Taft Urges Congress On Corporate Tax And Income Amendment
President Taft asks Congress to consider a 2 percent tax on undistributed corporate earnings and a constitutional amendment allowing income tax. Attorney General Wickersham drafted both measures. The corporate tax goes to Finance Committee. the constitutional amendment to Judiciary. Pro‑administration Republicans back Taft, while some progressives split. Democrats deride the corporate tax as a substitute for direct income tax. Taft emphasizes publicity, corporate accountability, and potential public trust gains, asserting the plan could expand government access to corporate books under a constitutional framework. The tariff provision is urged as unlimited in time to ensure publicity and reform impact.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Congress
Wickersham
Supreme Court
Russian troops battle Shaksavien tribesmen in Ardabill
Dispatches from St Petersburg report Russian forces taking part in the Shaksavien uprising in Ardabill Azerbaijan. Fifteen mountain cavalry with two Maxim guns were dispatched from the frontier after appeals from provincial leaders. Tribesmen reportedly attacked Satrap and began looting. about 5,000 people were killed.
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Russia
St. Petersburg
Tabriz
Ardabill
Azerbaijan
Satrap
$50,000 Vanishes in Registered Mail Pouch Disappearance
Los Angeles post office authorities hunt a crew after a registered mail pouch vanished between Los Angeles and Bizbee containing two packages from the First National Bank of Los Angeles to Bizbee. No record of the bag being loaded on the train here, investigators report.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Post Office
Ministers Urged to Drop South from Methodist Church Name
Ministers urge dropping the word south from the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church name at the Asheville NC general conference. Missionaries say the term creates confusion abroad and hinders explaining the church’s identity in foreign fields.
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Memphis
South
Southern Methodist Episcopal Church
Asheville
N. C
Earthquake Devastates Southern France Causing Loss of Life
In Marseilles and across the Riviera, a pair of northeast to southwest shocks devastate towns in Herault and Bouches du Rhone. Casualties range from 75 to 100 dead and about 100 injured, with Lambesc and St Cannat among the hardest hit. Troops search rubble as bread and essentials run scarce.
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Marreellles
France
Herault
Bouches du Rhone
St. Cannat
Rognese
Lambesc
Aix
Marseilles
Riviera
Lamboso
Enguilles
Toulon
Bumper Crops and Wheat Outlook Toasted by Secretary Wilson
Secretary James Wilson visits Tama Iowa and Chicago on farm outlook tour. He forecasts a strong wheat crop nationwide, notes weather as key to harvest timing, and says rain delays in the middle west may delay markets but overall prospects look favorable for farmers.
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Wilson
Chicago
James Wilson
Tama
Iowa
Washington
Middle West
Smuggling Ring Exposed on Seattle Steamship Minnesota
Inspectors found nine nude Chinese on the steamship Minnesota in Seattle and seized silk cigars and lacing goods. An immigrant stowaway led to a search revealing the additional group along with leather mail pouches and silk bags. Inspector Keagey fell twenty feet into a hatch during the investigation, landing on the nine nude Chinese.
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Seattle
Wash
Bigs
Great Northern
Minnesota
C. BE. Keagey
Swallowed Gun Cotton Traps Omaha Girl in Bed
Helen O Wells, 20, in Omaha after a quarrel with her sweetheart swallowed gun cotton. She rests on heavy mattress with springs, tied so she cannot move. Doctors fear operation due to risk of explosion. she was taken to police station and later placed in bed with springs.
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Omaha
Neb
Helen O. Wells
Ben
Inventor Survives 8500-Foot Airplane Drop in Berwyn
A. Sorenson, blacksmith and amateur aviator, climbed in a balloon then tried to descend in a self built airplane. After cutting loose at height the craft plunged end over end from 8500 feet. Sorenson landed seated and unharmed before a crowd of townspeople.
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Berwyn
Neb
A. Sorenson
Sorenson
DesMoines Trooper Fatally Shoots Officers at Fort DesMoines
Corporal Lisle Crabtree probably fatally shoots Captain John Hedmond at Fort DesMoines. He wounds First Sergeant James H. Washburn and Corporal Elijah Such when they try to disarm him, then shoots himself, with a rib shot near the heart. He may recover after reprimand by Captain Raymond.
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DesMoines, In
Lisle Crabtree
John ©. Hedmond
Second
United States Cavalry
Fort DesMoines
James H. Washburn
Elijah Such
Crabtree
Raymond
Condition Of Crops In Georgia Report Highlights Decline In Cotton Acreage
May crop condition report from the Georgia Department of Agriculture notes cotton acreage is down about 8 per cent from last year while corn wheat and oats acreage rise. Planting is about 15 days late with 10 per cent replanted. Fertilizer use steady for cotton and higher for other crops. wages and prices listed. fruit outlook varies by region with peach trees increasingly cut.
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Atlanta
Department of Agriculture
Georgia
Gros
PC P.C. P.C. P.C
Judge Orders Road Sold In Savannah Northern Case
Judge Speer signs decree in W J Oliver v Savannah Augusta and Northern Railroad authorizing sale of the line from Statesboro to Louisville on August 8 1909. Receiver Bondra Phinizy named. $20 000 deposit required. Oliver to receive $286 615 84 plus interest and costs. potential deficiency decree if sale underprice.
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Oliver
S&s. A. and N. Railroad
Macon
Speer
W. J. Oliver
Savannah Augusta and Northern Railroad
Statesboro
J. N. Talley
Hinton Booth
C. Henry Cohen
J. R. Lamar
Augusta
Hmary Speer
Bondra Phinizy
Savannah
Rome to Gainesville Railroad Plan Outlined
A party of Romans visited Gainesville to promote a Rome to Gainesville railway. They propose organizing a company, securing a charter for the Rome and Gainesville railway, conducting surveys, and building the line themselves or with support from major trunk lines. The route would pass through Hall Forsyth or Dawson Cherokee Bartow and Floyd into Rome.
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Rome
Gainesville
Rome and
Hall
Forsyth
Dawson
Cherokee
Bartow
Floyd
Ronie
Georgia Stands to Buy W&ARy Terminal Site at Chattanooga
Governor Smith announces the state has secured options on a 70 acre tract adjoining the Western and Atlantic railroad near Chattanooga Tennessee. The land would serve as yards and terminals for the state road as demand for such facilities grows, with purchase expected as a future goal.
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Chattanooga
Atlanta
Smith
Western and Atlantic Railroad
Tenn
State of Georgia
Georgia News Highlights From 1909 State Affairs
Governor Smith signed a warrant for 8000 to fund prison commission supplies at Milledgeville and to wind up its annual report. The Georgia Bar meeting at Warm Springs endorsed robes for judges in several Georgia courts. Governor Smith pardoned twenty five penitentiary inmates after prison farm mismanagement, sometimes acting on his own initiative. An auditing firm found no improvement at the prison commission and bare bookkeeping at the state reform school. Captain J W Lindsay issued the 1908 pension report showing 15 619 pensioners at 927 775 35 cost, with 22 224 15 remaining in the treasury. A potato patch chip with hair growth was found at Lindale by Willie Ray. Miss Ella May Thornton was appointed second assistant state librarian at the Capitol. The Georgia Daughters of the Confederacy released their medal contest results, with Oscar Benson, Harry Griswood, and Nell Hardwick among top scorers. James Martin admitted robbing a post office and implicated Langford and Clyde in a Waleska robbery. State banks opened in Dawsonville, Jasper expanding banking to four counties, Dade, Towns, Echols, and Camber. Cotton Seed Crushers’ annual meeting set at Atlantic Beach with many speakers and 200+ members expected. Griffin’s commerce boomed, with 7,550,000 in three-year growth, 15,000 more bales of cotton, and seven factories with 3429 looms and 107,980 spindles. Milltown reported strong health, few local deaths, and excellent drainage.
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Smith
Prison Commission
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Georgia
Georgia Bar Association
Warm Springs
Milledgeville
Commission
State Farm
State Reformatory
Capitol
J. W. Lindsay
Pensions
Treasury
Pension Department
General Assembly
Lindale
Little Willie Ray
C. H. Ray
Ella May Thornton
Atlanta
Maude Barker Cobb
Miss Thornton
Miss Daly
Oscar Benson
Thomasville
Harry Griswood
Macon
Nell Hardwick
Jackson
C. W. Clyde
Langford
Menlo
United States
James Martin
Martin
Waleska
Dawsonville
Jasper
State Treasury Department
Dade
Echols
Camber
Fielding Wallace
Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association of Georgia
Atlantic Beach Fils
Griffin
Riffin
Milltown
Owever
Illtown
Cotton crop reports show scattered conditions across states
The Times-Democrat notes a five percent drop in cotton acreage with plants needing better leaves. Central Texas lacks a crop by mid June, while farmers report droughtlike conditions. The Commercial Appeal tallies heavy rainfall causing grass in cotton fields east of the Mississippi, but west of the river conditions are fair to good with Texas and Oklahoma needing showers for improvement.
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New Orleans
Times-Democrat
Austin
Texas
Southwest
State Department of Agriculure
Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi River
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
Meadville Feud Turns Fatal Two Killed in Street Battle
Meadville Mississippi faced a deadly feud flare with two men dead and four wounded after a street battle linked to a prolonged feud rooted in a political campaign. Authorities rushed state troops from Brookhaven to quell potential rioting as Dr A M Newman and Silay G Reynolds died, Lenox Newman and Herbert A plewhite wounded, and Emmett Newman shot in the leg. Police arrested L P Pricard in connection with the earlier murder that sparked the feud.
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Meadville
Miss
Brookhaven
A. M. Newman
Chancery Court
Franklin County
Silay G. Reynolds
Lenox Newman
Herbert Aplewhite
Emmett Newman
Natchez
Boyd
Parr
L. P. Pricard
Cornelius Prichard
Newman
Prichard
Mark Twains Advice To Girls At St Timothy’s
Mark Twain spoke in Baltimore to St Timothy’s girl graduates after Edward F Martin. He urged what they should not do, listing three cautions: don’t smoke to excess, don’t drink to excess, and don’t marry to excess, framing his remarks in a sharp, humorous tone.
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Baltimore
Mark Twain
St. Timothy’s School
Edward F. Martin
New York
Government Watches Filibuster At Edenton Steamer Naticocke
Government monitors indicate possible filibuster activity as the steamer Naticocke, recently traded at Elizabeth City, remains under scrutiny near Edenton. A Raleigh dispatch reports the Nanticoke departed Elizabeth City bound for South America amid heightened vigilance.
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Edenton
N. C
Elizabeth City
Raleigh
South America
Large American flag to decorate cadets at Pullman
Mrs. Harry B. Mitchell completes a 110 by 39 foot American flag to hang over a three story building for Washington State college cadets. The flag features 13 stripes, a 21 by 21 foot blue field with stars, and serves as a grand backdrop for cadets, officers, and bands.
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Gordon
Harry B. Mitchell
Mitchell
United States Army
Washington State College
Pullman
Wash
Chouchard
M. Chauchard
Rebecca Burns
Bellefontaine
Ohio
Chicago
Postum Credited With Easing Family Health Problems
A southern state public school superintendent shares a letter praising Postum as a coffee alternative. He notes his mother, lifelong coffee drinker, improved after using Postum, with fewer heart symptoms and headaches, and the entire family eventually switching. He adds his own benefits and mentions ongoing letters of genuine, human interest.
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Postum
Wellville
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