Revenue Law Returns to Annual Real Estate Assessments
Summary of 19th century Illinois legislature actions on the Revenue law. Key points include the Needles bill restoring annual real estate assessments, reversion to pre 1879 form with exceptions, and several amendments to taxation procedures, foreclosures, and municipal taxing powers. Other enacted measures cover education, public officers, health, drainage, and public works.
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Bhai
Thorovo
State Board of
Villazo
Reveau
State appropriations listed for public works and institutions
A long inventory of funds approved for state projects and agencies. Items include bond payments, repairs to the Supreme Court building in Ottawa, compensation for the Arab Fire Company at Cairo, military tax proceeds for the National Guard, and funding for the State Geological Reports, horticultural society, penitentiaries, state officers and judiciary, Normal Schools, and universities with specific amounts and two year horizons.
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LaSalle
Cook Counties
Supreme Court
Criminal Court
Cook County
Commission of Claims
Ottawa
Mount Vernone
Supreme
U Court
al Cach
Milonao
Citica
Pulloo
United States
Ilnos Central Mallrood Fund
General Revenue Fund
Statens
Coast Survey
Jude
Costa
Clyde Park and Jefferson
Tegal
Citizs
Kankakes
Erect
Eaeh County
Cook
Chicago
Tee
State Board of Chares
Elgin Insane Hospital
Kankakee Insane Hospital
Jacksonville Insane Hospital
Ama Insane Hospital
Jacksonville Deaf and Numb
Jacksonville Blind Asylum
Lincoln Feeble-Minde Asylum
Fourth District Appellate Court
General Assembly
Mt. Vernon
Macallister and Stebbins
Arab Fire Company
Cairo
Anna Hospital
Ninols National Guard
State Geological Reports
State Horticultural Society
Joliet
Chester
Southern Normal School
Carbondale
Thirty-second General Assembly
C. Cromelin
Glass-Snake of the Brazos Defies Attack by Breaking Apart
A Chicago Tribune excerpt describes the glass-snake of Western Texas that splits into up to a dozen pieces when threatened. It reassembles after the danger passes, remains nonpoisonous, and differs from king-snakes which kill large snakes. The account includes observations by H Edwards of Montgomery Alabama and a Waco encounter.
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Brazos
Texas
Hoe
H. Edwards
Montgomery
Ala
Waco
Mr Edwards
Edwards
Chicago Tribune
Bear at the Schoolhouse Provokes Excitement in Oswego County
A bear approached the Miss Anna King led school at Bear at the Schoolhouse near Radfield Oswego County. The bear sniffed near the door prompting the children to the window where one yelled causing the bear to retreat to the woods. County Clerk Stowell and Search Clerk Lyman report many bear indications in the area.
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Otto
Sanders
Radfield
Oswego County
Anna King
Miss King
Brain
Stowell
Lyman
Redtiel
Oswego
N. Y
Palladium
Foreign Gossip and Royal Anecdotes from Europe and Rome
A survey of 19th century curiosities notes vast Roman government buildings costing 25 million dollars since 1870, an orchid bought in London for a thousand pounds, Gladstone reading lessons at Hawarden, a near sighted horse with spectacles, Empress Eugenie planning her husband and son's tomb relocation, a royal wedding gift pony carriage, a faded edelweiss keepsake, Belgian queen bonnet theft, and the impact of primogeniture on French chateaux with hereditary stalls and shared revenues.
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Rome
London
India
Titley
William Bull
Hawarden
Gladstone
Lord Denman
Eugenie
Chiselhurat
Rudolph
Empresa
Beng
Edlelweiss
E-Cort
France
Aristocrac
Arequipa A City of Color and Earthquake Echoes
A Chicago Tribune correspondent paints Arequipa Peru as a picturesque valley town at 4000 feet. He notes donkey drivers, llamas, chicka stalls, stone paved streets, abundant water, hot chalybeate baths, and churches with fragile towers rebuilt after the 1864 quake.
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The
Chicago Tribune
Arequipa
Lima
Valparaiso
Republic
II Eans
South America
Jesus
Dellora
Peru
A German Church Tower Music Tradition
A German custom in Stuttgart features brass players on the Stifts Kirche octagonal tower performing sacred music at sunrise and before noon each day. The practice, funded by a noblewoman’s bequest, dates back over a century and echoes Arab call to prayer in its daytime choral tones.
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Stuttgart
St. Cecelia
Pani
Ludwigsburg
Rossenstein
Fredérichshafen
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Kcnools
Visiow
Acbl
Dentists
Board of Examiners
Porsons Mcensed
Adda
Winos
South Park
Il B.S
Tue
Atate Moube
Fai
Banvir
Organiaton
Genels Wa
Ubey Phall
Eli Perkins
Mont Blanc
L’ariy
Genoa
Paris
Milan
Chamounix
Courmayeur
Philadelphia
Fourth Street
Chestnut
Milwaukee
Wis
Baltimore
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