The Supreme Court of the United States, in a decision just handed down, holds in effect that mail advertisers, even though they give purchasers value received for their money, are guilty of fraud if by exaggerated advertising propaganda they have led clients to expect more.
The secretary of the international high commission on uniform commercial laws and practices in the western hemisphere recently made public the final program of subjects to be considered at the meeting at Buenos Aires, Argentina.
More than twenty thousand tons of woodflour, valued at $300,000, are used annually in the United States in two widely different industries,—the manufacture of dynamite and the manufacture of inlaid linoleum.
Teachers' cottages, crected by the community in or near the schoolhouse, and used not only as the teachers' residence but also as the community center, are advocated in a bulletin prepared by R.
Organization of the Great Lakes Transit Company, to control 85 per cent of the passenger, packet, freight, and grain steamships navigating the Great Lakes, is announced.
Six amendments to the Federal reserve act are recommended to Congress in the report of the Federal Reserve Board for the first full year of operation of the new banking system.
Chambers of Commerce are to be organized in Cartagena, Cali, Cucuta, and Bucamaranga, in Colombia, South America, at the request of business men in each of those cities.