Alaska Tops U S Wealth Share From 1919 Tax Data
Treasury report on calendar year 1919 incomes shows Alaska leading in population percentage returns at 17.17 percent, and the District of Columbia at 18.40 percent due to government salaries. New York leads total returns over five million dollars. southern agricultural states rank low. The analysis details income sources by class, with shifts among millionaires and middle earners, and notes large percentages of no net income among corporations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Washington
Tressury Department
Alaska
District of Columbia
Mississippi
North Carolina
Alabama
Treasury
Idle Husband Sentenced to Do Washing by Judge
Judge George of Huntington West Virginia established a precedent by sentencing James Alexander to duty washing clothes for his wife after she complained he failed to support her. Alexander pleaded unemployment and was ordered to help with the washing until he finds steady work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Heffley
Huntington
James Alexander
Air chatter spreads as 1,000,000 receivers expected by 1922
Washington officials estimate a million receiving apparatus will be installed nationwide by year end to pick up wireless chatter. Licenses for receiving stations are not required and counts are unspecified, with recent figures suggesting 200,000 in operation and many new devices surging in. The boom boosts farmers by easing isolation and complements agriculture market broadcasts.
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Washington
United States
D. B. Carson
Department of Commerce
Department of Agriculture
Decline in Manila Hemp Output in 1921
Manila Philippines reports total Manila hemp production of 692,822 bales in 1921 down from 1,051,601 bales in 1920, a drop near 30 percent due to weak demand, notably in the United States, the main hemp consumer.
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Manila
P. I
United States
Plane Use Offered to Domestic Servants in London Suburbs
An hour's daily use of the plane is being provided to some domestic servants living in the suburbs of London.
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London
Grim radio jests as Baltic ship sinks with 30 aboard
A Danish steamer Estonia logged the Grontoft distress calls amid a mid Atlantic hurricane while a wireless operator mocked death and joked through the ordeal. The Grontoft sank with all hands and Estonia failed to locate wreckage after hours of searching.
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New York
Grontoft
Estonia
Fire Hits Holdrege School and Local Robberies Stir Nebraska
Fire destroys the east ward Holdrege school building with $75,000 loss. The Bigler Hardware in rce rice was robbed again, several revolvers taken. Staplehurst bank robbed by yeggmen who escaped with war saving stamps. Nebraska farmers receive $10.6 million in federal loans. Cheyenne and Duel counties report ahead season work.
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East Ward
Holdrege
Bigler Hardware
Rce Rice
North Omaha
Cambridge
England
Hay Springs
Tecumseh Farmers’ Union
EF. W. Taylor
Omaha
War Finance Committee
Nebraska
Cheyenne
Duel
Phillip Frost
Sargent
Burwell
John J. Pershing
American Legion
Wayne
Alaska
Thomas Parmelee
Plattsmouth
Bank of Commerce
Louisville
Lincoln
State Board of Control
J. C. Seacrest
Christene Muenstermann
Lanham
Coxey Bill Seeks Government Vessels Refit Plan
House hearings examined Rep Gahn of Ohio proposed Coxey Wells plan to turn over 112 idle ships to Coxey and Wells for reconditioning at government expense funded by 40.936 million in treasury notes. Coxey claimed workers were out of work. Mills pressed for experience, Coxey cited none.
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House Committee On Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Gahn
Ohio
Jacob 5. Coxey, Sr
Massillon
Coxey’s Army
Coxey
Theodore D. Wells
New York
Treasury
Uncle Sam Liberal With His Veterans
Col. Charles R. Forbes reports the United States Government has provided extensive benefits to former soldiers. Total spending reaches 1.26 billion dollars with 1,418,912 veteran claims filed across vocational training insurance and death or disability compensation.
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United States
Charles R. Forbes
United States Veterans’ Bureau
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Rehabilitation Division
Federal Board For Vocational Education
Lady Rhondda Wins Right to Sit in Lords
Lady Rhondda a British peeress in her own right has won her suit before the house of lords for the right to sit with the lords by virtue of her peerage. If she takes a seat she would be the first woman to occupy a lordship.
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Rhondda
House of Lords
Lords
Lady Astor
House of Commons
Viscount Rhondda
Avere
Fathirdren
Bertha Krupp
England
Lusitania
Mason's Daughter Runs for Congress in Illinois
Mrs Winifred Mason Huck of Chicago daughter of the late Representative William E Mason of Illinois seeks the Republican nomination for representative at large and to fill the unexpired term. Filing shows a strict intra party battle for ten Cook county districts except for Mann and Britten seats. Huck hopes a long term victory would mark a notable win.
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Winifred Mason Huck
Chicago
William E. Mason
Illinois
Springfield
Cook County
Mann
Britten’s
Huck
Dr Hubert Work Becomes Postmaster General
Dr Hubert Work of Pueblo California succeeds Will Hayes as postmaster general after Hayes resignation to join the motion picture industry. Work, born in Pennsylvania, studied medicine at Michigan and Pennsylvania, led the Colorado State Medical Society, and served on state medical and health boards. He was a wartime major on Provost Marshal General Crowder's staff and liaison medical officer, now a colonel in the U.S. Army medical corps with two sons serving in World War I.
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Hubert Work
Pueblo
Calif
Will Hayes
Work
Pennsylvania
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
Colorado State Medical Society
Colorado State Board of Medical Examiners
Colorado State Board of Health
American Medico-Psychological Society
General Crowder
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U. S
Wales
Prince of Wales
Nepal
Himalyas
India
Cuzco d
Peru
W. F. Jordan
American Bible Society
Cape Race
Hans Jorgenson
Hansen
Svell
Atlantic
American State Bank of
Aurora
Charles W. Wentz
Nebraska Supreme Court
A. F. Ackerman
Wentz
Supreme Court
State Agriculture Department
State Capitol
Burlington
Union Pacific
Lodgepote
Methodist
Marsland
Harrison
Gage County
Bloomfield
Powell
John H. Morehead
Michardson County
Minnie Garrison
Lennard Whaley
Lexington
Herman Lorenz
Red Russia
H. D. Penner
Beatrice
Lorenz
Russia
Margaret Sittner
Hastings
W. M. Morning of
Zelma Biggs
Lewis Biggs
Geneva
Martin Larsen
Platte River
Darr
Larsen
McKelvie
Benjamin C. Marsh
Rock County
Butka
Newport
Schuyler
Wells-Abbott-Nieman Co
Dale Clark
Omaha National Bank
Middlewest
Chauncey Abbott
The
Presbyterian Church of
Scottsbluff
W. N. Brooks
Pawnee ‘City
Clint Adams
Heinke
Association of American Medical Colleges
Irvin S. Cutter
University of Omaha
Roy
Lawrence Fattig
Albert English
H. B. Sholl
Sholl
Uncle Sam
Sam
Bureau
Medical Division
Dee Ese
Mason
Congress
John J. Brown
Vandalia
Benjamin Michalek
Henry R. Rathbone
Kenilworth
Richard Yates
Allen D. Albert
Paris
Michael H. Cleary
Galena
Dr. Work
Hays
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