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Newspaper
Dermott News
Location
Dermott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1917
Page
2
Washington reports the war revenue bill aims to raise 1.8 billion dollars for war expenses. It lowers income exemptions to 1000 dollars for single filers and 2000 dollars for married couples and increases surtaxes across income ranges. The plan also adjusts inheritance taxes and expands taxes on liquor tobacco and amusement industries while raising rates on utilities and telephone services.
War revenue bill extends taxes to many items including stock trades bonds drafts deeds life and marine insurance auto parts tires and repairs. It imposes 5 to 10 percent rates on autos, telephone service, musical instruments over ten dollars, jewelry and other consumer goods with various thresholds and exemptions.
Hull House in Chicago, started in September 1889 by two women with aid from friends, offered lectures, unions, arts, a music school, gym, clubs, coffee house, and a day nursery. Jane Addams led Hull House. note she was born in Cedarville Illinois. The excerpt also mentions salt mines in Transylvania and a Joseph gallery echo.
Arkansas editors toured Fort Smith May 14 16 aboard a sightseeing special with stops at Van Buren Rudy Chester Mountainburg Winslow and more. The group visited universities and hosted receptions while mapping road projects linking Eureka Springs to Joplin and Little Rock via Jefferson and Bankhead Highways.
In Philadelphia a Daily News item notes two weekly pet persons and local officials linked to a court matter. It mentions Naemi retired a Burntey Traption and a road grader, plus a Black Rock incident. The issue covers Redpath’s fourth annual engagement at Prescot, Hamburg battleship fund results, highway work from Pine Bluff to the county line, Walnut Ridge to Randolph county corridor bids, and Lewisville farm lease for student-planted crops.
After three weeks of war era debate the Senate approved the administration espionage bill by 77 to six. The measure gives the president power to embargo experts and censor mail while new provisions are likely in conference. The House had approved a similar bill and a redrafted version is anticipated.
Washington report notes Sevrency Daniels urged the House Navy Committee to extend a $15 per month pay increase already approved for one group of enlisted sailors to naval militia reserve and naval volunteers, extending the benefit to additional service members.
Sixty of the seventy German merchant steamers in Portuguese ports when Portugal entered the war were seized and handed to Great Britain on a rental basis for seven million dollars per year.
President Menocal leads a Cuban commission urging Washington to confer with American officials on Cuba's role in the war. The move signals Havana’s push for formal involvement and federal coordination amid the conflict.
In Ardmore Oklahoma six hundred head of stock are infected with anthrax in Carter County. Federal farm agent Carl Russell reports the outbreak and warns quickly to isolate affected herds and seek veterinary help.
The lace makers of Velay unite to form a tricolor lace flag in red white and blue. They plan to present the banner to the first American regiment arriving to fight on French soil.
Washington lawmakers consider a war time prohibition bill banning the manufacture sale and export of beverage alcohol. Senator Kenyon introduced the measure in the Senate to curb alcohol during wartime.
Independence Mo. Chief of Police A Harris said he will arrest owners of vacant lots who permit weed crops when the land could be turned into a garden. The move targets neglected property to curb unsightly growth and potential hazards.
A measure proposing to submit the question of statewide prohibition to a popular vote was approved by the state Senate in April 1918. The action targets a public decision on banning alcoholic beverages across the state, reflecting the era's reform movement.
A May Sunday lesson from Isaiah 28 and 1 Corinthians 9 discusses temperance, contrasting social, medicinal, sacrificial, and harmful wine use with the dangers of drunkenness. It emphasizes abstinence from indulgence, warns priests and prophets, and urges persistent, child-proper teaching on abstinence to counter intemperance.
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