The New Tax Law Question and State Revenue Debate
A historical discussion questions the need for a revenue rise in Indiana. It argues population and wealth growth do not justify higher taxes to fund hospitals, asylums, and public buildings. The piece cites a 1890–1891 tax table, noting a 46 percent rise in total assessments and a large railroad contribution to the increased state taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
General Assembly
Benevolent Institution Fund
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Knightstown Soldiers Home Funding Questioned on Decoration Day
On Decoration Day speakers accused the last two Democratic legislatures of neglecting the soldiers' orphan home at Knightstown. Records from 1889 show liberal appropriations for maintenance, repairs, and expansions including salaries, extensions, cottages, and utilities as well as a 1877 tax act still in force.
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Knightstown
Cook's Cotton Root Compound Offered to Ladies by Mail
A historic medical advertisement boasts an old physician’s discovery used monthly by thousands of ladies. It claims perfect safety and reliability, warns against inferior substitutes, and offers the compound by mail for $1.06 postage paid, with sealed particulars for ladies only.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook
Erie Medical CO
Buffalo, N.Y
Amid Political Flows and Tariff Talk in 1890s Press
A dense column of clippings reviews party lines on tax, school book law repeal, and gentry finance. It cites Republican stances, mentions the Lodge force bill, temperance disputes, and tariff effects on wool and cordage. It notes a five-list of public notices and a patent medicine ad at the end.
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Republican Party
Clay County
General Assembly
Brazil
Democrat
Johnson
Richmond
Ind
House
Harrison
Tipton Times
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the Herald
John Adams
L. C. Jones
Lesece
Madison
Otice
East Maina Street
Claude Matthews
Vermillion
Mortimer Nye
Laporte
W. R. Myers
John Oscar Henderson
Howard
Albert Gall
Marion
Alonzo G. Smith
Jennings
Supreme Court
Sidney R. Moon
Fulton
Hervey D. Vories
W. A. Peelle, JR
Jept
Congressional
Jason B. Brown
Jackson
Mr. S. G. Derry of
Providence
B. I
Derry
Bhelow
Hood
Wunandates
Boston
S. G. Derry
Bradford Street
R. I
Hindoo
the Frank Medicine CO
Madison, Ind
John Byrne
Rock Bottom
Central Avenue and
First Sts
NEW Water Works Bonds
Council
Congress
McKinley Protection Incubus
Ook
STATE
ENOCH
Grand Army
South
Penton Review
Astor
Noblesville Democrat
Covington
Senate
Cordage Trust
Northwest
United States Senate
New England
Bucklen
Harper
Samuel Pitcher
Castoria
G. C. Canoop
Lowell, Mass
J. F. Kinowezon
Conway, Ark
H. A. Ancurst
M. D
Oxford St
Brooklyn, N. Y
Children’s Department
Unitep Hoserran and Dispensary
Mass
Aten C. Surra, Pres
the Centaur Company
TI Murray Street
New York City
Indianalis Business University
Rene
Ian A
Bt Anniaizes
B & Osborn
Deering
Alling & Lodge
Madison Machine CO
Atlas Engine Works
United States
WM. Walch
C. B. Stribling
Scoy
Reliable Monitor
National Branch Bank
L. Powell
W. H. Powell
V. Press
G. Phillips
Cashier
Isam Ross
Chas
C. Cornett
Joh Clements
F. L. Powell
James Schofield
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Landreth
Landreth'’S
J. E. C. F. Harper's
Madison, Mnd. N. W. Corner Main and Jefferson,Sts
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