Howe attacks property tax classification as failed system
Samuel T. Howe of the Kansas state tax commission addressed the South Dakota Association on property classification for taxation. He argued the present classified method has broken down and urged adopting uniform classification, noting finance as the test motive power behind social progress and government needs. He warned only progressive countries have moved away from the classified system. Coal! Coal! Buy your winter supplies from Logan Moore Lumber Company.
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Samuel T. Howe
Kansas
South
Howe
Tate Sea Dakota
Howe Seaid
Logan-Moore Lumber
Guard Units Recognized as Kansas Guards by Federal Office
Kansas guards are officially recognized by the federal government. Between 8 000 and 10 000 men have been credited to the state guard due to new federal recognition. The force includes three infantry regiments artillery regiment a cavalry squadron sanitary units two field hospitals and two ambulance trains. Ottawa’s C B Merrill visited Lawrence.
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Opeka
Kansas
C. J. Martin
Department
Secretary War War
National Guard
Red Cross Match Makes Dayton Romance Clear
Pauline Sheppard of Huntington West Virginia and Michael D Arcy Fanning of Dayton found romance while rehearsing The Prince of Insomnia a musical comedy staged for Dayton Red Cross benefit.
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The
Red Cross
Pauline Sheppard
Huntington
W. Va
Michael D'Arcy Fanning
Dayton
Prince of Insomnia
Dayton Red Cross
Pauline Virginia” Sheppard and
Michael D’arcy Fanning
Good Roads in France Boost Allied Transport Network
Broad macadam roads in Northern France will endure as memorials to ruined towns. British crews and German POWs repurpose debris from Veronne, Albert, Arras into wide highways, with improved center strips and dusty surfaces. Military planners expect straight routes, wide lanes, and swift lorry movement across main and byways. The article also notes rapid promotions for B C Freyburg and a mid-June order requiring discharged guardsmen to register for military service.
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France
Veronne
Albert
Arras
Germany
Pofcon
Topeka
National Guard
Charles I. Martin
Winter prep urged as registration looms and coal sought
A call to prepare for winter appears with a notice to furnish home addresses of men for registration and a prompt to buy coal from Logan-Moore Lumber Company, Bell 113. The fragment hints at a home front effort and local commerce response.
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Logan-Moore Lumber Company
Bell
Call Togan-Moore Lumber Company
Youreouse
Stam
Kansas Unified Management Plan Begins Next Week
Topeka June 27 A major reorganization will start Monday as the new state board of administration and the state manager take over and three existing boards cease operations. The first meeting will decide how many clerks remain under the new system and officials will discuss transfers of records reports and property among the boards. The change draws wide attention from eastern papers and state leaders with governors letters and major organizations seeking updates. The boards of control administration and corrections will be replaced by a single three member board overseeing all institutions.
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Topeka
State Board of Administration
Kansas
Board of Control
Board of Administration
Board of Corrections
Criticism in Germany Splits Editors on Autocracy
German editors attack Chancellor Von Bethmann-Hollweg while praising or criticizing Wilson's authority, urging inner state reform and demoralization of chauvinism. The article notes Theodore Wolf’s Tageblatt lecture contrasting Wilson with Emperor Nicholas and Eugene Zimmerman praising Russia as a democratic warning. Mexico forms Legion of Honor from excess corporals and sergeants. Cannon salutes to dignitaries suspended at U.S. army posts during the war.
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Copenhagen
Germany
von Rethmann-Helweg
Theodore Wolf
Tageblatt
Wilson
Nicholas
Congress
Herr Wolf
Eugene Zimmerman
Lokal Anzeiger
Russia
Mexican Legion of Honor
Mexico City
Legion of Honor
Washington
War Department
Helping War Workers Involves Vacations For War Effort
The National Service Department aims to place volunteers for the summer vacation to support war needs. Commuters across England are being organized for tasks such as collecting waste paper for shell making and wool gathering from hedges. The plan seeks central guidance to deploy volunteers promptly and keep the public aligned with wartime demands.
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England Farms Department
London
National Service Department
Extension of government control to metals and hemp products
Washington reports a senate agriculture sub-committee approved amendments to the administration food control bill extending government control to iron and steel petroleum and related products as well as binding twine and sisal hemp items. The panel also proposed to exempt farmers gardeners and stock raisers from the bill and barred the food administrator from setting individual rations. Draft preparation may start next week as 24 states set up exemption boards for claims.
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Washington
Iron and Steel
Administration
Senate Agriculture
National Army
Air Raid Casualties in London and Suffrage Parade Disrupted
Official figures released in London report 24 women and 420 children among the dead from the June raid with 220 men 110 women and 100 children injured. In Washington police broke up two suffrage demonstrations before the White House with nine women detained.
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London
Washington
White House
Mary Frances Smith Obituary from Linwood Church
Mary Frances Smith 31 died June 22 1917 at Linwood Kansas after a long illness. Daughter of W J and Mrs Smith born Tassel County Virginia came to Kansas in 1889 and lived in Linwood. She married Sesse Louis Alysis in 1906 and had two children Margaret Josephine and William Franklin. She was active in Congregational Church, organist and teacher, and revered pastor Rev Clarence E Roberts. Funeral Monday 2 PM at Congregational Church with choir songs and Linwood Cemetery burial. Rex Harshberger noted return to Kansas City.
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Mary Frances Smith
W. J. Smith
Tassel County
Virginia
Linwood
Kansas
Congregational Church
N. C
Louis Alysis
Lawrence
Bolt
Margaret Josephine
William Franklin
Janet
Card
Clarence E. Roberts
Jesus
Archie Meinke
Carl Meinke
Karl Anderson
Rey Curtis
Wil Wright
Frank Hicks
Linwood Cemetery
Buffalo woman credits Pinkham's remedy for relief
Mrs. B. B. Zirlinska of Buffalo says after three years of back and side pains and general weakness she found marked improvement in two weeks of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She is now free from pain and able to do housework.
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Buffalo
N. Y
T “Mina
Lydia E. Pinksham
B.B. Zirlinska
Waltz Ave
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Lydia B. Pinkham
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Beaucourt
Ant-werp
QS Foley
NEW State Board
Wiedemann’s
Hetce
Tha
Herpickia Co
Dick Bros
Rex Harshberger
Kansas City
Lydia E. Pinkham
Colorado
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Galena
Ndia
Nar Gotic
Brest
Lawrence National Bank
Utomobh
Peerless Garage
Central Motor CO. Chalmers
Goodyear Tires
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Auto Accessories CO
Frank Evans
Goodrich
General Tires
Baan
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