Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1901 — Billion Dollar Grust. [ARTICLE]

Billion Dollar Grust.

A billion dollar cotton seed oil trust is the latest. The Standard Oil, though nominally only a hundred million dollar trust, is really a bfllionaire, for its stock is selling on a valuation of nearly $800,000,000 and more. The billion dollar steel trust is really a billion and a half dollar trust. Several of the “community of interest” railroad system run from a billion to two billions and a half apiece.—Ex. Professor J. S. Kendall has resigned the position of Commissioner of Public Instruction in Texas to take charge of the North Texas Normal school. Professor Arthur Le Fevre of Victoria, Texas, has succeeded him. The exportation of beer from France has increased in ten years from 947,421 gallons to 2,144,030 gallons. Holland is the only country in Europe that admits coffee free of duty.