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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1893
Page
2
The speaker, yeoman Jack Black and his wife Miranda Jane, lament rough country roads near their tidy farm. He praises labor, faith, and frugal living while urging government effort to fix roads so travel and commerce improve. In this Columbus year spirit, he envisions a ship-shape track that spares horses and tires and honors rustic toil.
A Chicago to New York journey becomes a haunting tale as a night storm, a spectral woman figure, and a torn trestle threaten a speedy Vestibule Limited. The engineer recalls a year old warning and the moth preserved by a boy's keen sight reveals the truth behind the fright.
A narrator recalls a perilous night when a moth in a frame frightened Jim and saved them from a dark shadowy figure like a cloaked woman. The incident happened while Jim fixed a light at the pumping station and the moth’s display became a providential warning as a limited train called All aboard rang out.
In an Africa tale Sir Samuel Baker’s drago man Mahomet endures endless claimants of kinship. A relative borrower, another thief, and a would be servant all press for favors as tension rises over honesty and loyalty. The narrator warns Mahomet to curb a troublesome household of kin.
The passage details Siberian peasant hospitality framed as practical and reciprocal. Guests arrive indirectly, tea is served from samovar with sugar nibbling, and endless thanks catalog all consumed items. If guests overstep, quarrels ensue. A Highland remark ends noting no one can have all perfection.
Readers are invited to submit brief opinions on taxation not tariff to the Taxation Society. Messages may be published or discussed by the editor or four Taxation Society members. Send to Taxation Society, this office or P 9 Box 8, Buffalo NY.
The commission debates the single tax system and backs modifying Ontario’s assessment act to exempt money invested in real estate mortgages and to fully exempt farm incomes and farm livestock. It notes exemptions may ease farmer tax burden and simplify administration while allowing mortgage investment to flourish.
The New York Voice notes 150 million dollars in blood money Uncle Sam is expected to gain from the ram industry next year. It questions the cost to mothers and boys, raising the impact on families as the figures loom large.
A reader argues abandoned eastern farms stem from mismanagement and high expenses, not only mortgage woes. He compares farmers to merchants, critiques personal property taxes, and advocates exempting personal property to boost realty investment and broad economic growth, citing potential capital flow and industrial activity.
A Plain Plan argues for taxing corporations on real estate rights of way and on stock bonds debts and surplus, deducting all real estate taxed elsewhere and personal property values, leaving the franchise value for rate setting by authorities. The piece notes corporations resist the idea, citing privileges of savings banks insurance railroads and gas firms to avoid taxation reform.
At a directors meeting the Domestic Sewing Machine Co decided to move offices and warehouses to Newark due to unfair foreign corporation laws and high personal property taxes. The firm cites this year's assessment at 250,000, had reduced it to 200,000, but was instructed Saturday to pay 2100,000, while retaining ownership of the Broadway building.
A Montana hunter named Frank Baker brazenly captures a wary Rocky Mountain big horn. After a grueling climb and a fierce struggle with his dog, Baker holds the horn at bay until a rope is used to lasso the animal. Though battered and near death, Baker frees the sheep after a week as it wanders away into the mountains.
A Parisian note from Russia explains Warsaw City Council signed a snow removal contract worth 33 000 roubles at New Year and Easter with fines for non performance. The firm allegedly kept the money and did nothing until thawing. The informant omits further details in this Baltimore Sun summary.
The discussion traces the dandelion name to French and Latin roots meaning lion's tooth, with explanations noting root whiteness, golden petals, medicinal virtue, and especially the deeply notched leaf edges resembling lion teeth. The passage ends with a remark that some men are composed entirely of reserve force.
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