Increased Freight Rates Hit Hard
The 1920s freight-rate surge echoes again with today’s increases around 50 percent and potential further rises. Farmers face higher marketing and input costs, more distant markets, and tighter protection. parity calculations ignore full freight impacts, prompting calls to revise the formula and address rail and union power. Tenants operate about 39 percent of U S farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Country Gentleman
Washington
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Department
Railroads
United States
Health view of constipation and related facts
The piece argues constipation is a disease needing treatment and describes two types lazy and spastic bowels with dietary guidance. It lists causes heredity irregular stool after breakfast hurrying to work and high stool seat. It notes helium gas cost postwar change and mentions five states with women superintendents Colorado Iowa Montana Nevada Wyoming.
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States
Public Instruction
Colorado
Iowa
Montana
Nevada
Wyoming
Johnson
Universal
Route Two
Johnson Jewelry & Appliance
Tom Barbee
Carl May
George Hansard
Clyde Hansard
East
Lamar
Sherman
Wolfe City Community Hospital
Newsweek
Reader's Digest
Jimmie McSpedden
Farmall
John Deere
Allis Chalmers
Babcock Auto Store
W. E. Stanford
Joe W. McCarty
S. Travis
Texas
N. B. Nicholson
Whitewright
U. S. Army
U.S. Air Forces Recruiting Station
Unforeseen Results in Bridegroom’s Economy Talk
A friend jokes with a new bridegroom about an economy lecture he gave his wife. The groom replies grimly that he changed his habits by giving up weekend golf to start a vegetable garden.
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Ayres
Indian Head
Bemberg
Batiste
Butchers
Rayon
Stepins
T. W. Ayres & Son
Stetson
J. B. Warren
Tom Sears
Griffin
Jimmie Anderson
H. H. Spencer, Whitewright
Allen T. Short
Phone 100
Hannah’s. Tf Electric Irons
Westinghouse
Samson
Sunbeam
Bill Vincent
Griffin Dollarhide’s
Auto Finance
F. W. Creager
Mgr
Travis
Hansard Family
Men’s Department
Dimity
Seersucker
Denison
American Legion
Farley & Hill Grocery
Mar
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