New 15 Percent Tax Cut Proposed by Melton Plan
Washington reports government experts draft the Melton plan for Congress. The proposal aims to cut the top surtax from 40 percent to 20 percent and adjust starting points, repeal publicity rules, and rewrite loss deductions for corporations. It also seeks small reductions in duties on jewelry cars and amusements, with net exemptions increased for single and married earners but lacking a clear method to offset overall tax reductions.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Congress
Department
Treasury
Stone, Rail Labor Head, Dies in Cleveland Hospital
Warren Stanford Stone, 65, chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and head of its broad financial ventures, died in a Cleveland hospital from an acute Bright's disease attack. He managed about 150 million dollars in the union's business interests. His wife was at home. the couple had no children.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Warren Stanford Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Bright
Terest
Stone
Leader of Locomotive Engineers Dies After Long Service
The 22 story Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Bank building, owned by the union and leased to the cooperative bank, is noted as recently completed. Mr Stone advanced from locomotive tender in 1870 to grand chief in 1903, marking a quarter century of leadership.
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Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers’ Bank
Brotherhood
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Co-operative National Bank
Stone
F Brotherhood
Freman
Americans Fired Upon in Canton Cantonese Troops At They Leave City
Four Americans were fired on in Canton as Chinese troops in command urged them to depart. The party led by Frank Crampton and Montgomery Ogden of Orange New Jersey, crossing the Wee River in a launch, suffered a gun wound to Crampton who is superintendent at the Christian College. Fleeing residents seek safety as authorities urge evacuation.
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Canton
Yunnancopa
Frank Crampton
Montgomery Ogden
Orange
N Jip
Hagis
Crampton
Christian ‘College
First State Bank of
Rockford
Rockford State Bank
Towa State College
Wallace Park
University of Minoia
Iowa State College
Amos
Department of Agriculture
Little Wall Lake
Jewell
M. C. Youngblood
Jefferson
Chicago
Couneil Blutts
Iowa
United States
P. McNaught
Iowa AntiSaloon League
Abbeyvleken in the committee room incident reported
Fragmentary OCR note describes an event in a committee room labeled as abbavleken with unclear details. No full names, dates, or locations are readable, limiting precise identification or context of the incident. Further text is needed to confirm entities and outcome.
Wales awaboy GP premier of New Message received
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Wales, GP, premier of New Message and receipt of a communication. Context unclear with missing data, hindering full event details. Not enough readable facts to establish a complete newspaper item with person, organization, place, or date.
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Wales Awaboy
He Pew
New Message
Bere
Premier flies to Moor front in plane
Paris reports Premier Painleve travels to Morocco by air with General Jacquemont and M Laurant Bynns. Observers see government readying to deploy France’s air force to Morocco and approve Lyautey’s request for 150 more planes. Painleve to discuss campaign plans with Lyautey as cabinet backs defensive stance. military circles expect a major blow against Abd el Krim’s rebels.
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Paris
Paul Painleve
Morocco
North Africa
Jacquemont
M. Laurent Bynns
France
Bourget
Bue
Orly
Issy
Marshal Lyautey
M. Painieve
Seven Missing After Launch Burns Off Atlantic City
A 75 foot launch Crystal carrying Northfield club members burned seven miles at sea near Atlantic City. Seven are missing while more than a dozen injured, many severely burned or submerged, were brought to Atlantic City hospital. Gasoline tank explosion reportedly started by a lighted cigarette stub. A cutter rescued 16 men and one woman from the flames.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Atlantic Hospital
Northfield
Six Chinese Killed Aiding British at Hankow
Six Chinese died and many were wounded defending the British concession in Hankow as rioters attacked on the Butterfield and Swir wharves. Volunteers mobilized for three hours before sailors from foreign gunboats arrived to assist. The confrontation intensified as coolies renewed a mass assault on the concession.
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Hankow
Butterfield
Swir
President Coolidge to Start Vacation June 23
Plans for a quick summer departure from the White House were announced. President Coolidge will leave Washington June 28 under current arrangements, with a possible delay if cool weather continues. The trip follows the semiannual budget meeting and will be at Swampscott.
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Washington
White House
Swampscott
Alleged Bank Bandit Captured Near Golconda Farmhouse
A man believed to be one of two bandits who robbed the Cumberland bank of seventeen thousand dollars was captured at a farmhouse ten miles north of Golconda Kentucky by Deputy Sheriff Fred Glass. The arrest follows the earlier hold up and robbery reported in the county.
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Golconda
Mred. Glass
Eheritt
Weather and storm damages hit Minnesota and Iowa region
A fragile report notes storms in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa Friday night. One person drowned. several injured. substantial property damage reported across affected areas.
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Des Meoines
Iowa
Minnesota
Kellogg Warns Mexico to Protect Americans
Secretary of State Kellogg warned Mexico to safeguard American lives and property and honor international obligations or risk losing U.S. backing. He discussed with Ambassador Sheffield the two joint claims conventions and urged restitution for property seized under agrarian laws, stressing continued support only while Mexico protects citizens and fulfills its commitments.
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Washington
Mexico
Unite States
Kellogg
Sheffield
Mexico City
Kellogge
Shefeleta
Kelloge
SheMeld
Joint Claims Commissions
United States
U S Ambassador to Berlin Sails to Assume New Post
Ambassador Jacob Gould Schurman, longtime U S envoy in Berlin, sailed aboard the George Washington to assume a new post. He voiced hope that nations agree on a program to restore pre war conditions in Europe and stressed rebuilding friendship between German and American governments and peoples.
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New York
United States
Germany
Jacob Gould Schurman
Berlin
Nations outlaw deadly gas as war weapon
Geneva protocol bans poison gas and chemical or bacterial weapons. International conference on arms traffic adopts the American-proposed protocol to prohibit use and transport of such weapons in warfare. Provisions aim to limit chemical and bacteriological warfare globally.
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Geneva
International Conference For the Control
Indiana Refuses Muster in Indianapolis
Governor Jackson informed the War Department in Washington that he considers it inadvisable for Indiana to participate in the Fourth of July defense muster proposed by President Coolidge. The stance reflects state officials choosing not to engage in the national plan.
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Indianapolia
Jackson
War Department
Washington
Indiana
Coolidge
Prohibition Party Pushes Tobacco Ban Plan in Harrisburg
Harrisburg Pa. Prohibition party state committee adopted resolutions advocating a ban on the manufacture and sale of tobacco, marking a formal start of their campaign against tobacco.
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Harrisburg
State Committee
The
Prohibition Party
Market Quotations By U.S. Government Report June 6
Market items list week ending June 6 across fruits vegetables dairy grain and live stock. Prices shown include potatoes peaches salmon tints butter wholesale wheat corn hogs beef cattle lambs and veal across Baltimore Pittsburgh Philadelphia Chicago Minneapolis St Louis Kansas City and other markets with regional ranges and per-car or per-unit figures.
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Washington
Baltimore
Pittsburgh
Georgia U
Imperial Valley
California
Laesburg
Florida
Philadelphia
Chicago
Minneapolis
St. Louis
Kansas City
Kansan Ciity
Minneapolia
Kanang City
Knananas Cit
Shepherd Murder Trial Jury Completes Verdict in Case
Twelve jurors sworn to sift evidence find William J D Shepherd guilty or innocent in typhoid infection case. Trial before Judge Lynch weighed intentional infection versus accidental exposure tied to a $1,000,000 bequest to Shepherd from William McClintock. Verdict could determine Shepherd’s fate and estate disposal.
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Chicago
Wiliam JD
Shepherd
William McClintock
Fhomag J. Lynch
Criminal Court
McClintock
Three Killed and Fifteen Hurt as Lightning Strikes Texas School
A severe storm sent a bolt into a crowded schoolhouse ten miles south of Breckenridge Texas killing three people Carl Ledbetter nine a boy eleven and a girl thirteen Broda family members. Fifteen others were injured with several believed fatally and a seventeen year old sister of the Brodas dying Clyde Perry twelve living near Cisco expected to die.
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Breckenridge
Texas
Here
Mmass
Carl Ledbetter
Pir
Broda
Kifteen
Brolis
Clyde Perry
Cisco
Rents to Drop in Year According to Building Owners
Cleveland delegates at the National Association of Building Owners and Managers convention predicted a drop in rents within the coming year. The forecast reflects expectations from local building owners in Ohio.
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Cleveland
Ohio
National Association of Building Owners and Managers
Boat Burns Three Die As Fire Sweeps Vessel
Three men from the fishing launch Mayflower were lost when a fire engulfed the boat ten miles from Milwaukee harbor. They chose to stay in the water as flames overtook the vessel, authorities reported.
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Milwaukee
Lake Michigan
American Ambassador Hurt in Santiago Collision
Willam M. Collier, the U S ambassador to Chile, was injured in a street scooter bite collision in Santiago. The incident involved a careutomebite event and caused minor injuries to the envoy as he navigated downtown streets.
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Santiago
Chile
Willam M. Collier
Iowa progresses toward farm electrification and local updates
The report lists Page county adding three radio stations owned by seed companies, Wapello buying a new fire truck, and droughts marking 1925 as among the driest in 35 years. It notes Graceland College’s largest class with 96 graduates and various local developments from library expansions to street treatments, farm labor, and tax changes.
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Iowa
Page County
Wapello
Farina
Weather Bureau
Pinal
Wiancahick County
Indians Gather at Fisher Bay For Annual Co llochien Run
Several hundred Indians including women and children assembled at Fisher Bay at the Naas river mouth in early spring awaiting the collehians. The annual run lasts about a month with Indians coming from far to fish through the ice for gvoulchan grease used as butter. Previously up to 1,000 gathered, but this year not more than 80 were present.
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Fisher Bay
Naas River
Prince Rupert
British Columbia
The Mile Versus The Kilometer In Europe
The American and English miles measure 1,760 yards while the Ham in mile varied from 1,100 to over 12,000 yards on the continent. Europe has largely adopted the kilometer, equivalent to 3,280.8 feet and about five-eighths of a mile, signaling the shift from traditional miles.
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Europe
Proving It Teases Wife Over Fifty Dollar Bond
In a humorous exchange, a man recalls telling his girlfriend he loved her in grand terms and now must tell his wife he loves her enough to repay fifty dollars, stressing the need to produce the money.
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Warren &. Stone
Raymond Orteig
Mr. Orteig
Premier
U.S
William D. Mitchell
St. Paul, Minn
President Coolidge
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U. S
Hurt
Iowa State News
Graceland College
Lamont
Bedford Country Club
Sam Park
Hils
Muscatine
Charlies City
Plana
Mt. Pleasant Library
Woodbury County
Ilans Peter Lorenzen
Boone County
Webster County
Board of Supervisors
Iowa State Association of Hiks
Wilton Junction
Economy Lumber Company
Bell Jones Produce Company
Commercial Hotel
Chamberlain
John Hammill
Iowa Wesleyan College
Manchester
Penn Township
Mai JSON County
Polong
Salvation Army
Army
Extension Service
Doan
Boer
Charieys Jitarme
Prairie Avenue
Clairton
Towa
Anya
Ineya
Pilla
Foster Milburn Co
Mfg. Chem
Buffalo
Peking
Taiyuanfu
Shansi
China
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Bellans
Sure Relief Sellans
Peterson
Reece
England
Beecham
Aby
Cuticura
Eh Reander
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