Fair Taxation Against Power Drives State Tax Policy
Testimony before the committee emphasized electricity as a growing rail and mining power, with Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul lines proving electric traction and Montana Power paying increased taxes. Evans outlined perishable electrical equipment and the need to tax all properties on equal footing, urging not to burden taxpayers while noting windfalls and risks of hydro projects. Kremer highlighted Superior’s rise as a major state taxpayer and the broader impact on mining and power industries.
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Anaconaa Copper Mining Company
Evans
Washington
Montana Power Company Ia
Couny
J. Bruce Kremer
Butte & Superior
Butte
Kremer
Miners Killed in West Virginia During Last Year
Charleston West Virginia January 19 Earl Jenry head of the department of mines announced that three miners were killed in the states mines during 2016 The note also mentions Pennsylvania as the only state charging tolls for using the Lincoln highway.
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West Virginia
Charleston
W. Va
Earl Jenry
Department of Mines
Today
Pennsylvania
Hich
Diet Critics of Government in Prussian Assembly
Berlin January 18 Berlin reports that the Prussian Diet assumed the role of critic of the government during its latest session. Speakers urged vigorous prosecution of the war and expanded submarine warfare while seeking to avoid open attacks on Chancellor von Dethmann Hollweg. Progovernment figures urged restraint and emphasized unity to support wartime aims.
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Berlin
London
Feldatag
Chaneellor von Dethmann-Hollweg
von Heydebrand
United States
Paul Breitenbach
Shanpattor
Ueneteessty
Sven Dr. von Heydebrand
Fiela Marshal von Kindengare
Wanans
Germany
Herr Friedberg
National Liberal Party
Amsterdam
Reuter
Cigarette price hikes from United Cigar Stores and Tobacco Products
New York reports increased cigarette prices as United Cigar Stores raise boxes by 1 to 3 cents to begin next Monday, citing higher costs for labor tobacco and wrapping. Tobacco Products Corp boosts by 25 cents to $1 per thousand cigarettes at one cent scale. In Vienna a food policy meeting involving military and government leaders is noted.
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New York
United Cigar Stores Company
Tobacco Products Corporation
United
Conference on economic questions and Romanian food distribution
A Hague conference discussed economic questions focusing on the distribution of food captured in Romania during the dispute with the Exchange Telegraph company. The talks centered on how the food would be allocated amid the ongoing tension and regional needs.
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Hague
Exchange Telegraph Company
Rumania
Double storage charge plan for grain rejected by ICC
The Interstate Commerce Commission disapproved railroad proposals to double and quadruple storage charges on export grain at Atlantic port elevators in New York Philadelphia Baltimore Boston Newport News and other ports and for grain in cars awaiting unloading at Baltimore and Philadelphia. It ruled the measures aimed to relieve port congestion should be reached by other means, as the plan would impose heavy penalties on trains despite affecting millions of bushels shipped to wartime Europe.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Boston
Newport News
Atlantic
Trunkine Railways
Europe
Ita
Commission
Hunger Across Regions Drives Death Toll Over Half a Million
Rome reports 510000 deaths from starvation with Syria and Lebanon hit hard. Beymout residents found nearly starving in streets while crisis reports mount across Palestine and interior regions. The piece notes a seraphine war instrument that preceded the harmonium.
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Rome
Paris
Syria
Corriere d'Ttalla
Lebanon
Beymout
Palestine
Postal censorship on deported Belgians disclosed
New York reports a German postal censorship order affecting deported Belgian workers. The Belgian consul Pierre Mali cites military zone regulations forbidding workers from telling families their work sites. The message notes harsh conditions and illness among deported laborers sent back from Ghent.
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New York
Germany
Havre
France
Pierre Mali
Mali
Belgium
Ghent
Nearly half a million captives in Russia reported
London 19 Nan 11 20 a m More than 628000 officers and men were taken as prisoners by the Russians during the last year and 62000 gone captured according to the Russian service organ quoted in a Central News dispatch from Petrograd today The journal reviews war operations of the year with figures for officers 8770 men 420000 guns 525 machine guns 1661 trench mortars and mire throwers 421 More than 80 percent of the force yielding came from General Brusiloff operations.
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London
Petrograd
Duma Dane Changed Amid Russia Duma Date Set
London reports from the semi official Russian news agency that an imperial ukase sets February 27 for the opening of the Duma and the council while a prior ukase had fixed January 24 Ninety three percent of the ocean floor remains devoid of vegetation.
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London
Duma
Council
Americans to be evacuated from Syria and Palestine
A diplomatic cable from Ambassador Bikus in Constantinople says the number of Americans seeking to leave Syria and Palestine has risen to over a thousand. The navy will use the cruiser Des Moines and the collier Caesar to bring them to Barcelona for transshipment home aboard commercial liners. Beirut remains the exit point. most evacuees are Syrians Armenians Hebrews and native American missionaries.
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Washington
Bikus
Constantinople
Syria
Palestine
State Department
Navy
Des Moines
Barcelona
Spain
Beirut
Turkey
Palestin
Four Federations Protest Potato Ration Cut
Amsterdam reports Berlin authorities faced protests from four minor federations over cutting the weekly potato ration from five to three pounds. Protests argue turnips cannot substitute potatoes and urge restoration of the former allowance.
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London
Berlin
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