Senators Tariff Debate Sparks Peroration on Taxes
Senator Heflin rails against tariff provisions, denouncing taxes on medicines potash and cement and charging the GOP with harming farmers and workers. He cites cement use in graves and roads while attacking salt taxes and profiteers. The piece also covers party platform on home rule, district convention notes, and upcoming meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Thomas Heflin
Senate
Republican Party
America
Townsend
Michigan
Cement Trust
Democratic Party
Salt Trust of America
Monopolies Fueled by Reactions in Congress and States
The text argues that monopolies aim to elevate the cost of lying, with reactionaries in Congress and state legislatures as tools of big business, and asserts public opposition to these forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Brothers
Gifford Pinchot
Cambridge
Mass
Presidential Club
Crane
Harding
Watson
Penrose
Congress
Rockport Baseball Club Highlighted in 1907 Democrat
Fifteen years ago June 14 1907 the Rockport Democrat reported on the local Rockport baseball club. The item notes community interest and names key local figures connected with the team and season as recorded in the historical paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockport Democrat
Rockport Baseball Club
Local figures and notes from Rockport area page
The itemized column lists names for a proposed Indiana corporation with Walter Belleville as catcher and various players. It notes local officers Louis Schoenfeld and others, a 108 418 76 county tax total from 15 years ago, fines on Southern Railway and Rockport post office dealings, factory activity by Strawboard officials, horse accident reports, marriage licenses, local births and births in Buffaloville, school trustee re-election, and travelers using the electric line to West Rockport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Democrat
Walter Belleville
Carroll
Bridges
Gus Bowers
Wayne Hellams
Water Hill
S. S
Harry Mayhall
John Hughes
Will Conan
Jo Hargis
Ry. i
Will Comnor
J. T
Harry Belleville
Louis Schoenfeld
Mason Houghland
J. G. Baum
James G. Wright
Robert Corbett
Salem Crowder
Rollie Morris
Luce
Ohio
Southern Railway
Sar
Phillips
Gentryville
Rockport
Strawboard Company
Mat Voglesang
Cecelia Sullivan
Amelia Spayd
Hatzel Huff
Maggie Schmidt
Spencer County
John James Reinhard
Indiana University
Thomas Simpson
Newtonville
Seattle
Wash
Beef Trust
Buffaloville
Carl Stocking
Illinois
J. A. Greulich
St. Meinrad
Louis Long
Sor Fe
Sunny South
Emersons
Wee Willie Thompson
Louisville
Lincoln City
Midway
Lee Gourley
Monday
Lester Polk
Eureka
Grandview Weddings Highlight Rockport Fifteen Years Ago
Twenty five years ago in Rockport, Grandview couples Harry Beard and Miss Ruth Anderson wed with Rev Radcliff officiating. Other marriages followed as Bert Stuteville and Myrtle Camp and Charles Meuser and Emma Loehring tied the knot. County officials planned revenue reports and road work notices appeared in The Democrat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist Sunday School
Owensboro
Gertrude
Owensboro Park
Democrat
Rockport Fair
C. M. Partridge
Partridge
County Board of Review
Court House
Washington Street
Harry Beard
Ruth Anderson
Grandview
Radcliff
Herbert O. Stuteville
Myrtle Camp
Charles Meuser
Emma Loehring
John Rimstidt
Spencer County
County finances and oddities surface in late report
A local summary highlights county spending for all purposes totaling 439,393.06 this year vs 326,516.87 last year and tax collections at 350,804.05, up from 288,060.57. It notes court costs, bridges, and levees expenses, school tuition taxes, and a jest about a man drunk at 4 am amid garbled verses and local theft reports, plus a drowning of William Waters at Yankeetown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wnica
Ohio
Hammond
Murmers
George
J. “Bence
Grandview
Gentryville
Claud Moss
Doc «Barker
Marriage Licenses Filed in Kentucky and Nearby Counties
A sequence of marriage notices lists the brides and grooms with ages and professions, all tied to Kentucky locales such as West Louisville Evansville Owensboro Panther Panther Hancocks County and surrounding areas. Marriages take place in early June with dates ranging June 8 to June 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Stallings
Farmer
Mary. Fenwick
Wedding Dress Color Riddles Traditions Predict Fate
A fragmented verse lists wedding dress colors and outcomes interwoven with marriage fate. Colors range from white to pink with warned consequences. The quatrains imply superstitions about dress hues and marital prospects.
Texas Letter From Luling Transcribes Family News
Letter from W W Kellams of Rockport Indiana recounts kin in Kingsburg San Antonio Port Arthur and Luling with notes on Phoebe White and grandchildren. Weather crops cotton prices hogs cattle and a long nostalgic look at school days and aging friends. The piece also covers a real estate transfer summary and a short business note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Luling
Tex
W. W. Kellams
Rockport
Ind
Phillip Bender
Fannie Patmore
John. White
Phoebe
Kingsburg
Edna
van Beaty
Jephtha
San Antonio
Sallie
Democrat
Robert Tuley
Houston
Ellis Wright
Austin
Fort
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sen. Herlin
Tarife
Bill
Brothers OF Profiteers
Goodrich
State Board
State Tax Board
McCray
Boonville
Annie Price
Daisy Hartwell
Annie Clark
E. O. Price
W. i S. Holmes
James Robinson
Home and Foreign Mission
Southern District Convention
Sister Dorsey
Evansville
Missionary Society of
Connersville
McTire
Roach
Mattie Green
Liberty Baptist Church
McFarland
Trillis Ayers
Lizzie Matthew
L. F. Smith
Clara Barrisk
Fred Simons
Tipel
J. R. .Gregg
William H. Ainsworth
International Bankers’ Committee
Germany
France
Bankers’ Committee
SS Ae Ee
Mx. Morgan
United States
Joan
Ruhr
Indianapolis News
J. A. Lloyd
Claryce D. Hazen
E Hatfield
Morell Wells
Elizabeth Wells Sr
Addison M. Love
Thomas Locker
North Grandview
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