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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1917
Page
3
Washington reports conferees finalize the war revenue bill raising the total to roughly 2.7 billion dollars. The plan increases excess profits taxes and broadens exemptions while adding new levies on postal, transport, inheritance, and luxury sectors to fund wartime needs.
Washington reports conferees from the Senate and House agree on a war revenue bill that provides for raising roughly 2.606 billion dollars. The measure sets taxes expected to fund military needs and wartime expenditures.
A Cincinnati authority claims corns and calluses can be removed with the fingers by applying a few drops of Freezone. A small bottle is inexpensive at drug stores and supposedly removes all corns and calluses without pain infection or irritation.
A nervous burglar visits a dentist regularly at the same hour each evening. The dentist suggests the man sit on a neighbor’s doorstep instead, but the visitor explains he seeks courage to pull a tooth he fears to have pulled. He concludes the door step provides relief because the tooth believes it can be pulled if it causes trouble.
How's This ? We offer $100.00 for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and acts through the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system. Sold by druggists for over forty years. Price Tie. Testimonials free. RF. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
A young girl asks why soldiers stop under a bridge before it is blown up. Her mother explains the plan, and the child wonders if they will have breath left afterward, reflecting on the danger and moral questions of wartime action.
A drummer remarks on four flies in his coffee at the Huckabuck tavern. The waitress replies that if the cup is set aside for a few minutes the insects will drown and sink, and the incident is forgotten as they discuss eggs.
A woman enters a shop to buy size 10 squeaky slippers claiming they are for her father. The clerk says such slippers are unavailable and she asks if they can be made. She hints a friendly young man visits, hoping to time his father’s downstairs departure. The piece ends noting Atlanta efforts to block a fertilizer plant.
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