How to Compute Your Net Income in 1917 Taxes
An Internal Revenue Service briefing explains net income as total gross income from all taxable sources minus allowable deductions. It details items to include such as wages, interest, gains, rents, business earnings, and the need for joint or separate returns for spouses, with penalties for late or false filings.
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Internal Revenue Service
Unity Building
Devonshire Street
Springfield
Treasury Department
John D. Murphy
Massachusetts
Malley
Mexican troops pursue bandits after Christmas raid
Mexican federal troops chase the bandits who raided the Brite store and ranch on Christmas morning, killing three civilians and wounding one. Andres Garcia, Mexican consul general, announced today. American cavalry withdrew from their base due to supply shortages and distance.
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Jil. Paso
Texas
Andres Garcia
Dingley Says He Was The Goat In Boston Society Row
Edward N Dingley son of Maine’s ex governor and former Boston American Defence Society agent claims false reports harmed the Boston office He says he acted with New York authorization and that a Volunteer Vigilance Corps member caused the trouble He intends to seek legal remedy to clear his name.
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Edward Nelson Dingley
Dingley
Maine
Boston
American Defence Society
New York
Vigilance Corps
H. D. Craig
Public Safety Committee
Society
New York City
Cleveland Moffett
Journal
Russell A. Wood
Cambridge
Dewey
Boynton
Department of Justice
Endicott
American Defence Society of
David J. Hill
Perry Belmont
Charles D. Bonaparte
Henry B. Joy
Hudson B. Maxim
Theodore Roosevelt
John Hibben
Princeton University
Robert Bacon
Post
Young de Rochemont
Edward N. Dingley
Volunteer Vigilance Corps
Division of Investigations
Knights of Columbus
Harry J. Hodges
John &. Owens
Dunphy
Hodges
Camp
American Library Association
Fitchburg Turnpike
J. Randolph Coolidge
John A. Lowe
Massachusetts Library Commission
Loot Loot Identified From Burns Home Larceny
Mrs Maude Burns and her husband are held for grand jury on 5000 bond as police recover jewelry and wearing apparel looted from Boston homes. More than 50 residents identify articles stolen and linked to the Burns case involving the suspects Thomas I Burns and Maude Burns, famed for their flat work in the region.
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Grand Jury
Boston
Greater
Maude
Couple Faces Indictment In Suffolk County Case
Burns and his wife Margaret Dewitt face about 50 counts in the January Suffolk county grand jury indictment. Mrs Burns, jailed on Dorchester charges, is to appear before Roxbury District Court Monday. She formerly broke and entered and larceny and defaulted bail before rejoining her husband. police seized stolen goods from two South End houses.
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Burns
Margaret Dewitt
Suffolk County Grand Jury
Charles Street
Dorchester
Roxbury
President Wilson Birthday Celebrations At White House
President Wilson marks his birthday with golf in the morning and continued work on the railroad address for Congress next week. Congratulatory letters flood the White House as Edward Elliott of California joins Mrs. Elliott and nieces Lucy and Anne Maurey of Roanoke for holiday visits.
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Washington
Wilson
White House
Anne Maurey
Roanoke, Va
Stannichk Convicted On Larceny Charge
Charles Stannick, self-styled electric light inspector and German born, will be brought before the Newton Police Court on a larceny charge. He was yesterday convicted in Cambridge Police Court of attempted larceny for entering Loren D. Towle's Newton home and taking a pocketbook containing $18. The Cambridge sentence is postponed to January 3 pending Newton developments.
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Charles Stannick
Newton
Cambridge
Stannick
Loren D. Towle
Franklin Street
Brown Receives 100000 From Hastman Estate for Brown University
Concord New Hampshire December 28 Brown University will get about 100000 as residuary legatee from Samuel C Hastman estate to fund a library or a collection of American poetry. The will also leaves Brown 100000 for a professorship of political economy. Other residuary legatees include the New Hampshire Historical Society and the Concord Public Library receiving about 50000.
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Concord
N. H
Brown University
Samuel C. Hastman
Training Army in Cold Steel at Devens Camp
At Devens Army Camp the 302d Infantry trains with padded wooden bayonets for close combat drills. Soldiers jab and parry with heavy gloves and wire masks as Norwood is listed absent without leave. Chaplain H. Chester Hoyt starts a fund asking one dollar per man to support front line care and first aid by Lt Trout who plans to take surgical tools to the trenches.
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Devens
Norwood
H. Chester Hoyt
Trout
Salisbury
Boston University
Tufts Medical School
Kivery Company
Patrick BE. Gavin
H Company
302D Infantry
Boston
301St Field Artillery
Salem
Essex County
Charles Haffner
Vladivostok
Army camp scenes reveal new bayonets and gas masks on parade
The article notes rapid training making soldiers adept at hand to hand fighting with newly issued bayonets designed for trench use and greenish blue finish. Gas masks are issued and Lt Wilbur E Parker leads drills while camp life shifts include a busy social scene with requests for dances and a reorganized Battery F barracks.
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Camp Devens
Wilbur E. Parker
Everett
1St Infantry
Boston Red Cross drives surpass expected National goal
Metropolitan Boston has enrolled 4 percent of its population in the Red Cross. Louis K. Liggett, former Chamber of Commerce president, announced the drive reached 370000 members. New England figures set 23 percent by B. W. Trafford, and Boston exceeded its target, with New York trailing.
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Boston
Red Cross
Louis K. Liggett
Chamber of Commerce
Mr. Liggett
B. W. Trafford
New England
Liggett
New York
Evening Service at Trinity Newton Centre Promotes New Year
Evening service at Trinity Church Newton Centre on Dec 30 will be devoted to preparation for the new year The rector Rev Edward T Sullivan will give a special address and Crawford will play organ with The Messiah Pastoral Symphony and Hallelujah Chorus as postlude Song service starts at 715 p m A watch night service will be held New Year s Eve at 11 pm
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Trinity Church
Newton Centre
Edward T. Sullivan
Crawford
Stevens Hopes In Russia In Nagasaki Hotel Strain
John F. Stevens chief American railway commissioner to Russia arrived in Nagasaki on December 19 from Vladivostok. He has reserved an entire Nagasaki hotel for the 320 members of his staff showing intensive preparations amid the Russia project.
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Tokio
John F. Stevens
Russia
Nagasaki
Vladivostok
Stevens urges renewed U S effort to aid Russia railroad reform
In an AP interview Mr Stevens plans to return soon to Russia to assist reorganizing rail communications. He warns of chaos under Maximalists, German influence, and a potential famine while praising American influence and urging noncombative support from the Allies to stabilize Russia.
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Associated Press
Stevens
Russia
America
Germany
Siberia
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