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The Week
January 20, 1881 issue

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This article focuses on several political developments around the world as of January 20, 1881. There is a good deal of alarm about the telegraphic consolidation, based on the theory that with each new increase of stock a telegraph company is obliged to increase its rates in order to pay dividends to its stockholders; but as a matter of fact the only changes that have occurred in the prices exacted for transmitting messages have been in the direction of a cheaper tariff. In the same address reference is made to anticipated petitions from a State temperance association, praying for the legal suppression of the sale of intoxicating liquors.

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POLITICAL development; CONSOLIDATION & merger of corporations; TELEGRAPH; STOCKS; DIVIDENDS; STOCKHOLDERS; LIQUORS; TARIFF
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