Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1912 — LIVING HIGH 1,800 YEARS AGO [ARTICLE]

LIVING HIGH 1,800 YEARS AGO

Greek Manuscript Also Tells of Bad Trusts That Existed at Theadelphia. Philadelphia, Pa. —According to the authorities at the University of Pennsylvania museum, the high cost of living and excessive transportation rates were as much a problem in Theadelphia, a small city in Egypt, 1,800 years ago as they are today in the United States. In an ancient Greek manuscript just deciphered by the museum’s experts a collector of internal revenue tells of the graft and excessive profits demanded by the trust magnates and political leaders of those days. He believed there would be little hope for future generations in fighting the combination.