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...Royal Commission reported cigaret factories in which Indian children aged from six to ten are employed 14 hours a day, seven days a week, at a wage of 4?? a day, adding, "similar conditions were found to prevail in the mining and wool industries." Adult Indian workers, the Royal Commission ascertained, receive some 37¢ a day unless highly skilled, when they may earn 50 cents...
...Cuneo Press from $31½ to $16; Hygrade Food Products from $6 to $2f; National Rubber Machinery from $8¾ to $1?. An investment trust sponsored by the firm last year, Sisto Financial, tumbled from $17? to $10 and remained pegged at that figure with $2 bid, and a sale at $4??? taking place "under the rule...
...first principle of utility use is that the small consumer . . . should receive the greatest protection and consideration." The New York Real Estate Board entered objections. Mayor James John Walker ordered his law officers to fight the change before the Public Service Commission, to demand a rate of 4?? per kilowatt hour and no meter charge...
...average cost of foreign beef delivered in the Hawaiian Islands is 2¢ to 4?? per Ib. cheaper than the U. S. product delivered in the U. S. Any change in the law to require the American product would, of course, require a considerable increase in the appropriation for the sub- sistence of the Army...
Death alone can put a President on a postage stamp. Last week the Post Office Department announced that a portrait of William Howard Taft would appear early this month on all 4?? stamps, replacing Martha Washington. The first First Lady will not be completely ousted from the mails because her likeness will continue to appear on the reply half of the 2¢ business postal card. (George Washington is on the address half.) The new Taft portrait will be that of the corpulent twenty-seventh President of the U. S., not of the leaner tenth Chief Justice...