Coming change in wages and production signals shift
A Pine Dal paper notes a downturn in wool and silk prices while cotton and haberdashery rise, predicting a broader wage reform. It argues productivity gains will lift consumer value, with shorter hours and fair pay, and warns that inefficient labor or goods will face market rejection. The piece hints strikes and a nationwide economic adjustment, urging readers to read the handwriting on the wall.
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Pine Dal
Prudoy
Great Home Industry Drives Local Economy and Lumber Demand
The article praises cannery work as a major home industry uniting farmers and labor with good wages. It notes Forest Service projections for rising lumber use and farm storage needs, driven by population growth and better equipment. It cites transport and tariff issues affecting Pacific coast mills and calls for tariff reform to restore competition from the Missouri River to the Atlantic.
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Avery
Forest Service
Middle Western
Forwt
Pacific Coast Mills
Missouri River
Robt
B. Mien
Soc
West Coast Lumbermen's Ass
Atlantic Sea
Time measurement in Montenegrin mountains by cigarette pace
In Montenegro mountains locals gauge distance by smoking time. A typical smoker lights a cigarette every half hour, so a cigarette's length marks travel time. The notion frames travel pace as a measure rather than distance.
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Montenegro
Across California by Nash Six From Idaho to Lake View
A travel diary recounts a family road journey starting in Payette Idaho and moving through Crane Lake View Alturas Redding and Oakland to Vallejo. The Nash Six covers 620 miles with gas purchases tolls and roadside meals amid dust storms mountain passes and scenic highlights including Mt Shasta Lassen and Pitt River dam project progress.
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Meyelr Payette
Dee
Jon
Jang
Idaho
Sonny California
Yale
Nancy Nash
Crane
Hill
Clay
Joe
Nash Six
Lake View
Crane At & O
Narrows
Plush
Goose Lake
Pay ‘Atte
Reno
Susanvilla
Redding
Davis Creek
Alturas
Lauer & Son Hardware
Lauer
Awield
Fall River Mills
Mt. Shasta
Mt. Lassen
Pitt River Falls
Cousin Dee
Pitt River
Burney Mt
Mountain Spring
California
Red Bluffs
Oakland
Pikites
Anfe and Sound
Maxwell
Vallejo
See America California First Irene Harland Travelogue
Irene Harland recalls an eight day 1312 mile trip by car from Oakland to San Francisco and back, detailing foggy mornings in the Bay Area, visits to the Golden Gate area, parks and museums, Stanford grounds, Santa Maria lodgings, gas shortages, and a final Santa Monica arrival with a celebratory note to seen America California first.
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Bay
Oakland
Uin
Avenuy
Cousin Dee
Vernon
Wien
Lowlie
Erry House
Market Street
Geary
Meuseum
Atascadero
Atascadera
Santa Maria
Cate
Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara Mission
Coast Range
San Fernando Valley
Topanga Canyon
Fall River Mills
Redding
Ocean Boulevard
Santa Monica
Euclid Ave
America
California
Irene Harland
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Clift House
Ocean
Colman
Palo Alto
Stanford University
Reta Pric
Edward A
South Payette
Ruth Moss
Chamber's
J. M. Swanson
Latimer & Swanson
Ulat
Will
William McCroskey
Giesler Bldg
Bancroft
W. I. Potter
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