Rules Adopted for Income Tax Collection in 1894
The Treasury approves Internal Revenue regulations enforcing the income tax. Returns must be filed by the first Monday in March each year for all U S residents with income above 3500. Corporations file annual net profits returns with detailed disclosures. penalties include 50 to 100 percent surcharges for noncompliance or fraud.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
United States
Internal Revenue
Little Freddie Griffith receives skin grafts in Montclair
The Herald reports twelve year old Freddie Griffith burns on Fourth of July left with full body injuries. Doctors and volunteers graft 2000 skin pieces from 12 donors including his father and mother. Authorities aim for 5000 pieces with recovery projected to take months and a year for full activity.
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Indianapolis News
New York
the Herald
Freddie Griffith
Montclair
N. J
Freddie
Case
Halsey
Mr. Griffith
Carlisle's Bill Outlines National Banking Reform Plan
Secretary Carlisle's proposed measure aims to repeal existing bond deposit laws for national bank notes and replace them with a 30 percent reserve against note issuance backed by legal tender deposits. It introduces a safety fund funded by semiannual taxes, sets redemption rules, allows investment of fund assets, and details phased withdrawals and exemptions for state banks. The bill also anticipates a 3 to 5 percent tax on circulating notes and outlines bank failure procedures and note-design restrictions.
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Washington
Carlisle
Committee On Banking and Currency
United States
National Bank
Secretary of the Treasury
United State
Treasury
Dr Price Cream Baking Powders Feature Passage
Fragmentary OCR shows a garbled text on Dr Price Cream Baking Powder, World’s Fair, and Ripley's, with mentions of journeys, life, and philosophical musings. The readable parts reference human life as a journey and various metaphorical scenes of dawns and terraces amid storms.
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Waleek
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Ry Announces Holiday Round Trip Fare
The Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway offers one and one third fare round trips to all points on its lines and major connections during midwinter holidays. Tickets valid December 24 26 and 1894 1896 January 1 may be purchased at any B O S W agent. J M Chesbrough is general passenger agent.
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United States
Europe
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern R'y
J. M. Chesbrough
L Paas
For Sale 280 Acres in Greene County with Buildings
280 acres upland in Greene county with 100 acres meadow, 240 acres cleared, good buildings and orchard. Price 500 dollars down, balance in five installments of 500 dollars at 6 percent interest. Also Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway offers a round trip fare sale December 18 to points west and southwest plus 9 dollars. For details contact a B&O agent or J. B. Scott Jr., Vincennes Indiana.
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Greene County
Meadlow
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern R'y
South
W. R’y
J. B. Scott, Jr
Trav
Pass'r Agt
Vincennes
Ind
Vintage 40 HP boiler engine and saw mill setup for sale
One 40 horsepower boiler and engine and saw mill complete. Boiler and engine as good as new with edge and cut-off saws and two line shafts with pulleys priced at 550 dollars. Also a 25 HP boiler and engine with grinding outfit for corn and cob meal priced at 200 dollars. For more information call J. W. Arthur, New 38n3 2" z dj i.
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J. W. Arthur
Hall's Catarrh Cure Claim and Cure Offer
The paper promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease. It explains internal action on blood and mucous surfaces to destroy the disease's foundation and bolster the constitution, with a $100 reward if it fails to cure. Testimonials are available by mail from P. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo Ohio. Sold by druggists for 75 cents.
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Hall
P. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
The Female Left Foot A Puzzling Running Fault
A reader questions why many women run stairs with left feet toeing in while right feet align. The piece discusses possible causes from skirts to natural gait, noting a common but unexplained defect and suggesting societies to correct the left foot tendency.
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Young
Versag
Objectvatier
Jack
New Jersey
Ugall
Cruel Japanese massacred Port Arthur after entry
A Yokohama cable reports Japanese troops entered Port Arthur on November 21 and slaughtered most of the population in cold blood. Defenseless inhabitants were butchered in their homes as bodies were mutilated and the town plundered over three days. The foreign correspondent left the army in horror.
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New York
Yokohama
Port Arthur
Salt effect on permanent pasture and moral reflections
The text discusses how salt impacts pasture depending on weather, suggesting 3 to 5 cwt per acre applied in April or May, and notes cattle graze closer on dressed land. It shifts to a critique of gender stereotypes, arguing strength and gentleness coexist and urging unity of noble traits in both sexes.
Currency Politics and Bank Limits Debate in Congress
Western and southern congressmen oppose localized currency reforms, arguing the current medium, created to fund wartime needs, has been worsened by reduced national bank circulation, the bullion purchase act of 1890, and Treasury deficits.
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Treasury
Debates on Currency Reform and Local Bank Currency
The article argues against centralized government control of currency functions and supports localized bank currency tied to local business needs. It cites silver coinage debates, the need for flexible money supply, and urges Southern and Western Democrats to back a currency system that distributes credit and prosperity without excessive labor sacrifice.
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Congress
Carlisle
Baltimore
Mending Stockings A Guide For The Refined Woman
The article advises careful stocking repair to avoid wear and holes. It recommends darning over patching, reinforcing heels and toes, optionally reinserting a new foot, and using patterns from new stockings to fit old ones. It notes darning as time saving and essential for family wardrobes.
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Tommy
Mabel
Sam
Jessie
Walter Gibson
Milton Gibson
John Drake
Frederck Ranney
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Murray Sanders
Robert Henning
Albert Wallace
Buckien
Arnica
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Dr. Price
Powter Worls
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Louis Republic
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