Needless Taxation and Tax Spenders in Public Life
A critical discussion denounces extra taxation as a tool for political gain. It argues that home owners and small property holders bear the burden through assessments and higher prices, while artists and art collections deserve protection from punitive taxes. The piece calls for government economy, payroll reductions, and leadership that resists waste, echoing the spirit of the Boston Tea Party and demanding accountability from public officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Art Museum
Mary Emery
Boston
Love of Baroness Bared in Suit Over Gift of Necklace
In London a sensational High Court case reveals Dr. Ernest Wilers and Baroness Appleby in a dispute over a $65,000 necklace. Appleby, who paid $20,000 to a Paris jeweler after a gift dispute, claims the baroness promised to reimburse, while she asserts the gems were a gift from Appleby received during their years together.
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London
Ernest Thomas Wilers
King’s Bench
High ‘Court of Justice
Killa
Appleby
Paris
Chicago
New York
Imarry
Neu of
Barones
Maidenhead
Lee
China
The
Riviera
The Great Detective and the Powers That See
A curious tale frames divine omniscience through two boys debating how long it would take God to find them if they hid after a crime. A circuit judge weighs in predicting 15 minutes, illustrating long standing beliefs about guilt and punishment, with references to X ray and dictagraph as symbols of detection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dhoys
Gag
Eres
Free Legal Department questions on separation and property rights
A reader asks if a wife may leave a abusive husband and take children, and if a husband may recover damages for trees overhanging a neighbor barn. Another inquiry asks whether a surviving spouse gets dower when a husband dies after transferring all property to a third party. The column offers confidential, mail based legal replies from the Cincinnati American.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Free Legal Department
Cincinnati American
East Seventh Street
Cincinnati
Ohio
What the Other Fellow is Saying
A collection of quips and quibbles about society speech and manners. The dialogue touches on appearances after death mockingly, social introductions, party dynamics, Cupid imagery, and a funeral scene with a local judge's punchline.
War to the Knife Quip Sparks Suburban Disarray
A fragmentary comic note depicts a suburban man feeding chickens and arguing over a box of axle for a lawn mower. The text mixes quoted lines from Lip Pinco tt s Magazine and Baltimore American with stray verses from Browning and other periodical snippets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blinks
Dinner Stories on a Steamboat Aboard a Divided Voyage
A steamboat tale blends romance and money with a gentile clergyman and a rich passenger. Debts and marriage entangle a young couple as a father weighs support and payment. A waterlogged shipboard moment leads to a life saving twist and a revelation about marriage.
Letters From the People Editor American Mud throwing at Colonel Copelan
A reader defends Colonel Copelan as a highly competent chief, praising his two decades of service and fairness. The letter also notes a contrasting view about Japanese patience and cites a U S coaling station in La Pas Mexico as context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copelan
Ealitor
la Pas
Mexico
United States
Sal and Mal in a rough frontier romance and wedding
The fragment sketches Mal loving Sal a simple country gal, a hero named Jay, and a villain who steals the gal before a dramatic escape. A preacher calls the wedding as life returns to peace, amid rustic bravado and a comic involvement with a revenue collector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Act
Mero
Mal
Peach
Sal
Walt Mason Urges End to Modern Comic Songs
The author laments current comic songs for spoons and moons and urges Ada Jones and Billy Murray to sing dulcet tunes. He recalls phonograph panels and pleads suppression of nuisance lyrics in favor of truth and heart in songs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam
Ada Jones
Billy Murray
The Columbia River as a Dynamic Western Passage
A vivid 19th century portrait extols the Columbia River from Canada to Oregon. It lauds navigation potential after the Wil lamette confluence, praises scenic banks and salmon wealth, notes bar crossing risks, and mocks Rhine and Danube in comparison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
United States
Columbia
Washington
Oregon
Wil Hamette
Portland
Orient
Japanese Physician Lived Unaccompanied at Harbor on Espionage Note
The report says a Japanese physician settled at a harbor years ago, traveled by bicycle, never treated patients, and appeared during navy maneuvers. It also mentions Japanese fishermen in remote huts near anchorages, suspected of spying or aiding escapes, linked to two year timelines and characters including Charles Cornelius.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sears
America
Charles Cornelius
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Cincinnati American Publishing CO
Colonel Goethals
Gamboas
Hans’ Wagner
Mitchel
Atlantic Ocean
Julian Hawthorne
Atlanta
Banker Morse
Detroit
Baroness May DE Pallandt
Houston Post
Mr. Comrox
Cupid
Miss Cayenne
Senator Serghem
Abraham Lincoln
Stranger
Judge
Baltimore American
Browning
Cartleharper
Gentileman
Fred
Hero
Jay
Teo
Krout
Hal
Pitteburs
Smiley
John Lind
Austrian War Office
Sherman
Woolworth
Walt Mason
Columbia River
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