May Tax Franchises and Railroads Bills in Iowa Senate
Iowa senate approved a corporate franchise tax requiring annual reports from firms with more than $10,000 capital and set license fees by capital, while railroads bear costs of bridges in drainage projects. Direct inheritance tax plan advances with tiered rates. joint rate bill gains momentum aiding state manufacturing. Governor signs Des Moines plan and municipal tax bills. primary bill sent to conference, college extension funding advances, and appointments confirmed.
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Zewer
Ways and Means Committee
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Saunders
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Lee Cattle Guard
Wate
W. L. Maton
State Railroad Commission
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Page County
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Representative White
Story County
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Executive Council
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Senorita Rosita Finds Love and Trouble at Campo Dance
At the Campo border dance Rosita meets Eduardo Ramirez a dashing cowboy smuggler. They marry despite danger and control as he guards and funds her life, taking her into the Tres Pesos valley and a shadowed, uncertain home.
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Senorita Rosita
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United States
Mexico
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New York
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Rasta
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Tt Pueckwoard
Edauardo
Tres Pesos
Hip Sandnlaw
Idin
The Traveler and the Troubled Affairs of Tule
A settler tale unfolds with Tule’s life touched by a wandering charm who lured a woman away from her life. Eduardo, riding from Campo, faces rural scrutiny as smugglers hide Chinese migrants across the line. Tequila, bravado, and a absent wife haunt his reckless freedom.
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Quitting the Senate Not a Popular Habit
Senator John C Spooner of Wisconsin retires from the Senate to private life amid rare resignations. Historical patterns show few senators left for business or better pay, with Edmunds and Spooner noted as long-time jurists and lawmakers. Capitol books rail line reveals reading tastes of Lodge Foraker and Illiam.
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Bo Ashington
John C. Spooner
Wisconsin
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Yne
George F. Edmunds
Vermont
Philadelphia
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Aittle
Spooner
Mr. Edmunds
Judiciary Committee
States
Reading Ties of Statesmen and Juvenile Tales
A study notes many lawmakers and judges read juvenile literature while the Congress and Supreme Court keep records of books drawn from the library. A Mexican pursuit tale unfolds amid border tensions as Eduar do shoots a rurales guard, with a comrade killed nearby in a rocky escape. An ongoing Carnegie Institute project surveys Negro labor from slavery to freedom, led by Alfred Holt Stone, promising a broad economic history. Sheridan statue delays persist as Ward's contract is canceled and work restarts after 19 years.
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Capitol
Tourits
Congress
Congressional Library
Supreme Court
Henry Cabot Lodge
Old Bay State
Timmy the Boatblack
Little Joe
James Otis
Foraker
Ohio
Olver Optic
Illiman
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
W. Clark Russell
Yur
Aldrich
Joe” Cannon
Gahorian
Department of Economics and Sociology
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Andrew Carnegie
Alfred Holt Stone
Mississippi
Stone
America
Philip H. Sheridan
National Capital
Army of the Cumberland
Attes
Q. A. Ward
J.e
Ward
Public statues and a rejected sculptor’s work in the city
The article notes a sculptor’s 45 year effort rejected as inadequate while statues of Hancock and Logan, begun in 1894, stand in public squares. It recounts a 50,000 dollar congressional funding by 1891 and a 30,000 dollar contract in 1893 to Ward for the statue, with Garfield and Thomas already atop city monuments.
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Agricultural and Industrial High School
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Yuckanan County
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Tani County
Board of Control of
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Department of Insurance
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BY Elliott Flower
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