Cost of Living Investigated Across Industrial Centers
Washington September 93 The federal Bureau of Labor reports a decade survey of prices in 32 states showing a general rise in food costs with potatoes and sugar leading gains. Meats and dairy climbed, while some items declined slightly or held firm. Coal and gas prices also varied by region, with notable increases in seven and eleven percent ranges for several staples.
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Washington
Federal Bureau of Labor
New York
Chicago
Baltimore
Boston
Pennsylvania
Atlanta
World Trade Bodies Meet in Boston Fifth International Congress
Delegates from forty foreign countries will gather in Boston for the Fifth International Congress of Chambers of Commerce. About seven hundred leaders from commercial life will attend sessions in sixteen languages with Taft to speak at the banquet. Topics include calendar reform, international law, and global trade practices with substantial Massachusetts and city funding backing the event.
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Boston
Boostow
International Congress of Chambers of Commerce
Russia
Congress
Charles Nagel
Department of Commerce and Labor
United States
Taft
Milan
Louis Jcannn-Legrande
Mons
Irving Fisher
Yate University
International Court
International Court of
Arbita
Interna!al Rnehel Naires
Open Campaign Against Rag Time in Chicago Dances
Dancing masters gather at the Athenaeum in Chicago to suppress rag time music and promote synocopated tunes. They urge publishers to provide refined music and plan new and revised dances, meeting biweekly to rehearse and discuss the season.
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Chicago
Athenaeum
Fast van Buren Street
Boston
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Septembr Term Opens With Four Cases Scheduled
Four cases were listed for trial at the opening of the September term of district court. It appears none would be ready for hearing. The Theo Yenny vs Simmerling case settled, Park vs Lawser continued, Nanman vs Emry & Hoffer continued, Seippel Lumber Co vs Bradley remains. Judge Robert Ronson will sit in place of Judge Charles B Ransier, now at Des Moines. The grand jury is to attend, with little work beyond a county home inspection.
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Theo Yenny
Simmerling
Park
Des Moines
Supreme Cant
Ronsen
Ransier
Mortimer Roe Dies After Stroke at Waterloo Home
Mortimer Roe aged 87 years of Waterloo died at his 129 Mill Street residence after a paralytic stroke this morning. He would have been 64 next month. Survived by widow and four children Oscar and Fred in Dakota Frank and Cora at home, plus sisters Mrs Henrietta Small and Mrs Caroline Holman of Waterloo. Funeral plans not yet set.
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Mortimer Roe
Waterloo
Mill Street
Mr. Roe
Ing
Tie
New York State
Dunchenn
Mary Roller
Oscar
Fred
Dakota
Frank
Cora
Henrietta Small
Caroline Holman
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Bureau of Labor
New Haven
Philadelphia
Salt Lake City
Fall River
Indianapolis
Milwaukes
Herg
Pric Angeles
Sears
Pittsburgt
Portland
Trade Bodies IN World Meeting
Buck’s
Hall-Ekfelt CO
Robert Bronson
Dubuque
Sleep OF
Teates
Gertrude Perry
Waverly
Gaye Febert
Wingate” Cottage
Chautauqua Park
Perry
Egbert
Friends F
Cedar Falls
Kellogg
East Fourth Street
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