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NEW RUBBER, SOURCE. AN AMERICAN WEED. [United Press Association.—l3y Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] NEW YORK, Dec. i. Mr T. A. Edison’s Secretary has announced that the inventor has success Fully developed means for the extraction of rub,her from the' Golden Rod, a common American flowering weed, at a cost of sixteen cents per pound. Tiie process—no details of which are announced—involves a long period of boiling. TAX REDUCTION. (Received this day at noon.) WASHINGTON, December 5. The House to-day, by a vote of 218 +o 17, passed the Hawley resolution, providing for 1(H) million dollars tax reduction. The measure goes to the re mate. It can be effected by cutting one per cent from the rate on individual and corporation incomes. STUCK KXCHAXGE. NEW YORK, December 5. Call money at a renewal rate remained at four and a half all day.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1929, Page 5
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