New Stamp Tax Law Changes Taking Effect July First
The revenue law reforms stamp duties across many items. Telep h one and telegraph messages, checks, bonds, leases, mortgages, and promissory notes will be affected as stamps are repealed or reduced. Banks face redemption shifts and the public may see lower revenues, with concerns over whether stamped checks will be returned and how redeemed instruments are processed.
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Revenue Bureau
Conde
Desereat
Interpol Revenue Bureste
Internal Revenue Bureau
Crienlal
Bureau
Internal Revenue Bureanu
Treasury
Jureau
Internal Revenue
Rooker
United States
Siba
Biteke Ehapeset
Ted
Cusier House Brokers
Ivaf Tobmeeo
Aeegurds
Exebaungwe
Duland
Kintry
Toabnacco
Torenstanis Dupe
Bueckerson
Illinois breaks record as ship Winsis tops class trials
The report notes Winsis set a fastest time in convoy trials, surpassing rivals Ababa and Wisconsin in the Pacific tests. It highlights Lunt Illinois as the lead vessel for the American navy and cites a 1.02 knot trial pace. Birth rates in New England cities also appear, with Fall River leading over 10,000 population benchmarks. Sir Edward Seymour, long British commander in the China Station, is promoted to admiral.
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Wisconsin
Barren
New Kingland
Pall River
Bolood
New Bedford
Waterbury
Conn
Edward HH. Seymour
Ching Station
Various 19th Century Notices From A Northern Paper
A jumble of brief items: a fashion and theater note, the appointment of Phin Dhetebads as minister extraordinary to the United States, a wave of schoolteachers fleeing to the Philippines for work, a forecast of fruit shipments from California, Yavapai County Arizona’s copper property tax assessment at 6 million, United Verde mine tax history, and Sophronisba Breckinridge daughter of Col W C Breckinridge passing Chicago University exams for PhD after already earning an MS, and becoming the first woman member of the Kentucky appellate bar.
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Phin Dhetebads
Sins
United States
Philippines
California
Yavaya
Arizona
Hinger
Kentucky
Scorched but not killed Hanna Frye Payne ship bill
The Hanna Frye Payne subsidy bill was not killed but scotched. Frye plans a thorough remodeling for introduction when Congress convenes, aiming to clarify a complex measure seen as distributing 100 million in bounties to wealthy transport companies. The piece notes Republican resistance and warns of shifting Western attitudes toward subsidies.
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Hanna-Frye-Payne
Congress
Frye
Washington
Tolu
Hanna News Bureau
Kye
Hanna
Senate
New England
England
J. P. Morgan
United States
Kansas City Times
Mystery of the vanished Santa Fe car 4849 solved by cowboys
A Santa Fe freight car 4849 carrying oranges from a San Gabriel Valley fruit packer disappeared after a derailment near Trinidad. A cowboy found car 4819 wrecked at a embankment base with its cargo preserved. Train crew were restored, most of the cargo recovered, and shippers reimbursed.
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Santa Fe
San Gabriel Valley
California
Sierra Madre
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Trinidad
Raton
King Otto of Bavaria Seized by violent mania
The mad Bavarian king Otto, towering above six feet, has relapsed into homicidal mania and killed three attendants at Furstenried Castle. His brother Ludwig also suffered homicidal insanity and drowned while attempting to drown his physician.
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Otto
Bavaria
Ludwig
Luitpold
Furstenried
Cures His Wife Over Old Clothes Habit
A man in a mackintosh boasts he cured his wife of selling his old clothes by revealing a mail order fetter in a coat she had disposed of. He notes the fetter was no tie, and the audience pets the anecdote as proof of his method.
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New York Evening World
Mov ing mountain halted near Neuchatel by cement wall
Lausanne correspondent reports Swiss engineers halted the moving mountain near Neuchatel. They built a massive cement wall to support the mountain and fill crevices, stabilizing the slopes and protecting the village and valley from destruction.
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Lausanne
Neuchatel
Imagined Exchange at the Cigar Store Scene
A fragmentary dialogue portrays Mrs Nuwed at a cigar store seeking cigars for a stout, dark man. The snippet evokes a playful tone about courage to praise others, attributed to Puck.
Patagonian Giants Among Tehuelches Of Southern Patagonia
The Tehuelches of Southern and Eastern Patagonia are described as among the tallest people, averaging about six feet with many individuals four to six inches taller. They are civilized barbarians, skilled hunters who wear fur mantles and capes made from guanaco and rhea skins, trading these for goods including whisky.
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Cordilleras
Patagonia
Tehuelches
The Fickleness of Man in a Chafing Dish Exchange
Mrs Turtledove frets that Harry no longer loves her and craves a square meal. Mrs Kissimee notes his appetite and hint of leaving the chafing dish diet, contrasting with past enthusiasm for her cooking. Men are changeable ends the brief conversation.
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Mrs. Turtledove
Harry
Dropsy cure touted by local couple after use of Dodd's Kidney Pills
Mrs. J. B. Flanigan of Sumpter Illinois suffered fifteen years with Dropsy and could not wear shoes for three years. After doctors gave up, husband Mr Flanigan bought six boxes of Dodd's Widney Kidney Pills from Carmi druggist J J Dale. Five boxes cured her completely and she is now sound and well. The couple praise the remedy and Dale's recommendation as remarkable.
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Mr. Dale
Dodd
Mrs. Flanigan
White County
Air Cushion Rubber Stamps and Printing Outfits
Fort Wayne Indiana offers air cushion rubber stamps and printing outfits including daters. Customers are invited to write their needs and receive a price from LockBox 219.
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LockBox
Fort Wayne
Ind
Why Mrs Pinkham Sold Women Health Advice
Mrs Pinkham has helped thousands of women via Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The piece highlights Mrs Chappell of Grant Park NL endorsing her advice after recovering from inflammation of the ovaries and womb. Pinkham’s address in Lynn, Massachusetts is offered as free guidance for suffering women.
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Sician
Aem
Lynn
Maas
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