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Show ORDINARY ALMANAC ,915oiycnrld Almanac HQld6 All the Old Departments, With Many New Features Added. sun tfhere-is anythi"g new under the si n the cnances are that it's in Thp I World Almanac. This is a s weeoluJ ' statement For its justification one Sd'tUeT n'th!1 MUCh cn,',dence tne files oi this most regular of an- - nuals. For particular and current Jn stances, reference Is recommended ! the issue for 1915, now just at ban 1 As one reads this book, th I ,n seems very far removed. Indeed, i an almanac was merely a booklet o. calendar pages, with wise rema I -aliout the sun, the moon, a few j ' etc, the tides, and the best time planting various kinds of seeds Hci i set forth, besides election and i ev returns, sporting records, ind a' 1 and financial reports, a New Vo gazetteer, and the countless "i i informatory department to whlc a years have accustomed readers of ' World Almanac, are a review o " war In Europe; notes on the wots the world; the political State l ' forms of 1914; details of the speeiaj or emergency tax; analysis or the I in ison poptilution . factory statisticG , workmen's compensation laws, o pations In thp United States; the Federal Fed-eral Reserve Act; the Federal Trad-Commission; Trad-Commission; statistics of foreign bo a population in the United Statfs: a b - ipiion oi the Mexican situation: facts about the Chinese Republic; the progress and plan3 of fhe Palisades Driveway; a paper on the aerorlane and aviation generally jn war. and ti o many other things to receive even a reviewer's hare mention. Of course this book has more than, n thousand nages. it outgrew ordln almanac dimensions long ago, ft will carr Its own "Happy New Year" w come io librarians, students, piyi fessors, statesmen, editors and read ers m genera all over the land. Ad- ertisement. |