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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1924
Page
5
A fragment from the Boston Transcript notes a vacation stretch with Jopnie midway through a trip as one week passed and three weeks remained. The brief hints at pacing and duration of travel appear in a casual newspaper snippet.
A fragmented Duluth Herald piece riffs on a clever salesman and the curious theme of language play. The text hints at a new man selling adjectives and prompts readers to question usefulness and value of words.
Professor C F Harding of Purdue explains the kilowatt hour as a unit for electric energy. A 25 watt lamp burning 40 hours registers 1000 watt hours, and a 2 kilowatt iron used two hours also records 4 kilowatt hours. The bill is kilowatts times the monthly rate.
The filing period runs January 1 to March 15, 1924. Single persons with net income of $5,000 or more and married couples with net income of $2,000 or more or gross income of $5,000 or more must file. Files are with the Collector of Internal Revenue in the district of residence or principal place of business. Tax rates include four percent on the first $4,000 of net income over personal exemptions, eight percent on the remaining net income, and a surtax from 1 to 50 percent on net incomes over $6,000 for 1923.
Sizable efficiency gain reported as over 1,200,000 tons yearly are saved in freight handling due to the condensing and evaporation technique used in silk processing.
Fragmentary notes claim William Henry Harrison was the oldest man elected president but contain garbled text and unclear references, making verification impossible. The passage reads as a jumble about age, presidency, and a vague wartime or civic talk.
The article notes that forty years ago one cent bought about sixteen candle power hours of light with early lamps. Today an ordinary 40 watt lamp provides about 170 candle power hours for the same one cent, reflecting advances in tungsten lamp efficiency.
A note recalls the old gauge standard from about a century ago when George Stevenson built his first locomotives. The four foot and one half inch gauge is described as the enduring standard used in early railway development.
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