Comparing Global Income Taxes and Big Ship Progress
The article surveys worldwide income tax systems, noting varying rates, exemptions, and graduation across Britain, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, and New Zealand, and Wisconsin in the U.S., highlighting how taxes affect individuals and economies. It also discusses advancements in ship size, detailing the Aquitania and Imperator projects, double hulls, lifeboats, and harbor preparations.
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America
Great Britain
Italy
Spain
New Zealand
Wisconsin
Notable Happenings From The Day In A Busy Ledger
Oscar W Underwood wins tariff fight freeing wool with little opposition. Willis L Moore ousted as weather chief over alleged misuse of funds. J P Morgan's will hints at a public benefaction. Dr L W Hoppin found in New York aphasia case heads to Canada with family. Jersey City commission government spurs candidate surge. Banker's $30000 conviction. Balloon crash in France kills five. Brucker halts transatlantic flight plans. Graft inquiry looms over New York Capitol work. Duncan children drowned in Paris auto accident. Auburn rape strikers hold line despite arbitration. Morgan will names son John Pierpont Morgan as principal beneficiary and art collector. Chinatown in siege in San Francisco. Americans in Mexico fear rebels seek arms from US embassy.
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Oscar W. Underwood
Willis L. Moore
Weather Bureau
J. P. Morgan
L. W. Hoppin
New York
Canada
Jersey City
Robert M. Petty
New Jersey
Noisy-le-Grand
Joseph Brucker
Canary Islands
Tammany
Sulzer
Henry C. Coffin
Jesse F. Forbes
New York Presbytery
van Dyke
Isadora Duncan
Paris
Auburn
N. Y
Board of Arbitration
Will
J. Pierpont Morgan
John Pierpont Morgan
Morgan
San Francisco
Chinatown
Durango
Monterey
Tampico
United States
Mexico City
Three bandits guillotined in Paris
In Paris three automobile thieves Hoady Monier and Callemin were executed by guillotine. The sentences followed a high profile trial and drew wide attention from the public and press.
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Hoady
Monier
Callemin
Paris
Attleboro
Mass
Man
Redfield
Schroeder
James J. Walsh
Friedmann
Law amendments stall as Albany rules committee acts
Bills to amend Sullivan pistol law are blocked by the Albany rules committee. John N. Carlisle is named highway commissioner by Governor Sulzer. Sulzer also reshuffles Tamany nominees. Cardinal Gibbons comments on woman suffrage while contradicting Milholland. Dr Friedmann urges medical testing to prove drug efficacy. A fierce New Jersey primary looms with 11 men named for governor races.
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Albany
John N. Carlisle
Sulzer
Tammany
Cardinal Gibbons
Inez Milholland
New York
Catholic Church
Friedmann
New Jersey
German air raid and political calls in California bills
German military aeroplane crosses the frontier and lands in France while President Roosevelt urges defeat of anti alien land bills in California. In Paterson five thousand strikers march at a funeral, urging restraint as blood is invoked. Other items include a Denver man named James W. Philips and a Kaiser Wilhelm situation with a groom leaving a ship for a hotel.
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House
France
Roosevelt
Johnson
California
Paterson
James W. Philips
Denver
Boston Firm Plans Prince Edward Island Silver-Black Fox
A Boston company named Massachusetts Silver-Black Fox plans to raise Prince Edward Island silver-black foxes with a $350,000 charter. Breeders can be valued at $30,000 to $35,000, reflecting PEI's long history of successful silver-black fox production begun twenty years ago when jet black varieties were scarce.
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Prince Edward Island
Boston
Massachusetts
Penitentes in Colorado Observe Week of Atonement
In sparsely settled Las Animas County the Penitentes a reclusive sect began a week long atonement rites. Members scourge themselves with twisted soapweed until blood flows from gashes in the skin and at sunset reenact a crude crucifixion at a secluded site.
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Las Animas
Colo
Largest Candle Ever Molded For Vatican Burnings
Father EB Malone and Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish in Jersey City order a sixteen foot tall candle for Rome to honor the late J P Morgan. It will cost 1500 dollars to make and ship with an oil portrait by Paulo Restivo at the base. The candle’s base is eighteen inches wide tapering to six inches, and would burn for 300 years if lit only one day yearly.
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EB. T. Malone
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Jersey City
N. J
Vatican
Rome
J. P. Morgan
Mr. Morgan
Paulo Restivo
Boy's Body Found on Tracks Near Salamanca
Earl J. Vincent, 17, a switchtender for the Erie railroad at MS tower just east of the New American hotel in Salamanca, N Y, was killed on his second day at work. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Burt Vincent of West Salamanca. The death was not witnessed and the cause is unknown.
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Earl J. Vincent
Erie Railroad
MS Tower
New American
Salamanca
N. Y
Vincent
Burt Vincent
West Salamanca
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Austria
Prussia
Saxony
Bavaria
Cunard Line
Imperator
Aquitania
Paleolithicus
Clyde
Lusitania
Clyde Navigation Trustees
Newshot Isle
The
Clydebank
Cunard Company
British Board of Trade
Mauretania
Titanic
Olympic
Speedee
Bne
Ramie Linens
Germany
Green & Davidson
Warren
Pennsylvania
Bosion Firm
Fuoacs
Boy
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