Tax on corporate earnings sparks reform debate
Federal lawmakers debate a direct tax plan targeting corporate profits above five thousand dollars with a 2 percent levy. Proponents argue small corporations would be exempt and savings banks could bear the tax’s impact, while opponents warn it may provoke tax avoidance, dissolution, and price hikes harming the poor and stocking trusts.
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Beuste Pounce
Teft
Hich
King Trust
U.S
Bernie Finance
Erente
Washington
Arcanthic
Phil
Ae Wellan
Government expenditures show pensions lead costs over double army
June figures place pensions at 50.372 million, more than twice the army and coast defenses, and 613,009 above navy costs. War costs appear higher than the war’s end, with debates on utilities expansion and bank deposit handling amid political tensions over taxes and tariffs.
Styles and Fads in Summer Fashion of 1900s
Fashions and Fads cover a vibrant season with panels praising waists, hats, and trimmed suiting. The piece highlights bathing styles, hat brims, belt buckles from watch cases, linen suits, and colorful millinery, noting Directoire influence and evolving necklines, trims, and jewelry.
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Violeta
Costyime
Gulzwen
Bath
Directoire
Empire
Yoko
Fashion Notes From The Farm er June Twenty Two Nineteen Oh Nine
The article surveys early 20th century fashion trends with emphasis on fabrics like mousseline batistes and crepes, empire and princess styles, and accessories. It highlights brooches, colored textiles, windowing silhouettes, and evening gowns featuring bodices, girdles, plumes, and large embroidered roses for summer and upcoming fall fashions.
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Empire
Princess
Show at Smith's theatre thrills Bridgeport audience
The Smith's theatre show for three nights this week offered vaudeville high in quality for ten cents. Greiner and LaFoss opened with original comedy acrobatics, Pauline La Moine next sang comedienne, and Tom Fletcher, a former Williams and Walker entertainer, followed with an engaging specialty. Huey Walters closed with a laughing talk act. Moving pictures were first class. Tonight only is dark due to High School Graduation. shows resume Wednesday matinee and run daily for the summer.
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Smith's Theatre
Bridgeport
Greiner & la Foss
Pauline la Moine
Milas la Moine
Philadelphia
Tom Fletcher
Williams & Walker
Fletcher
Huey Walters
Bostock & Hen- Reesy
Ex-Convict Lawyer Sues Priest for 100000
Richard F. Price, a disbarred lawyer with prison terms, sues Father Ambrose P. Dunnigan for 100000 in Kings county Supreme Court. Price alleges the priest influenced his wife to leave him after learning of his criminal past, and seeks damages while the wife remains with her mother in Jersey City. Dunnigan denies the accusations in his answer.
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New York
Richard F. Price
Court Street
Brooklyn
Sing Sing
Blackwell's Island
Raymond Street
Supreme Court of
King’s County
Ambrose P. Dunnigan
Church of Our Lady of Loretta
Hempstead
Sel
Price
Jersey City
O'Connell
Dunnigan
Dykman, Ooland & Kuhn
Montague Avenue
Kings County
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Special Committee On Public Utilities
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Royal Hotel
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F. Lyman
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Meigs
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Switzerland of America
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Henry C. Reid
Main Street
Blewerth St
University Place
New York City
Broadway
Gen. Hale
Eckler & CO
Maine
Everard’s
B’port Liquor & Grocery Co
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Bankers and Brokers
State St
Bridgeport, Conn
L. Holzer
F. T. Staples
Bridgeport Real Estate
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Cinderella
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State Street
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POLIS
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Poli
All -Star Stock Co
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Great Westernrama
Missouri
Smith’s Theatre
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Moving Pictures
Steeplechase Island
Paul Boyton
Seaview
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