Tax the President and Other Years of Life
A 1920s era column discusses taxation of the president and earned income, cancer costs, and the value of prevention. It notes Metropolitan Life’s anti cancer campaigns, a Chicago mega building project, and Russia's inland waterways while contrasting Japan China tensions and urban noise issues. It cites Dr Fisk and the Volga waterway project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Coolidge
Russia
France
Germany
Volga- Don-Ozor
Volga
Europe
Get Our Cash Prices from John Maynard Lumber Co
Griggs ambulance unit at Ray Edinburg city water works superintendent returns from Guatemala, Texas after a week visiting relatives. John Maynard Lumber Co at Fifth and Jefferson offers cash prices.
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John Maynard Lumber Co
Fifth and Jefferson
Ray Edinburg
Guatone
Texas
American Missionary Woman Killed in Taianfu Fight
Mrs William T Hobart of the American Methodist mission at Taianfu near Tsinan was killed April 29 by a bullet fired through a small bedroom window during fighting between Nationalists and Communists. The report notes weather and local conditions accompanying the dispatch.
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Associated Press
Shanghai
William T. Hobart
Taianfu
Tsinan
Tsinan Falls Before Jap Onslaught
The Chinese Nationalist government appeals to the League of Nations against Japanese intervention in Shantung. In Tsingtao the fall of Tsinan is reported after a fierce Japanese advance, with Chiang Kai-shek’s remaining forces routed and about 2000 troops in retreat as defenders resisted air and ground assaults.
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Tsinan
League OF Nations
United Press
Geneva
Shantung Province
Tsingtao
China
Chiang Kai Shek
Japanese losses in Tiwan fighting reach 21 dead
The Associated Press reports 21 Japanese soldiers killed at Tiwan with 70 wounded. Thirteen Japanese civilians died, nine wounded, while 28 civilians are missing. two of the missing possibly murdered.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Tsiwan
Japanese siege of Tsinan walls yields evacuation of Chinese troops
Japanese forces pounded the walled city of Tsinan while Chinese troops hastened to evacuate the entrenchments. The Japanese control grew as they halted firing to pressure surrender with air leaflet drops. About 2,000 besieged soldiers abandoned the city after a three hour standoff.
Japanese Railways Ordered to Move 20,000 Troops to Shantung
Tokyo May 11 railroad authorities ordered to prepare for transporting 20,000 men and 5,360 horses to Shantung China between next Sunday and month end. This will raise Japanese forces in Shantung to about 27,000 men.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Shantung
China
Hagen Wins British Open for Third Time
Walter Hagen captured the British Open with a 202 total from 72 holes at SA ICH England on May 11. He fired two 72s in final rounds to seal his third Open title after wins in 1922 and 1924, with Gene Sarazen runner up at 204 and Archie Compston at 295 total.
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Associated Press
SA Ich
England
Walter Hagen
Hagen
Gene Sarazen
Archie Compston
United States
Sandwich
Percy Allis
Berlin
Jim Barnes
Jose Jurado
Buenos Aires
Bill Mehlhorn
William Davies
A. E. Whiting
Fred Taggart
Italian Polar Dirigible Italia Returns From Lenin's Land Race
At Kings Bay Spitzbergen May 11 the Italian dirigible Italia returned at 2 pm after a 40 hour race toward Lenin's Land versus a Russian expedition believed to have departed from the Taimir Peninsula. Bad weather and fog forced abandonment of the effort. Berry's for dyeing. Phone 5229. Berry's for rug cleaning. 6209.
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Associated Press
Kings Bay
Spitzenbergen
Lenin
United Press
KINGS _BAY
Sptzenbergen
Lenn
Methodists Urge GOP Dry Power at National Conference
The Methodist Episcopal general conference in Kansas City debated making the Republican party a stronghold for dry forces and proposed distributing resolutions to other conferences. Delegates approved creating a new commission on church union to pursue closer cooperation or union with like minded churches.
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United Press
Kansas City
Republican Party
United States
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Prohibition
New York
New York City
General Conference of the
Commission On Church Union
Two Wichita Men Face Murder Charge Over Lake Kemp Drowning
Woody Tarkenton and Alvin Stewart of Wichita Falls are charged with murder in Seymour for the drowning of R. G. Irvine, a bricklayer, at Lake Kemp. A preliminary hearing is planned. bonds set at $1000, Irvine’s body sent to Sherman, Bill Whited’s body unrecovered. Preston, Irvine’s brother-in-law of Amarillo, filed the complaint.
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Witiated Press
Wichita Alls. Me
Woody Tarkenton
Tnd
Alvin Stewart
Wichita Falla
Seymour
Lake Kemp
R. G. Irvine
Nat G. Mitchell
George F. Preston
Irvine
Preston
Amarillo
Fort Kuntz
Tarkenton
Stewart
Baylor County
Mitchell
Kuntz
Liberty
P. A. Martin
89Th District Court
Bill Whitted
Sherman
Spade Finesse in Court Over Diamonds Suit
In Los Angeles Superior Court Mrs Gena Robinson finessed a spade lead, sparking a clash with Mrs Esther Lyon who sued for 21010 dollars. The judge ruled the push caused by the diamonds was more than minor and awarded Lyon 200 dollars.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Calif
Gena Robinson
Mra
Esther Lyon
Lyon
Robinson
Dixie Vets On Annual March Ends 38th Reunion
Thousands of aging Confederate veterans paraded in planters and marchers at Little Rock Arkansas as the 38th annual United Confederate Veterans reunion concluded. General A T Goodwin of Elmore Alabama was elected commander in chief, with Charlotte North Carolina named for the next gathering. R Wiles of Little Rock was named commander in chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and department commanders were chosen for Tennessee Trans Miss and Northern Virginia. The session ended without action on a joint reunion with the Grand Army of the Republic and the veterans rejected a Congress joint bill proposal by the Sons of Veterans.
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Associated Press
Little Rock
Ark
Dixie
United Confederate Veterans
Goodwin
A. T. Goodwin
Elmore
Ala
J. C. Foster
Houston
Texas
Charlotte
N. C
R. Wiles
Sons of Confederate Veterans
L. Lowry
Tampa
L. W. Stephens
Coushatta
Department of Tennessee
J. A. Yearger
Tulsa
trans-Mississippi Department
Homer Atkinson
Richmond
Department of Northern Virginia
Grand Army of the Republic
Sons of Veterans
Congress
Prairie Oil & Gas Protest Over Amarillo Franchise Bid
Prairie Oil & Gas officials plan to protest Amarillo city commission actions on granting a gas franchise for an industrial line. The commission has postponed two applications until next Tuesday, with a third bid expected. Proposals to build lines to supply gas at rates below Prairie’s schedule were submitted by Jim Whittington and Col. George Montgomery.
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Prairie Oil & Gas Company
City Commission
Amarillo
Prairie Company
Commission
The
Jim Whittington
Col
George Montgomery
Plains Get Soaking Downpour Delays Hit Trains Across Panhandle
A Panhandle wide rain averaged around one and a half inches, Amarillo reporting 1.20 inches the heaviest since last August. Sewers coped with the surge, no downtown lakes, while wheat yields are forecast at about ten bushels per acre on 1.2 million acres with much land shifting to kaffir and sorghums. Grass and cattle gains praised as rains reach Dalhart, though some Fort Worth and Denver line washouts delayed early trains.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
Dalhart
Fort Worth
Denver
Texline
Trinidad
Rainfall Totals Across Texas Panhandle and Nearby Areas
Rain gauges show varying totals across the North Plains South Plains and panhandle regions with several towns recording measurable inches. Notable totals include Spearman two inches one and three quarters in Canadian and Clayton two inches and Tucumcari one and a half inches. Some sites report light showers and a few heavy showers or dry readings.
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North Panhandle
Texline
Dalhart
Channing
Martley
Dumas
Stratford
Spearman
Perryton
Waynoka
Higgins
Shattack
Glazier
Canadian
Miami
Pampa
Panhandle
Skellytown
Pomeroy
South Plains Canyon
Hereford
Texico
Littlefield
Muleshoe
Amherst
Happy
Kress
Plainview
Slaton
Talia
Lubbock
Justiceburg
West Panhandle Adrian
Vega
Wildorado
East Panhandle Groom
Alf
McLean
Shamrock
Sayre
Claude
Clarendon
Memphis
Childress
New Mexico Clovis
Willard
Melrose
Port Sumner
Clayton
Roswell
Portales
Carlsbad
Tucumcari
Nara Visa
Endee
San Jon
Go Get Em Mike Orders Chicago Nightlife Clamp
Chicago May 11. Police Commissioner Hughes orders 1 am curfew and strict enforcement to close poolrooms soft drink parlors and halt rum running. He warns deputies to jail racketeers and stop open gambling or face the police trial board. Continued on page two.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Hughes
Missouri
Mike” Hughes
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Star One
America
Globe
Pennsylvania
Wacker Drive
Kinzie Street
Mammoth Merchandise Mart
Amanullah
Afghanistan
Mississippi Valley
Japan
Tsinan-Fa
Tsa Kung-Tse
Griggs Ambulance
Ture
Blackburn Ambulance
North Pole
Berry
Berry's
Methodists
Dixie Vets
Berry’s
Plains
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