Mellon hints at tax plan revisions lowering surtax and estate taxes
Secretary Mellon spoke to the Mississippi Bankers Association in Jackson, signaling possible reductions in maximum surtax rates and estate taxes. He urged shifting incentives toward corporate investment and indicated Congress plans revised income tax legislation next session. Business groups prepare a joint reform program, possibly with Mellon plan roots, while rank and file taxpayers seek better representation and improved enforcement of returns.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
Mississippi Bankers Association
Jackson
Department
Congress
Bankers
House
Ways and Means Committee
Dandelion vs Lava Grass in Garden Debate
A gardener muses on plant competition noting that cultivating dandelions could be stifled by lava grass. The remark imagines how one weed might be overwhelmed by an aggressive groundcover in a hypothetical soil battle.
Chicago Gotham Air Service Gains Night Flight Groundwork
C M Keys of Curtiss Aircraft firm says interest from wealthy backers leads to a planned New York Chicago night air express. Government lighting and safer navigation have paved the route with pilots able to steer in darkness. Capitalists expect a regular schedule within two months, marking a hopeful aviation era. Helena reports a fresh paint sign as a local cheerful note.
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C. M. Keys
Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company
New York
Chicago
Farm land prices rise across Montana and Midwest
Prices of farm lands in the middlewest and northwest improve steadily. In Montana ranch and beet growing lands show a firmer tone due to good recent crops and favorable outlook. A Brookmire Economic Service survey supports the rising trend.
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Middlewest
Northwest
Montana
Brookmire Economic Service
Gasoline Tax Law Questioned by Conciliier
The query asks under what law a gasoline dealer can collect two cents a gallon as tax and retain it. If no law authorizes the collection, the conciliier argues, the payer should not be required to contribute.
Ford proposes dietetic approach to peace via mass feeding
Henry Ford hires dieticians to study foods and teach people how to eat to keep them good natured and promote world peace. The piece critiques the idea as a hasty generalization and argues that frazzled nerves, not just diet, drive war and political decisions, noting leaders often appear sleep deprived and non compos mentis.
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Henry Ford
Ford
Bryan
No Solicitors Wanted Spells End for Peddlers
Montana debate over a state law prompts towns Marlboro and Greenville to curb itinerant sales. Residents post signs reading No Solicitors Wanted We Spend Our Money at Home to deter peddlers and traveling salesmen, reducing doorstep interruptions for housewives.
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Montana
Nineteenth Assembly
Marlboro
Massachusetts
Greenville
Mississippi
May in Maryland Editorial on Love and Cops
The piece chronicles spring in Maryland with vivid nature imagery then shifts to a humorous tale of a couple in Cruid Hill Park pursued by police. It ends with a moral about love facing laws and patrols, contrasting romance and public order.
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Ms Imay
Maryland
Wistaria
Robin
Catbird
Eutaw Place
Cruid Hill Park
Mary
John
Cupid
Aphrodite
Love
Fishing Seen as Sport for Children by Coolidge
News item notes President Coolidge identifying fishing as a pastime suited for children rather than adults in a short April 14 dispatch by Morris Washington.
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Morris Washington
National marble championship heats in playground leagues
The piece describes a nationwide marble tournament for boys under 14, with city eliminations feeding into a national final in Atlantic City. It outlines rules for rings, marbles, and shooters, scoring by knocked out marbles, and the referee’s authority, plus prizes such as a hundred-dollar watch, a silver cup, and trips to Atlantic City.
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Washington, D. C
United States
New York
Atlantic City
Chamber of Commerce of
City playground medals spark big Washington contests
The mayor hosts winners from city playgrounds with theater meals and banquets after annual tournaments. Gold medals will crown city champions while runners-up receive dogs or wrist watches. Officials note rising entries and claim boys rarely cheat, though a female director quips that girls cheat.
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Washington
Women Start Good Campaign in Montana
Six thousand club women of Montana pledge to use Montana products and keep dollars in state. A Helena banker credits the federation for boosting business more than two decades of commercial clubs, urging cooperative home buying to boost production and create new manufactories. The Missoulian.
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Montana
Helena
Montana State Federation of Worden's Clubs
Mother
Mayor McCormack elected in Herrin on anti klan ticket
Marshall McCormack has won the Herrin Illinois mayoral race closely tied to Williamson County power. A former klansman, he won on an anti klan platform with aldermen backing him to control county during his term.
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Marshall McCormack
Herrin
Wil
Williamson County
McCormack
President Coolidge Pledges Major Budget Cuts
Washington May 6 The Associated Press reports President Coolidge’s economy drive will slash annual federal expenditures with a real reduction possibly near 500,000,000 in the next budget bringing total to about 3,000,000,000. Current estimates for the year start at 3,267,000,000 excluding post office but including debt service and public debt. Tax reduction options may cut receipts by around 12 percent as Congress considers surtax cuts and adjustments on estate taxes. Also announced is a $555,000 annual cut in General Land Office operating expenses via bureau reorganization under Secretary Work.
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Middle West
United States
Brookmire
Washington
Associated Press
Coolidge
Congress
Post Office Department
The
Treasury
Mellon
General Land Office
Bureau
Work
Council reports to Wo men group and budget cuts loom
The International Council of Women received reports from 40 national councils. Secretary Work announced a 355000 dollar annual reduction in the general land office operating expenses through reorganization. President Coolidge’s economy drive may cut 8300 million from the 1927 federal budget. Richard F. Grant of the US Chamber of Commerce backed the Nickel Plate railroad merger before the ICC. Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin said he would seek a congressional probe into the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul railroad crisis. DOJ ordered an investigation into a talking motion picture used in a stock selling campaign in New York at White House urging.
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International Council of Women
Work
General Land Office
Coolidge
Richard F. Grant
United States Chamber of Commerce
Interstate Commerce Commission
Lenrnot
Wisconsin
Chicago, Milwaukee and
Truth About California winner praised in Pioneer Press note
The Pioneer Press commends the Truth About California contest winner and cites a federal census report showing California’s death rate per 1,000 was 145 last year, near the nation’s high. Minnesota stood at 97, with other states North Dakota 71 Montana 78 Nebraska 9 Wyoming 95 and Florida 146.
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California
Pioneer Press
Federal Census Bureau
Minnesota
North Dakota
Montana
Nebraska
Wyoming
Florida
E. E. Harriman
Los Angeles
United States Weather Bureau
St. Paul
Yeggs Worry Montana in a Tough Crime Pattern
The Mussoulian notes Montana’s yegg problem grows as criminals travel with accomplices and hide in barns and boxcars, using nitro glycerine and avoiding Bertillon-style records. They strike small towns and country stores, stay away from big cities, and evade detection, reflecting a volatile western crime trend.
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Montana
Wrights decide Wright flyer will go to British Museum
Wilbur Wright announced that the original Wright flying machine will be shipped to the Science Museum in South Kensington, London, within two months despite talks of congressional probes and bids from U S cities and many museums seeking the relic. The decision ends competing efforts to keep or show the historic aircraft in America.
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Dayton
Asssociated
Smithsonian Institution
England
Wilbur Wright
Science Museum
South Kensington
London
Answers to Questions From a Reader in 1923
A compilation of brief Q and A on topics from national hymns and time signals to the origin of the Kit Cat Club and common store items. Names and places include the German anthem shift, Naval Observatory time, Marco Polio hoax, 1923 Sunday school figures, U.S. mail payments abroad, and various curiosities and consumer goods.
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Germany
Roosevelt Brothers
T. G
Marco Polio
Year Book of the Churches
United States
ARA
Post Office Department
London
Christopher Cat
Temple Bar_ Q
United States Shipping Board
Edward B Lawrence
Bath
Maine
Central Asia
America
England
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Lenroot to Push Rail Failure Inquiry After Session
Washington May 6 The Associated Press reports Senator Lenroot Republican of Wisconsin will demand an inquiry into the recent Milwaukee Road failure after Congress convenes in December He proposes a resolution for a senate or interstate commerce commission inquiry noting Wisconsin stockholders and government creditors with over 53 million tied to the railroad and hints a bankers group may have driven receivership. A separate line mentions a parasite named vermithid as a grasshopper enemy.
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Washington
Associated Press
Chicago, Millwanker and
St. Paul
Lenroot
Republican
Wis
Congress
Senate
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wisconsin
Milwaukee Road
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