Reductions Expected in War Revenue Taxes Nears Passage
The article outlines anticipated cuts in documentary, estate, and various excise taxes under the War Revenue act, with about 5.09 million in documentary taxes and 2 million in estate and other duties slated for repeal or reduction. It notes potential retention of certain taxes on petroleum and sugar and possible further changes to beer and tobacco taxes, while bank, theater, and amusement taxes may be adjusted. Receipts for the first four months stood at 5.39 million.
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Report on Yellow Fever Mosquito Theory in Cuba
The Tribune reports an upcoming Surgeon General Sternberg briefing on Cuba infectious diseases. It claims mosquitoes spread yellow fever and recounts two doctors, Jesse Lazear and James Carroll, involved in self-experimentation. Lazear died, Carroll recovered. Both physicians were stationed in Cuba during the experiments.
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Pity the Poor Soldiers at Fort Reno
Fort Reno Ot Nov 23 Capt Fountain and Capt Poster returned after ten days testing the emergency ration at Passaic N J. Soldiers complain the celery flavored tea ration is palatable only briefly and that the Chicago prepared ration will be tested over the next ten days with a Dec evaluation. A detachment of fifty Fort Reno men and seventy from Port Sill will participate.
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Flood Threat Looms as Santa Ana Swells Nearby
Floods threaten Anaheim California as a Santa Ana river break brings water within a mile of town. Catholic cemetery submerged, celery crop losses feared with 1,500 carloads at risk. Over 100 families displaced as railway damage and washed-out track strand services.
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Will Break In Society Duke and Duchess Sail to New York
New York dispatch reports the Duke and Duchess of Manchester will sail for New York aboard the St. Louis on Saturday, as noted by the Journal and Advertiser.
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Duchess of Devonshire Congratulates Young American Duchess
London reports the Duchess of Devonshire, a leading social figure and wealthy, has sent a congratulatory message to the Duke. The gesture is seen as securing the success of the young American duchess in America society.
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High prices for books at New York sale
A sale in New York fetched over $5,000 for rare editions. Poe's Tamerlane and Other Poems brought $2,050, Al Aaraaf and Other Poems sold for $1,100, and The Poems of 1831 plus related works realized $365 and $610 respectively. An Irving Knickerbocker copy from 1808 in original boards sold for $280, and other titles such as Andres Cow Chase brought $270, indicating strong demand for scarce literary works.
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Waiting policy shapes Chinese negotiations and costs
New York dispatch reports the administration pursuing a wasting policy in Chinese talks with no action on Germany’s proposal. Ambassador Conger will back a plan for the Chinese government to meet, while pressure grows to reduce allied forces in China. Costs of army and navy operations are being tallied for Hay to send to Conger, with the U S bill unlikely to exceed two million dollars, separate from indemnity for missionaries and other citizens.
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Army Bill Talk Aimed at Modernizing Forces
New York November 23 Representative J A Mal chairman of the house military affairs committee says a meeting will be held after Thanksgiving to push a military bill to the Senate before the holidays. He envisions a regular army with 96 000 men and an artillery arm for national defense, with flexibility to reduce as needed.
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Starving Indians in San Diego County
San Diego Cal November 23 Several hundred Indians in this county face starvation with no winter prep and food shortages. Reservation teacher Mrs Mary Watkins reports visiting seven reservations finding mothers and children nearly naked and lodges lacking sustenance. Manzanita berries failed and acorns dropped due to drought.
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Open Door Policy Seen Faring Between Britain and Germany
New York reports indicate Washington views the China affair more seriously than London. Britain will not press an impossible demand, preferring normal trade with China. England and Germany, bound by an Anglo German accord, support open doors and China’s integrity while pursuing a patient diplomatic settlement.
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English miners eye Camp Bird mine in Colorado sale
London reports Frank Gardiner intends to inspect Tom Walsh's Colorado camp Bird mine to buy for an English syndicate. Denial issued that Wernher Belt Co. bought Portland mine. Portland owners fear Stratton's Independence collapse. Fred Bradley sent to assess property. Stratton's will divert profits to development. no dividends now.
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Washington argues education can curb lynching
Booker T. Washington comments on the Colorado lynching, warning that once a community tolerates lynching of Black people it may turn to lynching whites. He urges broad education in books, industry, and thrift to enforce the law impartially and prevent degraded civic behavior.
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Outlaw Noah Wilkerson Identified in Wyoming
Sheriff in Ballinger Texas identifies remains of Noah Wilkerson an escapee with life sentence for murder as the man shot by a deputy near Dixon. He was in Coleman Texas confinement and the weapon tied to certain Texas individuals suspected of aiding the escape.
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Supreme Court limits irrigation rights in western Nebraska
Lincoln Neb Nov 23 The state supreme court may halt all irrigation projects in western Nebraska by ruling property owners along streams have undiminished water rights. The decision follows the old English common law and affects the Crawford Irrigating Company case to divert water from White River, defending mill owners along the stream.
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Diplomatic Trickery Declares Kruger to Enter via Xegee
A Paris dispatch reported by Journal and Advertiser says France declares England has not recognized annexation powers. Kruger would be received at the Klyxee if he wishes, with no foreign sovereignty acknowledged and travel incognito.
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Tea culture in India and the tea trade origins
Consul W. T. Fee notes that tea plants originated in China and were found wild in Assam. He explains tea's spread through India and Japan, and that commercial cultivation began only about a century ago with Calcutta's first public sale in 1841, after which the city dominated the tea trade.
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Queen uses private railway station at Gosport
The article reveals a seldom known fact that the queen maintains a private Gosport railway station used only by her for trips to Osborne. It features a long semi circular platform, a pontoon mooring, and a royal yacht usually tied there, with no other royal member using the station.
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