Advertising Rates and Tariff Debate Sparks Budget Forecast
Advertising rates are set at 5 cents per line per insertion. The article notes Friday July 18 1913 and discusses the current Congress debating the tariff bill with expected passage around mid August. It predicts the bill will go to the House then back to the Senate for final approval and enactment into law. It claims some believe the tariff may lower living costs without harming legitimate industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Senate
Giant Thuya Gains Favor for Easy Growth and Planting
A note highlights Thuya as an exceptionally patient conifer with easy cultivation in any soil. It seeds itself in sandy soil and was praised after a visit to England where a plantation appeared well established and thriving.
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England
Thuya
Vareh
Malagasy Art Exhibit Highlights Craft and Loss in New York
An exhibition at the Commercial Museum in New York features Madagascar native handicraft. The display shows raffia and lambas used in weaving and burial garments, tied to colonial occupation and endangered traditional arts. Japanese bravery medal awarded to San Francisco boy Duncan Fitzgerald for saving a drowning figure, with 400 American students singing the Japanese national anthem. Consul General Ohara presided.
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New York
Commercial Museum
Spruce
Madagascar
Cee
San Francisco
Duncan. Fitzgerald
Redwood City
Ojiro Ohara
Country girls warned against city lure for fair wages
Fannie M. Enright notes country women risk unsuitable city life and poor pay. Interchurch federation commission urges girls to secure honest work above eight dollars weekly before migrating. They cite average living costs including rent meals and clothing to justify the warning.
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Commission On Social Service
Interchurch Federation of
Philadelphia
Interchurch Federation
Prayer for Rain Urged by Bishops in All Churches
A friend proposed taxing umbrollas and ordering a prayer for rain to be read in every church. The note, attributed to a peer, appeared in Pearson's Weekly as a speculative suggestion.
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Re Tush
Post
Pearson’s Weekly
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