Old Fees May Be Doubled for War Cost
London financial experts consider doubling or expanding licenses and taxes to fund war costs. Proposals include higher duties on liquor, patent medicines, real estate agents, dealers in gold and silver, tobacco, playing cards, and motor vehicles. Professor Pigou suggests a special war tax on exempted stay-at-homes of all ages.
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London
Channel
Economist
Britain
Ireland
A. C. Pigou
Kings College
Cambridge University
Ile
Seventy seven Good for Grippe Ad in Homeopathic Lot
An advert describes seventy seven as effective for la grippe influenza with symptoms such as flowing eyes and nose coryza sneezing cough feverishness restlessness irritability heat or dryness of throat thirst pain and soreness in head back and chest and general prostration. It promotes a small vial of pleasant pellets for obstinate colds and notes availability at drug stores for 25 cents or by mail from Humphress Homeo Medicine Co New York.
Packing firms pay half of their fine
Five packing companies each paid 12500 into the Missouri state treasury in settlement of 25000 fines imposed by the Missouri Supreme Court for violation of anti trust laws. The payment followed an agreement with Attorney General John T. Barker that half the fines be paid. In a separate report, two men were killed and one injured when a pressure head blew off a steel tank at the Standard Oil refinery in Woodriver.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Supreme Court
John T. Barker
Woodriver
Standard Oil
Saint John the Baptist and the Church's Ministry
In the third Sunday of Advent a reflection on Saint John the Baptist and his unique mission as forerunner to Christ is offered. The text contrasts John’s wilderness life and his role in preparing the people with Jesus’ definitive threefold priestly, prophetic, and kingly office bestowed on his apostles. It discusses the apostolic priesthood, the authority to forgive sins, and the church’s ministry as a divinely assigned stewardship guiding believers toward the Messiah.
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Aaron
Zacharias
Elijah
Christ
God
St. John
Our Lord
Herod
St. Mary
St. Elizabeth
St. John the Baptist
John
Jesus
Church
Earth
Jesus Christ
Amnetk Ge
Judas
Fragmentary prayer fragment on wisdom and judgment
Fragment of a religious invocation noting the transition from disobedience to wisdom and a plea to be found an acceptable people at Christ's second coming.
Passenger carries his own street car stove
Kansas City report describes a passenger who brought a coal oil stove aboard a streetcar to warm the car. The conductor warned against smoking on the car, but allowed the stove after the passenger explained the ride would be short and the stove was needed for warmth.
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Kansas City
Guest's Fatal Jump From Blazing Hotel
Cleburne Texas December 16 efforts are under way to identify the man killed when a hotel fire damaged the Cleburne inn He emerged from room 49 listed to G A and W A Smith of Oklahoma The unidentified man and several others leaped from second and third floor windows with three more men feared dead
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Cleburne
Tex
G. A. and
W. A. Smith
Oklahoma
Snowbound Port Delays Hit New York Liners
New York faces a heavy snowstorm that began at 5:30 and continued into the day, dropping several inches by noon. The storm halted liner arrivals, with only six of twenty-two scheduled ships reaching quarantine as tugs and small craft struggled in a clogged harbor.
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New York
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Rheumatism Relief
The ad claims Hood's Sarsaparilla corrects blood acidity and strengthens the body. It asserts the remedy drives out rheumatism by cleansing the blood and has been successfully used for forty years for rheumatism stomach and kidney troubles general debility and impure blood. Obtainable from local druggists.
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Hood
Hood’s
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Humphreys
Humphress' Homeo
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Willian Strest
Fourth and
Hampshire Streets
Tapestry Rockers
Wilton
Jardinier
Childrens Hoys
Mission
Scowill CO
Morris
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