Surplus in Treasury Reveals Record Federal Finances
The 1912 fiscal year closed with a cash surplus of at least 33 million dollars for the Federal Treasury. Receipts exceeded disbursements by about 10 million, with internal revenue near a record and customs down. Expenditures touched major totals across civil service, army, navy, pensions, and pensions, while the Treasury ends the period with a vault holding over 1.5 billion in cash, the largest ever.
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Federal Treasury
Treasury
Prad
Internal Revenue and Customs
Internal Revenue
Army
Navy
Vanama Canal
Sterdey
Airman Wins $12,500 Prize in Berlin Flight
Berlin reports Hirth, a German aviator, and a passenger completed a 245 mile mono plane trip from Minnich to Berlin in about six hours, arriving at 8 this morning. They rested overnight at Nuremberg and landed at height. Hirth wins a prize of $12,500. Earlier he set a world record for height with a passenger at 86,000 feet.
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Berlin
Hirth
Minnich
Nuremberg
Munich
Bertin
Iorth
Million Embezzler Duez Exposed In French Scandal
The Paris trial centers on Edmond Duez accused of embezzling over 1 million francs from the French government tied to church property seizures under the 1901 separation law. His secretary Martin Gauthier and others face charges. details reveal forged inventories and large sums diverted through church and state wind-up affairs. Edmond Duez, 47, rose from clerk to trusted trustee in a case allegedly aided by Gauthier, with bail posted for Gauthier and his sudden flight suspected.
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New York
Mamond Drez
Paris
Dues
Martin Gauthier
Lefebvre
Breton
Duez
M. Labert
Hynideter
Seven Stara
France
Misiard
M. Waldeck Rousseau
Gauthier
Chamber of Deputies
Belef
Hela
America
Edmond Duez
Bon Marche
M. Imbert
Duew
Put Up Your Sails to Catch Winds of Opportunity
An optimistic exhortation urges keeping sails up in calm and storm alike to seize every wind of opportunity. Those ready for winds advance while idle hands drift, reefing sails as storms approach to steer toward good ports and prosperity.
Cost of policing and city government in 1907 counties
The text notes that policing per person costs about $2.09 and that running 158 cities in 1907 totaled $371,944,424, equating to $15.82 per capita. It highlights that policing a city is only part of municipal expenses and provides figures for per capita government costs.
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New York
Pole
York
Chicago
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Milwaukee
Philadelphia
Census Bureau
United States
Kurt Worth
Tex
Aquor
St. Louis
Boston
Baltimore
Washington
Samalter
Cleveland
Birmingham
Ala
Fort Worth
Herman
Asaaults
Aittle
Bluestein Company Introduces Saturday Holiday Plan
In Washington a local firm for the first time grants a complete Saturday holiday to its workers during July and August. The Bluestein Company at Thirteenth and F streets announced the change yesterday via Joseph Schenker. Only three other U S firms have adopted similar practice, part of the Bluestein method for humane treatment of employees.
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Bluestein Company
Joseph Schenker
Bluestein
Chesapeake Beach
Mietrich
District Line
Paul
Waters
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Seaboard
Barangab
Jacksonville
Tampa
Atlante
Savannah
St. Augustine
Knights' Key
Havana
Jackson Villa
Attenta
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New York Age
Hatchot
D. Baec
B. Ryan
Portsmouth
Norfolk and Western Railway
Union Station
Dally
Berryville
Norfolk
Aya
Rich
Luray
Doah
Elkton
Fourteenth Street
New Fork Avenue
Chesapeake and
OH10
Daly—C
Pa Ave
Ime F St
Southern Railway
Richmond and
Pointe South
Fredericksburg
Prene
Goeah
See
Prederickeburg
Cally
Milford
Connectiaua
Profit in fox skins use for abandoned farms
A New York World piece reports on Maine fox farming as a booming northern industry. Blue Alaska foxes yield high profits, with pelts thicker and glossier than wild foxes. Fox farms reclaim idle land in Maine New Hampshire Vermont and New York. Foxes are fed with rabbits bones scraps and occasional fowl. Enclosures span two to three acres per farm with wire netting fencing. Fox cubs are playful and develop a luxury brush as they mature.
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North
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
New York
Alaska
Reynard
Maine Fox
Milady
Railway Outing Draws Thousands to Marshall Hall
The Capital Traction Company employees held their annual excursion to Marshall Hall for the Employes Relief Association. The Charles Macalester steamer ran three trips as races, athletic events, and two ball games entertained men women and children. W. Lewis chaired the arrangements committee with prizes awarded to winners.
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Capital Traction Company
Marshall Hall
Renew Licenses Today for Bankers and Public Vehicles
Licenses for bankers brokers and public vehicles expired yesterday and about 300 public vehicle licenses are to be issued starting today. One horse and two horse vehicle licenses noted as well as soda fountain ads and post want ads offered free. Advertising options include brokers and furnished items with fees of 100 dollars and bankers at 500 dollars annually. Box 572.
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Iberas
District Chamber of Commerce forms investigative committee
A newly appointed Chamber of Commerce committee to study methods for advancing the district's commercial interests will hold its first meeting early next week. H. G. Stiles chairs the group with members George Y. Worthington, Robert N. Harper, A. J. May, Washington Topham, T. C. Dulin, E. B. C. Graham, H. T. Offferdinger, C. T. Kingsbury, Joseph Berberich, and Oliver Metzerott.
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H. GC. Stiles
George Y. Worthington
Robert N. Harper
A. J. May
Washington Topham
T. C. Dulin
EB. C. Graham
H. T. Offferdinger
C. T. Kingsbury
Joseph Berberich
Oliver Metzerott
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