World News Roundup Highlights Tax, War Surprises
Secretary Mellon reported a treasury offering of about 600 million dollars with subscriptions near 1.4 billion. Senate Finance Committee decisions affect the excess profits tax, income surtaxes, and a one year tax revision. Also noted: potential repeal proposals, refunds, and enforcement actions along with various incidents nationwide from rail securities to criminal cases and public notices.
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Senate Finance Committee
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Ruth hits world record homer as Browns fall
Sporting star Babe Ruth belts his fifty fifth homer of the season in a New York game against the St. Louis Browns. Separate items note Greek citizenship notices, Belfast rioting, United States judge election at Geneva, Polish food-supply law, German casualties, Diaz plot arrests, French textile strikes, and Lloyd George canceling an Irish conference amid Irish sovereignty tensions.
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Babe Ruth
New York
St. Louis Browns
Unclear fragmentary item notes canary interment in New York
Fragmentary text mentions a pet canary interred in New York and references old inns of Chancery with historical dating. No clear event, date, or names are discernible from the readable portions.
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Clifford's Inn
Inns of Chancery
New York
Fragmentary line hints at stage audition woes
A garbled quotation from the Birmingham Age-Herald suggests drama text with a leading lady expressing frustration over a picket or protest related to a production. The fragment offers little context beyond implied theater tensions.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Cuticura ad and domestic exchange fragment
A fragmented page item shows a Cuticura advertisement claiming pimples and blackheads can be removed in five minutes with Cuticura Soap and Ointment, plus daily use to keep skin clear. A brief dialogue snippet presents a marital exchange about matrimony.
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Treasury
Internal Revenue
Marine Corps
Internal Revenue Bureau
Grover Cleveland
Farmers’ Terminal Elevator Company
Sioux City
Military Order of the Cootie of the United States of America
Trenton, N. J
Martin
Hoboken and Vicinity
Oscar E. Carson
Department of Illinois
United Spanish War Veterans
Minneapolis
Minn
Gary
Ind
Roscoe
Fatty”) Arbuckle
Virginia Rappe
San Francisco
Gilman Holmes
Sidney Mapheim
Columbia
Chicago
Grand Army of the Republic
Indianapolis
St. Louis
John Hollens
North St. Louis Savings Trust Company
John Webb
Hibbing
Berlin
Texas & Pacific
Fort Worth
Tex
International Association of Fire Fighters
Columbus
Harry Sinclair
Akron
O. Sportsman
Cleveland
Fenother
Federated Shop Crafts Unions
Terre Haute
Louise Willoughby
Roy Parse
D. van Dorn
Des Moines
van Dorn
Dubuque
Thomas W. Murphy
Peter Manning
Syracuse
Xii
Ed Allen
Chester River
Chester
Sylvester Brown
Ohio
Alexander R. Warren
Youngstown
Maria Chavez
Pueblo, Colo
Waterman
Thomas Hewett
Cornell University
London
Ithaca, N. Y
Professor Hewett
Samuel M. Taylor
Arkansas
S S
Athens
Ooss
Belfast
Vere Street
John Bassett Moore
United States
International Court of Justice
Assembly of the League of Nations
Geneva
Switzerland
Poland
Warsaw
Stix
Felix Diaz
Mexico
War Department
Textle
Lille
Roubaix
Turceing
France
Metal
Seite
Lloyd George
Garrioch
Beotland
de Valera
Ireland
Repubiic
Bolokeviki
Zacchea
Harding
United ‘States Navy
New York Shipbuilding Corporation
Betsy
Thorobury
Libertyville
White House
Rockaway
MR. Fallen
Yosemite
Cunaie
Aru
Cheney
Dean
Aington
Buffalo
K. Ny
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