Washington notes on war, politics and finance in 1916
Nebraskas national guard aviation corps seeks federalized status urged by Rep Shallenberger while Wilson vetoes the army appropriation over contested articles of war. Revenue bill advances, projected to yield 205 million annually, with notificationof Wilson nomination set for September 2 in Long Branch New Jersey. Internal revenue tallies show 4.68 million in Nebraska for year to June 30 1916 with 443 thousand prior to Loomis tenure. Anti typhoid stockpiles ordered for Kanawha valley after cloudburst.
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Union News Service
Washington
Nebraska
National Guard
Representative Shallenberger
House Military Affairs
Wilson
House
Senate Finance Committee
Democratic Senate Caucus
Senate
Commissioner of International Revenue
Osborne
Edward W. North
George L. Loomis
Boosts the Values Board Reduces the State Tax Levy
The Values Board approves measures that reduce the statewide tax levy. Officials say the plan lowers burden on residents while funding essential services. Voters will see changes reflected in forthcoming fiscal documents and district budgets.
State board trims tax levy for general fund
Items of general interest from around the state house report that the state board of assessment led by Governor Morehead Auditor Smith and Secretary of has cut the annual tax levy by seven-tenths of a mill for the state general fund.
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Union News Service
State General Fund
State Board of Assessment
Morehead
Smith
Ban on Gasoline Tanks By State Fire Warden
State Fire Commissioner W S Ridgell bans use of portable gasoline tanks by merchants. Portable wheeled tanks are prohibited as they are moved to the sidewalk edge for supply to customers. Camp Llano adds a laundry service with sign promising constant washing.
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W. S. Ridgell
Nebraska County Fairs Announced by State Auditor
State Auditor W. H. Smith announces dates and venues for Nebraska county fairs, most scheduled in September, listing the secretary and president of the Nebraska Association of Fair Managers along with each county event.
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Nebraska
W. H. Smith
Nebraska Association of Fair Managers
State Board Cuts Nebraska Taxes Further in 1916 Levy
State officials report a 0.7 mill cut under the 1915 assessment, reducing the total state levy to 6.1 mills for 1916 from 6.8 mills last year. General fund drops to 3.4 mills, with fixed university and normal school levies. Estimated 1916 taxes total 8,057,195 dollars, down 212,342 from 1915.
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Treasurer Hall
Fred Beckman
Nebraska
General Fund
Students Allowed to Return Home From Guard Duty
All national guard members serving the United States who show intent to enroll in colleges or schools at the start of fall term 1916 will be discharged after September, unless military needs require continued service. The order from the secretary of war arrived at Camp Llano Grande.
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National Guard
United States
Secretary of War
Camp
Llano Grande
Four Soldiers Receive Aid and Prizes from Omaha Friends
Started a Fund for Old Soldiers. Sergeant Otto Penner of Company B Fourth received a box of fudge and four cents from four Omaha girls who said the money would tide him over until pay day. The reveling group then dined together and the leftover four cents will go to an old soldiers home. Sergeant Archie Welton of Company B also received magazines now enjoyed by company members.
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Otto Penner
Omaha
Penner
Archie Welton
German Books for University Library Arrive from Berlin
Two hundred forty two volumes on history science and philosophy will reach Lincoln soon for the University of Nebraska. Deputy collector Earl R. Birge notes the shipment arrives without customs fees for the educational institution.
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University Library
University of Nebraska
Lincoln
Berlin
Germany
Earl R. Birge
United States Customs
University
Brary
Laundry venture by Company C soldiers sparks cheaper service
Sergeant James Morin starts a camp laundry for his company and Fourth regiment officers. Assistants Perry Howard and Tim M McCarty run Sing One Lung Sing Two Lung and Sing Three Lung with 40 percent profit to the trio and 60 percent to the company. They offer prices 2 to 5 cents below regular laundry and pick up and deliver. Morin reports about $5 a day on average with a washing machine two tubs washboards stove pins and line.
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Omaha
Toda
James Morin
Perry Howard
Tim M. McCarty
Sing
Sing Two Lung
Sing Three Lung
Morin
Troop Review of Nebraska Indiana Minnesota Guards at Camp Llano
Nine thousand troops from Nebraska Indiana and Minnesota National Guards march in review before General Parker at Camp Llano. Generals Parker Lewis and O'Ryan observe as the line extends over two miles with rapid training under US Army instructors Baxter and Ritchel.
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Nebraska
Indiana
Minnesota
Rio Grande
Joe Baxter
Ritchel
United States Army
College men in Nebraska regiments praised as soldiers
Across the line separating the Nebraska regiments from Indiana units at Camp Llano Grande many college students serve. The college man is described as orderly neat in appearance, rational, self sufficient, rarely complaining about conditions and diligent when work is available. He also makes the most of leisure opportunities.
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Nebraska
Indiana
Camp Llano Grande
State board Accepts Second Abstract of Assessment
The state board approves the second abstract submitted by County Assessor Philbin of Greeley County after finding the first unsigned. The second abstract differed slightly from the first and lacked typical equalization statements. The county board’s abstract priced land one cent per acre lower than the assessor’s valuation report.
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State Board of Assessment
Philbin
Greeley County
Taylor family named leaders of new consolidated district
State Superintendent announces Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Taylor to head a large consolidated district formed from Richardson and Nemaha counties. A community center school building and a teacher residence have been built. The district covers six acres for school gardening and agricultural work, located eight miles from Humboldt. Three or four teachers will be employed.
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Thomas
E. L. Taylor
Belvidere
Richardson
Nemaha
Humbold
Nebraska State Fair Dates And County Projects
Nebraska announces state fair dates at Lincoln and regional fairs in Maywood Grand Island Fremont Mitchell Omaha and Lincoln. Infrastructure growth includes lighting bonds at Burchard, a new Columbus theater, and a Platte river bridge in Kearney. Other items cover school buildings Hastings and Giltner, a Loup River drowning, bank hearings in Omaha, and a Dakota County reunion.
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Webster Bladen
O. L
G Pr. Hrase Dodge Hooper
J. H Heine Harlan
Alma
Co Is
Alter Johnson Tecumseh
G. Buerstetta Nuckolls
Nelson
Seward Seward
George Jackson Co
Beck
Sherman Loup City
Cc J Chase Imperial
Ww. C. Hill Tracy Dundy Benkleman
Eg Blackman Pierce Pierce
O Eagle Hayes Hayes Center
L E Musil York York
R. F. Getty Howard St. Paul
Cc. BE. Leftwich Keith Ogallala
T I Dutch Pawnee Pawnee City
Cc. A Schappel Red Willow Indianola
William Ploard
Harry L. Keere
Jefferson Fairbury
Auk Aeted Ete
Sollenberger
Nebraska
Lincoln
Maywood
Grand Island
State Federation of Labor
Fremont
Old Settlers
Mitchell
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Omaha
State Federation of Women’s Clubs
Hastings
Grand Lodge
Plattsmouth
Audubon and Humane Societies of
Secretary of Agriculture
Houston
Middle States
Dakota County
Dakota City
U S Safety First Train Aboard As Storm Damages tally
San Antonio report shows public utilities and railroads sustaining over 300000 in storm damages plus further losses in Corpus Christi and other storm center areas. Railroads expect a week to ten days to restore Corpus Christi service and up to fifteen days to reach Rockport. Western Union and other services estimate substantial costs while National Guard camps report minimal damage and high troop morale.
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Western
Union News Service
San Antonio
Tex
Corpus Christi
San Antonio Pass
Rockport
Western Union Telegraph Company
Fort Sam Houston
James Parker
Brownsville
National Guard
Parker
Postal surplus of 5.2 million sent to treasury
Postmaster General Burleson reported a 5.2 million surplus from the postal service for the year ended June 30 to President Wilson and said a check for that amount has been sent to the treasury. Secretary McAdoo noted this is the third time since 1836 that surplus postal revenues have been deposited under the current administration.
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Postal Department
Washington
Postal Service
Wilson
Burleson
The
Treasury
McAdoo
U S Safety First Train to Exhibit Federal Departments
A fourteen car federal safety first exhibit train will arrive in Lincoln Nebraska on Monday August 28 from the Union Pacific. The public may view the displays from 1 to 9 p m showing the treasury war navy interior agriculture and special exhibits by the interstate commerce commission and the American red cross society. Lectures by stereopticon and lantern slides will be given in the evening.
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Red Cross
Lincoln
Neb
Union Pacific
the Treasury
War, Navy
Interior and Agriculture
Interstate Commerce Commission
American Red Cross Society
Grand Island
Omaha
Sunday Attacks Saloons in Nebraska Speeches Stir Prohibition Efforts
Billy Sunday’s hammer and tongs assault on saloons at the Lincoln auditorium Friday pleased Nebraska prohibition campaign leaders. Chairman Thompson said Sunday’s four lectures would spur temperance forces more than anything else.
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Lincoln
Neb
Billy Sunday
Nebraska
Thompson
Mr. Sunday
Autonomy Plan for Polish Towns Reported in Vienna
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen says Vienna announced a plan to establish self government for towns and communities in Poland. Many Polish citizens are expected to be released and sent home under the arrangement.
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London
Vienna
Exchange Telegraph Company
Copenhagen
Poland
Chilean Magnesia Mines to Close at Month's End
German producers in Chile will shut their sulphate of magnesia works by month’s end. The mines account for about 15 percent of Chile’s total magnesia exports.
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Santiago
Chile
Guardsmen Face Desertion Amid Border Idle Time
National guardsmen in Dallas Texas grow desperate from idle border duties and risk personal harm by two perilous routes home including desertion and related injuries.
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Dallas
Tex
Amnesty for Madero Family Restores Corpus Christi Refugees
Forty eight members of the Madero family now living in Corpus Christi will return to Mexico after Carranza grants amnesty to political refugees and restores confiscated estates.
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Madero
Corpus Christi
Tex
Madre
Mexico
Carranza
Widow of Irish Patriot Dead in New York
Mrs Jeremiah O'Dono van Ross widow of the Irish patriot and journalist dies at her New York home from heart disease at age seventy.
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New York
Jeremiah O’donovan Ross
Plans for disinfecting Mexican refugees amid typhus concern
Major Bolivar Lloyd of the public health service announces four disinfecting plants will be built in El Paso Laredo Eagle Pass and Brownsville. The plants will use gasoline baths and steam sterilization of refugees clothing to stop vermin carrying typhus from crossing the Rio Grande into the United States.
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el Paso
Tex
Laredo
Eagle Pass
Brownsville
Mexico
Rio Grande
Bolivar Lloyd
The
Public Health Service
Gulf of Mexico
Pacific Ocean
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John Afflerbach
Grass Range
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Harry Randolph
York
Montana
D. A. Campbell
M. H. Swenk
Department of Entomology
University College of Agriculture
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Edward N. Hurley
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the State House
Camp Llano
Thorne
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Albert Gaughey
K. J. Eggert
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Lawrence Leary
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H. M. Kokjer
H. Reid
Cus Wellner Wi
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F. F. Roaby
M. A. Uehling
H. T Moore
J. M. Weber
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H. J. Porter
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Pawnee County
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Heber Hord
Sixteenth Avenue
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Dorothy Ellsworth
Shirley Fossler
Fossler
Farmers’ Equity Exchange
Jansen
Albert Estler
Harrison
Little Robert
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HE. T. Griggs
Carter Lake Club
Frank Musco
Club
New Platte River
Kearney
York Y. M. C. A
New Federal Land Bank Board
Giltner
Havelock
Madam Schumannn-Heinsk
R. P. Holland
Kansas
Lincon
Union Pacific Railroad
Smith Brick Co
Nebraska Christian Endeavor Union
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Adolph Buhlmann
Loup River
Monroe
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Frank Walters
Northwestern Railroad
Billy ‘Sunray
Kearney Canning Factory
Chester White
IF. L. Barber
Harlan
C. N. Nichols
Wauneta
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Douglas County
Leslie
W. P. Withrow
the Fair Association
Gage County
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Oshkosh
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Register of Deeds
Masonic Order of Alliance
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Beatrice
Anna Towle
South Bend
Edna Work
Hastings High School
State Normal School
U.S
Federal Department
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