100 Percent Taxation Threat Looms Over Arkansas Counties
Statewide concerns rise as federal court orders Perry County to tax real and personal property at 100 percent, with Cleveland and Van Buren counties under threat. Historic cases from Garland and Monroe counties show courts compelling full-value warrants, while many counties dodge debt via loans or negotiated settlements. Prohibition's impact dulls circuit court business, with juries scarce and county finances strained across Arkansas.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
United States Court
Perry County
Cleveland
van Buren
United States District Court
Little Monk
Artie K Palmer
Garland County
Malleer
Fall City Construction Company
Monroe County
Helen
Jud Trieber
Circwit Court of Appeals
Mississippi
Ross
Vincennes Bridge Company
Tattlececk
Purlaski County Grand Jury
Milaski County
Tivenes
Stelied
Salomne
Petiliy
Eepreus
Atortuert
Virenit
Tesarkhana
Mexican Snipers at Militia Clash Across Border
Gen Bell warned that Mexican snipers allied with Villa must face punishment, urging retaliation if fired upon. Reports state Villa sympathizers caused deaths in cross border incidents south of the frontier, with authorities vowing to prevent incursions and to return horse and mules seized near Fabens Texas.
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Il Paso
Texas
Gonzales
Juares
Enionéates
Bell
Ninth
Massachusetts Infantry
Miriel Andres Garea
Gyre
Amin Berot
Garcia
Colenfiete
Canara
Moxteyr
Hell
Guadalupe
Fabens
Fem Bell Ten
Goneates
Hier Island
SHORT ARKANSAS ITEMS FROM HOPE AREA NOTES
Hope residents collect a box of eater for Fort Roots. funds promised. Arkansas Oklahoma Interstate Fair ends with Chancel Falconer foreclose on claims around $22,000. Crawford County farmers plant more peanuts this year for hog feed and fodder. Syndicate plans for Lononia sanitarium in Hot Springs. Prejudice against dipping cattle in Independence County fades. new yards built. Batesville promotes payup week. Stuttgart Fire Chief reports nine calls and under $50 property loss. Hatfield farmers crank crude sugar from cane. Rush Incorporation hearing set for August 23. Mena wedding: J. H. Watson and Annie Jackson wed.
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Chancel WA Falconer
Fort Smith
Bank collection directive issued in July action
The text describes a directive by Phstineter General Burleson at the Reserve Board's request authorizing postmasters to seize checks drawn on federal reserve banks not members of the aveten to facilitate collection. It notes that in some places there were no member banks participating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pedserneserie Board
Phstineter General
General Wood Sustains Orders on Officer Dismissals
The War Department upheld Maj Gen Leonard Wood in removing Col Louis Drayton and Col John J. Ibe Jan from the Ninety Ninth New York Infantry from federal service for physical disability.
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Wood
Washington
War Department
Saen Leonard Wood
Lous Dronley
John J Ihe Jan
Statyninth
New York Infantry
Fuel Embargo Lifted For Mexican Transit
The Customs Bureau reports that military authorities will allow the passage into Mexico of coal Coke and gasoline in reasonable quantities. Army officers will determine what constitutes reasonable quantities.
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Washington
The
War Department
Customs Bureau of the Treasury
Mexico
Cost of Typhoid Fever in the United States
The annual economic loss from typhoid fever and malaria in the United States is estimated at 928,294,880 dollars. The figure was presented to the Senate by Senator Ransdell of Louisiana, chairman of the Public Health Committee.
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Washington
United States
Senate
Ransdell
Louisiana
Committee On Public Health
Church Piano Stolen From Oak Park Congregational
Robbers backed a drag up to the door of the Sixth Congregational church of Oak Park and stole the church's new 400 dollar piano.
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Stolen
Chicago
Oak Park
Villa's Capture and Peace Campaign Report
A dispatch notes Villa location and possible capture, with war office updates and Mexican negotiations. It covers German peace efforts led by the National Committee for Securing an Honorable Peace, listing signatories and urging moderation between pacifists and annexationists while calling for a unified peace basis.
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Berlin
Germany
German National Committee For
von Rothman Toll Wee
Ania
Alpine Army Officer Fatally Slain in Town Incident
A Texas lieutenant colonel from the Sixth Cavalry was killed in an Alpine street shooting after a conflict with a man named Spooneil Syngeale. The event drew police attention as officers secured the scene and gathered statements amid local uproar.
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Alpine
Texas
MC Matuen O
Sixth Cavalry
Harry Spooneil Syngeale
Amd
Willud
Mester Tesay
Han Lek
Mexico
Spannell
Inquiry Opens Into Hector Grounding Off Charleston
The Board of Inquiry at the Charleston Navy Yard investigates the grounding of the naval collier Hector abandoned off Charleston last Friday. Reports also note two British prisoners slain in a workshop rot near the detention camp, with a separate London dispatch claiming up to 200 deaths in a monsoon off Colombo, Ceylon.
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Board of
Charleston, S
UA Naval Court of
Hector
Charleston
Charleston Navy Yard
Berlin
Frankfurter Zeitung
London
Colombo
Ceylon
the Exchange Telegraph Company
Three Years for Auto Fraud Plea in Kansas City
Carl G. Morse J F Barnes and Kaness City pleaded guilty before Judge Latshaw in the criminal court to obtaining a motor car under false pretenses. They were sentenced to three years each.
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Kaness City
Carl G. Morse
J F. Barnes
Latshaw
Cocaine Habit In England Attracts Attention In War Era
London reports a rising cocaine habit blamed on wartime conditions. The Daily Chronicle cites a surge in powder cocaine among soldiers and women in the West End, alleging Canadian traders fuel the spread amid the war. A Chicago fire at White Sox Park damaged a storage room with unknown origin.
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London
Maeland
The
Daily Chronicle
West End
White Sox Ball Park
Chicago
Shud
Social Worker Not to Die in Austria Treason Case
The state department announced that Wallington native Miss Alice Mazerky, formerly a Chicago social settlement worker, will not face execution in Austria after high treason charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallington
Alice Mazerky
Chicago
Will Hotby
Austria
To Make Synthetic Rubber in Britain and Mexico News
London reports Germany to begin large scale synthetic rubber production next month. Information reached El Paso confirms scientists involved including Robert Bacon and Dr A F Strong from Harvard Medical School. In Newark a shopkeeper was shot and a fire fatality followed by a bizarre infant arson incident. In Stockholm two Swedish aviators, Hentenan Mannstroem and Krues, died when their aircraft plunged from 500 feet.
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London
Germaha
el Paso
Tex
Robert Bacon
Furmer Am
Carsador Ty Friner
Dr A. Ft Strong
Harvard Medical School
Colwabae
Gen. Pershing
Mexico
Stockholm
Hentenan
Mannstroem
Krues
European War Update a Year In
A year into the European War, July 1915 reports show Russians driven across the Vistula at Ivangorod and Germans breaking lines near Warsaw while British and American ships face submarine threats. Italian and French advances, naval losses, and civilian evacuations accompany a mosaic of battles across the front.
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Vistula
Ivangorod
Souchex
la Pietre Forest
King
von Mackensen
Lubin-Cholm
Ban-de-Sapt
Vosges
Dunkirk
Tervona
Grimsby
Leelanaw
Warsaw
Vilna- Petrograd
Isonzo
Goritz
Lublin-Cholm
Belgium
Hooge
Throndhjeme Fjord
Bits of information on law, cargo slides, butter content, and ships
The text mentions a US government stance on liability for ship damages after a slide sank the Newport and a $500,000 suit. It covers a metal finger writing device, Brazil’s butter content rule, Russians working on Canadian farms, flax machinery in Canada, a 9netype ride in Strafford NH, lighthouse counts in the US, the Bank of New York’s 100th anniversary, Malian nerve signals, and Australia’s earthquakes comparative.
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United States
Pam Nina Cabal
Newport
Balbow
Canadia Farm
Canada
Hoonah Berry
Strafford
New York State
Bank of New York
Afl
Canoe Hamilton
Brat
Treasury
United Staem
ITI
Australia
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Wielfien
Cote Premanree Vieler Heriva
Lok Muineyune
Dunnary
Arkittiza
Ani
Dean JH Miller
Agricultural Excension Service
DH Colquitt
Conway
American Bible Society
Batesville
Dallas
Ho Metuy
Birmingham
Ala
Dy Stonewall Anderson
Nastoalie
Penn
A . Erivahe
Arkadelphia
Camden
el Dorado
Henderson
Tarriabure
Waldenburg
Hie Fuller Will
Racine
Suulth
Hamburg
Smyrna
Madison County
Warren O
Warren Paeapendt
Times
J R. Newman
Iatesville Board of Trade
Sharp County
Ash Flat
Charlotte
Orville Lott
Calleo Rock
Massachusetts
VILLA
Gen
T. K. Putingsley
Mai Corners
Hope
Hope Company
Fort Roots
Crawford County
Hot Springs
Mave Pees
Iliaree
Independence County
E W. Lanohan
Stuttgart
Hatfield
Town of
Rush
Marion County
J. H. Watson
Annie Jackson
Bear Mena
Transport Hendersan Launched
Huw
Wits
Sland Navy Yard
SAP
Messenger
Outlaw
National
von Leg
Hollweg
Compro
Mexia City
War Office
Gale Cien
Villa Tals
Destes Ani
Butler
Riga
Husson Niel
Rune
Tushie
Dlepatel
Cologne
England
Newark
Licksmith
Calvatore Chatranova
Hindenburg
Novogeorgievsk
Dardanelles
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