French Singers War Sufferers Struggle After War
Paris reports show French musicians including opera singers and teachers enduring severe hardship from the protracted war. A former star earning 600 francs per night now subsists on about ten francs, while many teachers face price cuts of 50 to 75 percent and some close classes. A Paris American observer notes even renowned artists living in poverty, with some selling furniture or doing laundry to survive. A dedicated group, L Aide Affecteuse aux Musiciens, aids fellow artists through direct acquaintance, but rising charitable calls dilute responses as the war drags on.
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Paris
America
Associated Press
Conservatory
L’aide Affecteuse Aux Musicians
Revenue stamps eliminated after war emergency repeal
The war emergency revenue stamp act is repealed effective September 9, ending stamps on bills of lading telegrams and many other documents. Railroads and merchants in Quincy respond as factories and banks note the savings. L. B. Boswell of the Quincy freight bureau leads the push to inform shippers and implement the change.
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United States
Congress
L. B. Boswell
Quincy Freight Bureau
Quincy
J. L. Pickering
U. S. Revenue Collector
Springfield
F. A. Hart
Burlington In
George C. Osborn
Wabash Railroad
Despondent heir ends life at family home in Batavia
Samuel P. Whitmore, 28, a member of one of Jefferson county's wealthiest families, died by his own hand at his parents' residence in Batavia on Friday night in the presence of his wife and relatives. He had been despondent over inability to resist liquor and last week attempted suicide with carbolic acid at the Des Moines state fair.
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Batavia
Towa
Samuel P. Whitmore
Jefferson County
Whitmore
Des Moines
Iowa to Have Big Corn Crop in 1916 Forecast
Des Moines Iowa forecast National Grain Bureau estimates Iowa will harvest 373 million bushels of corn this year about 14 percent of the U S crop This beats 1915 by 70 million bushels and values the corn at about 257 million dollars Iowa’s potato crop drops by one third with spring wheat oats barley rye and apples also lower in the forecast
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Des Moines
Iowa
Government Bureau of
Focal Weather Bureau
Fines in police court and hospital aid after fall
Two men were fined in police court on Saturday Joseph Pierce paid $2 plus costs for intoxication and A L Shelton $10 plus costs for peace disturbance. Shelton’s fine followed his wife's complaint. A stranger named Thompson fell on a Front and Hampshire sidewalk Saturday afternoon striking his head and was taken to St Marys hospital. An inheritance tax order was signed in county court Saturday. Three insane patients were taken to Jacksonville Saturday on county court order including Gay.
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Joseph Pierce
A. L. Shelton
al Thompson
Hampshire
St. Mary’s Hospital
Jacksonville
Inheritance tax dispute over estate of Theodore Siebers
Mrs. Mary Bauman, sole beneficiary, faced $180.08 tax based on an appraiser's report valuing the Siebers estate at $38,008.89 with all assets allocated to the daughter. Also, Mrs. Frank Yuchs was arrested Saturday afternoon on peace disturbance charges following a neighbor's warrant against her and her husband.
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Mary Bauman
Theodore Siebers
Frank Yuchs
Yuchs
Harry Pals
Golden pool room operator linked to escapee near Ursa
Schwartz of Golden and W. J. Sloan 419 North Fifth Street, together with a colored man picked up near Ursa days ago by Sheriff Coens, were involved in a case connected to an escapee who had fled from the hospital at Jacksonville. Schwartz had been in the hospital but was discharged years ago as restored.
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Schwartz
Golden
W. J. Sloan
North Fifth Street
Ursa
Coens
Jacksonville
American 77.G Hauler Down From Hospital
London September 10 The American flag near the British fighting line in France has been hauled down marking the end of the large general field hospital of the British expeditionary force led by an American staff of doctors and nurses the Chicago medical unit organized by Dr J B Murphy. The hospital is now run by an English staff and many nurses are returning home. The unit earned the Royal Red Cross medal and was twice mentioned in dispatches for its work.
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London
France
Chicago
J. B. Murphy
Royal Red Cross
Red Cross
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