Debs pardon politics and electric economy notes
The column recalls Taft’s displeasure at Morse’s pardon and compares Daugherty’s handling of Debs with other cases. It surveys electrification as a path to rail and industrial reform, urging cautious credit and money velocity control alongside price stabilization. It cites Halbert Gillette on price levels, wages, and productivity, with an outlook on farmers and construction costs.
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Europe
Taft
Herbert Hoover
United States
Explosives Crisis Spurs Call for Continued Federal Oversight
Washington March 29 commentary argues that without prompt action by Congress the United States risks returning to lax explosive controls. It cites 1917 reforms, current widespread access, and ongoing use in mining and industry, warning criminals and even ordinary people can obtain dynamite and other high explosives.
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Congress
Bureau of Mines
United States
Pets Deface Benefactor Body In Village Death
Lyons March 29 Mrs Brid get Kahler a seventy five year old recluse in this village was found dead at her home. The cause is unknown but abrasions on lips and hands are believed from rats and pet cats. Villagers often brought food or clothing to aid her in a needy condition. Her home was sparsely furnished and she reportedly left investments in trust companies and savings banks totaling around twenty thousand dollars.
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Nn International News
Lyons
Bridget Kahler
T A
Tmist
Answers to Questions From The Daily Mail Information Bureau
Readers send questions to The Daily Mail Information Bureau with two cents for return postage. Deepest ore mine is in Novo Velho Brazil at 6340 feet. Buttons first appeared in Queen Elizabeth's reign and brass buttons were made in Birmingham in 1689. The Africa trip by the Department of Agriculture sought new plants and fruits. Dr H L Shantz led the expedition from New York July 16 1919 via Cape Verde Islands to Caps Town August 18 and across nearly 8000 miles. The mother of a chicken is the hen that lays the egg. Barber poles colored red white and blue originated from barbers performing surgery and bleeding patients. poles with bandages became signposts. Languages spoken worldwide range from about 1000 to 7000 depending on definitions.
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Birmingham
England
Africa
Department of Agricultura
Department of Agriculture
H. L. Shantz
Caps Town
Lord Thur‘low
House of Lords
Som
Cut This Gut-It In Worth Money
Advertisement offers a mail order trial package from Foley & Co of Chicago for coughs colds croup kidney pills cathartic tablets and other remedies in exchange for sending name and address with a slip encloser.
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Foley & Co
Sheffield Ave
Chicago
Foley
Burning Witches in Salem and Puritan Law Revisited
Dr William E Barton argues that colonial Salem executed twenty by hanging or compression, not burning, and that burning as an execution method was rare in Puritan America. He notes England burned women for traitorous crimes and counterfeiting, but Puritans followed English law without burning for witchcraft.
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William E. Barton
Salem
America
England
Blackstone
Tyburn
Merrie England
Mathew Hale
Wicherall
Henry Will
Editor Giants on Rail Wages and Government Power
The letter argues railroads should cut wages as traffic falls to lower costs, opposing anonymous labor critique. It warns government control harms liberty, cites WWI wage disparities, and urges less government and more freedom, quoting Patrick Henry to defend liberty over taxation and control.
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Organized Labor
France
Lberty
Patrick Henry
D. Webster Groh
Hagerstown
Freezone claims quick corn relief for all corn types
An advertisement claims that applying Freezone instantly stops corn pain and allows lifting the corn away with fingers. It notes a small bottle sold by druggists for a few cents removes hard and soft corns and calluses between the toes without soreness or irritation.
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Eugene V. Debs
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Willie
Grover C. Bergdoll
Debs
Oles
Danghi
Toerty
Berlin
Petroleum V. Nasby
Electric Economy
Geological Survey
Ison
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Economics and Common Sense
Halbert P. Gillette
Gillette
Paltert Zie
Georgie
Haskin
By Frederic J. Haskin
Capitol
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federal Reserve
Palmer
Benefactor
Daily Mail Information Bureau
Frederick J Haskin
Washington, D. C
Novto Velho
Brazil
Buttons
L. M
B. Barton
Mr. Groh
Haditor
Hingerstown
Tha Anan
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Western Enterprise Fire Company
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