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...seems pretty well established that the cause of the revolt is ancient. The State of Sao Paulo is the home of the rich coffee planters, known as the "Yankees of Brazil," because of their enterprise and wealth. This State has an area of 112,312 square miles and is therefore larger than all the New England States with Pennsylvania added...
...estimate of the 1924 corn crop is 2,515,000,000 bushels-a drop of 531,000,000 from the 1923 corn crop of 3,046,000,000 bushels. Acreage this year in corn was 105,604,000, compared with 103,112,000 last year. Yet despite this increased area planted to corn, a relatively short crop is anticipated, owing to the condition of the 1924 crop, which on July 1 was only 72% compared with 84.9% a year...
Most of America's wheat area lies in normally Republican States, while her cotton belt is confined to almost invariably Democratic States. For this reason, a slump in cotton usually leads to strenuous attempts in behalf of cotton by the Democratic party, while wheat depression means disaffection in the Republican ranks...
Where is our journalism going? The popular mode of answering this question is at present to compile by area the percentage components of newspapers. A comparison of such figures was recently made in Editor and Publisher, trade journal of journalism...
Admission to the area of the fete will be 25 cents and a subscription ticket of $2.50 will be required for admission to the old houses which are to be on exhibition...