Exemption on Average Value Denied by Iowa Supreme Court
Des Moines Jan 23 The Iowa Supreme Court rules stock feeders are not merchants for tax purposes. Powell Buchanan county argued for average value taxation under the merchants’ provision, but the court holds that stock feeders buy and sell stock and produce in combined form and must be assessed by stock amounts and time in existence rather than average annual values. The decision avoids broad tax advantages and clarifies assessment methods for farmers and feeders.
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Des Moines
Supreme Court
Buchanan County
James J. Jewell
Boards of Equalization
Town Inn
Powell
Tan
New Points in Vlux Amendment Spark County Objection
Sioux City attorneys argue that even with a Supreme Court ruling on the Washington county case, the decision cannot have general effect. They contend officials in other counties cannot be bound if they did not waive objections to judges, as no judge with an interest may preside without all parties’ agreement.
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Sioux City
Washington County
Iowa City Boy Drowns on Thin Ice Near Iowa City
James Kanak aged 11 drowns in the Iowa River one mile north of Iowa City while skating on thin ice. His companion Willard Selbrasky stays calm, retrieves a stick, crawls toward the boy, but both fall through as ice yields. Selbrasky is rescued from deep water.
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Iowa City
James Kanak
Iowa River
Willard Selbrasky
Epidemic Alarm as Lehigh Butter Case Emerges
In Lehigh, Iowa on January 23, a farmer selling butter from a home with smallpox sparked town alarm. The disease had long existed in Carl Douglas family and was concealed to avoid quarantine. Jars of butter were brought to town triggering investigation into possible spread.
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Lektet
Fort Dodgh
Mttle
Lehigh Ia
Carl Douglas
Stel la Bartlett Named Indiana YWCA Secretary
An Ton Woman's Susans LAPORTH Ind Jan 28 Miss Stella Bartlett of Grinnell Indiana has assumed the duties of secretary of the Young Women's Christian association of Indiana. Miss Bartlett a graduate of the Mandy school of Chicago and of the Congregational college of Grinnell will direct the work of the organization in Indiana with the entire state as her field of labor.
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Laporth
Ind
Stella Bartlett
Grinnell
Young Women’s Christian Association of
Indiana
Missa Bartletta
Mandy School
Chicago
Congregational College of
Bequest Upset Heir Finds Aunt’s Will in Philadelphia
Frank Peterson of Sioux City, employed by the Postal Telegraph, has learned he is to share a $40,000 estate from his late aunt Mrs. Elizabeth Freele of Philadelphia who died at 92. Peterson had not seen her since childhood and knew little of her since.
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Sioux City
Frank Petergon
Postal Telegraph Company
Ag Hneman
Elizabeth Freele
Philadelphia
Peterson
Proclaim Wales as King and Privy Council Proclamation
The Privy Council prepared a proclamation declaring Albert Edward as king of the United Kingdom and Ireland after Queen Victoria's death. Parliament to meet urgently, with both houses assembling at St Stephen's Palace. next acts include swearing in privy council and a declaration against transubstantiation per the Bill of Rights.
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Privy Council
Albert Edward
Britain
London
Iady
Queen Victoria
Great Britain
Ireland
Prince Albert Edward
Edward
United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland
Palace of St. Stephen’s
Ireland in Mourning in Dublin After Queen Victoria Visit
Dublin reports a painful sensation as Osborne House news spreads and newspapers run extra editions. The Irish public, stirred by the Queen's April Ireland tour, recalls her vitality and notes she was believed to be greatly helped by that visit.
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Ireland
Dublin
Osborne House
Queen Victoria
Bold Robbery Strikes Cheyenne Union Depot
A daring robbery occurred at the Cheyenne union depot during a transfer of transcontinental mail. A pouch with over 4,000 letters was taken, later found opened in the railroad yards with contents stolen. Money orders and checks were untouched.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Union Depot
Three Lives Lost at Vire In Fire
KEWANEE ILL Jan 22 Fire early this morning destroyed the Commercial house and caused the death of three men Cotton aged 22 from Terre Haute Ind advance advertising man of Uncle Tim's Cabin company suffocated in bed Elmer Peterson Galesburg IL brick mason James Fischer Walnut IL auctioneer
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Vire
Kewanee, II
Cotton
Tarre Haute
Ind
Advance Advertising
Tim
Elmer Peterson
Galesburg
Brick Mason
James Fischer
Walnut, Il
Jeffries Arrives in Cincinnati for Rubin Fight
James J. Jeffries arrived from New York for the February 16 bout with Gus Rubin at Convention Hall. He went to Price Hill to begin training with trainer Billy Delaney, brother Jack Jeffries, sparring partner Bob Armstrong, and secretary J. P. Egan accompanying him.
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Cincinnati
James J. Jeffries
Gus Rubin
Convention Hall
New York
Price Hill
Billy Delaney
Jack Jeffries
Bob Armstrong
J. P. Egan
Severe Cold Hits Santiago Island Natives Lacking Warm Clothing
Cuba la Very Coke reports in Santiago on January 22 that a frigid cold snaps across the island bring the severest weather in years. Residents suffer distress as temperatures reach sixty degrees, leaving many children without proper clothing and in need of protection from the chill.
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Cuba
Santiago
Cube
Oscar Resumes the Reins in Sweden and Norway
Stockholm Jan 22 King Oscar of Sweden and Norway resumed the reins of government at today’s state council after illness. Crown Prince Gustave retires from the regency which he had held while the king was incapacitated from attending to business.
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Oscar
Stockholm
State Council of State
Sweden
Norway
Gustave
Bualnesa
Death of Robert C. Bell Prominent Indiana Attorney
Robert C. Bell a leading Fort Wayne attorney and longtime Democratic political figure died at his home after a lingering illness. He was twice elected to the Indiana Senate and was active in northern Indiana politics. He passed away January 22 in Fort Wayne.
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Robert C. Bell
Fort Waynge
Ind
Indiana
Sympathy From América in London Queen Victoria Hope
Sympathy pours in from both hemispheres with special regard from the United States. The Gibhe editors note Americans refer to the queen simply as the queen and speak of deep affection for the ailing monarch. Eulogies praise her character as hopes for recovery rise.
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América
London
United States
Gibhe
Queen Victoria
America
Congress This Week Senate to Act on War Tax Reduction
Washington dispatch reports the Senate will take up the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill early in the week. Senator Aldrich is expected to report the war revenue reduction bill Monday or Tuesday and seek prompt action. Debates may arise over ship subsidy timing, while pension, military academy, Indian, and canal-related measures loom on the calendar with House appropriations dominating sessions.
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Washington
Senate
Aldrich
Finance Committee
Morgan
England
House of Representatives
District of Columbia
Fortification
Naval
Post Office
Agriculture
Committee On Military Affairs
Richardson
Tennessee
House
Revenue ‘Cutter Service
Senator Gear
Tragic Train Station Jump Shocks St. Paul
Mrs. Mamie Drungould of Joliet Illinois arrived in St Paul from Seattle and then leaped from the second floor of the union depot onto the tracks below. She struck her head fractured her skull and sustained other injuries from which physicians say she cannot recover. Passengers aboard the same train noted she acted peculiarly.
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Herdiong
St, Paul, Minn
Mamie Drungould
Joliet, Jr
Union Depot
Seattle
Doad German Farmer Injured in Wagon Fall Near Ogallala
John Kirkuskie, a German farmer living five miles north of Ogallala Neb, was thrown from a wagon when his horse ran away. He landed on his head, breaking his neck. He is alive and conscious but the doctor says injuries are fatal and he may not live more than two to three days. He has a wife and ten children, three married.
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Doad
Ogallala
Neb
Jan
John Kirkuskie
Actor Recovers Sanity After Yankton Asylum Stay
Sioux Falls January 21 Judge W A Wilkes says his son Ernest, an actor of some renown, has recovered from temporary insanity while with theatrical troops at Des Moines. A physician advised remaining a couple more weeks at the Yankton asylum to regain strength.
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Sioux Falls
W. A. Wilkes
Minnehaha
Ernest
Yankton Asylum
Des Manes
Als Fathey
Mark Twain Lecture Jibe Sparks Rural Boston Anecdote
A Loungelih dinner quip by Senator Depew recounts a rural friend who heard a Mark Twain lecture in Boston. The friend said Twain was funny but not d d funny after he had mistaken Rev Joseph Cook for Twain at Music Hall.
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Mark Twain
Depew
Boston
Mark
Music Hall
Joseph Cook
Cat Fur Demand Hits German Market For War Gear
Report notes a surge in cat fur as Germany mobilizes for China, with ten thousand fur coats and equal numbers of fur gloves and gaiters ordered. Each coat uses fourteen cat skins, two skins per gaiters pair, and one per gloves pair. Prices and supply tightening follow.
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Germany
China
Coal Mined by Electricity Gains Ground in Britain and U S
Electric coal cutting machinery is rapidly displacing hand work and other mining appliances in British and American collieries. The coal mined this way is cleaner, with less waste and reduced impact on mine ventilation and temperature than with other methods.
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Great Britain
United States
Almanac for 1901 from Naval Baking Powder Co
The 1901 almanac from the Naval Baking Powder Co features daily weather predictions by Prof. DeVoe and notes past forecasts including the Galveston cyclone. The publisher offers a free copy to any woman reader who writes to 100 William St., New York.
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Naval Baking Powder Co
DeVoe
Galveston
William St
New York
General Corbin helps pencil seller on Pennsylvania Ave
Adjutant General Corbin, en route to the war department, stopped to give coins to an old woman selling pencils on the curb. His companion warned she might be wealthier, but Corbin cited General Sherman's remark that anyone who earns a living outdoors is entitled to more money than he has, and agreed.
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Corbin
Pennsylvania Avenue
War Department
Sherman
The Uncomfortable Doctors Ban Celery Oysters
The article notes doctors now prohibit celery as a carrier of typhoid fever, comparing it to oysters once discouraged for disease risk. Physicians warn celery can convey poisonous elements from soil, making it a transmission risk alongside oysters.
Spepil Berolem Remembered in war cross awards
Twenty-five Victoria crosses have been awarded so far in the South African War. Eight have been given to captains, three to lieutenants, including the one given to Lady Roberts by proxy for her dead son, four to sergeants, four to corporals, two to majors and one each to a gunner, a driver, a trooper and a private infantryman.
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Leutenants
Lady Roberts
Police Officer Rescued and Praised in Connell Bluff
Council Bluffs Iowa January 19 1901 Special Kindhearted Officer Swanson of the Connell Bluff force is popular here after seventeen years in city service. He describes kidney and liver trouble and his cure via four parts of a box of Dodd's Kidney Pills. He reports two months to full recovery and urges their continued use while noting widespread sales in Iowa. The piece closes with a cautions proverb about self interest and divine work.
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Oficer
A. C. Swanson
Connell Bluff
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Swanson
Focal
Dannebrog" Brotherhood
America
Dodd
Winter orchard care and peach orchard expansion noted
The article urges pruning and burning of dead or diseased branches to curb pear blight, recommends fall or early spring cleaning, and stresses thorough inspection to ease next year’s trouble. It highlights a Champaign horticultural exhibit and notes peach orchards expanding into the Alleghany mountains, with fruit praised for flavor size and color and good market access via rail.
The Races of Corn Discoveries by Prof Hitchcock
Prof A 8 Hitchcock of the Kansas experiment station outlines corn races in the United States. Indian corn originated with native American peoples from a wild Mexican plateau source. Five main races exist: Dent, Sweet, Flint, Popcorn, and Soft Corns, with pod corn and decorative variants noted. Dent dominates field cultivation. flint matures earlier in the north. popcorn pops due to horny endosperm. soft corns lack dent. many color varieties described.
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A. 8. Hitchcock
Kansas Experiment Station
America
Mexican
United States
Corn Belt
New England
Canada
Corn Varieties Show Wide Differences In Size And Quality
Historical notes on corn varieties discuss Zea Japonica types, plant heights from minis to giants, ear lengths, and kernel counts. Dr Sturtevant cites extreme examples from eighteen inches to over twenty feet, with dent and pop classes ranging in ear size. Tables indicate average protein and fat contents for dent and sweet corn, noting sweet corn is higher in protein and fat but lower in carbohydrates. Kansas State trials aim to raise field corn protein through crossing and selection to boost stock feed value.
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Doctor Sturtevant
West Indies
Cuzco
Paraguay
Kansas State Agricultural College
Frost Resistance Breeding At Rhode Island Station
The Rhode Island Experiment Station reports on selecting for hardiness in garden beans. Varieties planted in a hot bed showed varying frost damage after sash removal. Seed from the hardier plants survived harsher frosts, and successive plantings showed greater vigor in resisting cold, suggesting selective breeding may yield plants less prone to frost injury.
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Rhoda Island
Size of kernels of each TWheat and seed wheat gains
Experiments in France over three years show selecting largest seeds yields more grain and vigor, with earlier maturation. Parallel tests selecting grains that develop early versus late produced two crops side by side, one maturing six days earlier.
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France
Three Classes of Cattle Feeds and Nutrient Values
The text outlines three cattle feed classes by protein and carbohydrate ratios: low protein high carbohydrate (1:10) like hays and grains, medium (1:5), and high protein low carbohydrate (1:2). It notes combining feeds to meet nutritional goals and compares nitrogen, potash, and phosphoric content per ton across seeds, legumes, and grains, indicating concentrated seeds offer much higher fertilizing value.
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Wales
Cincinnnai
Congress
Hasouse
Spepil Berolem
Champaign
Illinois
Great
Alleghany
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