Conferees Smooth Out Differences in War Tax Battle
Washington reports progress on war tax bill as conferees near agreement on invested capital and taxation of excess profits. Disputes focus on exemptions for tangible assets including goodwill copyrights patents and other inchoate rights. An overall increase in excess profits tax is anticipated.
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Washington
Senate
House
Ways and Means Committee
Simmers
Kitchin
Simmons
Underwood
Ohio suffragists face fresh delay in referendum
Judge Frank Rathmell issued a temporary injunction blocking the November referendum on Reynolds the suffrage law. The ruling struck petitions from seventeen counties for noncompliance with certification requirements. Anti suffragists planned to return faulty petitions to twenty two counties for proper certification, with 70,444 valid signatures needed and 66,401 deemed valid.
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Columbus
Frank Rathmell
The
Common Pleas Court
Ohio
Reynolds
Boards of Election
Secretary of State
Medical Experts Travel to Probe Concord Murder Case
In New York on Sept 22 three trunks of documents accompanied by Dr Otto Schultze and Detective Jones departed for Concord North Carolina to assist prosecutors in the Aug 29 shooting of Mrs Maude A King. The request from Hayden Clements the state attorney there cited documentary evidence held by Gaston B Means Mrs Kings business adviser.
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New York
Otto Schultze
Jones
Police Department
La Salle Votes Fund for New Hard Road
La Salle county board approves 187 625 dollars for its share of a hard road from Springfield to Chicago to be known as the Ivy trail and 77 600 dollars for a county tuberculosis sanitarium.
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Ottawa
Board of Supervisors
la Salle County
Springfield
Chicago
Band Concert at Washington Park Tonight
The Illinois State band presented a 7:30 pm program in Washington Park featuring March Through Blood and Fire Struck Overture Morning Noon and Night and other selections. The program included Love in Idleness Macbeth Waltz Youth and Moonlight Hungarian Fantasy Mademoiselle Modiste The First Heart Throbs and I'll Come Sailing Home to You with the Ursa Bridge Quartet.
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Illinois
Washington Park
von Blon
Tobani
Mademoiselle
Herbert Patratic
Berean
Ship Freight Now Says Hale Holden
Chicago Sept 22 Hale Holden president of the Burlington Route and a rail war board member urges buyers and shippers in the central and western states to ship as much freight as possible while car supply is good. He notes October congestion may follow and stresses using favorable weather and available cars to move freight to storage and mills for domestic and allied needs. Fairfax Harrison echoes urging farmers to market wheat now to aid distribution and avoid losses from holding grain.
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Chicago
Central and Western States
Hale Tolden
Burlington
Railroads’ War Board
Mr. Holden
Fairfax Harrison
Many Expected for Trap Shoot Sunday at South Side Boat Club
A trap shoot is set for 2 30 Sunday afternoon back of the South Side Boat club at the foot of Delaware street. W C Cook current Odell medal holder will defend the medal. Shooters from surrounding towns are expected to join the contest. The Brown trophy will be awarded to the top average across five remaining shoots. Previous medalists include W C Cook six times and George Feld four times with others: Wilson Hughes Elmer Tellbuescher Robert Christ G C Osborn Edward Schuhardt Arthur G Weisenburger and David McCoy.
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South Side Boat Club
Delaware Street
W. C. Cook
Odell
George Feld
Wilson Hughes
Elmer Tellbuescher
Robert Christ
G. C. Osborn
Edward Schuhardt
Arthur G. Weisenburger
David McCoy
Sweden Retaliates Ordered Cipher Messages Halt
COPENHAGEN Sept 22 The Swedish embassy now running affairs of the American embassy at Constantinople has ordered a stop to transmitting cipher messages to America according to the Frankfurter Zeitung.
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Sweden
Copenhagen
The
Frankfurter Zeitung
Constantinople
America
German Intrigue Blamed by Ishii At Press Club
Viscount Ishii head of the Japanese mission told the National Press Club that German intrigue and propaganda have hindered full understanding between America and Japan. He cited the Zimmermann note as a clue to secret agencies at work, saying agents remain active to sow prejudice and distrust between the two nations.
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Washington
America
Japan
Viscount Ishii
United States
National Press Club
Mexico
Berlin
Germany
Ishii
German agents funded Working Class union arms drive
In Enid Oklahoma on September 22 federal court testimony tied German government money to arms and supplies bought through Chicago for the Working Class union and allied groups totaling about 40 organizations and roughly 2,000,000 members. J C Holmes a government agent testified he joined the union in May in Pottawatomie county and that leaders planned to use I W W ties to supply draft resisters.
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Enid
Okla
Chicago
Pottawatomie
Cleveland
Sleuth
J. C. Holmes
Pottawatomie County
Holmes
Aldermen Appeal to President Over Milk Price
St Louis aldermen adopted a resolution urging President Wilson to intervene to block a three fifty per hundred weight milk price increase in Missouri and southern Illinois. They seek federal action to set producer and retail dairy prices and ordered inquiries into milk pricing.
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ST. Louis
Board of Aldermen
Wilson
Missouri
Illinois
British Take 3000 German Prisoners in Belgium Front
London Sept 22 British war office reports over 3000 German prisoners captured on Thursday's fighting on the Belgium front. British forces repulsed several strong counterattacks and inflicted exceptionally heavy losses on the enemy.
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London
Belgium
British War Office
Opening of The Weber Millinery Company Saturday
Recap of social and business notes from Quincy area includes Earl Cooper return from Kinderhook, W E Williamson shipping his car back, grand jury inspection of the house of correction, and an elegant display of pattern hats at The Weber Millinery Company. Traveling and visiting individuals include B H Steavenson and a group from the Quincy Grand Lecturer club.
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Weber Millinery Company
Earl Cooper
Kinderhook
Snyder
W. E. Williamson
Grand Jury
House of Correction
John Coens
Court House
B. H. Steavenson
Kirksville
Quincy
Julius Klemme
Paul G. Duncan
Emmett Howard
George Zoller
W. E. Bradley
Ollie Ferguson
Maine Street
John Lier
Henry Lier
Moberly
Deaths and Funerals: Mrs Walter and Mrs Campbell
Word reached Quincy of the deaths of Mrs Ferdinand Walter of West Point Nebraska after a brief illness and Mrs Janettie J Campbell of Quincy after seven months illness. Mrs Walter, born Mary Vonder Heide in Quincy July 26 1859 aged 58, leaves husband Ludwig Ignatz and daughter Lila plus two sons and siblings. Mrs Campbell born July 2 1844 in Zanesville Ohio, aged 73, left two sons Samuel Forman Campbell and three daughters, with church affiliations noted.
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Ferdinand Walter
Quincy
West Point
Neb
Mary Vonder Heide
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Ludwig
Ignatz Walter
Lila
Fred V
Joseph Vonder Heide
Sanuela
Saint Francis Order
Joliet
Til
Janettie Campbell
Janettie J. Campbell
North Fifth Street
Zanesville
Francis Campbell
Methodist Church
Pleasant Grove
Ill
Samuel
Forman Campbell
Geo. Mullican Cochran
Milan
Jas. Greever
Lillie Campbell
River ripples as steamers Keokuk G W Hill reach Quincy
The steamer Keokuk arrives in Quincy Friday at 10 30 with a large passenger crowd and heavy freight. It departs only to Burlington this trip then returns for Keokuk Sunday excursion. The G W Hill leaves for Mound City at noon with Capt Walter Wisherd, to haul hull repairs and rejoin Quincy in about two weeks before winter moorage in the bay. The Prince and Princess barges will arrive Monday to winter in the bay. Practice doesn't always make perfect but it makes some lawyers and doctors wealthy.
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Keokuk
Quincy
Burlington
G. W. Hill
Mound City
Ill
Ohio River
Walter Wisherd
Bay
For Sale Good 120 Acre Farm in Beverly Township
For sale a 120 acre farm in Beverly township near Barry Tl with a good house barn outbuildings living springs and orchard plus some timber. All work land except 2 acres. Price 95.00. Also other good farms. P L Dickhut Wells Bldg 25.
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Beverly Township
Barry
P. L. Dickhut
Wells Bldg
Wanted a live auto sales man at once
Advertisement from The Whig seeking a live auto sales man with a good proposition for the right candidate. Address to reply at gate marked "T'-55" and dated the 6th.
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Gate the Whig
Two Tenth Regiment Deserters Captured
Orloe Starnes age sixteen and Louis Houdyshell age eighteen, both from Mendon, admitted to Chicago police that they deserted from the Tenth Illinois infantry at Springfield. They were turned over to federal authorities in Springfield. Starnes had earlier served at Quincy theater as a motion picture machine operator and returned after illness. The two youths disappeared late Thursday night and their motive remains unclear.
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Orloe Starnes
North Fifth Street
Quincy
Louis Nicholas Houdyshell
Mendon
Chicago
Tenth Illinois Infantry
Springfield
Frige Orloe Starnes
Co. B
Motion Pic
Ture
Hettie Starnes
Lewis Nicholas
Harold Houdyshell
Company E
Starnes
Dees Se
State of
Tinie
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State Street
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Quin
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American Boy Magazine
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