Astor Real Estate Riches Pay British Tax Burden
William Waldorf Astor faces about 1.25 million dollars in New York city real estate taxes this year while living abroad as Lord Astor. Officials estimate his Manhattan and Bronx holdings total around 50 million in market value with income varying by property, some yielding high returns and others poor. He is taxed by Britain on his expatriate income and is believed to have donated millions to causes in England, including Red Cross appeals and funds for recruitment.
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New York
Woham Twas- Gort Assox
Astor
Manhattan
Bronx
Loni Astor
Hover
John Jacob Astor
William Waldorf Astor
Lord Astor
Waldorf-Astoria
Department of Taxes
Wiliam Waltorf Astor
The
Baron of
Hever
Aastor
Willam Waldorf Astor
Famel
England
Begu
Bad Cross
Éuir
Flower
Crossing Continent Hen Sits Through Transcontinental Trip
Albany resident J W Wolfram owned a hen that continued sitting on a nest of eggs during a cross country shipment. The crate bore a placard warning Sitting Hen eggs Expected to Hatch Handle With Care. Three downy chicks hatched upon arrival in Riverside California.
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Albany
J. W. Woltrom
Steals Locomotive to Go to Dance in Bozeman
An unknown young man stole a locomotive in Bozeman Montana and headed east after learning trains were halted. Engineer McVicker stopped his engine as the thief entered the cab and left the scene driverless. Streman Boebling boarded the moving locomotive, halted it, and the suspect vanished. No trace of the thief was found.
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Bozeman
Mont
George
Paxton’s
McVicker
Streman Boebling
Lightning Hits Landmark Locust Tree on Islip Farm
A bolt during a two hour thunderstorm struck and toppled a century old locust tree on E F Davis’s Islip farm. The tree stood over a hundred feet with no branches within forty feet of the ground. Davis had refused $100 for the trunk, choosing to leave it as a landmark despite lightning risk to nearby barns.
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Barna
Islip
N.ya
E F Davis
Robins Train Nest Found in Vancouver Boxcar
A robin built a nest under a boxcar brought to Vancouver for repairs and hatched three young. Workers relocated the nest to a box on a post, where the mother bird promptly returned and now feeds the youngsters several times daily.
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Vancouver
Wash
Neighbor Marries Girl Widely Known Since Infancy
In Charleston West Virginia D W Hunt aged fifty four and Lillian Lyda Young aged sixteen obtained a license and wed. Hunt, a neighbor of the Young family, had reportedly loved her since infancy and waited for her to reach marriage age. Her parents consented to the union, understood since her birth that Hunt would wed her.
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Charleston
W Va
D. W. Hunt
Lillian Lyda Young
Hunt
Good Nerves Shown In War
The New York Medical Journal notes that despite harsh conditions of the present war, there have been few epidemics and the armies show remarkable health. It expresses surprise that nervous diseases have not developed widely under the appalling stresses of combat.
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New York
Sava
Reading Pain Inspires Harsh Sentence for Woman
Mrs Jacac Shade faced a harsh sentence after a judge ruled her husband’s claim of threat justified. The court noted intimidation and vulnerability, resulting in a stern punishment.
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Jacac
War’s Horrors: French Officer Reports Devastation Near Montauban
A French officer describes brutal battlefield scenes around Maricourt and Montauban after German shelling. He notes ruined villages, torn roofs, bare poplars, shell-pocked plains, and the first German trench turned chaotic by Allied bombardment. Bodies lie along trenches as civilians fled.
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Manilauban
Maricourt
Montauban
Vermelles
Attin
St Nazaire
Carency
Smallest Books Ever Printed In Tiny Volume Display
Curated collection in Sam's great Congressional Library Washington presents miniature books in sizes down to one third of an inch square. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and a minuscule illuminated Koran bound in red leather astonish visitors. Earlier items include a Padua 1615 Galilean letters volume and Goethe's Die Wahl der Verwandten in a slender, ornate edition.
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Omar Khayyar
Sam's
Great Congressional Library
Washington
Cleland
Phr
Lengt
British Museum
Padua
Galilen
Joe Rlasses
The Pleasures of Youth and Parental Duty
An editorial laments youth indulging in amusements and dances, urging parents to curb excesses and guide children toward modest dress and steady conduct. It argues modern peers and neighbors push youth toward adult sensibilities, risking early fatigue and moral drift.
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Beth
Will on Paper Bag Sparks Indiana Estate Ruling
The Indiana Supreme Court last week upheld the Pike County decision in a probate dispute over a $430 estate of Marshal We War an eccentric beggar who died ten years ago. Relatives from the west contested a will read by a Vincennes girl who claimed the estate on her own behalf and that of her attorneys Mrs Hamm of Vincennes G V Menzies Mountain and James House mayor of Vincennes. The case rose through Superior Court Pike County and the Court of Appeals before the Supreme Court ruling.
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The
Indians Supreme Court
Pike Court
Circuit Court
Matth Hapun
Vincenes
Marshal We Waran
Cennes
McMoran
Ansvilla
Menzies
Mountain
James House
Vincennes
Hamm
Vernop
Pik County
Court of Appeal
Supreme Court
Agricultural crop forecasts from the U S Department of Agriculture
The January crop report forecasts the winter and spring wheat combined yield at 769 000 bushels and oats at 17 000 tubes, with corn area slightly up and a 2 866 009 000 bushel crop. Conditions show improvements over last year and the year’s outlook remains cautious but favorable for growth.
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Department of Agrcult
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W. W. Astor
Ohjests
Red Cross
Randi
Oka
American Press Association
William W4ldorp Astor
Montana
Robins
Car
Medical Journal
Prince Albert
Bringe Albert
Cossyrity
Dernohie Tabseso Co
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco CO
Winston-Salem, N. C
Winsonsatban
USA
Prince Alber
Blaze
Atena
S'Rongest
Ole & Cole, Marchall
Til
PROOE
Bowale
RI Quest
Charles Brandenstein Moure
Tiall
Werles Oard
Ms Hits
Avery Bai
S&s
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