Prospective Prosperity Foreseen by U S Business Leaders
United States business and banking leaders forecast a brighter 1924 with optimism about tax reductions proposed by Secretary Mellon. Despite unsettled European economics affecting shipping and commodities, executives like E H Gray Bethlehem Steel’s Schwab and Alfred P Sloan Jr GM predict a solid year, signaling confidence in domestic growth and stalled global markets.
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United States
Melon
E. H. Gray
United States Steel Corporation
Charles M. Schwab
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Lackawanna
Buffalo
Mr. Schwab
Hanebamad
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
General Motors Corporation
Mr. Sloan
Mellon
Taxpayers advised on 1923 income tax filing period
January 1 1924 marks the start of the filing period for 1923 income taxes. The deadline is March 15 1924 with penalties for late or fraudulent returns. Form 1040A is replaced by 1049A for wages up to 5000, while all income from business farming property or rent even under 5000 uses Form 1040. Form 1040 remains required for all earners with more than 5000.
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The
Revenue Act
Tobacco Receiving Plants Reopen January Seventh
The Burley Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association postpones reopening of receiving plants from December 31 to January 7 due to wet weather and soft tobacco. Growers delivering earlier will get added-advance checks. about twenty thousand have delivered. New advances raise pay by one cent per pound for trades above prior rates, with an added grade for flyings, trash, lugs, bright leaf and red leaf.
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Burley Tobacco Growers’ Cooperative Association
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James C. Stone
Treasure of Tutankhamun Found in Valley of Kings
Howard Carter led exploration that unearthed Tutankhamun’s tomb in Luxor. The sarcophagus lay within the fourth casket of white and red granite, hidden for three thousand years behind blazing gold shrines and cartouche adorned doors.
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Luxor
Egypt
Pharoah Tutankhamen
Pharoah
Harmahib
Seto
London
Howard Carter
Tutankhamun
Oil inspectorships fees top forty thousand dollars
The Times reports in Kentucky oil inspection articles that Roscoe Searcy in Jefferson county will collect about $40,000 in fees in the last year of his term, a sum larger than the total pay of all judges on the Kentucky court of appeals.
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Louisville
The
Times Today
Kentucky
Roscoe Searcy
Jefferson County
Kentucky Court of Appeals
Censor Board Bars Mabel Normand in Memphis
Memphis officials announce permanent ban on films featuring Mabel Normand after her name linked to the Los Angeles shooting of Courtland S. Dines. Edna Purviance case remains under temporary suspension.
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Censor Board
Mabel Normand
Memphis
Tenn
John Dean
Memphis Board of Motion Picture Censors
Courtland S. Dines
Los Angeles
Edna Purviance
Kentucky Judge Samp son recommended for Sixth Circuit
Representative Robson of Kentucky urged President Coolidge to appoint Judge Flem D Samp son, chief justice of the Kentucky court of appeals, to the federal court of appeals in the Sixth circuit to fill the vacancy created by Judge L E Knappen’s retirement in Grand Rapids Michigan
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Sampson Washington
Flem D. Sampson
Kentucky Court of Appeals
Federal Court of Appeals
Sixth Circuit
President Coolidge
Representative Robson
Kentucky
L. E. Knappen
Grand Rapids
Mich
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