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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1892
Page
2
A fragment from a historic text contrasts old Norse gods Odin and Thor with a new deity. The speaker rejects the new faith and longs for past glories, asserting the enduring appeal of white Christ and the fading world of valor in Valhalla.
In Cincinnati a man posing as John Loyd Evans is arrested after a Philadelphia forger links his own sting to a planned marriage. The real Link Murphy manipulates the case and escapes with $100 while Evans faces police and notary scrutiny before his fiancée’s father arrives to untangle the mess.
A reptile handler explains capturing a wild boa in a large labyrinth trap. The maze uses matting to create a geometric puzzle eight feet high and sixty square feet, baited with live prey in the center. The boa scents the pig, enters the traps, struggles, and eventually relaxes as the trap is opened.
The article lists European forest fractions by country from Sweden at 39.7 percent to Great Britain and Ireland at 4 percent. It notes the United States has 19 percent forest cover, with total forest land equaling fifteen times Pennsylvania’s area.
Prof. Richard T. Ely argues in Taxation in American States and Cities that indirect taxation harms the poor by raising prices and pushing some toward pauperism, while direct taxes cap at a minimum. He contends the system ends by returning to alms what it takes as tax, undermining civilization.
A letter in the Star of Long Island City argues for a tax exemption of up to one thousand dollars on owner occupied homes to aid renters and the poor. It criticizes undervaluation and calls for taxing wealth, not productive labor, to fund public needs and ease home ownership for the toiling masses.
A Press editorial from Lroy, Rensselaer County criticizes personal property tax as unjust and hard to collect. It argues the system is evasive and only the scrupulous reveal assets to assessors.
The passage argues against taxing evidences of debt under personal property taxes as double or triple taxation. It notes that a note or receipt only proves the holder surrendered property, not created new value, and taxes the same asset multiple times as it changes hands. The example of a horse sale shows taxing both horse and notes inflates the tax beyond the asset's true value.
An analysis argues against taxing only real estate in Duchess county New York. It cites Millbrook residents holding large personal property and disputes over Livingston and other cases while advocating collar-button style taxes and fair assessment to broaden the tax base.
The New York World describes a tramp raiding a henhouse and cooking a chicken. He roams with a ten foot perch to snag a bird, then cleans and prepares it like a housewife. He coats the chicken with clay in layered mud, bakes it, cracks the crust, and serves a smoked meal.
The late Milagasy, a playful cat, caused constant pranks from dawn to curfew. He scratched and knocked books from hands, dangled from door fringes, and delighted in swinging a window shade, ending with a grave, innocent look as the shade repeatedly toppled across the room.
A motherly cat on Neckman Street in New Yok watches her four kittens as they tumble and explore a loud paper bag on the sidewalk. One kitten crawls into a bag opening, the others follow, and the mother leads them inside as she checks their safety.
Descriptions note sulfur springs in Colorado emitting fumes detectable twenty miles away and pun gent prairie tire scents reaching thirty miles. Forest perfumes from Ceylon travel twenty five miles over sea, and foggy conditions reveal coast proximity for travelers hundred miles offshore via sea breeze from Columbia.
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