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HIDDEN OGRE
Does the Tax Collector Lurk
Beside Your Breakfast Table?
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What s this about hidden taxes? Do they really take a healthy slice
out of your family income? Analysts of the National Consumers Tax
commission, who keep records of taxes in every state of the Union,
claim the hidden levy takes from the average family's budget each
year the equivalent of 578
loaves of bread or 165 pounds
of butter or 144 dozen eggs
or 156 pounds of bacon. Os
an average $495.13 spent an
nually for food, each family
;»s said to pay $35.15 in hid
den taxes. On a national av
forage, here's what the above
breakfast is taxed:
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On bacon there are 48 taxes (30 federal,
118 state and local) boosting the cost 3.9 cents
a pound. Os S2O spent annually for table
' eggs, about $1 goes to the tax collector.
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There are 46 taxes on a pound of sugar (29 federal, 17 state and
local). Average family uses 71 pounds a year, pays $2.70 in hidden
taxes. Tax collectors swallow 18 per cent of the sugar cost, or one of
every five and one-half pounds.
Diversions of 1737 Entertained Col. Byrd
“A Library, a Garden, a Grove
and a Purling Stream are the inno
cent scenes that divert our Leisure,”
William Byrd II wrote to a friend in
England, as he sat in his palatial
residence, Westover-on-the-J ames,
one of the most celebrated and beau
tiful of all Colonial homes. As for
the library, it numbered nearjy 4,600
volumes, the largest private library
in the colonies. It was in April,
1737, that Colonel Byrd advertised
Above: Cost of toast is
raised 6.4 per cent by 53 hid
den taxes —11 federal, 42 state
and local. The orange juice at
the left costs the average
family $14.74 a year, includ
ing the tax collector's $1.25
squeeze.
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On coffee costing 23 cents a
pound, 3.3 cents goes to hid
den taxes. Cream and milk:
Os $59.89 spent annually, $4.15
goes the same way. ‘
in Virginia Gazette that on the north
side of the James river, a little be
low the falls there had been laid off
by Maj. William Mayo, a town
called Richmond, with streets 65 feet
wide. A pleasant and healthy situa
tion and a well supplied with springs
of good water,” As the founder of
Richmond, a writer, and as a states
man he is one of the most impor
tant men of his time. Westover is
still used as a residence.
BAKER COUNTY NEWS
OUR COMIC SECTION
Events in the Lives of Little Men
DON’T LOOK
Old 'Un—in the matter of mar
riage you should look before you
leap.
Young Bach—My motto is: Don’t
look and you won’t leap.
Information Travels
Mrs. Johns—ls Mrs. Amos a well
informed woman?
Mrs. Walters—Yes, indeed—her
cook has lived with all the other
families in the neighborhood.
Relative
Little Marjorie was entertaining
one of the children of the neighbor
hood : by showing her some family
photographs. Handing her one she
said: “This is Grandpa Wilson, my
cousin.’’
DYED TOO MUCH NOW
“Do you think if 1 diet it would
improve my complexion?” '
“It’s dyed too much now 1 think."
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Strange Facts
I Beggars' Paradise
Too Lazy to Breathe
* Judas Left Out •
Among the Arabs of Africa and
Near Eastern countries, the gratu
ity or tip, tailed “baksheesh,”
goes to the poorer man whether
he renders a service to you or you
render a service to him. Even if
you save a man from frowning,
he will demand his “baksheesh”
if you appear to be in better cir
cumstances.
One of the most lethargic ani
mals in existence is the tuatara,
Sphenodon punctatum, a two-foot,
lizardlike reptile of New Zealand.
Not only does it rarely move, but
it breathes so slowly that, usually,
the creature appears to be lifeless.
Those in captivity have been
known to stop breathing for more
than an hour at a time.
Oysters catch more rats than do
cats on the islands in Donegal bay,
Ireland. The rodents go down to
the beaches in search of food when
the tide is out and poke their
noses into the partly opened shells
of the bivalves, which instantly
close and capture them; then they
are held in the oyster’s viselike
grip until the tide returns and
drowns them.
A number of Christian altars in
various parts of the world do not
include the figure of Judas in the
statuary of Christ and His disci,
pies.—Collier’s.
Surfbird’s Nest
For nearly 150 years, since the
Surfbird was first given its scien
tific name, its nest and eggs re
mained unknown. On May 28,
1926, the first and only nest of
this rare bird was discovered and
recorded by Joseph Dixon and
George Wright. The nest was lo
cated on a barren rocky ridge,
1,000 feet above the timber line
above Savage River Canyon,
Alaska.
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those dearest to you?
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up more physical resistance and thus helps
calm quivering nerves and lessen discomforts
from annoying symptoms which often ac
company female functional disorders.
Why not give it a chance to help YOU?
Over one million women have written in
reporting wonderful benefits from Pinkham's
Compound.
In Cause of Peace
For the maintenance of peace,
nations should avoid the pinpricks
which forerun cannonshots.—Na
poleon to the Czar Alexander.
For quick relief—always
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yAchesy St. Joseph
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I WATCH |
you can depend on the
A special sales ths
merchants of out town
announce in the columns
of this paper. They mean
money saving to our
readers. It always pays to
patronize the merchants
who advertise. They are
not afraid of their mer
chandise or their prices.
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