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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1919
Page
2
Notice records the item entering Valley City North Dakota post office as second class mail matter indicating its classification and handling status.
The Times Record decries rising taxes and state spending, attacks the leadership, and questions rail privatization costs. It cites governor and editorials, notes farmers taxed, warns of coal strikes, and recalls editor disputes and labor tensions in North Dakota.
The text rails at a bank meeting to prove solvency while blaming insiders for losses. It notes stock at $210 a share versus a low book value, questions motives of Townley allies, and criticizes the new compensation law as unjust. It highlights dissent and disintegration within the group and calls out members who refuse to think independently.
An extended critique links labor unrest to tax fairness and profiteering. It denounces strikes by miners and steel leaders, calls for arbitration, warns of government intervention to stop upheaval, and argues wages must rise with living costs while condemning capitalists' influence. It also notes fuel shortages and upcoming price pressures on clothing and goods.
The State Socialist Bank of Fargo faced a receiver over post-dated checks used as collateral. Farmers offered notes with future dated checks, worthless without deposits, exposing aPractice in post-dated finance. The piece criticizes socialism and the bank’s handling of loans amid the controversy.
A Home Festival will be held at the Veach school house in Brimer township on November 6 with exhibits of farm products and first and second prizes. The event is coordinated by Emma DeWitt, county home demonstration agent, and a Brimer township women’s committee.
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