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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1902
Page
8
Tax figures suggest the annual revenue raised is roughly the same as the legislature’s stated total. The article discusses estimates across departments and notes potential variance due to collection delays and exemptions.
Iowa debates fully one mill tax for war claims and state levy to raise funds. executive council fixes 700 telephone properties for taxation this year, highlighting rising independent line growth and a shift toward consolidation. coal mine lockout fears persist as operators discuss not opposing miners in the district. The state treasury shows surplus gains from war era funds and new expenditures for the St Louis Exposition exhibit, while reforms shift toward abolishing grand juries and derisive court costs.
Indianapolis July 18 The United Mine Workers may avoid a general strike if President Mitchell gains support for his plan. He urged ongoing work, a union assessment system, and guided relief funds for anthracite miners. Proposals include $50,000 relief from the treasury, further union contributions, weekly $1 assessments, officer salary cuts, broader appeals, and a nationwide arbitration push.
Funeral rites for Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan were held at the Cathedral of the Holy Name with Archbishop Ryan delivering the sermon and Cardinal Gibbons pronouncing absolution. Twenty one prelates attended, each with a deacon of honor as mourners gathered from Chicago and beyond.
A crowded street scene described by the Chicago Inter Ocean shows a bull dog pinning a fox terrier in a dust storm. A seedy man intervenes, grabbing the bulldog and freeing the terrier amid cheers. Onlookers discuss skating and medical knowledge as the crowd thins.
A sermon warns graduates about three temptations after college: materialism, ambition, and the lure of wealth and power. It urges living for others and using education and faith to serve society, not merely to gain status or money, stressing disciplined aspiration over self-serving achievement.
A medical advertisement uses testimonials from Miss Blanch Grey of Memphis and Mrs X Schneider of Chicago praising Peruna for catarrh and systemic illness. It claims Peruna cures catarrh, offers a free book from Dr. Hartman, and invites readers to write for advice.
A selection of 1900s era clippings note President Alderman of Tulane as a speaker at a ceremony for Nicholas Murray Butler at the University of Pennsylvania, with jokes about a Louisiana Negro. The Supreme Court, Justice Laughlin, orders permanent injunctive relief against Dr Clark's Foot Powder as an infringement of Foot-Ease, owned by Olmsted of Le Roy. Various travel promos, quips, medicines, and ads follow, including LSD/PhD joke references, Atlantic trips, and patent-line product pitches.
Medical examiner Lee Wellyn Jordan, a U S Treasury official and West Point veteran, praises Peruna asserting a month of use cures catarrh and renews health. He claims immediate nerve restoration and permanent relief from mucous membrane catarrh.
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