Kitchin Decries Senate War Tax Bill as Favors Rich
Washington Aug 4 Chairman Kitchin of the house ways and means committee denounces the Senate finance committee tax bill as unfair to farmers and small business and far too favorable to big corporations. He cites removal of house luxuries taxes, boosts on necessities, and an inequitable excess profits scheme. He warns of stubborn resistance in conference unless changes are made.
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Kitchin
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Finance Committee
Conferences of Representatives
United States Steel Corporation
Gary
Schwab
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Morgan
J. P. Morgan & Co
Dupont
Powder Company
Congress
United States Steel
Bethlehem Steel
American Tobacco
Duponts
United Cigar Stores Company
United Company
Poles Cheer Head of Russian Mission in Chicago
In Chicago Aug 4 Ambassador Boris A. Bakhmeteff declared the Russian Revolution and U S. entry into the war have given Poland new life and freedom. He spoke at the Sosciusko monument in Trumbull Park, asserting democracies must allow each nation to define its destiny as Poles cheered and wreaths were laid on the monument.
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Chicago
Poland
Boris A. Bakhmeteff
Trumboldt Park
United States
Germans debate control of press by big business
In Copenhagen on August 4 a major German liberal socialist press debate focuses on how big business and industry seek to dominate German and foreign news. The Transocean wireless scheme and the Foreign Advertising Company gain capital and stockholder visibility, including Krupp and Stinnes interests, to steer editorial views via large advertising distribution.
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Copenhagen
Krupp
South America
The
Orient
Transocean
Foreign Office Press Bureau
New York
Are
Poareign Advertising Company
Munich Post
Krupp, Stumm
Hugo Stinnes Steelworks Association
Sedium and Mulheim Nining
Augsburg Machine Factory
Hugenburg
Krupto
Street Flusher Demonstration to Test City Buy
The $5600 street flusher will be demonstrated on South Fifth Street at 3 PM this afternoon in Quincy. City council members will attend to judge the show and decide whether to purchase it at Monday night’s meeting after a tied vote previously authorized the purchase by Mayor Thompson's ballot.
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Quincy
South Fifth Street
Thompson
Purchas
Second Lynchings Reported Near Butte Montana
A report at 1 am claimed a lynching in progress at the railroad trestle outside Butte where I W W leader Frank Little was said to be lynched earlier. Patrols reached the site but found no one, and another report at 1 15 am said the mob had not reached the trestle, prompting renewed patrols.
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Butte
Mont
Frank Fr. Little
Draft Uncover Woman Identity in Toledo Case
In Toledo on August 4 police reveal a twelve year secret of a person identified as Samuell Ackerman, a woman who lived as a man to avoid the draft. Facing exposure from army examinations, the figure killed herself, leaving a letter to bury the body as found. The woman’s wife, later divorced, is Sarah Wise, mother of a year old child. Ackerman’s real name remains unknown, with occupations including an optician and a city water meter reader.
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Toledo
Samuell Ackerman
Downing
Sammel Ackerman
Aomnan
Brothers and Friends
New York
Ackerman
Sarah Wise
Wise
Caflers
Army Balloon Seen In Rochester
A large army balloon with a captain and six men aboard landed near Rochester on Friday for about ninety minutes and then drifted northwest. Witnesses said the craft had departed from St. Louis Thursday night and that dew cooled its gas, causing a temporary descent before sunrise allowed it to rise again.
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Rochester
St. Louis
Died in Roseville and buried in Barry notices
The Barry area reports the burial of George Berry age 35 who died in Roseville Illinois and Samuel Farmer aged about 72 who died in Missouri with Odd Fellows in charge. Other items include Ed Lippincott trading store buildings for a farm, and Joseph Van Camp dying in Quincy hospital during hernia surgery.
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Barry
George Berry
Roseville
Ill
Methodist
Samuel Farmer
Missouri
Odd Fellows
Ed Lippincott
Kinderhook
John Turmer
Quincy
Joseph van Camp
Galicia Liberated Says Berlin Bulletin
Berlin reports a pause in fighting near Flanders as Allied troops advance, with the German command claiming Galicia is liberated almost completely and Bukowina largely freed from the enemy.
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Galicia
Berlin
London
Flanders
Bukowina
Pastor's Son Charged With High Treason In Draft Affidavit
W H Arndt 24 son of Rev William Arndt a German Lutheran minister was arrested near Rochester New York after filing an affidavit claiming exemption from the army draft and stating his loyalties lay with Germany. He was held on $5000 bail with a hearing set for August 8 in Newark.
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Rochester
N. Y
Germany
W. H. Arndt
Newark
Here
Wm. Arndt
For Sale Classified Fragments Include Fish and Bungalows
Listings show fresh cat fish at 20c a pound and boneless cat at 16c. J. W. Venghaus advertises. Also seeks a bookkeeper and two new modern bungalows for sale or lease at 822-824 S 4th Street. W. D. Meyer lists contact numbers.
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J. W. Venghaus
4Th Street
W. D. Meyer
Hospital Unit to Front in Paris News Note
Paris report states Section 32 of the American field service went to the front on Friday. Section 9 received the war cross for remaining on duty 27 consecutive hours to move hundreds of wounded.
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Paris
Roosevelt Declines State Food Commission Chair
Col Theodore Roosevelt announces he will not accept appointment as chairman of the state food commission as proposed by the legislative war committee. He says he has no special qualifications for the job.
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Roosevelt
New York
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
State Food Commission
Legislative War Committee
Heat Death Toll From Heat Wave in New York
New York city health officials report 539 deaths in the 24 hour period ending at noon with 110 directly attributed to the heat. A recent drop in temperature offers some relief after three days of extreme heat.
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New York
Board of Health
Artillery Action In Flanders Reported By Berlin
Berlin reports in Flanders on Thursday only artillery activity due to rain. English advances on the Nieuport Westende road and near Bixschote failed, while strong Langemarck attacks also failed. Engagements north of the La Bassee canal and at Monchy le Preux and Havrincourt proceeded in German favor.
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Berlin
British Admiralty
Flanders
Nieuport- Westende Road
Bixschoote
Langemarck
la Bassee Canal
Monchy-Le- Preux
Havrincourt
Abundant Crops in Sight
Washington reports a Chamber of Commerce of the United States forecast strong food production and robust business in wartime conditions. Crops promise abundance and broad business confidence noted as key features of the outlook.
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Washington
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Offer To Dig Copper In US Mines Telegram From Bisbee Miners
Representatives of Bisbee miners and supporters telegraph President Wilson offering to dig copper for the United States government if it will take over and operate all copper mines and smelters nationwide. The message arrives as a wartime measure to boost metals production and reliability of supply for the war effort.
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Columbus
N. M
Bisbee
Wilson
United States
Bright
Franklin Co
Springfield
Illinois Man Secretary Elected at Dairy Officials Meet
ATLANTIC CITY August 4 The Association of American Dairy Food and Drug Officials elected James Foust of Pennsylvania as president George J Weigle of Wisconsin as treasurer and John B Newman of Illinois as secretary in a recent meeting official action announced today
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Illinois
Atlantic City
N. J
Association of American Dairy, Food and Drug
James Foust
Pennsylvania
George J. Weigle
Wisconsin
John B. Newman
Estate Await Man Claiming Quincy Ties
A man named Veach, believed to live somewhere in Quincy, is sought by police to return to his former home in Dysart Iowa where a cousin the last of the family died. The decedent’s entire estate is left to the missing man.
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Mr. Veach
Quincy
Dysart
Iowa
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