Mellon Announces New Tax Cut Plan
The Mellon administration proposes a 12 percent flat reduction on 1926 tax payments to be reported in March 1927 using 1926 earnings. No rebate, but taxpayers may deduct 12 percent if paying all at once or 25 percent from March and June installments. Estimated revenue loss is about 250 million dollars drawn from the 1927 surplus. some lawmakers caution against any tax cut before the December 1927 session.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
Coolidge
White House
Congress
Smoot
Rep
Utah
Senate Finance Committee
Reed
Finance Committee
Madden
House Appropriations Committee
464000 Bale Gain Shown in Cottonfield
The federal Agricultural department forecasts 17,918,000 bales of cotton for the nation as of November 1, up 464,000 from October 18 estimates. Crop conditions recently improved, aiding picking and boll development. Census ginned bales total 11,259,038, with the new forecast setting an all time record, over 1.75 million bales larger than 1925.
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Washington
Federal Agricultural Department
Census Bureau
Wheat Exports Reach 178 Million Bushels in Three Years
Washington reports exports of wheat from 1923 to 1925 totaled 178.5 million bushels, well above prewar annual averages. The Bureau of Railway Economics released the study on wheat production and the link between prices received by farmers and freight rates.
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Washington
Bureau of Railway Economics
Fat Fair and Forty Not Much in Demand
An American woman in Turkey with her three daughters asks a marriage broker for prices. The broker quotes high prices for the daughters based on age, then jokes about the mother’s value at $1.50, provoking the woman who storms off in anger.
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Turkey
Sule
Treaty at Fond du Lac launched Minnesota mining era
The 100 year old Fond du Lac treaty between whites and Ojibway in Minnesota granted access to minerals, initially copper hopes. later iron was found in the Arrowhead region. Historian W E Culkin notes the iron discovery came half a century after the treaty amid little early knowledge of the metal.
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Minnesota
Fond du Lac
Duluth
Great
Arrowhead
W. E Culkin
Duluth News
Notice of Bids for Dolton Chicago Street Improvements
The Village of Dolton Illinois invites sealed bids for paving and improving Chicago Street and other streets under the Board of Local Improvements. Bids due November 15 1926 at 8:00 p m at the Village Hall. Bids must include 10 percent deposit and be paid in bonds with 6 percent interest.
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Board of Local Improvements
Dolton
Chicago Street
Gook County
Illinois
Dalton
Mht
Wmg Dolton
Dalton, Ilinois
Special Assessment Notice for Dolton Sewers and Streets
The Village of Dolton announces a special assessment by the President and Board of Trustees to fund sewer system upgrades. The plan covers vitrified tile pipe reinforced concrete sewers catchbasins with iron covers and connections to sewers and manholes, and related roadway work on specified streets.
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Pres Dent and Board of Trustees
Dolton
Dolton Street Grid description in Cook County Illinois
A detailed set of street alignments and boundary lines in the Village of Dolton Cook County Illinois. The ordinance describes numerous blocks and street segments bounded by Sibley Boulevard Beachview Terrace Chicago Street and surrounding avenues. It notes the filing of the ordinance and its pursuit for assessment of costs with the Cook County Court.
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Lakeside Avenue
Sibley Boulevard
147Th Street
State Street
Beachview Terrace
Woth
148Th Street
Chicago Street
Stewart Avenue
Grant Street
Evers Street
Oak Street
Irving Avenue
Champlain Avenue
Langley Avenue
Evans Avenue
Each Street
Cottage Grove Avenue
154Th Street
152Nd Street
Harding Avenue
Pittsburgh, Cinnernati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad
Engle Place
Washington Street
Wabash Avenue
Greenwood Avenue
Woodlawn Avenue
Minerva Avenue
156Th Street
146Th Street
Ells Avenue
Fairview Avenue
145Th Street
University Avenue
151St Street
Ellis Avenue
Ingleside Avenue
Drexel Avenue
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St
Champlayn Avenue
Cottage Grove
Dalton
Cook
Illinois
Dolton
County Court of
Final Hearing Set for Special Assessment No 24 in 1926
The court schedules a final hearing for Special Assessment No 24 on November 25, 1926 at 10:00 AM in Dalton Illinois. Objections may be filed before that date and appearances to defend are allowed. The ordinance provides for ten annual installments with six percent interest.
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Dalton
Illinois
Joseph L. Locher
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