Missouri House Appropriations Bill Sets 1919 20 Budget
Missouri lawmakers introduce a general appropriation bill carrying budgets totaling 3,729,840 from the revenue fund for maintenance relief and special allowances. The measure raises total revenue appropriations to 19,292,210, with additional funds likely, including 150,000 for Mosby and 60,000 for the Workmen’s Compensation Commission.
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Jefferson City
House
Representative
House Appropriations Committee
Gardner
Zenoval
Missouri Council of Defense
Senate
Tax Commission
Public Service Commission
Mosby
Thomas Speed Mosby
Missouri Workmen's Compensation Commission
National Guard
Board of Health
Congress approves tax relief for bequests to charities
The House passed a Senate bill exempting bequests to charitable religious and educational institutions from the state inheritance tax with an amendment that the measure is not retroactive. The bill, as Senate-passed, would relieve bequests to Lindenwood College in St. Charles and William Woods College in Fulton among others. The Bates amendment was adopted 61 to 34. The bill then passed 97 to 7.
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Senate
Henster Casey
McCullough
United States
House
James Gay Butler
St. Louis
Lindenwood College
St. Charles
William Woods College
Fulton
Cave
Callaway
Maxey
Bates
Shannon
Cement Price Probe Resolution Adopted by Kansas House
The Kansas House adopted a resolution directing Attorney General Frank W. McAllister to investigate alleged unlawful cement price fixing. Representative Wilkinson cited halted cement plants and restricted output blamed on an oil firm, arguing cement now costs about 2.70 a barrel versus 1.50 prewar. The attorney general said he had not yet received the resolution.
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Frank W. McAllister
House
Wilkinson
Jackson County
Kansas City
St Louis
McAllister
World news in brief from Rome and Paris
Ambassador Page reported from Rome that Premier Orlando would not return to Paris for signing the peace treaty, as the final draft nears completion with about 80 000 words. The League covenant was adopted without division, noting Italy’s absence but its name included in the covenant.
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Page
Rome
Orlando
Paris
League of Nations
Peace Conference
Wilson
Italy
League
Government to return control of American cable systems
The government plans to relinquish control of all American cable systems taken over last November and restore private ownership. A statement to the president follows the recommendation. The Red Cross reports ten thousand weekly Poland deaths from typhus. steps are urged to curb the outbreak.
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Congress
S. Bee
Poland
American Red Cross
Leviathan narrowly misses mine off Grand Banks peril
The giant troopship Leviathan carrying 12,000 soldiers was the last of six transports to reach port with 22 972 men aboard and dodged a mine by about thirty feet off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. The report came when she docked as the war moves to withdraw the enemy trading list under the Trading with the Enemy Act per the Inter Allied Economic Council. Units of the reserve officers training corps are at 308 institutions with about 100 000 students.
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Grand Banks
Newfoundland
Inter-Allied Economic Council
Increases ordered on all Oklahoma services May first
A notice filed with the state corporation commission by Southwestern Bell Telephone Co states rates rise 20 to 60 percent on all service classes across 123 exchanges in Oklahoma effective May 1. Tornado injures five at Avant Oklahoma, a farmer and family escape with minor injuries.
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Oklahoma
State Corporation Commission
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Bombs Sent To Prominent Officials In Nationwide Plot
Federal investigators probe a suspected nationwide terror plot after sixteen bombs seized in New York and six delivered by mail to high‑ranking figures. Addresses include Rockefller, Morgan, Holmes, Palmer, and Hylan, with none fatally harmed though some were injured.
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New York
New York Post Office
District Attorney’s Office
Criminal Courts
William M. Wood
Fairfield Street
Boston
Mass
Fred C. Howe
Commissioner of Immigration of
Mitchell A. Palmer
United States
Washington
D. C
Anthony Caminetti
Bureau of Immigration
Williamb. Wilson
T. Larry Eyra
Chester
William H. Lamar
W. E. Finch
Department of Justice
A. S. Burleson
J. F. Hylan
New York City
Rich E. Enright
John D. Rockefller
Pocantico Hills
Tarrytown
William I. Schaffer
Harrisburg
William C. Sproul
Oliver Wendel Holmes
First Street
J. P. Morgan
Madison Aviue
Jitneys Must Pay War Tax
Washington May 1 Taxicabs jitney buses and other passenger motor cars for hire fall under the Revenue Act tax rules. A three to eight seat motor car is taxed ten dollars annually and buses with more than seven seats are taxed twenty dollars. Two passenger cars are exempt.
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Wahington
Revenue Bureau
Congressman Burnett narrowly escapes fatal mail bomb in Alabama
Congressman John L. Burnett, longtime House chairman, was nearly killed when a mail bomb addressed to him exploded a fuse as he opened the package. He turned the infernal device over to police after the device stuck on opening.
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Ole Hanson
Seattle
Gadsden
Ala
John L. Burnett
Severe Earthquake Recorded Near Washington
A severe and prolonged quake was recorded today centered approximately 4,000 to 4,106 miles from Washington at Georgetown University.
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Washington
Georgetown University
Vice-Admiral Gisaves Honored in May Ceremony
Parise May 16 reports the minister of marine conferred honors on Vice-Admiral Gisaves in a formal ceremony. the event marked a high tribute to his naval service.
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Gisaves
Parise
Dairy Profits Rise Across Western Canada Farms
A 1918 Alberta department report shows dairy production thriving in Western Canada with butter and cheese output up, farm incomes boosted, and high bull prices at Edmonton Calgary Lacombe and Carman. Immigration grows as settlers chase fertile soil and favorable conditions.
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Western Canada
Alberta
Department of Agricul
Canada
Edmonton
Calgary
Lacombe
Manitoba
Carman
Saskatchewan
West
Western
Shoes Like Corporations
A supply sergeant questions the naming of field shoes as a corporate style issue from last year, implying a bureaucratic or humorous mislabeling within military logistics. The remark hints at organizational terminology affecting equipment categorization.
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Field Shoes Corporation Enoes
The Proof Dialogue In The Hall
A fragment shows a character asking if their voice carries in the hall and another replying they cannot catch the words. The snippet hints at a stage or social scene where communication falters.
Zam He An g declaration surprises you
Fragment reads as a garbled dialogue with partial quotes and misjoined words. No clear event or identifiable subjects emerge to form a full news item.
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Holland
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America
Echo de Paris
Eile
Fiume
Chicago
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National Association of Builders’ Exchanges
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Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
C. W. Gambel
Avant
Okla
A. W. Douglas
Chamber of Commerce of the
Fort Leavenworth
Henry Pagel
Sheboygan
Wis
George Flick
Washington, Ind
James A. Reed
Inter-City Bank
Southwest Boulevard
State Line
Army
Camp Bowie
Harry Gilmour
White House
Harry Lauder
Viatka
Vologda
Perm
Thomas Hardwick
Georgia
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K. M. Landis
United States District
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Edward M. Cunha
San Francisco
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