The Difference Between Hoarding and Saving Money
Hoarding money serves no social purpose while saving funds in banks or buying productive securities fuels commerce. The text extols banking as a conveyor of credit, loaning deposits for payrolls and industry, and notes checks as a flexible currency form. It cites the role of bank advertising in discouraging hoarding and promoting credit for enterprise.
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Ois
Germany
Paris
France
Ing
Rent profiteering and rent control efforts across cities
A discussion on landlord gouging highlights rent control measures in New York with a municipal committee and courts limiting evictions for excessive rents. It notes legal reassessments of apartment values in cities like Atlanta and Chicago and cites Japanese premier Takashi Hara linking Shantung policy to China's stance.
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New York
Atlanta
Chicago
Japan
Shantung
China
Takashi Hara
High prices cited by Cleveland grand jury in dining and living critique
The Cleveland special grand jury decries high food and goods costs at four major hotels. It argues elevated prices curb patronage and reflect a social mismatch with affordability. The piece also notes Spain's use of bullfights to curb unrest and warns about overarching price burdens.
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Solomon
Cleveland
Rpal
J. Com’s
Ten Points of the League Critique Teased by a Newspaper Veteran
A veteran American writer questions President Wilson's ten league provisions asking for clarifications. He argues through pointed questions about autocratic power, enforcement, disarmament, trusteeship, secret treaties, and domestic reform highlighting contrasts with Britain Japan and Ireland India China and the United States.
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Wilson
B. R. F. Paine
India
Egypt
Ireland
Korea
Manchuria
Philippines
Balkans
League Council
Council
England
France
Italy
Japan
Democracy and Altruism by Dr Frank Crane
A 1919 essay arguing that true altruism is practical and profitable. It asserts democracy seeks justice, not charity, and that honest business, thrift, and intelligent enterprise advance social welfare. Genuine altruists are those who show economic and social gains from good deeds.
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Frank Crane
Kingdom Come
Joyful Atoka sheriff mistaken for bootlegger by overalled look
Akin, a sheriff in Atoka Oklahoma, was arrested and searched by peers who mistook him for bootleggers due to his beard and overalls. A returned traveler humorously narrates turtle-hunting stories from Rockdale Pennsylvania, recounting several oversized reptiles and a chase where a turtle outdrives a car, ending with an old admiral’s quip about America's eagle.
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Atoka
Okla
Akin
Rockdale
America
Pennsylvania
Weekend Ailments And Wit From Local Pages
A collage of light items and letters from the era notes illnesses clustered at week start, jokes about pay day, and reader quips. It mentions Caruso returning, advice on budgets, and various humorous asides involving merchants, preachers, and local figures.
Woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
A Akron Ohio woman, age fifty one, praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief during life changes. She reports improved energy sleep and ability to work again and urges others to try the remedy.
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Akron
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Sin
S. A. Friedlander
Elmore St
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Lehigh Valley
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Mame
Joseph Kirch
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Rev
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Tamaroa, Ill
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H.C. L
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Mellen
New Haven
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Janesville
J. Ogden Armour
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