Mellon outlines taxes to fund a future bonus
Secretary Mellon tells the Ways and Means Committee that a bonus bill would need at least 50 million dollars in its first two years and could be funded mainly by taxes. Proposed measures include higher postage rates, tobacco taxes, stamps, bank checks, and a 50 cent per horsepower auto license. Mellon estimates 300 million dollars a year in new revenue, leaving a 125 million dollar first year deficit to be covered, potentially by a gasoline tax. He warns such taxes would be unpopular but urges concrete discussion.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
Congress
Case Ways and Means Committee
Cleveland Demand Seeks 700 Removal From Politics
A civic push in Cleveland calls to remove the 700 from political discourse. Critics argue that without political framing, the zoo would avoid politicians acting like monkeys.
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Cleveland
Ex-crown prince says monarchy benefits not the people
The ex crown prince of Germany dismisses monarchy as serving public interests, noting it costs Germans coal in several ways. The remark reflects ongoing debate over royal role and national burden.
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Germany
Willie
Swedish expert warns third year most dangerous in marriage
A Swedish expert claims the third year of marriage is the riskiest, urging couples to skip to the fourth year to avoid trouble. The remark plays on common relationship lore and mirrors ongoing debate about marital stability.
Price drops abroad and tombstone costs set to fall
The Department of Commerce reports foodstuffs have fallen in price worldwide. The National Monument Dealers Association warns tombstone prices may ease in early spring. The saying about life, hope, and cheer for survivors mirrors the grim irony.
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Department of Commerce
National Monument Dealers’ Association
Campaign urges Peoria women to quit cosmetics for schooling
In Peoria Illinois a drive urges women to abandon cosmetics and redirect funds to education. The slogan suggests being well read is better than being well red and notes beauty as a form of paint.
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Peoria
Ill
Parody Gang of Chickens and Local Misdeeds Stir Town
In a humorous scene a stray chicken eludes a small French detachment until a soldier subdues it by tucking it inside his shirt after a command dispute. In a separate exchange Widow Mingus confronts Mrs Mina gus over red paint on her dress and a fence sign about Sandy Bevan.
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Mingus
Andy White
Prize Fight Cable Gone Viral
A humorous tale from Mr Iu gene Corri recalls an American prize fight where a father instructs his son to wire the outcome. The son sends the message Won easily Seventy five rounds, a line that surprised readers with its absurd exaggeration.
On The Spur Of The Moment and Prohibition Echoes
A fragment from a 1908 era column notes a man giving a lecture on Russia while critics remain unable to challenge him. It references a North Carolina moonshine label praised as potent and bootlegger commerce, now placed in the Internal Revenue Museum. The piece also mentions a Wisconsin obituary note and a high-profile heiress scandal headline.
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North Carolina
Asheville
Internal Revenue
Blair
North
Internal Revenue Bureau
China opens doors to a new era as old walls fall
Frederic J. Haskin describes Canton as a focal point of China’s modernization with streets widening, parks planned, and a blend of ancient crafts and modern machinery. He notes public sentiment shifts under young officials shaping a new culture, influenced by American and Japanese ideas, and Canton’s transformation toward a modern, global city.
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Washington, D. C
China
Canton
South China
Yang Chin
Rams
Cantonia
New York
Blackwood Cutters
Josh
Ity
Young China” Party
Magzzini
Italy
Japan
Niew
New China
Logan churchgoers fill Otterbein class in Athens region
A Logan report describes crowded Otterbein Class of United Brothers Church with 176 men, led by Superintendent H. M. Whitcraft and teacher C. L. Yokum. Tipton M E Class, Bible study, cottage prayers, and local clergy activities reflect strong church life in the Hocking Valley.
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Otterbein
United Brothers Church
Clyde Ballard
Henry Jacoby
W. P. White
Stevies
Frank Anthony
H. G. Hansel
Frank Weatherspoon
Jeremiah G. Spears
Chas
Achauer
Tipton
M. E. Church of
Porter Waugh
Winfield Scott Yaw
Waugh
United Brethers Church
Jeremiah
Methodist Church
Nao
Ed N. Turner
M. E. Church
Athens
Nelsonville
Hocking Valley
Citizens weigh city fixes and fashion in Logan notes
Three residents offer ideas from safer sidewalks from Union station to Court street to penology on dress code. They urge Logan Orchestra to buy music, and heavy hardware firm Work Brothers touts the Messenger. Community traffic, commerce, and daily paper reach into Logan.
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Athens
Union Station
Court Street
Court House
John Peeway
Logan Orchestra
Frank Lyke
Logan
Work
Watch Dog Booklet Available in Local Stores
Logan readers can buy the Watch Dog Booklet a 70 page collection of the year’s best column articles for twenty five cents Byron Wolfe of The Carpenter Hardware Co. sells them with farm tools this week Albany Chauncey Amesville Nelsonville Glouster store listings and reader mail adds twenty seven cents for postage
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Logan
Byron Wolfe
Carpenter Hardware Co
Albany
Goldsberry
Chauncey
Ministers
Ames
Questions and Answers from The Athens Messenger Bureau
A column from The Athens Messenger outlines how readers may submit questions for answers on various topics. Sample Q A pairs cover coal seams in Germany and the United States, London's West and East Ends, Fiji cannibalism, the Glockenspiel, and bilge water aboard ships.
Woman says she will die and wants husband Walter to go with her
In Cincinnati Walnut Hills Mrs Virgie Shelton 23 explains she shot her husband Walter Shelton 24 as he slept fled the scene. She cried she loved him and wished him to go with her. Husband wounded in head not serious. He served in France and cannot work. Children age 4 and 5 face hunger. Charities aid requested.
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Virgie Shelton
Walter Shelton
Walnut Hills
France
Shelton
Church Leaders Take Troubles Into the Courts
In Steubenville Ohio on February 20, a dispute at the Serbian Orthodox church in Mingo Junction led to two court actions. The congregation seeks to restrain Rev Daniel Bukrovich from conducting services and from mobilizing a mob to seize the church by force. Bukrovich asks the court to bar certain members from hindering his services.
Hast Union township fights over new high school site
In Wooster Feb. 20 voters approved a $65,000 bond for a township high school after a heated battle. A new clash over the building location splits three factions with the state department of education expected to decide. Bond vote totaled 332 for and 299 against.
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Wooster
Hast Union Township
State Department of Education
Roads to Salem Poor In Winter Urge Athens Improvement
A Salem resident laments bad winter roads from Athens to Salem. Travel is nearly impossible, horses needed to pull wagons, and residents rely on mail orders for groceries while few own cars. The writer urges Athens to build a better road to boost local commerce.
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Messenger
Salem
Athens
Baker killed in bread mixer accident in Waterbury
Waterbury Connecticut February 20 John Kazie aged fifty a baker was almost instantly killed when he fell into a bread mixer Saturday and was nearly torn to pieces in the machine authorities reported the incident as a fatal accident at the bakery scene
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Waterbury, Conn
John Kazie
Alter Words by Warren W Wheat on Ford Muscle Shoals bid
Col Hugh L Cooper government engineer and designer of Muscle Shoals Alabama warns Congress against Henry Ford bid saying acceptance would bring the "most terrible calamity ever felt in the South" and Congress must know what the proposal means.
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International News Service
Washington
Hugh L. Cooper
Muscle Shoals
Henry Ford
Alabama
Cooper
South
Ford
Congress
Home Ownership in Elyria Reveals Occupant Owned Majority
Elyria Ohio reports 4 904 houses with 2 800 owned by occupants and 2 104 rented. Of the non rent class, a high percentage have unencumbered mortgages, indicating strong equity among owner occupied homes.
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Elyria, O
Elyria
Nnte
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