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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1913
Page
8
The plan imposes 1 percent on income over 4,000 and a progressive surtax 1 to 3 percent above 20,000, 50,000, and 100,000. It aims for 100 million dollars yearly while addressing unequal tax burdens from tariff driven taxes.
The proposal includes a graduated income tax on salaries above 4000 dollars and frees raw wool. Sugar duties drop 25 percent with sugar becoming free in three years. Essential foods and many staples join the free list while several manufactured goods and luxury items face tax changes.
A Harper's Weekly report notes the dean of reporters says House members now average about 25 percent faster talkers. Fifty members speak rapidly enough to challenge stenographers, with former speeds attributed to Littlefield Johnson Martin Murray and others. Slowest voices come from southern members at about eighty words per minute.
The article lists Paris parks as Bois de Vincennes about 2290 acres Bois de Boulogne about 2156 acres Jardin des Tuileries 74 acres Jardin du Luxembourg 62 acres Buttes Chaumont 62 acres Parc de Montmartre 63 acres Parc Monceau about six acres and Champ de Mars site of the 1889 exposition.
The Consular Report notes Paris plans to demolish city walls and fill the moat to reclaim land for belt parks. A public park stays at about twenty five acres while Champ de Mars remains unchanged. The expansion stems from population growth crowding quarters and real estate costs.
A Berlin bookseller disposed of a novel titled The Bony Hand bound in human skin. Sold for 75 marks, owner said value was 400 marks higher due to the binding. In court experts said only six such bindings exist and the judge ordered 175 more marks for the book bound in human leather.
The text traces efforts to subdue the Mississippi from 1717 when M. Le Blond de la Tour built a mile of levee for Nouvelle Orleans through to present, noting the federal spend of 70 million dollars and substantial state contributions to confine flood waters to the channel.
The London Globe notes a novelty that seems extreme yet not new, describing a circular saw made of paper that can cut wood. It remarks paper’s long use in durable parts like railway carriage wheels, suggesting limited practicality.
The list of villa names includes Beyond Expectation Our Contentment Pleasure and Rest Without Care Joy and Peace Desire Satisfied Friendship and Sociability My Pleasure and Life Large Enough and Not So Bad highlighting Hol land merchants in the Dutchman's Castle era.
A selection of lines on women from Taine Barrie Tennyson and Thackeray. The excerpts discuss female character, allure, and social behavior with a critical literary tone.
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