Auditor's Notice for Lancaster County Tax Returns 1904
The office opens January 1 to February 20 1904 to receive tax returns from Lan cas ter County residents in various roles. A $1 poll tax applies to males 21 to 60, with exemptions for maimed or Confederate soldiers. Attending locations and dates listed. Also instructed to file gross income of 32 or more and to report personal property and real estate transfers to avoid 50 percent penalty after February 20. Postal and railway notices follow about Lancaster Chester Railway and connections.
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Pesday
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Dwight
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MO. A. Ook
Planged in Dark to Certain Death at Willard Train Crash
In Topeka Kansas on January 26 seven teens died and 37 injured when the Rock Island California and Mexico express collided head on with a freight train at Willard. Most injured were hospitalized in Topeka. Doctors expect recovery for all but Mrs. M A Hill of Greensburg. Investigators blamed trainmen carelessness. The engineer and conductor, facing orders to meet a special freight, accelerated into a siding misread, sending the passenger train into the dark at a reported 65 miles per hour.
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California
Mexico
Willard
M. A. Hill
Greensburg
Stie
Benjamin
Saved from terrible death by King’s New Discovery
The family of Mrs. Mr. Bob bitt of Bargerton Tenn saw her collapse with consumption and, after physicians failed, Dr. King's New Discovery cured her. The tonic is touted as the most certain cure for throat and lung troubles with a 50 cent and one dollar bottle, with trials free at Crawford Bros Mackey Co and T Eu Rene Funderburk Drug store.
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Mr. Bobbitt
Bargerton
Tenn
Crawford Bros
J. ¥. Mackey & Co
T. EU
Rene Funderburk Drug Store
Happenings In The State From The Columbia State
Obituary and news brief items from Dillon Yorkville and Society Hill describe a farmer Alex Mec Clellan taking poison but dying after failed attempt, a hunting accident killing Katall Froneberger, a Senator Blair prediction on isthmian canal costs, a masked robbery near Society Hill, debts settlement notice, and Wake County jail statistics with inmates awaiting trial and a federal prisoner.
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Yorkville
Wesley Bolin
Katall Froneberger
Smyrna
Bollin
Raleigh
N. C
Wake County
Prison Break Report Confirms Escape From Cell
A report states an inmate was brought here for safekeeping and escaped by prying a steel cell wall section and removing bricks from the outer wall. No trace of the escapees remains.
Latimer's Good Roads Bill Proposed Federal Highway Bureau
Special to The State from Washington January 6 reports Senator Latimer of South Carolina introducing a bill to provide 24 million dollars for good roads at 8.8 million per year over four years. The plan creates a Bureau of Public Highways in the Agriculture Department with three commissioners to oversee federal aid, matching state funds, and criteria for road projects. The act requires states to grant rights of way, follow bureau regulations, and maintain improvements without federal recourse.
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Washington
Jan
A Latimer
South Carolina
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Public Highways
Engineer Corps of the Army
Secretary of Agriculture
Commissioners of Highways
Federal funding rules set for county road projects
The provision outlines that the United States will not advance funds for its share until actual construction progresses and payments before completion may not exceed 80 percent of work done. An appropriation of 24.9 million dollars is allocated across 1994 1905 and 1906 with carryover. No state may receive more than its population share of the total appropriation in any year.
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United States
Cough Syrup Poison Warning Draws Public Concern
Reports warn that many children are poisoned or harmed by cough syrups containing opiate ingredients. The alert notes Foley's Honey and Tar as a common culprit and urges use of non opiate remedies for coughs croup and chest troubles.
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Foley
Croup
Gathering War Clouds
War clouds gather over Knat as Russia faces Japan in a possible broader conflict linked to Korea. Britain may tilt to Japan. diplomacy wanes while funds for a hard campaign rise. Markets react with cotton prices pressured, though regional impact remains debated by Greenville News.
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Russia
Dapau
Korea
Japan
England
Great Britain
Orient
South
Greenville News
Cotton Ginning Report Totals by State for 1903 Season
The Census Bureau reports 8,848,747 commercial cotton bales ginned nationwide up to Dec 12 1903 with 8,144,493 square bales and 50,248 sea island bales. State by state totals include Alabama 946,656. Georgia 1,202,815. Mississippi 1,211,744. Texas 2,310,725. North Carolina 502,891. Louisiana 686,600. Oklahoma 155,242. South Carolina 747,828. Arkansas 544,680. Kentucky 428. Missouri 28,811. Indian Territory 288,732. Virginia 11,143. Active ginneries and year-over-year comparisons are listed for each state.
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Washington
Census Bureau Today
Upland
Sea Island
United States
Alabama
Arkansas
Wilhelm von Polenz traveler author of America the Land of the Future
German traveler Wilhelm von Polenz, known for his book America the Land of the Future, has died. The noted writer and observer of the United States passed away recently, leaving behind his influential travel and social commentary work.
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Wilhelm von Polenz
America
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