Michigan State News fight over property assessment method
Michigan State News reports a tax assessment dispute involving ex-press companies before the State board of railway assessors in Lansing. On advice from the Attorney General, the tax commission excluded ocean mileage in valuing the companies, raising tax totals. The Legislature did not grant explicit authority to exclude ocean mileage, yet the AG believes the board could compute as insisted. American Express Co led the challenge with other firms joining, arguing they are not corporations but partnerships and should not be taxed by the State board.
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Eechamiens
State Board of Railway Assessors
Lansing
Tax Commission
American Express Co
State Board of Assessors
Look Into Treasury Tie-Up By Grand Jury Probe
The Mason grand jury opened a statewide inquiry into ex State Treasurer Glazier. It centered on Glazier's loan methods and control of a bank at Dexter, where he secured a $25,000 State deposit and borrowed it with stock in the Glazier Store Company as security. Investigators aim to show possible violations of law and to trace $60,000 of State funds tied up in Chelsea Bank.
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Mason
Glazier
Thomas Birkett
Dexter
Birkett
Chelsea
Detroit Saloons Under Lid Tightens Prohibition Sweep
Police report only five of 1550 Detroit dramshops kept open during a Sunday liquor ban as nationwide prohibition momentum grows. Despite closures many outlets in Wayne County remained open, prompting arrests, cross-city travel for drinks, and a secret brewer meeting planning resistance.
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Detroit
Wayne County
Trenton
River Rouge
Thirteen Club Marries Off Its Unmarried Members
Kalamazoo society circle known as the Thirteen Club completed its aims as its final two unmarried members Arthur Walton and Reba Moore wed, bringing thirteen couples total in thirteen months. The club, formed of leading residents, hosted events on the eleventh of each month and none of the members have filed for divorce.
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Kalamazoo
Arthur Walton
Reba Moore
$60,000 Station Planned for Grand Rapids Outskirts
Unofficial plans outline a $240000 union depot at Fuller station. Fuller sits at the junction of the Grand Trunk Pere Marquette and Grand Rapids Indiana lines, with work expected to start soon in the northwestern Grand Rapids area.
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Grand Rapids
Fuller Station
Fuller
Grand Trunk
Pere Marquette
Grand Rapids & Indiana
High cost per pupil in Clarence district schooling
In Clarence township within the Davis district only two children remain. After a lengthy meeting the board approved hiring a teacher at 150 dollars for five months. The resulting cost per pupil would be about 100 dollars, the highest per capita cost in the state.
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Calhoun
Davis
Clarence
Infant dies from kitchen stove fire burn accident
Loy 11 month old son of Mr and Mrs L Snyder near Brant fatally burned when his dress caught fire from a kitchen stove spark. Mother found him and extinguished the flames but he died several hours later. Parents, well to do farmers, are prostrate over the loss.
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Loy
Edgar
St. Ignace
Flint
Flint River
William Charters
Frank Groulx
Frank Villaire
Bay City
Abraham C. Farley
Emwos
Michigan Central Railroad
Kalamazoo
John Barnes
Standish
Boy Frozen in Strawstack Mystifies Monroe County
Luke Robert, a 15 year old boy missing since Sunday, was found frozen in a hay stack on his father's farm north of Monroe. Officials say heart trouble likely caused his death, though how he entered the stack remains a mystery.
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Jlake
Robert
Sun
Monroe
Boy Elope Back to Sterling as Plot Unfolds
Norman Shook, 16, returns to Sterling after eloping with 18 year old Rose Moran. The pair fled to Chicago where Shook feared the distance from home and ended the trip in Missouri. Moran continued on. Moran is accused of taking clothing, silverware, jewelry, and cash from employer Mrs Abbott of Sterling. Shook says he was induced to leave and that they were not married. No charges were filed against Shook.
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Sterling
Norman Shook
Rose Moran
Chicago
Missouri
Norman
Atp
Abbott
Dr. Abbott
Shook
Grandmother faces murder charge in infant death
The grandmother of Lulu Cummings's newborn in Grand Plane township is jailed on a murder count after an inquisition where she reportedly confessed to giving the baby two doses of laudanum. Police say the infant died shortly after a buggy trip with Calvin Cummings, the baby's father, who is also jailed on murder charges.
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Lulu Cummings
Grand Plane Township
Ezra Wood
Cummings
Calvin Cummings
Mundy Township
Straw Man Escape Plot In Lansing Prison Latent
Convicts Claude Kohl and J. Clark, who fled guards, were found hiding in a warehouse loft on the pen grounds. They labored in the prison mines and one carried dynamite. Authorities feared an attempt to blow nails to aid escape. Kohl had previously used a straw man in his cell.
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Claude Kohl
J. Clark
Lansing
Kohl
Fire destroys Mount Clemens Minnesota hotel causing $20000 loss
A fire at a Mount Clemens Minnesota hotel destroyed the building with an estimated loss of 20000 dollars. Local authorities investigation into the blaze is expected.
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Minnesota
Mount Clemens
Lansing
Army pay raise urged to bolster depleted ranks
Washington dispatch reports army officers warn Congress that without higher pay the regulars will be under strength and unable to defend the nation and islands. Encampments with national guardsmen may boost enlistments if pay matches duties. General Carter’s North American Review piece cited.
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Congress
National
National Guard
William N. Carter
Department of the Lakes
Missouri bank robbed in Rich Hill by five armed bandits
Five heavily armed men dynamited the Farmers and Manufacturers Bank vault in Rich Hill Missouri early yesterday, taking about $23000 after an explosion damaged the two story brick building. Citizens fired on the robbers as they fled south, but no one was injured and the sheriff’s posse failed to stop them.
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Farmers and Manufacturers’ Bank
Rich Hill
Sandits
J. W. Jamison
Woman diners barred after six p.m. case to New York hotels
A jury ruled Mrs Harriet Stanton Blatch cannot force Hofman House of New York to serve meals after 6 pm unless accompanied by a man. She will appeal with support from the Consumers' League and Federation of Women's Clubs. A bill to curb hotel discrimination against women has been introduced in the Legislature.
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Harriet Stanton Blatch
Hofman House of New York
Blatch
Consumers’ League
Federation of Women’s Clubs
Davis engagement broken no marriage planned
Miss Maud Ashford will not wed former Senator Henry Gassaway Davis of West Virginia. The engagement between Miss Ashford and Mr. Davis has been broken. No breach of promise suit or money settlement is expected.
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Mr. Davis
Miss Ashford
Washington
Mrs. Elkins
Miss Maud Ashford
Henry Gassaway Davis
Stephen B. Elkins
Young King Manuel II of Portugal Assumes Throne
An 18 year old is proclaimed King after his father's and elder brother's deaths. Manuel II, a naval veteran described as tall and good looking, faces heavy duties. England's treaty guarantees dynastic stability and would oppose any pretender seeking to disrupt Portugal's monarchy.
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Portugal
Manuel
Manuel II
England
Great Britain
Repudiation of Christian Psychology by Chicago Bishop
Bishop Fallows of Chicago leads the Christian psychology movement and rejects being seen as Christian Science. Archibald McLellan, for Mrs. Eddy via the Christian Science Sentinel, rejects any link to Christian psychology, arguing it conflicts with Christian Science and implies Christian materialism. He asserts Jesus taught spirit not matter and that God is unconscious of matter, aligning with Christian Science.
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Bishop Fallows
Chicago
Archibald McLellan
Eddy
Christian Science Sentinel
Jesus
God
Fires hit rail facilities and legal ruling on bridge trust
The Pennsylvana Railway Company's summer freight house at Creland and about twenty freight cars were burned with a loss of 75,000 dollars. A Molson warehouse area used by the Canadian Pacific railway in Montreal also burned, causing 200,000 dollars in losses insured. The Ohio Supreme Court threw out indictments against the so called bridge trust, stating the charges were not definite enough.
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Pennsylvana Railway Company
Creland
Molson
Canadian Pacific Railway
Montreal
Ohio Supreme Court
Bridge Trust
Michigan Constitutional Revision May Go Before Fall Elections
Discussion of delaying the constitutional convention revision to the fall election to gain broader voter input. Delegates favor deferring to avoid rushed passage, with plans to publish 300,000 copies of the revision and an explanatory address. The convention will reconvene February 18 to study sections, with potential amendments allowed only by unanimous consent.
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Prohibition
Constitutional Convention
Committee On Permanent Organization
Jesus at the Pool of Bethesda lessons for February 23
The lesson notes Jesus healing a long‑suffering man at Bethesda, highlighting faith as a response to Christ command. It discusses readers’ duty to help the suffering worldwide, emphasizes Jesus’ initiative in healing, and reflects on sin as a root cause of illness, plus contemporary church notes and social customs.
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Jesus
Bart
Mohemmedan
Baing
Russia
Lalia
Christ
India
Constitutional rework narrows rail rate powers and empowers express rates
Delegates defeat Sharpe on creating a state railroad commission but adopt a clause allowing lawmaking on reasonable maximum rates for express freight and empower a law created commission to set freight rates while reserving passenger rate control to the legislature. Auditor General Bradley backs employee vouchers beyond convention end. Women taxpayers gain voting rights on fiscal questions if constitutional revision passes, while radicals oppose women in politics.
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Sharpe
State Railroad Commission
Bird
Bradley
Eight Hour Work Day Proposal for Public Employees Killed
The eight hour legal workday proposal for public employees failed with 17 votes for and many against. The reforestation and wagon road works bill passed on second reading, while Hally’s amendment to allow city involvement was defeated. A reconsideration attempt occurred when an issue arose about protecting private lands used for reforestation versus state lands.
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Hally
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James A. Smith
Major Ransom
Townsend
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Fred N. Smith
Star Laundry
Carter
Maud Ashford
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Young King OF
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