Tax collections across states show shifts in 1928 totals
The report outlines 1928 tax collections by state led by New York with 759.1 million, Pennsylvania down from prior year, North Carolina up, and various increases and decreases in income, miscellaneous and real taxes across the nation. It notes overall federal, state and local revenue changes and highlights state rankings and specific dollar amounts for major tax lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vania
la Carolina
Montana
Hotcome
Connecticut
Iowa
Georgiabraska
Neva New Jersey
Nilina
Pennsylvania
New York
New Mexico
Wytax
Thalf
Delaware
Illinois
Massachusetts
New
New Hampshire
York
North Carolina
South Dakota
Cine Islands
Margaret Brown Fights For Life Amid Oxygen Support
A seven year old girl, Margaret Brown, remains in serious condition with a lung infection. Doctors and the father Walter Shian organize oxygen treatment as four men relay oxygen in the Topeka hospital. Margaret shows faint signs of recovery but remains conscious and responsive to her parents’ requests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Perry
Walter
Flicke
Margaret
Theargaret Brown
Topeka
Res
Four-Story Detroit Fire Damages Business District
A four story building on Washington Boulevard in Detroit suffered a damaging blaze that began in the rear office. Firefighters arrived within minutes and fought the flames for over two hours. Guests at the Book-Cadillac hotel nearby watched the incident from the street as authorities investigated the origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Fiela & Hecht
Fiat
Washington Borgan Avenue
Cadillac
Fire destroys major Detroit structure in Summer fair blaze
A Detroit fire destroyed a large three story structure across from a summer fair venue, causing about $400,000 in damage. Firefighters battled the blaze amid freezing hose lines and equipment failures as they worked to control the flames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Igy
Nesbit Arrested in Prohibition Raid on Swanee Club
Evelyn Nesbit former wife of Harry K. Thaw was arrested in a federal raid on the Swanee Club in uptown New York. She faced charges of acting in concert with the proprietor and three employees to violate prohibition laws. About 400 patrons were ordered out and Nesbit with others were released on bonds pending arraignment before a Federal Commissioner. Nesbit said she is 41 and from Northfield New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New YO
Evelyn Nesbit
Harry K. Thaw
Swanee Club
Miss Nesbit
Joseph Ward
124Th Street
Northfield
N. J
Prohibition ring busted as federal raids seize $60,000 in liquor
In Cleveland a federal probe follows yesterday's raids that netted $60,000 worth of beer whisky champagne and rum and led to ten arrests. Agents swooped two private warehouses and a government facility and found 2000 gallons stored in a bonded depot. The ring known as Browning Co. may be larger than the Superior Industrial Alcohol case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
James M. Doran
United States Prohibition
Paul Hanson
Browning & Co
Superior Industrial Alcohol Company
Detroit
New York
Ring
Prohibition and Naval Bills On Capitol Agenda This Week
Congress faces key votes this week with the House to take up the Senate deficiency appropriation amendment increasing enforcement funds by 24 million dollars and the Senate poised for a final vote on the fifteenth worship bill. The Navy bill remains hotly debated as cruisers are set to be laid down before July 1, 1931, while grain and cotton market restrictions may follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Caraway
Dem
Ark
Jones
Ash
Harris
District of Columbia
Navy Department
Jobs Solved by Thug Parade In Chicago
Chicago police under Chief Russell staged a massive roundup, arresting about 2,500 suspects in one night as part of a citywide crackdown. Eleanor Bower identified Thomas Brennan, 30, as the man who held her and seven coworkers at gunpoint and fled with theater weekend receipts. Brennan to be shown to more witnesses. police believe many cases are closed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Russell
Detective Bureau
Underworld
Eleanor Bower
Thomas Brennan
Brennan
Einstein theory may demolish sun world as real entities
London reports a wave of skepticism as Einstein's new universal law ties gravity and electromagnetism into one framework and challenges the reality of individual electrons. If Eddington's dummy electron theory aligns, ancient notions of the world, Sun, and stars could be mere events rather than things.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Einstein
England
Arthur Stanley Eddington
Cambridge
Eddington
Erpstein
Heraclitus
Berlin
The Spirit Accolade to the S S America Lifeboat Crew
A poem by Bob Newhall honors the S S America lifeboat crew, led by Harry Manning. It depicts a perilous voyage as the Viking crew fights a brutal sea, saving nine sailors and returning home triumphant to Valhalla.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Manning
Valhalla
Fried and Lifeboat Crew Will Get Second Gotham Greeting
Capt. George Fried and the America crew, lauded for rescuing the Florida crew, will receive a second city welcome in New York. A parade to City Hall, medals, luncheon, and broadcasts across WNYC WEAF NBC mark tomorrow’s ceremonies honoring their courage.
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Fried
Gotham
New York
George Fried
United States
America
Florida
America Tonight
Harry Manning
Nélson H. Smith
Salvatore
Bracco
WABC
Columbia
A. C Dalton
Merchant Fleet Corporation
President Roosevelt
Richard E. Byrd
Battery Park
Lower Broadway
City Hall
Walker
WNYC
National Broadcasting Company
WEAF
Hoover and Smith Meet Hooded Paths in Miami Visit
Herbert Hoover and Alfred E. Smith, rivals in the last election, were in Miami Beach at the same time but did not meet. Hoover, staying at a Coral Gables hotel, attended mass at Gesu Church after arriving from Sarasota, while Smith and aide John J. Raskow were elsewhere. The scene sparked discussions on proprieties and courtesy amid their sunlit weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Miami Beach
Fla
Herbert Hoover
Alfred E. Smith
Victor
New York
the Gesu
Mr. Smith
John J. Raskow
Retired hay merchant Joseph Wolf dies at St Marys Cemetery
Joseph Wolf 59 of 3335 Wunder Ave Westwood died in the sexton's office at St Marys Cemetery St Bernard yesterday afternoon while arranging burial for his niece s infant daughter He had run a hay and grain store at Kendall and Central Aves Brighton for years He was a lifelong member of the St Johns Society Funeral services planned at St Catherines Westwood for Wolf and the infant will be buried in St Marys Cemetery after services at the parents home tomorrow
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Wolf
Wunder Avenue
Westwood
Sexton
St. Mary's Cemetery
St. Bernard
Harold Hewitt
Burwood Avenue
Norwood
Kendall and
Central Avenues
Brighton
St. John
Mr. Wolf
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Lady Lugard Dies in London News Pioneer and Traveler
The death of Flora Louise Shaw Lady Lugard is announced in London. She was a journalist and traveler who led the colonial department at The London Times before her 1902 marriage to Frederick Lugard. She covered distant war areas and witnessed events from the Klondike gold rush to the Jameson raid inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lady Lugard
Frederick Dealtry Lugard
Baron Lugard
Flora Louise Shaw
Gen. Shaw
The
London Times
Klondike
Ceril Rhodes
South Africa
Queensland
Australia
Cowboys Brave Heavy Onowa To Save Girl Life
Denver January 27 reports describe heroic rescues amid blizzards in the Rockies and Nevada. Two passengers from the Boeing air transport plane recounted their ordeal after a forced landing near Elko Nevada. Pilot Prank Barber of Oakland was hospitalized in semi conscious condition with a brain concussion after spending twenty four hours trapped in the fuselage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Rocky Mountain
Ruby Mountain Wilds
Nevada
Salt Lake
Boeing Air Transport
Elko
Nev
Oakland
Cal
St. Mark’s Hospital
Costa Rica Hurricane Leaves Damage and Sinks Boat
A hurricane in Puntarenas Costa Rica blew roofs off homes and cast a motor boat on rocks at San Lucas Island. Five crew and one passenger survived. In Mexico Tampico area fifteen people injured as fishermen huts in Cecilia and Llanos de Golfo were destroyed and three gasoline launches sank in the Panuco River.
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San Salvador
Puntarenas
Costa Rica
San Lucas Island
Mexico
City
Tampico
Cecilia
Llanos de Golfo
Panuco
Snow Inundates City Leaves Twenty Injured In Street Crashes
A wet sticky snow blanketed Cincinnati and vicinity causing numerous accidents. Police logged over twenty injuries including a likely fatal for Carl Rippey 21 after his car hit a street car on McMicken avenue. Motorman Frank Ludwig 55 sustained cuts and passengers were shaken. Grover Chaney 50s and family injured in a crash into a light pole on Reading road. Four hurt when car plunged off Kellogg avenue embankment. Lucy, Minnie Green and others treated at General Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Tweny
Carl Rippey
Ohio
Arric Hes
General Hospital
Rippey
McMicken Avenue
East
Frank Ludwig
Kendall Street
Grover Chaney
Forest Avenue
Middletown
Reading Road
Dosha ‘Chaney
Wugene
Grover
Garret
Minnie Green
Charles Green
Kellogg Avenue
Stop 6
Coney Island
Harry Bonew
Blue Rock Pike
Fanny Bonew
Edward Penock
Bluey Rock Pike
Catherine Penock
Louis Warth
Main Street
Mary Worth
Reading, Read
Arthur Hendricks
Boats Battle Heavy Winds Aid British Ship in Distress
Coast Guard units Mojave and Tampa race through heavy seas to aid the disabled British steamer Silver Maple about 700 miles east of Boston after her steering gear failed. Meanwhile Capo Vado and Italian trawler Sevier are unaccounted for amid Atlantic distress calls and drift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nahant
Mass
Coast Guard
Boston
Mojave
Tampa
North Atlantic
Massachusetts
Nova Scotia
Boston Navy Yard
Navy
Bermuda
Cleanthis
Sevier
Groton
Conn
Georges Banks
Distress of Italian Freighter Substantiated in Azores
Lloyds reports the Italian freighter Capo Vado in distress midway between the Azores and Bermuda. The tug Humber rushes to aid as an SOS from the Capo Vado reached New York Friday night January 25. The vessel carrying over twenty five crew members was en route to Baltimore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Azores
London
Lloyd's
Horta
Bermuda
Humber
New York
Baltimore
Lapland Arrives A Day Late After Snowstorm And Swell
Red Star liner Lapland reached New York from Europe delayed by storms at sea. Captain Harvey reported a foot of snow on deck from late Wednesday and early Thursday heavy snow and a continuous heavy swell likely caused by volcanic eruptions beneath the ocean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Red Star
Lapland
Europe
Harvey
Wife of American Robbed of Jewelry By Bandits
Mrs. Barry Eastham formerly of Portland Oregon was held up near Pe king and robbed of diamonds and jewelry valued at 2060 dollars. Bandits fired on her car and shattered the windshield before stripping her. Mr. Eastham is a lawyer in Tientsin. This is the first foreigners target on the Tientsin Peking highway.
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Shanghai
China
Barry Eastham
Portland
Ore
Peking
Eastham
Tientsin
Tientsin-Peking
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Fried Aan
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Wassail
Tom ‘Thumb
Hoover
Smith
Miami
James L. West
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Wilds
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