Farm values decline amid shifting purchasing power and taxes
The 1928 survey notes farm commodity buying power rose since 1921 yet realty values fell. By last March US farm values were about 20 percent below fifteen years earlier in constant dollars. Taxes rose 250 percent, wages 170 percent, while production prices lagged living costs. this hurts farmers and rural credit, with wide regional variation and a growing divide between landlords and tenants.
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Secretary of Agriculture
United States
Early Christmas Shopping Urged For Best Deals And Courtesy
A call to start Christmas shopping now to avoid last minute crowds and stressed clerks. The Telegraph advertises reliable guides and local merchants offering fair prices, clear selections, and dependable service. Readers are urged to spread purchases over the coming week to ease store strain and support courteous clerks.
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Telegraph
Choose Securities Carefully Amid Wildcat Stocks Concerns
Millions invest in stocks and bonds as prosperity grows in the modern industrial era. Despite financial guidance and protections, many dollars are lost yearly to fraudulent or risky investments and ventures with slim chances of success.
Topics of Today in Christian Century on social trends
The article critiques postwar culture and the rise of the roughneck pose among educated elites, contrasting Victorian prudishness with modern profanity. It references Adams in Harper’s on gentlemanly behavior, club culture, and attitudes toward foreign visitors, suggesting the trend may be a wartime aftereffect likely to fade.
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Bowery
Madison Street
Adams
Harper's
America
Germany
A Plea for Tolerance by Calvin Coolidge
The essay urges continued domestic goodwill to match international understanding. It contrasts America’s diverse population with other homogeneous nations and warns that religious and racial intolerance harms trade, progress, and peace. It cites Civil War reconciliation as a model of national unity and calls for practical religious liberty.
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Calvin Coolidge
Doing a Good Work at Niobrara Tribune
Governor elect Weaver will appoint heads for state departments. Roy L. Cochran as head of public works is praised as one of the most efficient and valuable officers in the nation. Nebraska leads in road building given its funding and progress.
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Cochran
United States
Department of Public Works
Niobrara Tribune
Weaver
Roy L. Cochran
Nebraska
Wongram
Nebraska farm incomes show healthy condition in survey
A Friday survey by Omaha Chamber of Commerce secretary J M Gillan estimates Nebraska farm cash income at 460.36 million for 1928 from crops 153.58 million livestock 242.36 million and dairy and poultry 64.4 million. It notes only cash market sales, excludes on farm consumption, and lists leading crop and livestock values. Also mentions a December 12 bazaar and dinner by Presbyterian ladies at Tobin opera house.
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Nebraska
J M. Gillan
Omaha Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Committee
Mr. Gillan
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