Taft Supervises Finishing of 2 Percent Corporate Tax Amendment
President Taft will personally supervise final work on a proposed 2 percent tax on net earnings of corporations. Wickersham and Root draft the amendment with Knox and Senate finance committee members, aiming for introduction in the Senate Thursday. The plan includes extensive publicity to curb stock and bond evasion and defines net earnings with exemptions for small corporations.
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Taft
White House
Wickersham
Root
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Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Capitol
Elkins
West Virginia
National Cotton Association Meeting in Monte Ne Ark
Delegates from all cotton growing states arrive for the third annual convention at Monte Ne Arkansas with Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Florida represented. John D Walker of Sparta Georgia, a noted banker and cotton planter, is expected to become permanent president as the convention opens for several days of sessions.
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Ark
National Cotton Association
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Texas
Arkansons
Florida
John D. Walker
Sparta
Sesiion
Busy City Council handles garb age and street issues
Atlanta council debates waste management options including crematories and outside land for haulage. It also advances charter amendments, street paving, sidewalk work, near beer license filings, streetcar franchise reconsideration, and invites the 1920 newspaper circulators convention to Atlanta.
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Ecity
Hancock
Mitchell Street
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Washington Street
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Forrest Avenue
Peachtree
Jackson Streets
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Decatur Street
Yonge Street
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Wall Street
W. E. Cook
Walker Street
J. R. Lima
Decatur
Samuel Loeb
H. W. Greer
West Pine
John A. Gilea
Peters Street
Joseph Eplan
South Broad
J. C. McDaniel
J. T. Caudle
Carroll
Myrick & Co
Edgewood Avenue
H.R. Pitts
McDaniel
Radford & Avery
Magnolia
W. R. Pitts
West Mitchell
C. Clark
Orme Street
Friend & Quinn
Peachtree Street
Peachtree Road
Ponce de Leon Avenue
Moreland Avenue
Candler
Chambdera
Chambers
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Noese
Johnson
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Boynton
Harrison
Chasewood
Smith
Vaughan
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Wright
Foster
Minor
General Council
Mer
Lee Smith
National Association of Newspaper Circulators
Hts
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Cleveland
Ohio
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company
Heaith
Piedmont Park
Alleged Bonaparte knew evidence was false
Washington June 2 Attorney General Wickersham ordered to send to the Senate all facts on the Perrin case in California timber land frauds. Perrin convicted but reversed on appeal. Sealed packages opened for Senate inspection. Hart report criticizes sealing by Bonaparte and urges action. Borah demands reasons for Bonaparte’s failure to act.
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Washington
Wickersham
Senate Committee On Judiciary
Senate
E. B Perrin
Wiliams
Ariz
California
Department of Justice
Deviinle
Robert T. Destin
United States
Devlin
Perrin
Snell
Judiciary Committee
W . Flarr
Nolle
Harr
W. J. Burns
United States Secret Service
Francis J. Heney
Burns
Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Hart
Borah
Granddaughter of General Sigel killed in trunk crime
Miss Elsie Sigel, granddaughter of the late General Franz Sigel, was found dead stuffed in a trunk in a Chinese rooming house at 728 Eighth Avenue New York. Police traced the murder to a Chinese suspect, William Leon, and an associate Chun Sin amid threats and disappearance of a cousin. Ellateral notes linked to Sigel’s Civil War fame and Missouri ties.
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Ete 1. Sigel
Franz Sigel
Eighth Avenue
New York
Paul Sigel
Washington
Elaie
Wiliam Leon
Chun Sin
Leen
Leon
Sin
Elale Slee
William Leon
Elsie Sige
Mijas Sige
Wilaons Creek
Missouri
Lyon
Burge Found Guilty in Wife Slaying Trial
George Burge truck farmer was found guilty of murdering his wife Mrs Tovey Burge at their Chattahoochee Avenue home. The jury returned the verdict after a full morning of testimony and closing arguments. Burge intends to appeal with lawyer Clinton Thompson as sentence set for today. A bloodied night gown was displayed as key evidence and Burge denied the killing while offering an alibi at his first court appearance.
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Tovey Burge
Gilbert
Burge
Clinton Thompson
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Columbus
Tudge Roan
Charles D Hill
Wiliam M. Smith
Chattahoochee Avenue
Seaboard
Frank Britton
Leonard Burge
George McCravy
Mra. Burge
George McCrary
Mattee
Dunbar
Roosevelt Sends Baby Antelopes to Daughter on Vaderland
Two baby antelopes from Roosevelt New York were delivered to Mrs Nicholas Longworth on June 21 aboard the steamer Vaderland. Ex president Roosevelt sent the animals to his daughter as a gift and the cargo arrived safely in New York harbor.
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Nicholas Longworth
Vaderland
Howard Gould Escapes an Ordeal in Separation Suit
Sensation seekers crowded the New York supreme court as Howard Gould declined to testify in Katherine Clemmons Gould’s suit for separation. Mrs Alice Bankhead testified Gould’s wife drank only modestly, while Lt. Bankhead, son of Senator Bankhead, supported Mrs Gould with accounts of decorum and propriety.
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Katherine Clemmons Gould
Howard Gould
Jug
Tie Lawling
Supreme Court
Ttj
Clarence J Shearn
Plaintff
Shearn
Gould
Mr. Gould
Atlanta
Alice 5. Bankhead
Henry McCauley Bankhead
Fort McPherson
Bankhead
Senator Bankhead
Alabama
Pri
Army
Slayer of Girl Still At Large In Quasi-Scandal Murder
A chaotic press of reports centers on the murder of Elsie Sigel daughter of Paul Sigel and granddaughter of Major General Franz Sigel. Suspects Chung Sin and a Chinese man formerly linked to a New York restaurant figure in the case. Police have little conclusive evidence and ongoing investigations in Amsterdam and Schenectady. Elsie Sigel is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery after a private funeral. A separate dispatch notes a possible gubernatorial nomination for President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton University, with Democratic leaders discussing his potential candidacy.
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Elsie Sigel
Paul Sigel
Franz Sigel
Chung Sin
Amsterdam
Schenectady
Leon Ling
Wiliam H Leon
Leon
Eighth Avenue
Hwssle Sigel
Woodlawn
Reginald
Theodore
Frank Sigel
Woodrow Wilson
Princeton University
New Jersey
Ban of Heresy Put on Foster by Baptists
Chicago June 21 report on Professor George Burman Foster of the University of Chicago being dropped from the Baptist Ministers Conference amid a stormy meeting. Hisses and confusion marked the session as debates over Foster’s alleged denial of Christ’s divinity intensified, with Rev Dr Dix and others clashing over membership and action. The conference ultimately removed Foster, though it lacks power to expel him from the church. A second item notes Paris observatory announcing a new comet discovered by Borrelly and Professor Daniel of Princeton, to be named Borrelly Daniel.
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Christ
Chicago
George Burman Foster
University of Chicago
Professor Foster
C. Dixon
Moody Church
D D Messurin
Dr Dixona
Paris
Paris Observatory
Academy of Sciences
M. Borrelly
Marzeflles
Daniel
Princeton
Borrelly
Weather Prophecy Showers Hit Georgia This Week
Local forecast predicts showers with moderate south winds across Georgia on Tuesday and Wednesday. Temperatures range from lows to highs with normal values noted. rainfall expected within 24 hours and excess since month start recorded. The report lists mean and excess figures for the period including January data.
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