Des Moines Case Seeks Tax Assessment Reform
The Des Moines based case targets the Iowa executive council to mandamus a recheck of the 1912 state assessment. Both sides agree the case should apply to taxes due next month, with focus on equity among farmers, railroads, and city property owners. The dispute centers on past levies and whether the council discriminates against cities in favor of other interests.
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Pierce
Executive Council
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Iowa Ieague
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Logan Recommends State Police Cavalry Troop
Des Moines report by Adjutant General Guy F. Logan urges forming a cavalry troop allied with the National Guard with one officer and eight men on duty, plus an arsenal armory, land transfer near Camp Dodge, and expanded emergency powers for aid and auditing. Delta fire destroys business district. several offices burned.
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Des Moines
Guy F. Logan
B. F. Carroll
Logan
National Guard
Grinnell Woman Takes Life In Apparent Suicide
The report states Mrs. Jon Stilwell died after an incident at Rock Tal near Malcolm Airs. A coroner’s inquest was opened and the theory offered was that temporary insanity from health issues led to the act, with evidence cited for mental distress.
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Grinnell
Jon Stilwell
Malcom
Stilwell
Andy
Indicted druggists and workers face trial in county court
A three count indictment by the Twenty County Brand jury closes its November term and sends the report to Judge James Sragel. Two druggists, a drug clerk, and a laborer face charges. a worker narrowly escaped a fall from a hammer accident at a power house stairway and concrete slack incident near Davenport. Henry Disher, Davenport, aged 74 and Civil War veteran, just welcomed his twenty third child, his oldest son 43, after four marriages.
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Bso
Tate
James 1 Sragel
Davenport
Henry Disher
Horticultural Society Pushes Bill to Prevent Tree Mutilation
Spaneil Bluffs-A resolution was adopted at a meeting of the Bouth te Jowa Horticultural society urging the legislature to pass a law preventing the mutilation of trees, citing harm to gates and property.
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Spaneil Bluffs
Bouth Te Jowa Horticultural Society
Epee
Taft's second message outlines economic recovery and navy plans
President Taft reports a steady post panic recovery with strong exports and farm value, notes treasury health, defense readiness, and proposed reforms. He urges unified water power policy, Panama Canal progress, and continued trust enforcement through orderly anti-trust action and possible national corporate oversight.
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Congress
Taft
Panatia Canal
Geld
Panama Canal
Portal
Portal Revanuer
Secretary of the Treasury
FDA
Navy Department
Con. Ateng
Nave Department
Comeres
United States
Neo Congress
Polley
Uist
Condh
Pacific
Atlantic
Clrtatlan Na Thon
Department of Justice
Tyos Department
Trists
Powder Trust
Bath Tub Trust
Supreme Court
Bureau of Corporations
Balisve
Pane Abas Jm i
Senate Impeachment Trial of Archbald
Judge Robert W. Archbald faced impeachment charges in the Senate led by Clayton of Alabama. Thirteen articles accuse him of using office for personal profit including coal deal schemes and improper favors. Archbald denies all wrongdoing as the trial proceeds with witness testimony and record admissions.
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Washington
Nec
Robert W. Archbald
United States Commerce Court
Senate
Clayton
Alabama
House of Representatives
Archbald
Worthington
House
Pennsylvania
Archbard
Interstate Commerce
Henry B. Meyer
William P. Boland
Marian Coal Company
Scranton
Boland
Meyer
J. Willams
FE. J Williams
Williams
Hta
Picture films not Edison s invention court rules
The Washington Dc court of appeals ruled Edison contributed only to an improved camera, denying he invented moving pictures. It held that George Eastman of Rochester devised the moving pictures, with Edison credited for improvements and apparatus rather than the invention itself.
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Washington
Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Thomas A. Edison
George Eastman
Rochester
Edison
Jury acquits Snead in captain’s murder case
Fort Worth Texas December 4 J H Rhead is found not guilty of the murder of Captain Boyce by a jury. Snead will be tried later for the murder of Al Boyce. Al Boyce eloped with Snead’s wife. Boyce was shot and killed by John Bea Snead at Amarillo on September 14.
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Capt
Japanese Cabinet Resigns in Crisis Crisis Deepens
Tokyo reports Premier Saioni and the entire cabinet resigned Wednesday amid a leadership crisis. The move follows the difficulty in naming a successor to War Minister Lieutenant General Ayehers, signaling political instability and potential shifts in Japan’s war effort.
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Tokyo
Saioni
Ayehers
Mrs Robert Goelet of Nevada Dead in Paris Death
Mrs Robert Goelet of Nevada died in Paris on a Wednesday at her Paris pat residence. Her maiden name Harriette Warren. She was born in 1879 and later became Mrs Robert Goelet.
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Robert
Paris
France
R . Goelet
Neveda
Harriette Warren
Robert Goelet
Man recounts brutal assault during fight over companion
Mose describes a vicious clash in which Sam Jackson and Blong confronted him after a dispute over a woman. He recalls being struck in the mouth and ears, knocked down, stomped, and repeatedly kicked as he tried to flee, leaving him exhausted and battered.
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Yaler
Saling
Mose
Sam Jackson
Hair Restored After Scalp Complaint Use of Cuticura
Mrs Emma Patterson of Muncie Indiana reports her young daughter suffered a year with itching burning and hair loss from a scalp breakout. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment the condition cleared within a week and hair growth returned. She notes the products are sold worldwide and offers free samples via Cutlours Dept L Boston.
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St. Muncie
Ind
Emma Patterson
Cutleurs Group
Dept. L
Boston
End of a Noted Folly Monocle Lost to Fashion in Europe
The monocle, once a fashionable Dutch dandy flourish, faded from England and Paris. Oculists noted its adverse era effects after its Vienna Congress 1914 debut by its inventor. One folly has endured only about a century.
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Feree
Denyl Harbor
United States
Pesaogo
Wb Geo Wepcheag
Euerty
Ublia
War Department
Hell
Eungreda
National Guard
National Defense
England
Paris
Clergyman's Testimony On Dodds Kidney Pills
Rev Edmund Heslop of Wilston Pa suffered dropsy for a year with swollen limbs and heart fluttering. After using six boxes of Dodds Kidney Pills the swelling disappeared and he regained strength. He remains convinced of the remedy and urges correspondence. Dodds Kidney Pills 60c per box from Dodds Medicine Co Buffalo NY. Free Household Hints music and recipes offered. Ady
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Edmund Heslop
Wigston
H. Heslop
Dodds
Dodds Medicine Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Ady
Constipation Ad Claim in Obsolete Ad Copy
A fragmented ad style item discusses constipation causes and aggravations and claims cure by Dr Pleros Felleta with tray sugar coated granules. It includes a brief dramatic exchange about kissing a daughter and a formal address to a young man.
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Pleros
Able Work Wilkins Thought You Meant To Sell Home
Wilkins notes a lure in an advertising story that caused him to reconsider selling his suburban home. The judge comments on the decision, indicating the sequence of intent and caution in property dealings.
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Wilkins
Tired Blood and Tissue Nourishment Advertisement
This 1918 ad attributes tired blood to tissue debility with signs like loss of flesh and dark eye rings. It claims blood vitality can be revived by tonics that nourish brain nerves and muscles, urging overworked readers to seek doctor recommendations.
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