Will the bankers reform Danish style coop banks
The article argues American bankers must reform or face farmers creating cooperative credit. Danish and European models show farmers using cooperative banks, with government aid in some cases, to obtain loans for farms. Danish system outlines amortized loans with long terms and low annual payments backed by land and stock security.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Germany
Italy
France
Russia
America
Ireland
Belgium
Holland
Hurgpe
Ranc Hick
Charles McCarthy
Danish cooperative credit model aids farmers with long term loans
Danish banks and farmer coalitions provide long term loans backed by dairy cattle and farm assets. The Trifolium dairy group and a 10 000 farmer egg cooperative illustrate 12 to 20 year amortizations with profits funding repayment. Proponents urge cooperative credit over traditional joint stock banking for rural needs.
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Denmark
Trifolium Dairy Association
Copenhagen
Co-Operative Association
Frederickssund
Conservancy Court Dismisses Flood District Petition
The Conservancy Court in Dayton dismisses the Flood Prevention Committee petition to form a conservancy district. Judges cite Ohio constitutional limits on delegating legislative power to a court and note unequal rights to appeal between petitioners and objectors. Court adjourned as members returned home with no immediate comment.
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Western Newspaper Union. News Service
Dayton
Highlander
Lowlander
Conservancy Court
Conservancy District
Ohio
Conservancy
Corn Boys Chance in Columbus Prize Boosts Scholarships
The Ohio State University board and the State Agricultural Commission expanded county fair scholarships from two to three years and tied the award to the county’s top corn yield. A $60 cash value accompanies the prize for the best acre, with the winner over 17 receiving the award in addition to a free Washington trip.
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Columbus, O
State Agricultural Commission
Board of Trustees
Ohio State University
College of Agriculture
The
Agricultural Commission
Washington
Wittenberg College Bequest Helps Poor Boys
Alexander Moore of Logan county leaves sixty thousand dollars to Wittenberg college to aid worthy students. The fund finances loans at 3 percent annual interest, repayable within ten years, per the president Charles G. Heckert.
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Springfield
Wittenberg College
Alexander Moore
Logan County
Charles G. Heckert
Brown Ordered Indeterminate Sentence For Embezzlement
Cincinnati judge refuses to suspend the sentence of Mrs Carlotta Thompson Brown a woman broker convicted of embezzling 21471 from a client She began an indeterminate term at the Ohio penitentiary on Saturday.
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Cincinnati
Wade Cushing
Carlotta Thompson Brown
Ohio
Fremont Council Rejects New Electric Lighting Schedule
Fremont Ohio city council refuses to accept the Ohio Light and Power Co schedule for domestic lighting. The plan offered 9 cents per kilowatt in small quantities and 4 1/2 cents in large quantities, and the council will seek a better rate.
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Fremont, O
Ohio Light and Power Co
Suffrage Fund Raised in Toledo Meeting
A thousand dollars was raised for the Ohio suffrage campaign at Zenobia hall. Miss Jane Addams of Hull House Chicago and other speakers urged giving women in Ohio the franchise.
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Toledo
Ohio
Zenobia Hall
Jane Addams
Hull House
Chicago
Picketing Continues Despite Arrests in Portsmouth
Police report wholesale arrests of men and women at shoe plant picketing as workers strike. Pickets continue their activity despite the arrests in Portsmouth, C.
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Portsmouth
Ginger Jag Producer Tangles Crookaville Saloons
Two weeks after a local option vote Crookaville, Ohio saw most saloons shut. Police traced the surge to Jamada Ginger producing a strong ginger drink. Drug stores and grocers stocked it and one man bought eleven bottles in four days.
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Crookaville
Policeman Resigns to Become Pastor in Iowa
Canton Ohio reports policeman John Deidrick resigned to take the pastorate of a small Lawn Hill Iowa church. He says the Lord prompted the decision as he grew tired of police work and pursued a year of Bible study to prepare for the ministry.
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Canton
John Deidrick
Lawn Hill
Iowa
Deidrick
Bootleggers Hit in Springfield Ohio Police Court
Fines totaling 1125 were assessed in Springfield police court in bootlegging cases prosecuted by the state. Detectives from the state liquor license board gathered evidence. A raid a month ago led to 17 arrests, signaling a statewide campaign to curb bootlegging with more arrests planned in Ohio.
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Springfield
State Liquor License Board
Ohio
Monroe County Delegation Seeks Marietta-Intercounty Road
A Monroe county delegation asked Gov. Cox and State Highway Commissioner Marker to designate an inter-county road linking Marietta to the national pike via Woods field as a main market road.
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Columbus
Marietta
Woodsfield
Monroe County
Cox
Ohio Briefs Highlight Trees, Wells and Parades
Dayton plans Arbor Day with one thousand shade trees for city schools. Putnam county reports a fifteen barrel oil well on Zellers farm Blanchard township with aim to sink more experimental wells. Indianapolis businessman A M Fisher drives traction line talks to reach Hillsboro and Columbus. Evangelical Lutheran conference in Cincinnati endorses union of all Lutheran churches with Evansville as next site. Personal Liberty parade outreach in Cincinnati aims for 25 000 attendees at Music Hall May 22 with all city bands.
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Dayton, O
Lima, O
Zellers
Blanchard Township
Putnam County
Washington D. H
A. M. Fisher
Indianapolis
Hillsboro
Columbus
Cincinnati
Union of All Lutheran Churches
Evangelical Lutheran Conference
Trinity Luthern Church
Evansville
Ind
Cincinnati, O
Music Hall
Soap an Aid to Escape from Jail
Salem police watched Mrs Ida Hohl to trace Frank G Hohl who escaped from Altoona county jail by soaping clothes to slip through a small cell window. Mrs Hohl, married four months, was arrested with a accomplice in the robbery with her husband.
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Salem
Ida Hohl
Frank G. Hohl
Altoona
Hohl
Attempted assassination in front of City Hall shocks New York
Mayor John Purroy Mitchell narrowly escaped a gunman as he entered a city hall automobile. Corporation Counsel Frank Lyon Polk was wounded in the jaw by a bullet. The assailant, identified as Joseph Saleschein, was arrested and claimed not to be David Rose. Polk's doctors reported no danger.
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Frank L. Polk
New York
John Purroy Mitchell
Frank Lyon Polk
Polk
Arthur H. Woods
Mitchell
Woods
Mr. Polk
David Rose
Joseph Saleschein
Mitchel
Mayo's Action Is Upheld
Edwin D. Mead of the World Peace Foundation defends Admiral Mayo's demand for a salute as proper reparation for the arrest of American marines in Tampico. The statement cites prior salutes to Spain France and Brazil as precedents requiring negotiations to determine provocation.
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Boston
Edwin D. Mead
World Peace Foundation
Mayo
Tampico
United States
Spain
France
Brazil
Marshal Danielson Shot by Bandits Near Gladstone
Escanaba April 18 Marshal Danielson of Gladstone was wounded in the hip by a bandit ten miles from town. He was with a 50 man posse in a swamp when shot. A second 100 man posse aided the search as bandits fled after robbing the Soo line station at Gladstone four times, totaling about $4000.
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Escanaba
Mich
Marshal Danielson
Gladstone
Iverson
Danielson
Soo Line
President Wilson Announces May 7 Wedding
The White House announced on April 18 that President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson will host the wedding of their youngest daughter Miss Eleanor Randolph Wilson to Secretary McAdoo on Thursday May 7.
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Wilson
Washington
Ex Vice President Charles W Fairbanks Hurt in Platform Collapse
Former vice president Charles W. Fairbanks was slightly injured when the speakers platform collapsed during an Arbor Day celebration in Frankfort on April 18.
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Frankfort, Inc
Charles W. Fairbanks
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