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...incident of leprosy on leeward Molokai has been and is no higher than on any of the other islands of the Hawaiian Archipelago. . . . Amongst the causes of death in the Hawaiian Islands leprosy ranks very low. being under one percent, and, of course, all of these deaths occur in the two hospitals for lepers...
...arbitrarily slashing the standing interest rate in Massachusetts from 2 1-2 to 1 1-2 percent, the revenue bill would defeat its purpose entirely, as savings banks would soon be put out of business. This additional 1 per cent, moreover, would increase present savings bank payments ten-fold, even though these institutions now pay a higher rate than any other source of state revenue...
...Five percent on first $2,000; 2½ on next $20,000; 1½% on next $28,000; 2% on all over...
Besides Harvard, institutions participating numbered Columbis, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Russell Sage, of Troy, New York, and Yale. The Tigers placed 59 percent and the Bulldogs 54 percent besides, the Crimson's 56 percent on the reactionary side...
...percent of the nation in favor of pension voted $40 and $60 a month for single persons and couples. In the colleges the average figures were...