Railroads and the Transportation Act examined
Edgar E. Clark defends the act as essential to stabilizing the railway industry under federal supervision. The piece argues the act limits earnings but secures needed capital, improved service, and public protection, citing 1923 as a turning year and detailing rate, cost, and investment dynamics. The article also notes public gratitude for steadier transport and the act’s role in ongoing railway development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Joint Commission of Agricultural Inquiry
Congress
Commission
Ander
Clark
Community gathering to support temperance union work
A public event invites both men and women to hear about the Women’s Christian Temperance Union’s contributions to the church. It expresses hope for a well filled building and urges support for the WCTU’s work in the land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Lutheran Church Activities Schedule in Wallingford
The Sunday School teachers meet with Superintendent Richard Peterson Wednesday evening at Peterson home. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at L L Gunderson home. Dorcas Aid Saturday afternoon at Joe Omundson home. Devotional Sunday at 11 am led by Prof Strand. Lutheran Ladies Aid meets at Irwin store Thursday April 3. Immanuel Lutheran Church services Sunday 11 am Norge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twenkt
Wallingford Luth
T. Hansen
Richard Peterson
Peterson
L. L. Gunderson
Dorcas Aid
Joe Omundson
Prof. Strand
Lutheran Ladies Aid
Irwin Store
S. Strand
J. M. Wolden
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Norge
Grover Community Church Updates and Schedule
Dr. F. P. Quick presides at 10 30 service with worship at 11 30. Seventy three attendees heard Dr. Johnson and enjoyed a fine choir program. Dolliver visits are planned again and the Ladies Circle will meet at the church Thursday at 2 PM hosted by Mrs Musson’s group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ov le Grover
F. P. Quick
Dr. Johnson
Dolliver
Grover President Church Service Notice
Edward Loew minister leads Bible School at 10 a.m. Worship at 11 a.m. and 7 30 p.m. Union church service to be held at our church home next Sunday evening with the W C T U involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grover Pres
Edward Loew
Bible School
Our
Methodist Church Notes Reflect Active Week At Epworth League
The Epworth League completed a study of The Youth of America led by Prof. Gibson with strong interest and unanimous appreciation. Sunday School attendance holds around 400 and is expected to rise with better weather. Women's Home Missionary Society, represented by Miss Swartz, received a Thank offering of a little over 160 dollars and supports about twenty member projects alongside regular work. Next Thursday evening a slide on The Negro in the Rural South is planned. Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, led by Mrs. McArdle at 922 North Sixth, meets next Friday afternoon. Estherville Township holds a meeting at C J Lundgren’s to discuss Women’s Farm Organizations abroad, tuberculosis area work, and Sheppard-Towner Clinic, with a term lunch. next gathering at Fred Himebauch’s the third Friday in April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epworth League
America
Gibson
Women's Home Missionary Society
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
Wv. Restherville Township
C. J. Lundgren
Robb
Sheppard-Towner
Fred Himebauch
Railroads and Farmers Share Prosperity in Policy Debate
The essay argues railroad revenue and farmer prosperity are interdependent and calls for fair, evidence based freight rate adjustments. It compares 1913 to 1923 prices and freight costs, showing rail costs rise modestly behind farmer price gains, and asserts farmer woes stem from broader conditions, not railroads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Remsen
Chicago
Sioux City
Streight
Railroads and farm prices linked in capital squeeze
The Chicago Tribune on February 17 1924 warned that strangling railroads to block needed capital for improvements would lower efficiency, slow freight, depress land values and crop prices, and hurt mining and factory output, reducing U S consumption and worsening surpluses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribune
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TET Railroads and the Transportation Act
Edgar E. Clark
Philadelphia
Union Baptist Church
W. F. Huxford
Baptist
Spirit Lake
John Doolittle
Methodist Church
R. T. Chipperfield
ACME
J. Hansen
Prunes— New
California
Prunes
Prue & Apricot Growers
Adaociation
San Jose
Prune & Apricot Growere
USA
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