Nebraska Governor Sheldon urges tax reform and debt reduction
Governor Sheldon delivers a Nebraska legislature message urging minimal current expenses, a joint committee to audit state institutions, and steps to reduce public debt. He supports expanding the permanent school fund investments, proposes amending the constitution, and calls for a more equitable revenue law. He warns against extravagance and promises strict economy.
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Nebraska
Young
United States
Nebraska Tax Policy Debates On Mortgages Railroads And Equity
A Nebraska speaker argues for revisions to the revenue law to reduce double taxation on mortgaged property and allow debt deductions. He urges fair assessments of railroads and urges action to curb nonresident tax avoidance, urging federal law to block injunctive appeals and calling for itemized branch line data and equitable statewide taxation.
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Nebraska
Union Pacific
Burlington
Congress
Burlington Railroad
State Board of Equalization and Assessment
Lincoln
Nebraska Railroads and Rates Reform Call for Strong Laws
A Nebraska speech urges railroad and telephone rate controls, bans on rebates and free passes, and clear powers for a railroad commission. It calls for laws within weeks to curb lobbying, set fair tariffs, and empower state action against abuses in rail transport and public utilities.
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Nebraska
Railroad Commission
Commission
Congress
Republican Party
National for January features strong affairs and Cuba article
The January issue promises sharp editorials on Washington affairs by Joe Mitchell Chapple and the timely Cuba's Malady by John Vavasour Noel. It includes Whittier studies by Kate Restieaux, a major Stoddard story Carrice, and Mary Humphrey on Packingtown, plus Home Department hints and Resolutions.
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Washington
Joe Mitchell Chapple
Cuba
John Vavasour Noel
United States
Kate Restieaux
John Greenleaf Whittier
Charles Warren Stoddard
Carrice
Packingtown
Mary Humphrey
C. C. Johnson
Miriam Sheffy
Charles Mellvaine
F. Binney de Forest
Mrs Elizabeth Maxwell Recovers After Kidney Pills
Olympia Washington resident Elizabeth Maxwell describes three years of dropsy tied to kidney trouble. She reports leg swelling breathing difficulty and heart fluttering until using four boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills, after which bloating and distress disappeared. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Elizabeth Maxwell
West Fourth Street
Olympia
Wash
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Mark Twain's Neat Answer to Eugene Ware
Topeka resident Eugene Ware wrote to Mark Twain praising his volume. Twain, at No 21 Fifth Avenue New York, replied in a playful note calling himself an old brass-bound Presbyterian with 71 years in unworldliness and welcoming the compliment.
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Mark Twain
Eugene Ware
Topeka
Fifth Avenue
New York City
Mr. Clemens
Mr. Ware
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Claims Oath of Firm Chief
Fraxx J Cheney sworn as senior agent for F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio promises one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh cured with Hall's Catarrh Cure. Pledge sworn December 6 before notary Gleason. Company promotes internally taken remedy with blood surface claims and testimonials. Sold by all druggists at 75 cents. includes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Strate
Onto
Hall
F. J. Cheney 4 & CO
Toledo
New York Philanthropist Converts Home Into Clinic
The wealthy and young Dr. Adelaide Wallerstein in New York uses six hours daily to practice medicine from a home turned clinical space. All earnings support her charitable activities.
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New York
Adelaide Wallerstein
East
Tennie Claflin Returns to Promote Happier Marriages
Tennie Claflin, once married to an English lord and living in England, is back in New York. Her current effort is to encourage happier marriages through lectures and informal entertainments in churches.
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Tennie Claflin
England
New York
Faceless Dyes Promise Bright Colorful Results
No mass or failures recorded with PUT. Nam face less dyes appear to yield bright colors with certainty.
Phrase on Duty and Smoke Fusses in Peoria
A clipped comment notes men failing to perform duties without fuss and smokers needing Lewis' Si on Binder to obtain it. It hints at uncertainty and a tongue in cheek tone from Peoria.
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Peoria
Cure a Cold in One Day with Laxative Blomo Quinine Tablets
A promotional blurb touts laxative Blomo Quinine Tablets as a one day cure for a cold. It promises money back if not cured and notes a signature from Rove on each box. The ad adds a flippant remark about a homely woman and male compliments.
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Pru Gee
Allcock's Plasters Promise Safe Sure and Speedy Relief
Safe, Sure and Speedy. No external remedy yet devised matches Allcock's Plasters for safety, certainty, and rapid relief. They use no deleterious drugs and are built on scientific principles. Genuine porous plasters, original and widely imitated, ensure the true product.
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Allcock
Long Lived Parisians Prove Paris Tops Longevity
M Rousse, the Institute of France’s oldest member, argues Paris life expectancy surpasses all cities. He cites 10 509 octogenarians among Paris’s 2 700 000 people and 620 nonagenarians with 99 reaching a century, showing stronger longevity signals in the French capital.
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M. Rousse
Institute of France
Paris
Washingtons of Westmoreland Plantations
Kinsmen of immortal George Washington live around the original Washington plantation in Westmoreland County Virginia. The present occupant of the plantation is apis George Washington.
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George
George Washington
Washington Plantation
Westmoreland County
Virginia
Apis
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