National Service Party lauded for economic reform in Northwest
The Sieseton Standard reports on the National Service Party led by Robt. M. LaFollette, praising its stance against Wall Street influence and urging citizens to join in combatting industrial despotism. Editor E. B. Ault of Seattle praises North Dakota producers gaining political influence and notices in Jackson County Attorney H. Nicholas attacking Townley Lenin ties to the Nonpartisans.
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Lands Dakota
E. B. Ault
Seattle Union Record
Pacific Northwest
Seattle Trades and Labor Assembly
Ault
Middle West
North Dakota
E. H. Nicholas
Jackson County
Minneapolis
Townley
Lenin
Walter Thomas Mills
War profits soar as corporate earnings surge in 1916–19 studies
A study by W Jett Lauck, former secretary of the paper board for the 17 railroad brotherhoods, reports that US corporate net profits rose by about 4.8 billion dollars across 1916 to 1919 compared with the prewar period. It notes 3,080 corporations earned more than 100 percent annually on capital stock during the war years and that average profits for large firms did not exceed one percent per year after taxes.
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la Follette
Congress
LaFollette
Bob
W. Jett Lauck
Laper Board
United States
Judge Anderson Defends Lever Act S
Judge Anderson of Indianapolis backs the Lever Act as constitutional for preventing strikes among mine workers while deeming the section banning unjust pricing unconstitutional. The exchange notes Roosevelt’s error, praising Anderson as efficient and reliable rather than a jackass.
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Anderson
Indianapolis
Theodore Roosevelt
Fox
Not the Years but the Way You Loved Her
A Baltimore Sun poem praising a husband not by the length of marriage but by daily acts of love and devotion. The speaker stresses how years together shine through kindness, trust, and shared joys rather than calendar time.
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Kuppenheimier
Sisseton
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