe since helium is non explosive, but risk is higher than a voyage to Spitzbergen and northward this season.
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Shenandoah
Arctic
New York
Minnesota
Spitzbergen
Corned Beef and Cabbage Favorite in American Pub Diet
Careful inquiry in restaurants shows that corned beef and cabbage is the favorite food of the American public. Corned beef, excellent for those that live by their muscles is not good for thinkers.
Mary Newsom A. B. LL B rises from Washington to Hot Springs
Bessie Newsom a young lawyer with Phi Beta Kappa honors and multiple degrees moves from Washington to Oklahoma City and then Hot Springs Arkansas. She joins a successful firm and state Democratic speakers bureau and gains income and public prominence. Fellow townswomen praise her as a trailblazer for women in public life while she advances her legal career and home club involvement.
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Bessie Newson
Phi Beta Kappa
Kappa Alpha Theta
Washington
Oklahoma City
Hot Springs
Ark
Miss Newsom
Democratic
Arkansas
Withal
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Max Rubner
Berlin
South Africa
Providence
Blind
Bureau of Mines
Federal
Cincinnati
Insect Zoological Garden
William Fiie
Missouri
Roy Fenix
Fiie
David Cowan
Mary
Laura Miller
Gotham
Patoka
Illinois
Patoka Cornet
America
Malinda
Glee Club
Dorothy Logan
W. F. Cox
By Florence and Ruby Cain
Helen Troyer
Salem Moguls
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