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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1905
Page
5
The ad touts Dr Price's Baking Powder as enhancing healthfulness and palatability of risen flour foods. It advises careful purchasing and claims lighter sweeter flavors. Also included are long notes on county road and public works powers affecting highways, bridges, railroads, and public utilities.
The 64th General Assembly advances legalizing acts and district apportionment. Measures include county real estate titles after fires, formalizing incorporations, and liquor and tobacco statutes with remonstrance and minor penalties. Senate districts and representative districts are redrawn with specified counties and joint districts listed.
Legislation provides for a three member commission to oversee a monument to Oliver P. Morton on the State House lawn. An appropriation of 35 000 dollars is made for the project, funds available in 1906. The act is now in force.
Highways follow state law with twelve freeholders viewing to locate or change routes. Viewers report plans on county ground, damages are assessed from the treasury, and final action rests with the County Commissioners. Fences require sixty days notice to land occupants. unused highways lapse after six years.
The bill set discusses condemnation procedures for state projects, appraisal of land and damages, and rights of appeal. It also covers borrowing limits for the State Board of Agriculture, increased appropriations for girls facilities, state printing board membership, and tax exemptions related to the State Fair Grounds and library funding.
Mrs. Margaret Gantz of Burlington Iowa reports six months of stiff painful knees and elbows eased after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. She states two weeks brought relief and she has not used them for nearly two years. Price is 2.50 for six pills per box from Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY.
The document outlines provisions for school operation 120 days per law and further special assistance from a 35 cent extra levy if a local 40 cent levy cannot sustain 120 days. It also notes tax exemptions for Greek letter fraternities and procedures for county contracts to recover costs from omitted property assessments. Continued on 8th Page.
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