State Tax Body Scrapped by Senate Republicans
In Columbus the Ohio Senate blocks a state tax commission plan, naming a lieutenant governor and House speaker to fill the inquiry panel. The session sees vetoed or amended bills on divorces, school funding, banking in public schools, cemetery plots for veterans, and temperance legislation amid party-driven moves to obstruct general action.
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Columbus
Thhat
Senate
State Tax Commission
Frank Clevenger
General Assembly
House
Alonzo H. Tuttle
Gillette
Granville, Mooney
Gimtom
Perry
Frank Patterson
Mr. Edwards
Cuyahoga
Langdon
Warren
Geleerd
Lucaé
Ohio
Rose County
Morris
Igh
Beatty
Hoamm
Taderculdnis
Edwards
Waterways Money for Surveys Across Midwestern Rivers
The House rivers and harbors committee introduced an emergency and maintenance bill totaling 9,971,625 dollars. It funds extensive surveys and ongoing dredging, authorizes water level negotiations with Great Britain for the Great Lakes, and allocates 600,000 dollars for further river and harbor work. It lists Chicago, Wabash, Des Moines, Cedar, Iowa, Marquette, Muskegon, Pigeon, Livingstone, Detroit, Mississippi, Minnesota, Rainy, Duluth, Ashtabula, Lorain, Maumee, and Ohio river projects, with individual channel limits and a Mount Carmel water lease repeal. The bill also confirms limits on Secret Service use and reviews railroads accounts under Hepburn law.
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Washington
Burton
House Committee On Rivers and Harbors
Great Britain
Great Lakes
Secretary of War
St. Mary’s River
United States
Atlantic
Gulf
Chicago
Rock Rivers
Illinois
Chicago Harbor
Chicago River
Calumet Harbor
Grand
Little Calumet
Lake Calumet
Gary
Ind
Wabash River
Des Moines, Cedar
Iowa
Marquette
Muskegon
Pigeon River
Livingstone
Detroit River
Michigan
Mississippi River
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Minnesota River
Rainy River
Duluth
Minn
Superior
Wis
Ashtabula
Lorain
Maumee River
Toledo
Ohio River
Mount Carmel Development Company
Wabash County
Mount Carmel
Congress
House Committee On Appropriations
Secret Service
Treasury Department
House
Roosevelt
Indiana in Bankruptcy State Treasury May Run Dry
Indiana faces a treasury bankruptcy per a Friday message from Gov. Marshall. The state expects no influx of funds before June 1 and a deficit near 400000 dollars. Law required would force county treasurers to remit state tax shares to cover expenses. possible closures or borrowing if funds fail to arrive.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Gev. Marshall
Austria Declares War If Servia Disarms by February 27
Vienna warns that Austria will declare war if Servia does not disarm by February 27 and will rush a large army to the frontier. The note on the dispute was received and details reported from London. A separate item notes a world conference on resource conservation to be held at The Hague next September.
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Austria
London
World Conservators
Make Your Own Trail And Shape Your Character
An exhortation urges choosing a personal road for holidays that boosts character and life philosophy. It advocates recreation as serious self development, encouraging initiative, individuality, and a hard but enlightening trail toward true recreation.
Bumblepuppy Prophecy in Nyack Ends Without Return
A group of women in white gathered in Nyack at dawn after a prophecy from J Lee Spangler predicting the end of the world. He left the area a day earlier, and the women returned home, cooking pancakes and tending their babies, realizing God does not use a press agent. Barnum’s name echoes the hoax.
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Nyack
N. Y
Barnum
van Norden
Bull Goes Beating Through Dublin Streets Attacks Cyclist
A bull driven through Dublin streets went amok and knocked down the handler before charging a cyclist. The rider fled to a doorway while the bull attacked the bicycle left in the road. The animal reached the canal, fell in, and was rescued exhausted.
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Dublin
Canal
Near Perfect Woman Fails to Receive Applause
A dialogue notes Maude Odell as a near perfect woman whose show ends with few claps. Men stare with awe while their wives restrain approval, causing her to leave the stage without applause.
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Maude Odell
Porcelain origins and rail excursion deals featured
A display notes porcelain may predate Christ by 25 centuries with experts unsure. Chicago travel ads offer colonists one way tickets to the Pacific coast for 88 dollars, with rail through lines and no extra charge for tours.
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China
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Union Pacific
Northwestern
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Portland
A. Hutchison
Clark Street
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Senate Republicans
Public School Banking System
Reed
Board of Education
Ditmars
Johnson
Lewis
Supreme Court
Kirkpatrick
Mendelson
Hatfield
House Committee On Temperance
Schurz
Aikin
Committee On Taxation
Winters
Connaughton
Shankland
Woods
Secretary of State
State Library
Mather
Common Pleas
Circuit Courts
Crist
Temperance Committee
Bense
Kempel
Henry ‘J. Ritter
Finance Committee
John R. Malloy
John P. No
Nations
Mathews
Indiana
Bumblepuppy Prophecy
Market Reports
Cincinnati
Hawaiian Islands
Fuller
Garhedd 'Tos
Neture
Allen
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lynn
Miss
Ses
S. E. Pinkham
Oregon
Pacific Northwest
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