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Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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see the watch. Wef^^^ I, J/ tlTSX/ I watch to you on approval. You are the sole judge. No obUgation to buy merely because you get the watch on approval. Write for Booklet! Put your name and address in the coupon or on a letter or post card nowand get your Burlington Watch book freeand prepaid. You will know a lot moreabout watch buying when you read it. Too, youwill see handsome illustrations in full color of allthe newest cases from which you have to choose.The booklet is free. Merely send your name andaddress on the coupon. Burlington Watch G>mp£my, 19th St. and Marshall Blvd.. Dept.5143 Chicago. 111.CiMiadian Off ice:338Portage Ave.. Winnipeg. Man. Burlington Watch Co., Dept. 5143 19th Street & Marshall Blvd.. Chicago, III. Please send me (without obligations and prepaid)your free book on watches with full explanation ofyour cash or $3.50 a month offer on the BurlingtonWatch. Addr* Please mention our magazine when writing advertisers THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE
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A given unit of anycommodity willbuy more transpor-tation now than itever did before inthe history of thecountry. A ton ofSteel or a bushel ofwheat will buyinore transporta-tion now than everbefore. Walker D. Hines Director Generalof Railroads Carrying aTon a Milefor less than a Cent Freight rates have played a very ::niall part in therising cost of living. Other causes — the waste of war, under-production,credit inflation—have added dollars to the cost of thenecessities of life, while freight charges have addedonly cents. The average charges for hauling a ton of freight amile is less than a cent. A suit of clothing that sold for $30 before tha warwas carried 2,265 miles by rail from Chicago toLos Angeles for 16H cents. Now the freight charge is 22 cents and the suit sellsfor $50. Tl.e cost of the suit has increased 20 dollars The freight on it has increased on^y BVj cents Other transportation charges enter into thecost of any finished article—carrying the woolto the mills and t

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