City lamp plant costs prompt report on municipal ownership
An 1900s Nebraska city faces scrutiny over its municipal electric plant, with the auditor noting inflated construction and operating costs. Officials allegedly concealed depreciation and interest while citing lower lamp charges. Professors from the University of Nebraska later found an annual cost near 68.84 per lamp, nearly double the mayor’s claimed figure, raising questions of misrepresentation and public impact.
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Tholr Street
H. Richards
G. H. Morse
Theniversity of
Nebraska
Lefty
Brown
Omnahu Bee
Steamers Bother London Council Faces Cuts and Delays
London council struggles to sell Thames steamboats and plans to run them four more months. Wages and fares are cut as a cost-saving move. A municipal power plant scheme is debated, with officials warning residents will bear the cost. Editorial argues free water should be paid by using departments, exposing taxpayer burdens.
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London County Council
Thames
Syater
Pice and
Water Engineering
Figured Profits and City Light Rates Rise in Indiana
The Crawfordsville municipal electric plant posts a nominal net profit of 0,727 while trustees raise street light charges by 10 percent. Auditors note profits are calculated before interest and depreciation totaling about 10,000 annually. Knightstown plans a 10,000 bond issue for repairs if voters approve and council argues electric prices must rise to keep the plant self sustaining.
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Knightstown
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Tornado Fatalities and Destruction in Western Wisconsin
A violent tornado tore a 100 mile path across Western Wisconsin killing two and injuring many, with over $100000 in damage. Near Elroy Mrs. Ole Wetley and three Nass children died under their collapsed home, and Ole Buckner and family suffered tragedy as a horse swept the house away. Buckner children Edna and Will died. Myr. and Mrs. Buckner were hurt, with another family member missing. More than five farmhouses were demolished in Jackson County.
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Ole Nass
Gullek Thompson
Ole Brown
Joseph Buckner
Jackson County
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Will Buckner
Myr
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Drowned in Chippewa Lake by a Fifteen-Pound Pickerel
Reports from Detroit July describe a fatal boating accident at Chippewa Lake when a 16 pound pickerel struck and tipped the trolling boat. Charles T. Chambers of Ionia and Mrs. George Cutler of Ionia drowned after being thrown into the water. their bodies remained missing as searchers recovered the fish. The drowned woman vacationed with her father and son. Chambers was a neighbor of the Cutlers at Konta. Also noted: Canon Lyon, the blind vicar of Sherborne, Dorset, England, intends to resign after forty years, having been born in the church building above the old abbey.
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George Cutter
Charles’ T. Chambers
Ionia, Mich
Chippewa Lake
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Canon Lyon
Dorset
England
Lelug
Sterborne School
Mystery Mount Shiel City and a Crown of Iron
A distorted cablegram from India describes tribesmen killing a traveler near a hidden, forbidding mount in a frontier region. The piece asserts no civilized visitor has reached the place, while detailing guards who deny access to outsiders and trade privileges. It also recounts Pall Mall Magazine’s tale of an iron crown forged from captured canton steel, forged to honor a king's battlefield sacrifice and royal coronation.
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Miri Padam
Agsam
Ronmanin
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Firat
Legislatures and Prayers Criticized by The Jewish Outlook
The Jewish Outlook argues against opening legislative bodies with prayer as inappropriate for a republic. It notes that in Europe only England and a few cases permit such rites, while Austria Portugal and Russia do not. The piece stresses the long separation of state and church.
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Europe
Spdin
Austria
Portugal
The Decline of Mirth and Imagination
Franceschini, an Italian psychologist, argues laughter fades as modern life grows logical. He says mirth stems from imagination and that rational thinking suppresses the distortion that makes things funny. Education, he claims, is now scientific and practical and smiling becomes rarer in a culture ruled by reason.
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Signo
Franceschini
Public school district votes to borrow for new building
A 1907 district meeting in Indiana Borough approves acquiring land and erecting a new heated school building with ground floor space and seating for all pupils. It proposes borrowing about 66 000 dollars and schedules an August 3 election to seek elector consent to the indebtedness.
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Indiana
Biresford
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Lackard
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Suhoor
Indiana school district seeks 260000 debt increase
The School District of the Borough of Indiana seeks the assent of its electors to incur indebtedness of 260000 to buy additional land and to erect and furnish a new school building in Indiana.
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