Income tax dispute tests party pledges in Congress
Republicans break their own tariff pledge by backing a constitutional amendment for an income tax while Democrats charge the move is a theft of their platform. The House approved sending the question to the states amid broad debate, with emphasis on tariff revisions and a new 25 percent proposed rate increase overseen by a president-appointed commission.
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United States
House
Senate
Payne
Committee On Ways and Means
Adair
Indiana
Congress
Dingley
Ollie James
Lazarus
James
Taft
United States Supreme Court
Bryan
Supreme Court
Democratic Party
la Follette
Aldrich
Republican majority in Congress pushes near four year mark
The Republican majority in Congress has operated for nearly four years, shaping policy and legislative priorities amid partisan dynamics and ongoing debates over budget, health care, and foreign affairs.
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Congress
County graduation plans set for Lincoln City park
A special meeting of township trustees convened with County Superintendent Lindsay to arrange the county commencement on August 28 at Lincoln City park. Committees were formed for program music and banners, with over one hundred graduates expected and a $50 train guarantee from Hammond Grass Luce and Ohio townships.
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Lindsay
Lincoln City Park
Wm. Link
J. Kennedy
Claude Snyder
Jos, Peters
Paul Ender
David Walters
Hammond
Grass
Luce
Ohio Township
Ender
Tubleman
Hesson
Ohio Townsship Teachers List Rostered by Trustees
A school roster lists teachers by town and position with principals at Rose Hill Gum Grove Oak Springs Oak Grove Clay Hill Lake Mill Hill Mosquito and others. The document notes the right to make changes for the good of the schools and is signed by C. S. Snyder, Trustee.
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Rock Hill
Otto Atkinson
Silverdale
Ida Greathouse
Friendship
Addie Beeler
Rose Hill
Anna B. Smith
Jessie Harrison
Oak Springs
Mary Jennings
Forest Grove
John V. Atkinson
Gum Grove
Arry Snyder
Grace Allen
Oak Grove
M. M. Groves
Katherine Kehrer
Clay Hill
Mina Cain
Strykers
Minnie Miller
Marsden
Edith Brothers
Cotton
Carrie Gillette
Knob
Eva Fee
Cupid
Eva Miller
Payne
Frank Pierson
Magill
Mamie Richey
Lake Mill
Wyoma Barnett
Hill
Anna Young
Mosquito
Lula Richards
C. S. Snyder
Carter Township Announces Term Teaching Staff
Carter Township lists the proposed teachers for the new term across districts 2 4 7 8 and 10 including W G Hile Bertha Maslowsky Principal Sister Coletta Kares Blandina Kempf Grace Meyers Curtis Cox Ben Bockting Maude Richardson Lillie Jones Dora Kemp and G M Willison. The trustee reserves right to adjust positions and district 3 and 6 may be appointed later or discontinued.
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Carter Township
Dist
W. G. Hile
Bertha Maslowsky
Coletta Kares
Ass’t
Blandina Kempf
Prim
Grace Meyers
Curtis Cox
Ben Bockting
Maude Richardson
Lillie Jones
Dora Kemp
Willison
Paul Ender
Rockport Fair Plans 23rd Annual Show August Dates
Rockport Fair managers aim for a best year with Owensboro Military Band to provide music. A new concrete music stand is contracted as grounds are improved and race purses stay high. Premiums exceed typical county fairs with multiple daily races and strong stock exhibits praised by Harrison and Spencer counties.
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W. F. Simpers
Third Regiment Military Band
Owensboro
Rockport
Indiana
Corydon Fair
Harrison County
Spencer County
Willie Shutes Win Over Owensboro at Fairground
The Willie Shute baseball team defeated Owensboro's crack colored team at the fairground last Sunday. After a 14 14 tie at nine innings, Owensboro was retired in the tenth without scoring as the Shutes pushed one run for a 15 to 14 victory.
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Willie Shute
Owensboro
Fairground
Shutes
Oil leases recorded near Dale by Recorder Hill
Forty oil and gas leases were received for record last Saturday. Lands leased lie near Dale with thirty four granted to Grant Johnson and others, five to Adam Wallace and associates, and one to J. W. Cooper and associates.
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Recorder Hill
Dale
Grant Johnson
Adam Wallace
J. W. Cooper
Bennett Suffering From Sciatic Rheumatism This Week
D. 8. Bennett has been very ill this week with sciatic rheumatism causing significant discomfort and limited mobility.
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Bennett
Tariff Committee Reluctant to Follow Taft's Consumer Wish
The tariff committee appears unlikely to heed President Taft's call to favor consumers with tariff reductions. Analysts say the committee's stance signals a tougher stance on rates, potentially prolonging high prices for imported goods.
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Taft
Aldrich Fights Tariff Cuts as Taft Seeks Free Lists
Senator Aldrich resists Taft’s push to reduce tariff rates on woolens, cottons, and other goods as the conference committee digs in. Taft seeks free lists for print paper, wood pulp, hides, lumber, and iron ore but faces firm opposition from Hale, Burrows, Fordney, and others, with Lafollette’s magazine noting the clash over corporation taxes used to dodge an income tax and the broader push to protect profits at the expense of consumers.
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Taft
Lafollette
Aldrich
Hale
Maine
Calderhead
Kansas
Senate
Burrows
Michigan
Dalzell
Pennsylvania
Fordney
Rhode Island
Conference Committee
Pres
Friends of the Tariff
Lafollette’s
Who Pays the Tax in the 1909 Debate
The 1909 tariff debate shows Senator Aldrich praising revenue from tariffs while proposing tax on corporations to raise 50 million dollars as income tax proposals surface. Morgan Rockefeller and other affluent figures oppose an income tax, citing sufficient revenue from duties.
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Mr.Aldrich
Aldrich
Morgan
Rockefeller
Friends of An
Will of Philip Roos Probated in Spencer County
The will of Philip Roos of Harrison township is probated this week. He leaves eighty acres of real estate and all personal property to son Frederick Roos on the condition that he pay named bequests to his siblings and Magdalen’s children, with two yearly payments starting to the older children. Executed March 6, 1906, witnesses were Fred Mooseberger and F. W. Kanzler. Fred Roos is the executor.
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Philip Roos
Harrison Township
Spencer County
Frederick Roos
Louise
Charles
Jacob
Edward
Magdalen
Sophia
Philip
Henry
Julius
Rosalina
Ida
Fred Mooseberger
F. W. Kanzler
Fred Roos
John C. Britzius Dies in Newburg at 38
John C. Britzius, a longtime local meat market proprietor, died at his Newburg home Monday morning at eight o'clock from Brights disease. He was thirty eight and unmarried, leaving his parents a sister and two brothers. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2 at the Newburg home.
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John C. Britzius
Newburg
Bright
Mr. Britzius
Marriage Licenses Granted for Whitehouse and Ashby Couples
Henry C. Whitehouse a 44 year old stock dealer from California wed Mollie Moore 37 from Kentucky. James S. Ashby 26 deputy clerk Utica Kentucky married Jean Coke 16 Libia Kentucky in the latest license notices.
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Henry C. Whitehouse
California
Mollie Moore
Kentucky
James S. Ashby
Utica
Jean Coke
Libia
Real Stuff Oil Found At Frakes Farm Depth 772 Feet
Oil was struck at 772 feet on Fred Frakes farm at Gentryville in the first oil sand strata. Buckets dipped showed the real article and drillers push toward the lower sand while optimism grows. Hoover farm well near Frakes at 1038 feet aims to reach sand by Thursday evening with capping planned once reached.
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Fred Frakes
Gentryville
Hoover Farm
Frakes Place
T. J. Turley Co Sells Rockport Hardware to L. F. Weiss
The T. J. Turley Company sells its Rockport branch to L. F. Weiss after seven years of operation. Wm. Hafendoerfer, elected vice president to lead Owensboro’s implement department, will move there in August. Weiss, a retired local treasurer, reopens the Rockport store and is widely known in Spencer County.
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T. J. Turley
Rockport
L. F. Weiss
Weiss
Wm. F. Hafendoerfer
YT. J. Turley Company
Owensboro House
Hafendoerfer
Owensboro
Spencer County
Abstract of mortality statistics for May 1909
May 1909 mortality totals 2 739 deaths with an annual rate of 12. The prior May had 2 694 deaths at 11.8 and April had 3 212 deaths at 14.3. Deaths by age show 341 under one year, 40 5 to 10, 43 to 15, 47 to 20, 89 to 65 and over 867 accounting for 32.9 percent of all deaths.
Mrs Will H Wohler Dies After Illness in Grandview
Mrs Will H Wohler died Thursday morning at 7 30 o clock at her Grandview home after a two week illness. She was about twenty eight years old. She is survived by her husband and one son. Funeral arrangements not set but burial likely Sunday morning.
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Will H. Wohler
Grandview
James Dane dies at eighty five after long illness
James Dane aged eighty five died of general debility Thursday morning at his home four miles west of the city. The funeral will be held at Shiloh at 2:20 Friday afternoon. He is survived by a wife and seven children.
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James
Dane
Shiloh
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Board OF Education
Ohio Township Teachers
Owensboro Military Band
Willie Shutes
the Tariff Committee
Hoover Well
James Dane
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