Expenditures and Tax Levy Proposals for Monroe Township 1915
The Monroe Township trustee invites residents to a September 7 1915 meeting at Bainbridge Bank to consider the 1915 expenditures and tax levies. Proposals include township and local tuition expenditures, special school costs, road tax, and per poll taxes totaling 9750 dollars in expenditures and 9.85 dollars per hundred in taxes. Net taxable property is 1 342 612 dollars with 255 polls.
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Monroe Township
Butnam County
Bainbridge Bark
E. R. Denny
Progress in College Education in 1914 Report
The 1914 annual report of the Commissioner of Education notes 216,493 college students, up 14,262 from 1913, across 567 institutions. Men outnumber women, endowments rise, benefactions exceed $26 million, and state aid expands. The junior-college movement grows with Wisconsin Missouri Virginia and Idaho recognizing them. The Municipal University of Akron joins city universities, and the Association of Urban Universities forms. Degrees include 26,533 bachelor, 5,248 graduate, 749 honorary. Doctorates total 446 men and 73 women.
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Commissioner of Education
Bureau
Wisconsin
Missouri
Virginia
Idaho
Akron
Ohio
New “Association of Urban Universities
Secrets of Blowing Wells Across Regions
United States Geographical Survey investigates curious air blowing wells observed in Nebraska and Rapides Parish Louisiana. Strong gusts eject air during low barometer storms. rising pressure reverses currents. Temperature differences and groundwater fill reduce the effect.
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United States Geographical Survey
Nebraska
Rapides Parish
Louisiana
St. Louis Republic
Toll Gate Ruse Ends With Honest Tax
A touring car balks at toll on a Southern turnpike as six occupants claim toll free. The gatekeeper cites a board clause about beasts and pigs, noting twelve cents due for twelve hogs, and the car finally pays the charge.
Why You Should Trade With Advertisers Firms
Advertising moves goods and signals a progressive trader. Advertisers are likely to buy stock at savings, offering up to date goods to customers.
Advertising Drives Lower Prices Through Higher Sales
The passage argues that advertising is not paid by the consumer as rent or wages but enables the consumer to access better goods at lower prices. Advertising boosts a firm's sales, covering expenses and living costs, and supports a business model based on small margins from higher volume. It contrasts advertisers with non advertisers who seek bigger profits from fewer sales.
Quick rising bread making yields four loaves
A guide to making bread with a quick rising process. It covers ingredients for four loaves, temperature control at 70 to 72 degrees, kneading steps, adding flour gradually, and baking until a golden brown velvety interior.
Cooking Fish in Clay Native Method Luxuriant in North Woods Lore
Milwaukee Sentinel reports on North Woods cooking using clay wrapped fish baked in embers. Leonard Kehoe of Tomah notes simple, salt only seasoning and a distinctive flavor with optional bacon slit along the dorsal fin. Cold streams keep flesh firm, framing clay baked fish as superior to city fare.
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North Woods
Leonard Kehoe
Tomah
Milwaukee Sentinel
Giant Washington timber feats alarm Seattle to San Francisco scope
The Seattle correspondence to the New York Tribune chronicles record logs and forests in Washington. It notes a yellow fir log sixty inches square and ninety eight feet long near Buckley and spud sticks over ninety feet long in Panama dredges. It recounts logs thirty six by forty inches and another forty by forty inches and a hundred feet long. The piece highlights giant cedars near South Bend Snoqualmie and Montesano, a log bridge across a canyon, and a red fir blown across rails. It ends with timber density figures for Clallam and Pacific counties and notes Washington stands among world’s densest forests with 36 000 square miles of timber.
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Buckley
Washington
Taft
Panama Canal Zone
Portland
Ore
Portland Mills
Panama
Bellingham
Wash
San Francisco
Elma
Washington Saw Mills
Snoqualmie Falls
South Bend
Montesano
Johns River
Snohomish County
Weyerkaueser Timber Company
Redwood Forest
California
Cascade Mountains
Northern Pacific Railroad
Clallam County
Pacific County
Seattle
New York Tribune
Armor Plated
Dialogue reveals a suitor’s anxious plea to a beloved as he imagines medieval knights. He jokes about knights wearing iron clothes to bolster his courage while she gently teases his lack of confidence in himself.
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Jane
Knights of Old
George
Auto churn butter found on New Jersey road test
Verona New Jersey cor respondent reports Warren Schelling, a chauffeur for dairyman Charles Spohr, accidentally churned butter in an auto milk wagon when a water cooler ran dry. He filled it with cream by mistake and continued toward Caldwell before the machine balked, prompting plans for an auto attachment to wash and wrap butter.
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Warren Schelling
Charles Spohr
Jacksonville
New Jersey
Schelling
Spohr
Caldwell
Verona
N. J
New York Press
Digestive Exercises and Diet Tips for Women
A guide advises posture and movement after meals to aid digestion. It promotes standing with head raised, twisting the torso, and deep breathing, plus avoiding liquids during meals and consuming about three quarts of water daily. It also notes Australian debate on a commonwealth agriculture bureau and an age gap comment on marriage.
How to Destroy Explosives
Instructions from Scientific American detail safe disposal of gunpowder dynamite and nitroglycerin based explosives. It covers methods such as destroying gunpowder in streams or water, burning in open fires, arranging cartridges away from wind, and handling ammonium nitrate explosives with caution while avoiding water for nitroglycerin containing compounds.
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Scientific American
Fashions in Note Paper and Visiting Cards
Philadelphia Times notes changing styles in writing papers and visiting cards with laid watermarked finish, square sizes, and preferred scripts. It covers card sizes for men and women, use of Old English and Roman type, etiquette for at home cards, replies, and naming conventions for daughters and newly married couples.
Woman Delights in Married Life More Than Suitor
A woman expresses joy in the prospect of marriage itself rather than in the man she is to wed. The sentiment highlights personal happiness and fulfillment found in married life.
How to Write a Business Letter for Women Applicants
A business expert emphasizes concise clear letters as essential for working women. The piece covers appropriate stationery correct tone and structure, sample phrasing for a stenography job, and the value of neatness and the skill to block out letters for efficiency. It notes experience may matter but reliability and precision can define success.
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Broadway
New York City
Brown
Mary Smith Green
Finding Diamond Mines Unearthed by Natives Across Regions
The article notes that new i mond mines in German Southwest Africa were first discovered by natives in Africa and that blacks in Cape Town held stones not from Kimberly or the Transvaal. It recounts famed finds by aboriginal diggers at Jagersfontein, near Bulfoneth, and Bahia, including Pelix Gonzales, with large historic profits and the long life of the Brazilian coconut palm.
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Jagersfontein
Bulfonieth
Towe
Qmlesberg Kopie
Kimberly
Bahia
Pelixonzales
Pearson’s Weekly
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Greencastle
Pinaud
Pinaud Bldg
New York
BIG
Australian House of Representatives
Commonwealth Bureau of Agriculture
Africa
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