Municipal lighting plant for Sheboygan urged by council
The common council backs a plan for a municipal lighting plant to operate with the water department. Town residents are urged to support the measure to end costly, inferior lighting. The Wisconsin Rate Commission found current service inadequate and ordered improvements, with a suggested rate of 468 per street arc lamp per year and a goal of reasonable adequacy.
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Wisconsin Rate Commssion
conjuneion
water department
Sheboygan Railway & Electric Co
ae Commission
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Shobov
Wisconsin Rate Commission
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RAILROAD COMMISSION OF WISCONSIN
Halford Erickson
John H. Roemer
Theft of $14300 Bills From Treasury Parcel
An Associated Press report from Oakland dated May 6 states that one hundred forty three one hundred dollar bills were taken from a treasury department parcel addressed to Central National Bank. The package, which contained magazines, bore the government seal when opened at the bank. Officials say the money was in the package when handed to the express company, which denies any tampering. Mystified officials seek answers.
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Oakland
Cal
treasury department
Central National Bank
express company
Rockefeller Foundation proposal sparks Senate clash
In Washington on May 5 Senator Works denounced a plan to fund education nationwide via the Rockefeller Foundation as surrendering public learning to ill gotten wealth. He faulted trusts and tariffs, urged Sherman Act amendments, wage protection, and tariff tied to labor as a path to fairer wages and independence.
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Associated Press
Washington, D.C
Congress
Rockefeller Foundation
Senator Works
John D. Rockefeller
Senate
Rockefeller
Interstate Commerce Commission
Greek assassin Aleko Shinas dies in police station fall
Associated Press reports that Aleko Shinas who killed King George of Greece on March 15 at Saloniki jumped from a police station window and died. He was a native of Volo Thessaly and reportedly dying of tuberculosis after firing at the king’s back.
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King George
Greece
Saloniki
Volo
Thessaly
royal guard
Debate on Income Tax Provisions in Tariff Bill
Washington May 6 The administration and income tax features of the tariff bill remained for decision as the House convened. Democrats split over details of the income tax while agreeing on the principle. Some urge Senate changes including taxing income for the calendar year after 1913 and applying this year only from ratification of the constitutional amendment.
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house
ways and means committee
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senate
Mayor Dieckmann Loses Chair in City Council
Last night Mayor Dieckmann ceded the chair to Alderman Krueger amid a heated council session. Aldermen Moran Meyer and others pressed for a vote of confidence for Alderman Morris as talk of legal questions swirled around the Stewart bill. The session covered street paving, sewer plans, and the appointment of August Lutze as sealer of weights and measures, with the council approving the appointment and referring several road and school repairs to committees.
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Fred Morris
Meyer
Stewart Billis
Dieckmann
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Morris
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Tildebrand
Voigt
Stewart
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August Lutze
Steffes
Alderman Meyer
Haack
state ‘board
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Lutze
Indiana avenue
board of public works
Dillingham avenue
Twelfth street
committee on streets
Eighth Ward
North Eleventh street
Geele
Belle avenue
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Athens
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Virginia avenue
board of education
Grant
Lincoln
Longfellow
Franklin
yilding
Bedford
committee on fire department
Uso
committee on printing
fire department
John Kummer
Fifth Ward
John Brann
New York avenue
North Fourth
North Fifth street
H. C. Prange
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