Indiana Tax Board Reports Corporation Valuation Shifts
The Indiana state board of tax commissioners reports final 1913 valuations for steam railroads, telephones, express, sleeping car, pipeline and transportation firms. Increases total 3,973,548 with telephones and electric roads rising, while telegraph and express face declines. The board notes unequal personal assessments and urges counties to adopt uniform valuation and discipline gambling at county fairs. Canal plans for Ohio Falls are dropped. Catholic societies elect Indiana officers as county fairs face moral policy decisions.
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Indianapolis
State Board of Tax Commissioners
State Board
Parcel Post
County Board of Review
State Tax Board
Indiana
Uncle Sam Manufactures Some Expensive Toys
In Washington the navy yard toy shop hides six experts crafting marine playthings in three rooms. Army toys include miniature guns mule teams and field hospital models. Models scale quarter to one foot reproduce ships, with precision to one hundredth of an inch.
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Things Marine
Uncle Sam
Army Signal Corps
Army Toy
War
Navy
Santa Clara
Bronze Civil War guns guard Jackson statue in Lafayette Square
Four bronze muzzle loading field pieces stand around the Jackson monument in Lafayette Square. Their carriages and wheels show Civil War era design, with one corner pair featuring ornate handles from older ships’ guns. Col Spencer Cosby cites nine years of inquiry with no definite provenance from official records.
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Lafayette Square
Spencer Cosby
Engineer Corps
United States Army
District of Columbia
Cosby
War Department
Failure to Kill Flies Labeled Blot on Civilization
Dr. L O Howard head of the U S Department of Agriculture pest unit calls fly prevention crucial and says flies spread typhoid tuberculosis cholera infantum and dysentery bacilli. He urges garbage collection watertight stable floors cleanliness and health officer inspections to eradicate fly breeding and reduce nuisance. Dr Arthur J Murray aids local stable campaign urging owners to eliminate fly hatcheries.
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L. O. Howard
Bureau of Notomology
United States Department of Agriculture
America
Doctor Howard
Department of Agriculture
Germville
Board of Health
Howard
Arthur J. Murray
District of Columbia Health Department
Feeding the Help in Large Hotels Sparks Salary Debate
The article discusses whether hotels should raise employee salaries and drop meals or continue providing meals. It cites Chicago and New York houses with meals for first officers or reduced menus, and others paying weekly salaries without board. The debate centers on cost, fairness, and standard practices in major hotels.
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Washington
Chicago
New York
Language and Misheard Words at Indiana Movies
Connersville reports Willie La Five a deaf fifteen year old who dislikes moving pictures when the language and whispers of actors offend his sense of hearing. He notes a minister’s exaggerated profanity in a scene and plans to skip films with such dialogue. Also: a Clinton sighting of a rare white woodpecker and a South Bend blaze that burned forty acres, damaging timber worth thousands after berry-pickers sparked the fire.
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Connersville
Willie LaFive
Wille
Hps
Willie
South Bend
Alfred Ludwig
Ludwig
Reptile Head Mashed By Motorcycle Collision
Shelbyville rural route carrier Rollyn Barnes hits a blue racer head after it chases him on a motorcycle. The reptile’s head is crushed in the machine sprocket and found dead.
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Shelbyville
Aug
Rollyn Barnes
Centenarian dies in Frankfort after birthday year
Centenarian Mrs. Clartasa Jenkins dies of paralysis at her daughter Mrs. Hester Korn’s home in Frankfort. Born March 11 1898 she last celebrated her 100th birthday in the city.
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Frankfort
Clartasa Jenkins
Latch
Hester Korn
Jenkins
Caveman Drowns In Ohio River Accident
New Albany report says Otto Shaney aged twenty two, single, drowned after a splinfg boat overturned on the Ohio River. Rescue efforts failed as the body had not been recovered at press time.
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Caveman
New Albany
Otto Shaney
Ohio
Canal project dropped after dissolution in Ohio Falls company
Jeffersonville reports the dissolution notice of Ohio Falls Hydraulic Manufacturing Company filed with the secretary of state ends plans dating to March 8 1870 by Robert Cunningham and others to build a canal or race to power mills and manufacture goods. The firm built a river powered mill later burned in 1901 and not rebuilt while Clarksville litigation seeks 33 acres between town lots and the river against a 1803 grant claim.
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Ohio
Jeffersonville
Ohio Falls
Clarksville
Indiana News In Brief Summary of Local Events
Petersburg fire destroys farm home and barn of Yuy Shinder ten miles south of Petersburg. Bedford reports L. E. Montgomery elected high school principal, resigning Mt. Vernon post. Cambridge City school board reorganizes with Wissler as president Harrison secretary Marson treasurer. Drought halts Cup Creek and Big Sky ditch work due to lack of water. Evansville passes tank riding ordinance restricting passengers on motorcycles. Sullivan bootlegger Ben Frederick recaptured after attempting escape during transfer. St Paul Bright Ridlen family reunion planned near Shelbyville August 16 led by George E. Siifer and Hazel Wright. Terre Haute sheriff and deputies seek evidence in arson on James Johnson farm near Prairieton. New Albany Blanche Boyd sues Dr John Hazlewood for 10000 damages for slander and 5000 for injuries from assault. Munice area family reunions scheduled at Mercelina, Riverside, McCulloch parks and nearby towns in August. Jeffersonville Dr Joseph Zuerner seeks city payment for smallpox patient contracts. city maintains parties should pay. Jeffersonville teen Andrew Rauth survives twenty-foot well fall after fumes from explosion. Evansville Pittsurgh students Roland Thompson and Harold Cadmos canoe down from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, plan rail return. Marion William H. Anderson will estate valued at about 60000 with property to niece and nephew and a sister. widow receives remainder. Aurora teachers feature slated September 1 to 8 in Versailles church with noted instructors. Columbus seeks to hire Columbus and Hope bands for Bartholomew County Fair. bid proposals discussed with Retail Merchants Association.
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Petersburg
Bedford
L. E. Montgomery
Mt. Vernon
Cambridge City
B. F. Wissler
W. H. Harrison
F.C. Marson
Cup Creek
Big Sky Ditch
Evansville
Sullivan
Ben Frederick
St. Paul
Bright-Ridlen
Shelbyville
George E. Siifer
Hazel G. Wright
Terre Haute
Shea
Prairieton
James Johnson
New Albany
Blanche Boyd
Floyd
John Hazlewood
Munete
Smiths
Mercelina Park
Petersons
Riverside Park
Eaton Baileys
McCulloch Park
Muncie
Willams- Fudge
Effersonville
Joseph Zuerner
Jeffersonville
Andrew Rauth
William Rauth
Andrew Schlosser
Roland Thompson
Harold Cadmos
Pittsburg
New Orleans
Pittsborg
Marlon
William H. Anderson
Grant Trust and Savings Company
Fortrude Lawton
Marion
Willard P. Ingram
Seattle
Harriett McCanless
Logansport
Nettle Anderson
Aurora
Versailles Church
Ulysses G. Cox
Indiana State Normal
Thomas L. Gibson
Baltimore
Henry W. Elson
Ohio University
Columbus
Retail Merchants’ Association
Bartholomew County Fair Association
Columbus and
Hope
Jtomen
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Wr. J. Griffin
American Federation of Catholic Societies
Indianapolia
Otto Kluozberger
Migs Illa Hallinin
Indianapelia
John Langen
Tipton
John Swizer
Richmond
Henry Dawson
Hugh Mullen
Jaki Arthur
Taglinapeke
State Board of Agriculture
Charles Downing
Indiafha
Downing
Indianapolis Light & Heat Company
Marion County Board of Review
Merchants’ Heat & Light Company
Merchants’ Company
County Board
State Board of Health
Kentucky
Lillian South
Henry County
Henry County Farm Improvement Association
Manufacturers and
Claypool Hotel
Toy Maker
Jackson Monument
Stron Peruscosis
Indiana News
Clinton
John Church
Ellsworth
Thomas Quinn
Dr. A. M. Kirkpatrick
Kirkpatrick
Chester Aros
Illinois
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