Varied social critique and economic musings from an era
A collage of opinions on government jobs for constituents, smuggling, railway fares, stock certificates, taxation, middlemen, and urban life. It laments unemployment, derelict housing, rye crop use, and Kantian ethics, weaving political, economic, and social commentary through pointed lines.
The Rural High School Solves Country Education Gap
The piece argues rural families feared city schooling but rural high schools expand opportunities. It asserts country youths gain development while applying learning to country life, making education profitable and desirable.
New Generation in North Carolina Corn Yields
A youthful contestant in a demonstration contest achieves 212 bushels per acre, vastly higher than the state average of 18 bushels. The piece argues for agriculture in all schools taught by trained practical men to double future output.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Center of Population Not Expected to Shift Much
The census 1920 will place Indiana’s center of population within ten miles of the current point at the Shower Brothers factory in Bloomington. The center is defined as the balance point of the nation’s population on a plane, and exact determination may take four to five weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Shower Brothers
Bloomington
Ind
Census Bureau
United States
Public Bank Condition Reports 1921 for Illinois Banks
Official publication details the 1921 statements of Lansing State Bank West Hammond Trust and Savings Bank Riverdale First Trust and Savings Bank. It lists resources liabilities and sworn attestations by bank cashiers Henry Schultz Paul Muschelewicz and John Harms with dates January 7th to January 10th 1921. Also notes Universal Portland Cement Co 1920 shipments totaling about 120 million barrels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansing
State of Illinois
U.S
Henry F. W. Schultz
Lansing State Bank
Illinois
County of
Cook
Otto F. Schultz
West Hammond Trust & Savings Bank
West Hammond
Paul I. Muschelewicz
Paul II. Muschelewicz
Minois
Fred Siegrist
First Trust & Savings Bank OF
Riverdale
John Harms, Jr
First Trust & Savings Bank
Ilinois
Esther M. Rieger
Universal Portland Cement Co
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Col. Lincoln Ave
138Th Street
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East Jackson Blvd
Chicago
America
Immanuel Kant
the Country High School
WM. C. Zesch
Leyden Ave
Chaney Avenue
Grand Crossing
Eenseee
The
First National Bank
Dalton, Illinois
Comptroller
U. S
Total
Horace Holmes
PATHE
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Hohman
State St
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Horace