War revenue bill planned to raise $1.8 billion yearly
Washington reports a war revenue bill unanimously agreed by Ways and Means to raise about 1.8 billion dollars annually. It extends taxes to life insurance, bonds, drafts, deeds, tickets, automobiles, jewelry, medicines, and amusements while boosting income and inheritance taxes and adding a 5 percent tax on heat, light, and telephone bills plus various tariff adjustments. The plan includes higher liquor, tobacco, and stamp taxes and scales of inheritance rates, with specifics on rates across income bands.
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Stock Exchange
Wovaches
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Oet
Reece Rees Cnge
Smereenae Snes Ee Iee
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Ena
Sevece Seecaess
Eddie Eae
Washington
House Committee On Ways and Means
House
Kitchin
Dixon of
Plans for Raising New United States Armies by Draft
Plans outline mass conscription to raise about 2,003,000 armed men plus regulars and National Guard to war strength. First 500,000 of a 1,000,000 man draft to form a conscription army. volunteers aged 18 to 40 allowed. Provisions cover pay, machine gun units, and prohibition at military sites. Officers assigned to France. women form Liberty Loan committee.
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France
England
Belgium
Bernt
Balkans
Mesopotamia
Baker
Germany
William J. Kelier
Daniel P. Card
George M. Howards
Ris Orangis
Army
Scott
West Point
War Department
Leacock's Euclidean Sayings in McGill Test
A humorous note from Youth's Companion on Stephen Leacock of McGill University. It discusses a geometric joke about boarders and a landlady, comparing the wrangles to show weekly bills equal under a certain balance of costs. The piece reflects lighthearted scholarship and wit.
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Stephen Leacock
McGill. University
Explaining Working of New Conscription Law
Washington outlines the universal service law with draft ages from 21 to 20 inclusive and volunteers 18 to 40. It targets 11 million to be obtained by draft or voluntary service, with 1 million drawn via selective conscription in two 500,000 drafts. Total strength reaches 2,001,000 including regular army and guards, with exemptions for officials and religious ministers, and a draft process by presidential proclamation, registration, and selective pulling from the register. Pay scales range from private to sergeant and include quartermaster and hospital staff. Safeguards include prohibition and anti vice measures around the army.
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Washington
Ser
Bernes
Separate Peace Talks Seen by Russian Socialists
Petrograd reports twelve members of the council of soldiers and workers delegates, led by its president, traveled to Schlusselburg to challenge the district committee’s claim as the executive arm of the council over a proposed Stockholm socialist conference. The group vows to restore the internationale and end the war, even if it means meeting Scheidemann or the devil and his grandmother. Gorki’s Novaya Zhizn reflects their pacifist stance, arguing participation by British and French socialists is not required.
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Stockholm
Scheidemann
Gorki
Novain Zhizn
Lawyers Get It After All in Banked Estate Check Case
The Simpkinson brothers of Los Angeles sought to avoid lawyers fees by cashing gut checks after a death. The bank refused since the author was dead, so the heirs gained the funds. Catherine Modine of northern Curry County seeks a homestead in the timber reserve for Uncle Sam. Nadine, with her dog, claims over 100 wildcats and lynx per a Brandon dispatch. She and her mother run a stock and dairy ranch near Denmark with sparse help and efficient work.
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Simpkinson Brothers
Los Angeles
Catherine Modine
Curry County
Uncle Sam
Nadine
Brandon
Portland Oregonian
Denmark
DODD KIDNEY PILLS PROMOTE HEALTH SAY VETERAN
Mr Robert W Ferguson of Hingham Massachusetts shares a medical testimonial praising Dodd's Kidney Pills for curing years of kidney disorders and backache. He notes occasional use to keep kidneys regulated and urges readers to choose DODD'S with three D's. The notice reads as a vintage advertisement style reminiscence.
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Robert W.ferguson
Hingham
Mass
Wiffes
Vancouver
Dodd
Ferguson
Not Her Drink. Little Isabel Refuses Milk Tea
A Buffalo Express item recalls how a young girl named Isabel, raised to drink milk, was given weak tea at a luncheon. She stared at the cup and declared the beverage is not milk, startling her hostess with a blunt remark.
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Isabel
Buffalo Express
Freckles vanish with ethine double strength treatment
An old advertisement promotes ethine double strength for removing freckles with an ounce enough for complete clearing of the skin. It claims guaranteed results and a money back offer if freckled skin fails to improve. Also notes a clamp-on sole invention and mentions English woman taxi drivers.
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Wroney Pack
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George Bass
Antoinette Funk
Kellogg Fairbanks
Chicago
Gilford Dudley
Tennessee
Pierce
Kansas City
Guernsey
Teha O. Miller
Pittsburgh
W. L. Douglas
San Francisco
New York
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Mersey
W. V. Douglas
Best
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Sioux City, Ia
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