Our Confession and Notes on Tax and Debt in 1930s Era News
A collage of brief items reports on religious verse, economic factors impacting commodity production, and a Mississippi sales tax study. It notes coal output rising amid cold waves, reviews a University bulletin praising the sales tax as an emergency measure, cites revenue figures and administrative efficiency, mentions political sentiment around taxation, and ends with bonded debt totals for Lawrence including city and school district figures and county shares.
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Contuct
Mississippi
School of Commerce and Business Administration
University of Mississippi
Mi Inpi
City debt and tax relief through bond repayment progress
The city holds 443823.50 of internal improvement bonds backed by benefited property. If taxes default, general taxation must cover the shortfall. In 1992, city county and school district debt dropped about 195000, roughly 10 percent of total. As debt falls, interest costs ease and local tax relief nears reality. Foreign affairs update notes the League of Nations cannot back down and Japan faces similar limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Congress and relief in the waning session
Washington bulletins say Congress resolves to aid farmers before adjournment but struggles to find the right bill. It openly backs relief for the wets, clearing the Blaine repeal resolution in the Senate so the House can vote today, while relief for others waits.
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Congress
Washington
Senate
House A
Vinland School Burns Down During Fire
Old Home Town reports Vinland high school, built seven years ago at a cost of 16000, reduced to ashes after a fire started in the locker room. Firefighters and Water from a cistern failed to save the building. Plans to reopen Monday at the Presbyterian church. Also notes about local births and a hospital appendectomy.
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Vinland
Vinland High Servel
Lawrence
Presbyterian Church
Corrine Constant
Shreveport
Hyde Park Sanitarium
Constant
J. T. Constant
K. U
Bryan Lecture Set at KU in Robinson Gymnasium
Twenty five years ago a large audience is expected at a joint University city YMCA meeting in Robinson gym next Sunday night. William J. Bryan will deliver free his greatest lecture The Prince of Peace to a crowd of up to 3000. Also notes Jas Nolan moved to a farm California road Adolphe Ziefle released from quarantine with diphtheria companion Max Wiley.
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Bryan
Robinson Gymnasium
K. U
William J. Bryan
Prince of Peace
University
MLC
Avs
Ae Jas. Nolan
California Road
Adolphe Ziefle
Vermont Street
Max Wiley
Forty Years Ago Story From February 20
Forties era notes reveal moves on Michigan street property, illness updates, a home wedding invitation, a 11th birthday party, and social visits. reports mention a new baby, ongoing art exhibit in Music Hall, gutter maintenance critique on Massachusetts street, and several University related notices as the senior class budget nears release.
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N. Sullivan
Anderson
Michigan Street
Jos. Sullivan
Dorothy Clark
Sylvain Levy
Irma
Robert E. House
J. H. Cohn
Indiana’ Street
Howard McKenzie
Peanut Hunt
Dave Lupher
M. A. Goldtran
Walter Howe
Music Hall
Massachusetts
Carruth
Cyeleng
Truth
Nettix Field
Wilmette
Lawrence
W. G. Coleman
University
Chicago
Emma Kelley
Helen Adams
Topeka
Mabel McDonald
Kansas
Minnie Lucas
Mamie 3Ate
Adams
May Maxwell
Journal
Rock Island ‘Railroad
Massachusetts Street
Invisible Perspiration Described Since 1614 Findings on insensible water loss and skin as a vital organ
A historic note on insensible perspiration outlines Sanctorius 1614 experiments showing the body constantly loses water and substances. Morning weighings drop one to two pounds due to imperceptible emissions. Skin acts as a semi permeable membrane influencing temperature, water balance, and blood acidity per recent studies. Visible sweat rises with temperature.
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Sanctorius
Kansas History Moments February 19 83 Leaders and Meetings
Tomorrow Whooping Cough This Date in Kansas History notes George R. Peck Santa Fe railroad general solicitor a Kansas figure who plans to move headquarters to Chicago. February 20 1893 the Grand Army of the Republic in Pittsboro opens its annual encampment. 1804 Democratic state committee meets in Topeka to back a straight ticket.
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Georer R. Peck
Santa Fe Railroad
Kansas
Chicago
Kansas Department of the Grand Army of the Republic
Pittsboro
Democratic State Committee
Toneka
Frills and a Morning of Unraveling Secrets
Joyes Ashton awakens on a luxurious porch to find herself married to Neil Packard’s rival, Maitland, and entangled with a dangerous past. As she navigates Maitland’s looming aggression, a hidden life with another man, and a telegram from Neil, she wrestles with fear, desire, and a race to control a volatile situation.
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Joyes Ashton
Chicago
Itrrills
Packard
Manzanita
Cal
Frills
Maitland
Fayce
Neil Packard
Neil
Joyce
Roxie
Jake Townsend
Fritis
Fire Queen
Jayce
Matt
Judas
Mrs. Packard
Blackstone
Sacramento
New England
Arciy
Ross
Ethel
Mrs. Emery
Doc
Maivland
Sundown Townsfolk Start Busy Day at Repair Shop
Willy Nilly sits in a small repair shop with Rip the Dog as he plans a to do list. He sketches tasks from repainting the porch to smoothing a duck’s rumpled feathers while Top Notch the Rooster coughs and recovers after a worm incident. The scene centers on daily chores and whimsical character interactions.
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Mary Graham Bonner
Willy Nilly
Rip
Quackerville
Willy Nilly and Company
Revenue Act and deductible charitable gifts guidance
The text outlines tests for deductible gifts under the Revenue Act. Qualified organizations must operate exclusively for religious charitable scientific literary or educational purposes or for preventing cruelty to animals or children. Private benefit is prohibited. contributions to churches and missionary or church-building funds are deductible. Gifts to public entities for exclusively public purposes are deductible.
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United States
District of Columbia
Flashes of Life and Oddities From Across The Nation
A diverse slice of early 20th century brief items: beer dispensing machines at a convention, Parkersburg police mystery, three hitchhiking girls mistaken for Boy Scouts, a Norwalk county land rush for horses and cows amid a back to the land trend, high prices for work horses and cattle, a Milwaukee youth injures his shoulder yawning after school, a couple marries in an airplane elevator ceremony atop a monument, and Deputy Sheriff Vogler returning to work after influenza.
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Assessed
Chicago
Parkersburg
W.a
Irom Ashtabula
Norwalk
Huron County
Milwaukee
Wis
Hobum
Joseph Obenberger
Indianapolis
Anita Hall
Frank Walker
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
LE. PF. Taylor
Vogler
Fred Vogler
Strangers in Kansas Mining Gold From Sand
Natchison and Nickerson men report sluicing sand from a Reno county pit and claim to have found gold in heavier grains. They say they are just experimenting but believe the method could pay. The trio includes J. A. Mumims, George Perkins, and Murray Gragg.
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Natchinson
Reno County
Nickerson
Kan
J. A. Mumims
George Perkins
Murray Gragg
Smith Center
Fel
Nels ‘Clinkenbeard
Charles
Portland
Ore
Kansan
Wichita
Thomas R. Martin
Martin
Washington
Shutchinson
J. Mattal
Texas
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Journal-World
the World Company
God
Germany
Berlin
Boston
League of Nations
Japan
Fen
Carl Hird
Carl
McConnell's Hospital
Albert Schaake
Carl Leon
Ernest Wunkuble
Stuil
Vfason
Wesley Marcel
Cle
Birch
Jones Hospital
Poor Pary
Claude Callan
Pubsigners Syndicate
Ingo Gal
New York
Tong of Medicine
Elinore Barry
Tower Megazines
The
First National Bank
the First Savings Bank
of Lawrence
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