Taft Cabinet Meets on Tax Plan and Paper Tariff Vote
President Taft convened cabinet members and leading senators at the White House to map a plan for levying a corporate tax. The Senate voted to raise the print paper duty from two to four dollars per ton as new Illinois senator William Lorimer was sworn in and cast his first tariff vote. The cabinet session extended over more than two and a half hours to discuss government department economy.
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Taft
White House
Senate
House
William Lorimer
Illinois
Notable 1900s Marriage and Public Affairs Roundup
William J. Bryan Jr and Miss Helen Berger wed at Grand Lake Colorado. Newton D. Alling elected president of the American Institute of Banking. Chattanooga named next meeting site. A Tucson bomb destroyed W H Whalen’s home. John J Ryan indicted in Cincinnati on bucket shop charges. Schwab returns from Europe to Bethlehem Steel. Henry George Jr visits Count Tolstoi at Yasnaia-Polana. Rev A G Pierce named chaplain by senate resolution for Washington church.
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Grand Lake
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Newton D. Alling
New York
American Institute of Banking
Chattanooga
Tenn
W. H. Whalen
Iowa
Northwestern Railway
Tucson
Ariz
John J. Ryan
Cincinnati
Charles M. Schwab
Athlehem Steel Company
Europe
Henry George, Jr
Leo Tolstoi
Yasnai-Pollana
Hose
A. G. Pierce
D. D
Unitarian Church of
Explosion Fatal to Seventeen at Lackawanna Mine No 4
A mine disaster in Webrum, Pennsylvania, killed seventeen men and injured sixteen in Lackawanna Coal and Coke Company’s No 4 shaft. The chaotic incident adds to a string of wartime and crime headlines spanning executions, embezzlement charges, drownings, and political tension across the United States and abroad.
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Webrum
Lydia Moffett
Oisie Sigel
Sergt. Academa
Philippines
Sergt. Hewson
Mark Woodruff
Register of Lands of
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Lake Killarney
Ireland
Speaker Cannon
Carnego
N. Y
Fred Stevena
Hauback
California
Reno
N. M
New York
Seattle
Hillis Cole
Detroit
A. Teon
Europe
Chicago
Howard H. Harriman J
Vienna
Wilkie
Secret Service
Qdys
Gta
German National Bank of San ‘Francisco
Myr
Mra
N. Burnham
Pittsfield
Mass
Tangier
Roghi
Michigan
Bepton Harbor
Emma Kaufmann
Flandreau
Imho
Waenald
Iowa State 7 Hallatones crop damage hits corn in Iowa
A wide sweep of items reports on Iowa corn losses from hail and drought like conditions. The dispatch notes other national and regional events including political, business, and sports updates with several named figures and institutions.
New Railroad Project Between Des Moines and Omaha
Articles of incorporation filed in Des Moines for the Iowa and Omaha Short Line Railway with 1,000,000 capital. The electric line would run 140 miles through Pottawattamie Shelby Audubon Guthrie Dallas Polk in Iowa and Douglas in Nebraska, from Des Moines to Omaha, with headquarters in Pierre South Dakota and a Walnut Iowa business office. Incorporators are Treynor Adair Walnut residents. shares divided into 500 and 1,000 dollar units.
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Iowa and
Omaha
Council Bluffs
Steine
Pottawattamie
Shelby
Audubon
Guthrie
Dallas
Polk
Iowa
Douglas County
Nebraska
Pierre
John A. ‘Holmes
Walnut
Holmes
Treynor, Adair
State Receives Largest Inheritance Tax Payment
Treasurer Morrow received a $40,000 check for collateral inheritance tax on the late George Wells estate of Grundy Center. It marks the largest single-estate tax paid after a lengthy controversy. Garrett to Speak Again at Iowa convention in Iowa Falls on September 6. Moville State Bank Chartered to commence business with $35,000 capitalization in Woodbury County.
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George Wells
Grundy Center
State Bank
State Banking
Department
Moville
State ‘Bank
Woodbury County
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