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Title: The Independent
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Publisher: New York : S.W. Benedict
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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d into effect, willprobably be met by a bond issue. Since no part of the new merchantfleet will be ready to carry freight be-fore October, by which time the successor failure of the German submarinecampaign may already be determined,the Government has met the immediateemergency by commandeering and re-pairing the German ships now in Amer-ican harbors. The House and the Sen-ate have both approved putting thewarbound German merchant ships intotransatlantic trade and some of themwill be ready for use within a few days.Passenger accommodations are beingremoved from the big German linersto give the greatest possible cargo ca-pacity. Chairman William Denning, ofthe shipping board, has purchased onbehalf of the Government seven shipsof the Austro-American line with atotal tonnage of over fifty-two thou-sand. The American owners of theships who had purchased them fromthe Austrian company in April, soldthem to the Federal Government with-out profit. The cost of the seven shipswas $6,778,006. -
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Central Aei£« . PEAS! BEANS! CORN! EVERY SCOUT TO FEED A SOLDIER! If the Boy Scouts of America should make good the slogan of their great spring drive something like three hundred thousand soldiers would be fed. The two-scout team above, hard at work with a plow made by the boys themselves, is a fine sample of their earnestness, anyhow IN THE SERVICE ARMY WE MUST ALL SPEAK, ACT AND SERVE TOGETHER The Jitney TractorEnters the War Henry Ford haswaived the patentrights on his trac-tor in order to permit the British Gov-ernment to utilize the tractors in har-vesting the crops of England andFrance. Mr. Ford hopes to have nearly30,000 of these machines at work inthe United States before the first ofAugust. The tractor can do a wide

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