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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1920
Page
4
C J Galpin of the University of Wisconsin discusses how machinery transforms rural work from backbreaking plowing to skilled, profitable farming. He argues that mechanized farming boosts productivity, lowers costs, and frees the farmer to focus on planning, business, and social life.
An editorial extols Henry C Frick leaving 115000000 to public causes and praises his gifts to hospitals colleges and a world famous art museum. It argues wealthy individuals should emulate him to soften antiwealth sentiment and uplift society, while noting concerns about the era’s sanitary worries over kissing habits.
The text surveys regional land mortgage rates before the Farm Loan Act becoming law. It lists state group ranges from 5.3 to 10 percent, with New England 5.3 to 6.2, Middle Atlantic 5.6 to 5.8, East North Central 5.8 to 6.2, West North Central 5.9 to 8.7, South Atlantic 5.6 to 9.6, East South Central 7.1 to 9.4, West South Central 8.4 to 9.6, Mountain 8.9 to 10.5, Pacific 7.6 to 8.7, noting mortgage costs could exceed these figures up to 16 percent with commissions.
A survey of spruce forests along the Grays Harbor district turned up a spruce 573 years old near the Olympic highway 11 miles north of Trumptulips. The tree was felled to clear a route between military camps after a find had threatened roof structures. the stump stood 11.6 feet high and the tree measured two inches in diameter at Columbus's era.
The writer warns courts to fear contempt charges from labor unions and capitalists. He mocks officials and disapprovingly notes workers in refined neckwear while criticizing high wage demands and unemployed soldiers awaiting work.
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