Kositzky highlights tax shifts harming merchants this year
Special to The Herald In Valley City State Auditor Kositzky compared tax receipts of Palmer Brown and Merchant Jones, showing identical state tax payments in 1918 but large increases in 1919 due to reassessed valuations. He argued laws favoring education and printing undermine taxpayers and urged unity among farmers and city residents to resist perceived anti business measures.
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Karl Kositzky
Sixteenth Legislative Assembly
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Merchant Jones
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Jones
Kositzky
United States
Bill Langer
Simon Nagel
Mees
Morton County
Chart Olson
Thomas Hall
North Dakota
North, Dakota
Professor Ladd
Landsberg and von Kleist Arrested in Germany
Copenhagen reports that Herr Landsberg minister of justice in the National German government was arrested yesterday at Magdeburg by military troops. General von Kissat, commander of the Fourth army, also was arrested in the Magdeburg dispatch.
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Troop Ships Arrive at Newport News from Brest
Battle ships Virginia and Rhode Island unload two thousand officers and men at Newport News on April 3 from Brest. Most come from the 6th division.
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Newport News
Virginia
Rhode Island
Brest
Wilson Trip Home Dates Shift to April Eleven
New York April 5 The sailing dates of President Wilson on the George Washington have been advanced from April 14 to April 11. Washington April 6 In naval activity at Al Parte the liner encountered conditions requiring adjustments to departure plans.
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Wilson
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Washington
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Founders of Bavarian Soviets Clash Amid Turmoil
Berlin dispatch notes dissensions among Bavarian Soviet founders. An intensified state of affairs has been proclaimed in Munich, with reports from Acal and the Achtuhrblatt referencing internal strife and financial concerns in the new government structure.
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Berlin
Copenhagen
Big War Film To Boost The Liberty Loan
Minneapolis, April 8. The Price of Peace shows American soldiers in French battlefields with scenes from Chateau-Thierry to Belleau Wood. The 5 reel film, made by government film men, highlights war costs, heroism, and Pershing honors, to promote the Victory Liberty loan. It is distributed gratis to Victory loan meetings in the Ninth district.
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Signal Corps
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Belleau Wood
Imidair
Peace Council Sees Possible Developments In Paris Meeting
Paris April 8 The council of four met at the Lloyd George residence with Wilson not presiding but planning to attend the Paris House session. Overnight tension in peace conference circles lingered as the council gathered and officials hoped today’s meeting would ease atmosphere and advance talks.
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Council of Four
Lloyd George
Wilson
Memorial trees planted by many colleges this spring
Washington April 8 Commencement day at colleges will include memorial tree plantings for former students who died serving in World War I. Arbor Day events expand nationwide with sites such as Pershing Point in Atlanta, Memorial Drive in Minneapolis, Lindell Boulevard in St Louis, and Camp Bowie in Texas. The American Forestry Association notes widespread school, community, club, and highway group participation.
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Atlanta
Pershing Point
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American Forestry Association
Alaska coal development urged by Alaskan engineer panel
Anchorage March 12. Andrew Christiansen, head of land and industry for the Alaskan Engineer Commission, urges the federal government to adopt a clear policy to develop Alaska coal resources. He proposes leasing law changes, possible government mining, and transport help for Bering River and other lines to move coal to tidewater.
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Land and Industrial Department
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Washington, D. C
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Congress
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Bering River
Bismarck to See Several New Buildings This Year
In Bismarck North Dakota plans call for 200000 spent on a new memorial building on the state house grounds and 40000 for extending the capitol street railway. Senator Hughes says plans will be drawn for an 800 seat vaudeville and picture house on Broadway costing 25000 with bids sought after VanHorn returns. Bonds may be voted this spring for a 40000 grade school and remodeling work on the Bank of North Dakota temporary home. Also many fine homes are under consideration. Paris dispatch notes drafting of league of nations covenant updated to 27 articles and a full committee meeting to review redraft of the venant.
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Paris
League of Nations
League of Nations Committee
Bavarians Plan Alliance With Soviet Leaders
Munich on April 8 reports a proclamation by the new Soviet government for Bavaria calling for severing ties with the old German imperialism and resuming brotherly relations with the Russian and Hungarian people. The proclamation ends with long live the world revolution.
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Associated Press
Ebert-Scheidemann
Germany
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Serbia protest over recognition at Belgrade assembly
Belgrade on April 2 the national assembly heard Stoyan Protitch protest Serbia’s treatment by France Britain and Italy for not recognizing the Serbian Croatian and Slovenian states. He argued Romania’s commissions and secret treaties explain the delay while Poland and Czecho Slovakia have been recognized.
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National Assembly
Stoyan Protitch
Serbia
France
Great Britain
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Poland
Czecho- Slovakia
Romania
Old Larimore Resident Lucinda Laferty Dies at 97
Mrs. Lucinda Laferty known as Grandma Laferty died at her daughter Mrs Lyons home in Larimore aged 97. Funeral services set for Wednesday at 2 pm at the Lyons residence. She will be buried in Cambridge Illinois with her husband. Survived by two daughters Emma and Mrs Lyons and granddaughter Nona Lyons. Born in Pennsylvania she moved through Cambridge to this area and settled near Orr then Larimore.
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Grandma” Laferty
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Larimore
Grand Forks
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Illinois
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Emma Laferty
Nona Lyons
Duluth Storm Eases After Night of Snow and Damage
A severe Duluth storm that lashed the area with snow sleet slush thunder and rain is abating this morning. Three inches of slush clog the streets and debris shattered glass and street signs as damage from the nightlong event becomes evident.
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Duluth
Chicago Sees Record Daily Egg Delivery
Chicago received its largest one day egg shipment with 73 457 cases, a new mark for the city. Despite the record arrivals, the market edge rose slightly from the day before as exporters reportedly bought large lots for Europe.
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Europe
Eee
Labor Ticket Wins in Winona for Mayor
Winona Minn April 8 for the first time in history the labor ticket was successful at the polls yesterday Julius Protz union wagon shop foreman elected mayor a feature of the election contest ward and party workers celebrated the result
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Winona
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Julius Protz
Frank Woolworth Dies at 67 in Glen Cove Home
New York April 8 Frank Woolworth billionaire founder of the ten cent store empire died suddenly at his Glen Cove Long Island home at age sixty seven. He began as an errand boy and rose to wealth after marrying young while earning eight dollars and fifty cents a week.
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St Paul in Uproar Over O’Hare Speech
St Paul citizens protest a Socialist rally speaker Mrs Kate Richards O’Hare who called mothers of soldiers brood s. Mayor Hodgson leads council to investigate the auditorium appearance with A F Morton to report on circumstances. City officials say the pledge violation insults the city and may bar future use of the auditorium or parks.
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St. Paul
Kate Richards O'Hare
Hodgson
A. F. Morton
O'Hare
Wunderlich
Mr. Morton
United States
Pioneer Press
Elas Sanyens
Clancy
Snipe Sne
Educators to Europe to combat Bolshevism plan
New York April 8 The war department will send a commission of ten leading educators to Europe to counter Bolshevism and promote the League of Nations as an antidote. The group to be called the international relations division of overseas educational war work, headed by Prof Stephen P Duggan of the College of the City of New York.
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War Department
Europe
League of Nations
International Relations Division
Overseas Educational War Work
The
Stephen P. Duggan
College of the City of New York
Michigan Casts Its Heaviest Vote
Detroit April 8 Michigan yesterday rejected the proposed amendment to the prohibition law adopted a fifty million dollar road building program and gave the repudiation ticket of the minor state officers an overwhelming majority The feminine vote was prominent in defeating the amendment which would have modified the prohibition law A complicated ballot in Detroit showed a close race on the question of buying the street railway.
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Detroit
Michigan
Troops At Twoan A And Suffer Heavy Losses
From Tangier readers report Spanish forces in camp five miles from Twoan were attacked on March 21 by tribesmen led by Raieull, the former pretender. Spaniards suffered heavy casualties and retreated, but later regained their camp.
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Twoan A
Paris
Tangier
Say
Twoan
Raieull
Demonstrations in Munich Mount Pressure on New Government
Report notes demonstrations in Munich against the new government as members of the cabinet perform duties with earnestness. Hamburg region eyes a major political movement while near the city, signaling a potential crisis on the horizon.
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Munich
Hamburg
Bank Robbery at Seven Corners Seizes 4500 Cash and 13000 Bonds
In Minneapolis on April 8 a handita robbed the People's State bank at Seven Corners. The bandits escaped with 4500 dollars in cash and 13000 dollars in Liberty bonds. Money spilled into the street when the cash slides broke as they fled toward their car. Bank president Ernest observed the escape and alerted police after entering a nearby drug store.
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People’s State Bank
Seven Corners
Minn
Aada
Liberty Bonda
Ernest
Bank
Smuts Fails To Secure Armistice Before Departure
Budapest Sunday report states General Smuts, in Hungary for the peace conference, had authority to arrange a new armistice but did not before leaving Sunday. British residents plan to depart for Paris via Vienna on Saturday.
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Budapest
Winter Wheat Crop Forecast Reaches Record High
Washington April 837 million bushels of winter wheat expected this year. The Agriculture Department estimates 37 million bushels produced by April first at 99.8 percent of normal. This is the largest crop on record with an expected value near 1 891 million dollars and potential gains over the 1914 and last year records.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Sheldon Boy Found Dead In Straw Pile
In Shaldon North Dakota on April 3 Julius Konts, missing from the barn, is found dead lying face down in straw behind livestock. Authorities investigate a tragic farm accident or possible foul play as details remain incomplete.
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Ausiet Konts
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