Tax relief debates shape state budget path
State lawmakers clash over reducing property taxes and refocusing revenue as the senate cuts university requests and a proposed pipeline tax faces opposition. An Elliott tax cut proposal targets about five million dollars in relief while companion bills seek lighter auto mileage costs and new public road funds.
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Oaxaca the Rocking Chair of Mexico in Earthquake Report
Washington reports Oaxaca city the hard hit in a major Mexican earthquake with many buildings leveled and lives lost. National Geographic notes Oaxaca’s fortress like houses and rich colonial heritage including a 1533 cathedral and Montezuma lineage whispers.
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Asia
February Monticello Cow Test Report Highlights Milk and Butterfat
The February test shows an average of 197 pounds of milk and 96 pounds of butterfat per cow with 36 cows over 40 pounds, 13 over 50, and 4 over 60. Shover & Orcutt owner herd led with 2022 pounds milk and 66.7 butterfat. other herds noted include Len Buol Pfei Burr Altehison Bros Peter Gadient and Wm M Oltman with varying totals. Six separators incurred a total loss of 4.40.
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Hoag & Deischer
Wyman Fulton
King Pat Tot revue sparks puzzled judge remark
A historic note recalls a judge questioning the meaning of a phrase during a discussion of a revue titled King Pat Tot. The exchange unfolds with a quip about a golf links and a clergy joke, reflecting period humor in the Weekly Post.
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Oman
Advice on Reaching Half a Century and Building Wealth
A column urges gradual wealth growth toward fifty thousand as a steady, satisfying life's goal. It compares modest but secure earnings to larger fortunes and emphasizes steady yearly gains, avoiding haste while planning for long-term dividends. The text frames fifty thousand as a reliable foundation and comfort for the future.
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F. Collier
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Prussia Long Sprucia Name Traced in Historical Note
Vizetelly notes in a New York paper that Prussia was called Spruce or Sprucia in early usage. The term linked to spruce dress and German Preussen, with chaucerian and Piers Plowman references showing Spruce for Prus. The form Sprucia appears as early as 1614.
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Divining Rod Locates Water in Pennsylvania
Allentown Pennsylvania reports success for using a forked apple twig as a divining rod to find underground water for wells. John J. Rothmund claims eight years of no failures and neighbors support his method, which he uses freely without charge.
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Gift Arrives for Czar Amid Uncertain Telegrams
A stray letter addressed to Nicholas II at the Winter Palace reaches a Russian post office in Kazan province, amid unrest described as thirteen years long. In Maine, a quarantine warning fails to deter a burglar who enters Arthur Smith’s home and steals $100.
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Highland Dress Edict Repeal Shown At Inverness Exhibit
A Inverness Scotland exhibition features relics of the 1740 Highland dress ban including a Gaelic proclamation allowing the wear of trews and kilts. The display titled Mustra five of olden tinns drew hundreds as observers saw the translated royal act declaring repeal and freedom to wear tartan and other Highlands attire.
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Honor Well Bestowed on Chief Justice Taft
Joseph Tumulty observes a passerby mistake Chief Justice William Howard Taft for a civic leader as a muddy auto asks for directions on Connecticut Avenue. The stranger thanks the “Chief” and leaves, revealing the enduring respect for Taft in a midwinter anecdote.
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Ink and Writing Studied as Civilizational Pillars
The article traces writing origins 8 000 years back noting Egyptians using ink around 1200 B C and Greeks introducing papyrus and ink from Nile neighbors. It emphasizes ink as essential to learning and civilization, calling it a faithful soldier in humanity progression.
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Beth
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For Sale Purebred Aberdeen Angus Bulls and Baby Chix
For sale items include serviceable age Aberdeen Angus bulls priced to sell. Contact John C. Hanna Ons low Iowa. Also Baby Chix bred for size quality and egg production at $10 per 100 with book orders through Ray George Monticello Iowa. Pd-37-4 Pd-35-6
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