Tax Levy Totals Set by Davison County Auditor
County auditor Robert A. Zangle completes the 1913 levy totaling 240 261 dollars to be collected by the county treasurer. Schools receive the largest share, while city and county portions, state tax, and township road funds are itemized across Mitchell Mt Vernon Ethan and rural districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davison
Robert A. Zangle
Mitchell
Vernon
Ethan
Mt. Vernon
Beulah
City
Prosper
Lisbon
Union
Baker
Run on Omaha Bank Stirs City News
A large, orderly run on the City National bank in Omaha began before opening. Officials reassured the public, depositors queued in lines, and thirty to sixty day notices were requested from savings customers. Checks from the commercial department were paid rapidly as solvency was reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Nebi
Flack
City National Bank
Omaha Clearing House
City National
City Savings Bank
Robbers Remove Entire Fur Stock in East Side Heist
A Milwaukee store on the East Side reported thieves taking an entire fur stock valued at an estimated sum. The bold operation prompted a watchman to misidentify the thieves as owners. The same gang is suspected in a separate theft of a large ginseng consignment and a substantial portion of Wisconsin crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wis
East Side
Wisconsin
Vivisection Question Sparks Secrecy Demand at Congress
At the international anti vivisection and animal protection congress in Ashington D C Dr Albert Leflingwell of Philadelphia warned that if secrecy continues vivisection will shift to human testing within the lifetimes of current generations. He argued secrecy makes experiments more costly in pain and death and that charity hospitals could gain absolute power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
Albert Leflingwell
Philadelphia
International
Antivivisection and Animal Protection Congress
Charity
Simpson Dies In Rush to Rochester
Rochester Minnesota report says George Simpson of Huron South Dakota a Northwestern railroad bridge foreman died after a special train rushed him from Waseca to Rochester for treatment. He fell ill while working at Tyler Minnesota and his wife and children followed the train to learn he had died.
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Rochester
Minn
George Simpson
Huron
S. D
Northwestern Railroad
Waseca
Simpson
Tyler
Tener Takes Office As National League President
New York Governor Tener of Pennsylvania was inaugurated today as president of the National League at a meeting of club owners. In his inaugural address he pledged to work to elevate baseball to a higher plane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Tener
Pennsylvania
Eugenics Aid to Lobsters Sparks Fisheries Report
Washington reports a heavy lobster supply rise due to artificial propagation by the fisheries bureau. Maine coast efforts boosted catches with Rockland noting daily shipments averaging twenty tons from April through September. In Los Angeles a domestic relations plan is signed by sixteen year old groom and fourteen year old bride outlining household duties and conduct.
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Washington
Bureau of Fisheries
Redfield
Department of Commerce
Fisheries Bureau
Bureau
Maine
Rockland
Los Angeles
Earle Maddock
Man who won Titanic medal hawks it in Central Park
New York saloon waiter David Allan, who earned a Titanic heroism medal awarded by Mrs. Astor, stands at Sixty fifth Street Central Park with a pawn ticket in his pocket. He missed the ship he now works aboard as saloon steward and weighs asking Colonel Astor’s widow for aid as he visits the Astor estate offices after recounting his sight of the doomed liner.
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New York
David Allan
Central Park
Sixty Fifth Street
John Jacob Astor
Allan
Colonel Astor
Astor
North Dakota Banker Shot by Highwaymen
Minneapolis bulletin reports T. B. Dawson of Lamar North Dakota, a banker, shot and seriously wounded last night by a supposed highwayman. He remained alive this afternoon with doctors hopeful for recovery. He insists two hold‑ups waylaid and robbed him, though police and hospital staff differ on how the wound was inflicted.
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Minneapolis
Minn
T. B. Dawson
Lamar
N. D
Public Health Question on Alcohol Degeneracy
Dr Alexander MacNicholl of New York argues in a Philadelphia meeting report that alcohol drives chronic degeneracy, with 440 of every 1000 deaths linked to drink and US mortality from alcohol around 680,000 annually. He cites insurance data and a British Parliament report to warn of widespread harm to the republic.
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Philadelphia
Congress of the American Medical Society
Alexander MacNicholl
New York
Republic
MacNicholl
T. P. Whitaker
United States
Pioneering Dakotan Frontierman Marsh Dies at 66
Marsh a veteran of the Civil War who helped open Dakota country with cattle drives, wood cutting for river steamboats, and timber for Fort Yates. Born in Chicago in 1847, he lived as hunter, trapper, guide and cattleman across Campbell and Emmons counties. He died after a long illness and was buried at Wakpala on Standing Rock reservation. Surviving four children.
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Dakotas
Wakpala
Standing Rock
Chicago
Marsh
Dakota Territory
Fort Lincoln
Emmons County
North Dakota
John Gaton
Missouri River
Fort Yates
Black Hills
Missouri
Campbell County
Bicycle Racers Hover Behind Record Pace
In New York City eight teams led the six day race at hour fifty six having logged 1 149 miles and 6 laps versus the record 1 150 miles and 9 laps. Five other teams trailed one lap behind the leaders.
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New York City
Manly Woman Defends Free Press in Libel Case
Deacon Reeves of the Groton Independent lauds Mrs Eastwood of the Watertown Herald for criticizing the $10,000 verdict against Watertown Public Opinion. He praises her stand for press freedom while noting prior libel losses by the Herald and gloating by Public Opinion.
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Aberdeen News
Ships Diseased Horses and Then Breaks Jail
Aberdeen S D A E Leavitt of Langford was brought before U S Commissioner William Wallace on a charge of escaping Wahpeton jail where he was held on a federal charge for shipping diseased horses from South Dakota into North Dakota. He was held for Fargo federal court and escaped. the government accuses Sheriff Robins of aiding the escape, which Robins denies. Leavitt was held to the federal grand jury in Fargo on $2,500 bond, posted it, and was released.
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Aberdeen
S. D
A. E. Leavitt
Langford
United States
William Wallace
Wahpeton
N. D
South Dakota
North Dakota
Leavitt
Fargo
Richland County
Robins
Federal Grand Jury
Prohibition Report Claims 29 Million Saved in Kansas
Topeka reports that Kansas saves more than 29 million dollars annually through prohibition. The state consumes an over supply of alcohol reduced by the prohibition measure, asserting substantial fiscal benefits.
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Topeka
Kansa
Kansas
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Kansans face liquor costs under prohibition estimates
Government figures compiled from county clerks and the Methodist Temperance Society of Kansas estimate state liquor consumption and costs. The data show Kansas population 1,690,946 with 6,239,601.81 gallons consumed annually and a paid liquor bill of $5,303,666.04. If per capita consumption matched national 28 gallons, totals would reach 38,891,827 gallons and $34,509,929 in liquor receipts. The report claims $29,206,263 saved in the past year, averaging $18 per person, with 90 percent of shipments being beer and most deliveries to immigrant laborers rather than native Americans.
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Hodges
Methodist Temperance Society of Kansas
Kansas
Santa Fe Railway
Topeka
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Republican
N. Main
Widman Hotel
Weller Land Co
404Th Avenue
Mitchell Nat'l Bank
Redline Piano Co
C. W. Hoon
D. M. Tiffany
West Third Ave
Biepkiron
Anus
Tra
Aisir
Western Nat'l. Bank
ES Reas
Sas
Algo Automobile Garage
East Seventh
Davis Spring
Sama
Peerless Garland
West 4Th Ave
Green Brothers Soft Ring Water
Clifford Lenerville
Chas. Boreson
Duroc Jersey
Freed’s
Col
Model Beauty
A. K. Bates
Letcher
Pinano
Second Avenue
Big Thrifty
Poland
N. Mitchell
Lattcher Chancey Bates, Letcher
Encia
The
Mitchell Publishing Company
Mitchell Publishing’ Company
S. Sanborn, St
Geo. Stahl’s
Aneacom
East Eleventh
Nevew
Mitchel
Bidwell
Brunswick-Barke Collander Company
Third Street
South Main
hospital—Van Wagenen
van Wagenen
Kelley Land Co
Rowley
Gee Bidwell
Farm and Real Estate Journal
Traer
Iowa
Butterfields
Hirst St
State College
Brookings
S. Kimball
Butterfield Elk
Peay
W.H. Fritz
Thad
Kinc
J. E. Cox
Joliet
Davison County
Rome
Omaha Bank
Washington City
Astor Home
American Medical Association
Gettysburg
Andrew Marsh
First National Bank
Mitchell, S. D
Western National Bank
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