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...fill ten galleries in the art buildings of the Fair Ground. Manager Erwin S. Barrie of the Grand Central Galleries accompanied his shipment to Aurora. When he had sold 20 paintings and sculptures he declared the fair " an artistic camp meeting." Said he: " Aurora buys more paintings per capita than any other city in the U. S. . . . The people of Aurora believe that art is a big asset and drawing card to the fair, held there annually. This year they came as far east as New York with an offer to bring them the best art works possible. . . . They backed...
Paper currency to the value of 180,000,000 gulden, or 500 gulden per capita, will be issued, of which one-third will be covered by an indirect gold reserve consisting of British pound notes...
Some time ago (as a precaution against having to pay a fine of $200 per capita for passengers brought to this country and denied admission, and to save the cost of returning such immigrants to Europe. British steamship companies and the United States Lines established a registration bureau to count the number of immigrants booking passage and accept no more for a given month than the immigration quota allowed...
Neighboring towns had better luck, for Hamborn city fathers introduced the same tax under a per capita assessment. In other places bachelors are being subjected to a residence...
...again exhibited strength, although refiners have followed varying policies in fixing the price on refined sugar. Thus far the agitation against sugar prices has not had an important effect upon them. Indeed, it is obvious that most of the outcry has been raised for reasons purely political. The per capita consumption of sugar in the United States is only about 100 pounds, and in consequence the advance so far entails an added expense of only a few dollars per annum to each individual. The chief result of the threatened boycott of sugar in this country has been the creation...