War Revenue Bill Aims to Raise 1 800 000 000 Yearly
Washington reports the administration war revenue bill, unanimously approved by Ways and Means, projects 1.8 billion dollars annually. It broadens taxes on stocks, bonds, life and marine insurance, freight, passenger tickets, automobiles, utilities and more to cover a wide range of goods and services. In addition, income and inheritance taxes rise, with specific scales for brackets, exemptions, and the added June payment.
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Stock Exchange
Eset cc
Pyar Hulks
Casacus
Promiumeo
Eeseeeseeneeeneses Bd
Feo
Enos Tsop
EERE
Hess Shs
Washington
House Committee On Ways and Means
House
Kitchin
Onn
Witty geometry quip from Leacock in Youth's Companion
A humorous Euclidean paradox from Prof. Stephen Leacock of McGill University appears in Youth's Companion. The riddle states that if two rooms on the same floor have equal total area and the disputes with the landlady are equal, then the weekly bills for the two boarders must be equal. If not, the larger bill implies the other is smaller than it could have been.
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Stephen Leacock
McGill University
Aphins Known for Quiet Work Ethic in Bee Business
The Aphins operated quietly in their beekeeping business, keeping details off the public record while tending hives and selling hive products. Their low-profile approach contrasted with more visible operations in the industry.
Call for county agricultural agents to fight food shortage
Western Jamie bn News Service reports the State Council for Ladies Defense urges counties to appoint agricultural agents to boost crop production for domestic and allied needs in Europe. The appeal cites a one year county share up to 900 dollars, with rest funded by state and federal governments, and urges immediate petitions to commissioners.
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Jamie Bn
Cheyenne
Srbou of State Council For Ladis Defense
Europe
United States Department of Agriculture
Sheridan Hospital Addition Approved
Governor Frank L. Houx accompanied by R B Forsyth H B Gates and Edith K O Clark arrived to inspect the state hospital and approve plans for an expansion as crops across Wyoming are forecast to double this year amid a national food crisis.
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Sheridan Hospital
Sheridan
Wyoming
Frank L. Houx
R. B. Forsyth
H. B. Gates
Edith K. O. Clark
State Hospital
University of Wyoming to Lease Lands to Highest Bidder
The executive committee announced a new policy to lease all university lands publicly to the highest bidder. It declined renewals for Big Muddy field and Ben M. Wood lease in section 6. Existing leases ran May 10, 1916 to May 10, 1917.
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Laramie
Board of Trustees
The
University of Wyoming
Big Muddy
Ben M. Wood
Goshen County to Plant Garden Foodstuffs Boost
J. T. McDonald T. G. Powers and H. S. Kirk named by the State Council for National Defense as Goshen county representatives. The drive promotes expanding home gardens with over 700 acres of beans and more than 400 acres of potatoes slated for planting this year.
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Torrington
J. T. McDonald
T. G. Powers
H. S. Kirk
State Council For National Defense
Goshen County
Six Wounded in Grass Creek Battle Near Thermopolis
A pitched clash between a Midwest Old Company drilling crew and local placer claim locators near Grass Creek field forty miles northwest of Thermopolis left six men wounded. An auto driver reported many shots fired as a sheriff’s posse departed for the scene.
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Thermopolis
Midwest Old Company
Oll Placer
Midwest
Grass Creek
Eld
Here
Seven Arrested on High-Grading Charge in Cheyenne Case
High-grading at Victor Colorado and sale of proceeds at the United States mint in San Francisco are charged against five men. One suspect is in custody at Victor and another at San Francisco, taken by United States officers.
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Cheyenne
Victor
Colo
United States Mint
San Francisco
United Bistes
Cheyenne man shot by holdup men on downtown street
Thomas Mather a 37 year old laborer was mortally wounded by one of two unmasked holdup men who accosted him on a Cheyenne street. The two assailants escaped as authorities investigate the downtown shooting. Pipe Line Ready in June.
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Holdupa
Thomas Mather
Women Enroll In Service League At Public Library
Nearly seventy five women enrolled in the local branch of the National League for Women’s Service at the public library.
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Service League
Casper
National League For Women's Service
Wyoming state news highlights and incidents
State fair plans at Douglas and varied local developments across Wyoming from May to June include new clubs in Sheridan and Laramie, a Red Cross formed in Laramie, a refinery addition at Greybull, and a machine gun unit to be organized in Kemmerer. Notable events include a fatal shooting in Cheyenne, oil and gas activity in multiple basins, and protests of white slavery cases in Cheyenne.
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Casper Ja
Pinedale
Cowboy Rangers
Jireh
Red Cross Society
Laramie
Sheridan
Greybull
C. M. Moore
Rawlins
Douglas
Kemmerer
Nick Chiz
W. A. Burdick
No. 2
Chix
F. E. Warren
United States
Senate
Abbie C. Moore
Horace W. Moore
Cheyenne
Jupiter Oil Company
Big Dome
Powder River Station
Sheridan County
County Council For National Defense
U. S
Daniel W. Gill
Joseph Perry
Denver
Cat tax fever spreads as officials seek controls
States push licensing and even extermination of homeless cats to curb disease and economic losses. Officials argue cats offer little value beyond rodent control while costly citywide gaps in pet ownership leave millions of feral cats to scavenge. In New York City alone an estimated 4 million ownerless cats consume vast daily food costs, prompting calls for a broad cat tax.
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York
Game Commission
New York City
Winter Death Lured Aged Man To Public Transport Hit
George Harrington aged ninety two died after an Interurban car struck him near Eloise State Home. Once a businessman with a family now alone at the county home, he went outside on a dreary winter day and was killed as spring’s call lured him away.
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George Harrington
Eloise
Harrington
Detroit
Yale Senior Class Goes Down Spending Record
Yale's senior class will spend a total of 1 464 128 dollars over four years with 464 667 in freshman year 315 800 in sophomore year 335 716 in junior year and 348 855 in senior year a top spender admitted 3500 this year while one freshman lived on 100 dollars. The four year earnings total 53 362 for the class and last year's graduates earned 306 970 in varied jobs from iceman to pallbearer.
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EW Haven. Conn
Yale
Movie Actor Tells of Hunger and Privation in Los Angeles
Roger Pierrot a 27 year old motion picture comedian recounted a week of privation in Los Angeles after moving from New York for work. He said studios paid little or nothing and he survived on grass oranges and spoiled meat while sending a few dollars to his wife and two babies in New York. He described theft of his remaining money and dire letters from home about milk for the babies and threatened eviction.
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OS Angeles
Cal
Roger Pierrot
New York
Los Angeles
Chariie Chaplin
Aince
Munger
Pierrot
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Xone
Dixon
Indiana
Wyeming Gtate Ae For’ National Defenral Fein Tette Mento
Casper Refineries
Minors Pipe Line Company
Wyoming State News
Western Newspaper Union News Service
A. E. Minium
Japan
Stars and Stripes
Ohio Oil Company
Buffalo Basin
Billings
Salt Lake
United States Navy
H. H. Waugh
Worland
Texas Oil Company
Little Buffalo Basin
Oll
Newcastle
Howard
Cooper
Fremont
Halfmoon Lakes
D. M. Thayer
Rock Springs
Superior Oil Company
Elk Basin
Thomas Maher
St. John’s Hospital
F. C. Howard
Wyoming National Guard
Douglas Company
Lillian Mayo
L. A. Folck
Byrne
Dick Russell
Golden Prairie
Shoehan
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