Anniversaries and Birthdays in History Today
Today's anniversaries honor David Dudley Field Alexis A Julien Isaac M Haldeman Nelte Arner Wallington George B Goode Leopold Godowski Sidney Smith and others with births and deaths. Today in history tracks 1741 first US magazine begins 1935 Hauptmann murder conviction 1939 Brandeis retirement and more.
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David Dudley Field
New York
Haddam
Conn
Alexis Anastay Julien
Columbia Unniversity School of Mines
Isaac M. Haldeman
Cincinnati
George B Goode
New Albany
Ind
Leopold Godowski
Russia
Sidney Smith
Chicago
the Gumps
Bloomington
Ill
Dred
United States
Philadelphia
Iglo
England
Boston
American Society For the Promotion of Temperance
U. S
Champagne
Italy
Richard Bruno Hauptmann
Treasury
Louis D. Brandeis
Supreme Court
Peter the Great’s Western Reform Drive Through Shipbuilding
Strange As It Seems recounts Peter the Great at 26 planning to remodel Russia along western lines. He led an embassy to Holland, worked in Amsterdam under the name Peter Michaeloff, then spent three months as shipwright in Deptford, recruiting sailors and engineers to build a canal from the Den to the Volga. Tomorrow hints at moral reform themes and urges repentance for sin.
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Europe
Russia
Peter the Great
Holland
Amsterdam
Saardam
Peter Michaeloff
St Petersburg
Peter
Deptford
England
The
Den
Volga
Valley City Notes Seville Beats Liverpool A Team 44 to 28
Valley City notes report Seville defeated Liverpool A 44 to 28 Tuesday evening. One second tear defeated Seville, dropping the A team to third in the County League. First tournament games are set for Medina Friday and Saturday. Liverpool earned two Superior Plus ratings at the Leroy Musical Ensemble Festival, with the Boys Quartet and Girls Sextet yielding top honors and the Mixed Octette rated Superior. The Brass Ensemble received a very good mark. Mack Vaults beat Long Town Thursday evening.
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Valley City
Seville
Liverpool
Medina
Leroy
Robert Dieter
Robert Arick
James Bauer
Ralph Feuchter
Gurls
Doris Schmidt
Jame Arick
Janet Schmidt
Marguerite Armbruster
Eugenia Scokalski
Betty Bernard
Mack Vaults
Long Town
Taxes on State Officers and Employees Income 1939
Federal rules require all state officers, employees, and subdivisions to report compensation as gross income for tax purposes for 1939 and later. Retired officials with pensions based on active service must include pensions in income, with a phased exclusion tied to contributed "consideration paid." Deductions and credits follow standard Form 1040A and 1040 guidance. include unreimbursed educational dues, journals, and travel expenses as permissible.
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Collectors of Internal Revenue
United States
Campaign contributions are gifts not income for tax purposes
Campaign expenses and contributions to political parties are not deductible from election compensation or prior income. Contributions received by a candidate are gifts and not income, so they need not be included in gross federal income.
Avon A and E Club Hosts Pedro Night at Avon Home
Avon A and E Club members gathered at Mr and Mrs Harold Stang’s Elyria home for a Saturday Pedro evening with prizes for the top six players and refreshments served by the hostess. Next meeting slated at Mr and Mrs Stanley Crandall’s home in two weeks. Miss Howe trains Girls and Boys Glee clubs and is organizing a mixed chorus and seventh eighth grade chorus. Norman Kampf sang a Burns program solo on WCLE. Local briefs note visits among area families and social gatherings. 1938 divorce petitions reach 10 350, up 70 percent from 1937 under new act allowing desertion cruelty and lunacy as grounds.
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A. and E
Avon
Harold Stang
Elyria
A. and E. Club
Pedro
Stanly Crandall
City Defaults on U S Loans Harden Municipal Finances
The piece notes widespread arrears on federal loans to cities for water and sewer improvements. RFC and PWA seek repayment, but many cities avoid foreclosures, fearing tax hikes. Washington, D C has five million in bonds outstanding, with interest paid but principal unpaid. Congress has sidelined the issue as these so called self liquidating projects falter.
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United
RFC
PWA
Washington, D. C
Congress
Foolproof Highways? Turnpike promises safer steel road
An article extols a 160 mile Pennsylvania Turnpike from Pittsburgh to Harrisburg with two lanes each way, a 10 foot median, long tunnels, modest grades and curves. It claims 90 percent of accidents avoided, tolls cited, and envisions an 800 mile system from Chicago to the Atlantic.
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Pennsylvania Turnpike
Pittsburgh
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
Turnpike Commission
Chicago
St. Louis
Atlantic Seaboard
America
Travel America Year urged to boost Western Hemisphere tourism
President Roosevelt promotes Travel America Year as European war disruptions spur Americans to explore the Americas. U S and Canadian travel interests meet in Washington to plan routes by bus rail and air with ship lines eyeing Mexico and Latin America gains. Admiral Leahy assures neutral ships face no submarine danger as interest grows in Mexico and South America travel.
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Europe
Roosevelt
United States
Canada
Washington
Mexico
Central
South America
William D. Leahy
Puerto Rico
America
Leas
Weather Coast Guard relays boost Atlantic forecasts
The Treasury Department funds six Coast Guard cutters to relay weather data between Bermuda and the Azores. Onboard crews will report observations day and night, supplementing the ice patrol later, as wartime censorship presses weather forecasting. The move marks a return to more accurate ocean weather by leveraging modern instruments and radio shack data.
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James LL Bamball
New York Weather Bureau
Lindbergh
Paris
Hirty
United States
Atlantic
Possble
Europe
Treasury Department
Department of Agriculture
Coast Guard
Bermuda
Azores
Repentance and Lent Reflections From John the Baptist
The reading from Matthew 3 1 12 centers on John the Baptist calling for repentance as the kingdom of heaven nears. Repentance means changing one’s mind and attitude toward sin, separating from it, and washing one’s hands of all sins. Lent is a penitential season focused on thorough penance, acknowledging and confessing known sins.
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John the Baptist
Judara
John the
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