Tariff Revisions Cut Many Duties Under New Measure
Washington reports a broad tariff revision cutting iron ore and pig iron rates, lowering rough lumber and sawed lumber costs, and reducing pulp and wood products. Hemp, hosiery, carpets, and hydraulic hose see increases or shifts while printing paper prices drop. new excise taxes on corporations raise revenue. Panama Canal bonds authorized for project funding.
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Canada
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Taft Signs Payne Tariff Bill as Congress Adjourns
The extraordinary session produced the Payne tariff measure approved by the senate and signed by President Taft at 6:05 p.m. on August 5 1909. Congress adjourned sine die with 47 yeas and 31 nays and numerous officials present as leaders praised and criticized the final revision.
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Taft Views on Budget Bill Seen as Downward Revision
The article outlines President Taft's statement on the tariff bill, praising it as a sincere Republican effort toward downward revision and campaign promises compliance. It notes criticism over imperfections and uneven impact across sectors, with emphasis on cottons and luxury items. The piece mentions congressional scrutiny and upcoming inspections by an irrigation committee and other officials.
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Sure Sign of Kidney Trouble Promoted by Dean's Pills
An advertisement pledges that Dean's Kidney Pills cure irregular secretions and back pain by restoring kidney health. A Kansas user, Charles Cole of Buckeye Street in Topeka, reports relief from prior kidney issues and swelling after using the pills, now claiming two years of wellness. Sold by all dentists? (advertisement text) 60 cents per box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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A Long Way Back
Miss Passay claims she has never been kissed. Harry reveals he kissed her years ago, implying she means not since she can remember.
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Physician's Mean Trick in Street Encounter
A physician, noted for intolerance to hypochondria, mocked a woman's imaginary illness by asking her to shut her eyes and stick out her tongue. When she complied, he vanished from view in a busy street, leaving her tongue hanging and eyes closed.
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Small holder tests barley to grow corn on small farm
In East Lexham a farmer experiments with barley to gauge corn potential on a small plot. In 1907 he sowed 78 barley grains yielding 400 ears. A 1908 kernel trial produced a bushel of threshed barley after 14 weeks, which he sowed again this year to prove what can be done in cereal cultivation from tiny beginnings.
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East Lexham
London Standard
Duke Bruised by Silent Talks Over Father and Painting
An heiress presses the Duke for news about her father. He recalls their talk about the weather and being unable to speak freely beside a grinning picture in the office. The painting is the Battle of Bunker Hill, a reminder of past power.
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Bunker Hill
The New Woman Made Over by Quitting Coffee
Richmond Virginia woman details health revival after giving up coffee and adopting Postum and Grape Nuts. She traces prior headaches and eye trouble to coffee and credits improved sight energy and weight gain to the switch.
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Mail Carrier Mistakes Farmer Holmes for Innate Criminal
A rural mail carrier misreads a letter box name and mistakes Beverly Holmes for a crook. The farmer, wearing old clothes and a stout hat, quips that he is Sherlock Holmes enough to judge people by face and eyes.
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Itched for Twelve Years Eczema Cured by Cuticura
Charles T Batter of Volant Pennsylvania suffered eczema on hands arms and feet for about twelve years. They swelled itched peeled and grew raw despite salves ointments and doctors. After using Cuticura Remedies his hands and feet healed quickly and he has had no trouble since. Potrver Drag Cham Corp sole props Boston.
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Peculiar Woman Refuses to Tear Up Love Letter
A peculiar woman avoids destroying a love letter, saying she cannot forget who wrote it and keeping the note. The exchange reveals a stubborn attachment and memory connected to the writer.
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Pakatier
The Water Bite and Odd Snippets of Everyday Life
A collage of quirky remarks and scenes from a 19th or early 20th century newspaper page. It touches on a boy explaining soda water’s bite through a microbe slide, debt worries affecting a woman’s nerves, golf talk, hostesses at meals, and scattered asides about faith, manners, and poor printing. Names and coherent events are fragmentary.
A City Clerk’s Grand Garden Tall Tale
A city clerk boasted of a vast garden to colleagues. Five visited and found a tiny 12 by 10 foot yard, but the owner claimed it was enormous by height, extolling the “height of it” to the sky. The tale ends with a satirical chorus on vanity.
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Chicago Daily Socialist
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