Last Struggle Over Tariff and Tax Reform
Washington April 3 Democrats on Ways and Means reopen talks on tariff revision and the income tax plan. debate centers on free sugar, collection at source, and constitutional questions about presidential rate changes. The plan aims to tax incomes of a single year, with minimal direct taxpayer contact and most withholdings by employers and others.
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Washington
House Committee On Ways and Means
Wilson
Internal Revenue
Treasury Department
Great Britain
First Conviction Is Victory For St. Louis Sid
St. Louis April 8 The first conviction from the county grand jury indictments against saloon keepers for Sunday closing law violations was secured in Clayton circuit court. Louis W Ortman was fined 100 dollars, license revoked for two years, in a case the prosecutor Lashley launched against seventy six similar prosecutions. State Senator Gardner argued against enforcement, claiming the law had rotted on the statute books for forty years.
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St. Louis
Clayton Circuit
Louis W. Ortman
Ortman
Lashley
Gardner
Law operates to kill tipping evil in Chicago club
April 3 Chicago Athletic association members will pay a five cent service charge per person in restaurant use. The house committee says the fee is to curb tipping evil and ensure the best waiters, despite club rules against tipping. Coring, queen of Havana cigars, advertisement.
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Chicago
Chicago Athletic Association
House Committee
Wooden leg used to thwart prisoner's escape
Chicago officers escorting Geo Hampton alias T E York to be held on forgery charges took drastic steps. Sergeant Geo Wilson removed Hampton's wooden leg before boarding the train and shipped it to Chicago by express. If Hampton escapes before arrival he will have to do so with one leg.
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Chicago
Geo. Wilson
Chicago Detective Bureau
Portland
Ore
Geo. Hampton
T. E. York
Wilson
Hampton
Trial closes defense case in Frost Alaska land fraud trial
In Chicago on April 8 Albert C Frost and four others face charges of defrauding the U S government of Alaskan coal lands valued at 10 million dollars. Frost testified as the only defendant witness while Andrew Christensen, a U S land office employee, testified about Francis Stewart and immunity dealings. The government prepared rebuttal after a lengthy recess.
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Chicago
Albert C. Frost
Andrew Christensen
United States Land Office
Francis H. Stewart
Townsend
Mistaken for Burglar Killed in Chicago Hallway
Charles Pennington a traveling salesman believed to live in Cleveland was killed by Harry Farrell a machinist in the hallway of 2345 Calumet avenue Chicago. Pennington woke Farrell who then fired as Pennington tried to enter the flat. The shooting is deemed an accident with Pennington likely unintentionally advancing.
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Chicago
Charles Pennington
Cleveland
Harry Farrell
Calumet Ayene
Pennington
Alford
Farrell
Horses burn in Des Moines barn blaze
A blaze at Ware Transfer barns in Des Moines Indiana destroyed seven teen horses? One horse was rescued but badly burned and will be shot. The fire started by a broken lantern spread through hay.
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Des Moines
Ware Transfer Company
Eighth and Chestnut
Zeppelin air cruiser lands in France seized by authorities
Limeville, France April 18 One of the great German Zeppelin air cruisers landed on French territory today on a military parade ground as French riflemen drilled. It was seized by French authorities, marking a dramatic wartime incident amid busy air fortifications.
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Limeville
France
Wit of Witkess causes smiles in saloon petition trial
In a lively courtroom session, A J Speicher testifies he did not sign the consent on the saloon petition, recounting how a stranger pressed him at MacDermott's drug store to sign and how he wrote a joking name. The proceedings trigger laughter as the witness describes how his wife and church supporters influenced withdrawal signatures, with cross examination revealing inconsistent signing and family motives.
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MacDermott
A. C. Spicer
Mr. Speich
Mullan
Mr. Speicher
General Mullan
Mr. Arbuckle
Drys
McDermott
Brady
A. B. Bureh
Bamford
Evangelical Church
L. Hart
First Streat West
Hart
C.F. Kert
Tl. Hart
Ebert
Mr. Arebuckle
Flood Menace Disappears While Misery Continues
Flood reports from Cairo to Wisconsin describe rising rivers and collapsing levees. Soldiers resupply Bird Point area. Louisville focuses on sanitation for flood homes. Paducah and Evansville endure rising waters as relief drawers coordinate aid. Red Cross director Hicknell directs on the ground. German city aids Indiana and Ohio victims with a 10500 dollar grant.
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Cairo
Missouri
Kentucky
Missouri National Guard
Bird Point
Caseyville
Brookport
Loulaville
Louisville
Hickman
Paducah
Columbus
Erneast P. Hicknell
Red Cross Society
Jie
Dayton
Bicknell
San Francisco
Turks Wreck Greek Ship But Rescue Crew
Athens, Greece, April 30 The will o the wisp Turkish cruiser Hamidid yesterday sank the steamer Leros in the Adriatic sea She rescued the crew and landed them at Jaffa Asia Minor today The Jeros was a Greek transport and was engaged in landing Servian troops at the port of San Giovanni Vi Meteui on the Adriatic STORM CLAIMS VICTIM St Louis April A high wind storm which struck Tuxedo a suburb in St Louis county today tore down wagon poles carrying electric light wires and heavy feed cables thereby
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Athens
Greece
Hamidid
Leros
Adriatic Sea
Jaffa
Asia
Minor
Jeros
San Giovanni Vi Meteui
Adriatic
St. Louis
Tuxedo
St. Louis County
Monument Unveiled For Pony Express Riders In Missouri
St Joseph Missouri April 8 a granite monument commemorating pony express riders was unveiled in Patee Park on the site of the first rider start point April 3 1860 Presented by local Daughters of the American Revolution Chas Cia of St Joseph a surviving rider unveiled the shaft Buffalo Bill Cody and Gov Elliott W Major of Missouri delivered addresses The monument bears inscriptions noting the first pony express start location and was blasted from Ozark granite Attending were D H Winger Clinton Ta t L P Ew ang Waterloo and others from Kansas Missouri and Columbia with several relatives and national committee figures in attendance
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St. Joseph
Pony Express
Patee Park
Daughters of the American Sterotuon
Chas. CIA
Bt. Joseph
Wm. F
Buffalo Bill) Cody
Gov. Elliott W. Major
Missouri
First
Pony Express Company
Ozark Mountains
Daughters of the American Revolution
City of
First Express
Elizabeth Gerry
Kansas
McFarland
Columbia
D. AL RR
Grader Team Driver Fatally Struck By Wires
Harry Davis of Webster Grove, 19, was driving a grader's team when falling wires struck and electrocuted him. The incident caused one death and is under investigation by local authorities.
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Harry Davis
Webster Grove
Twenty Girls Seized in White Slavery Alert
Chicago reports twenty immigrant women traveling from New York to Chicago were lured from a Baltimore and Ohio train at a Pennsylvania town on March 26. None spoke English. Suspected white slavers feared to be involved. A Swede in the party informed Illinois welfare officials and the federal justice chief was notified. Names of the town and informant withheld.
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Chicago
New York
Baltimore and Ohio
Pennsylvania
Niela Juul
Illinois Senatorial Welfare Commission
F. de Woody
Federal Department of Justice
Doctor Fatally Hurt In Car Wreck Near Missouri Valley
Missouri Valley Iowa April 3 Dr McWilliams of Charter Oak Iowa was fatally hurt when his automobile overturned near here last night pinning him beneath the wreckage authorities said the crash occurred on the roadway and the victim died of injuries suffered at the scene.
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Poctor
Missouri Valley
Dr. McWilliams
Charter Oak
Emmeline Pankhurst Guilty and Hunger Strikes Fuel Debate
London reports Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst found guilty at Hatley Sessions and sentenced to three years penal servitude for inciting damage. A Detroit woman asks British home secretary Reginald McKenna to arrange separate medical examination for her daughter Zeke Emerson, a militant suffragist, amid claims of forced feeding and danger to her sanity. A prisoner near Emerson warns release is needed to preserve her life and notes Emerson shared food with a neighbor, allegedly triggering her hunger strike.
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London
Emmelinal Pankhurat
Emerson
D Troit
Mich
Jozeph Wadgwood
Parament
Reginald McKenna
Permon
Emeson
Zeke Emerson
Holloway
United States
McKenna
Britis Foreign Office
Emerso
Allso
Miss Emerson
Senate Adopts Early Closing Saloon Bill Des Moines
Des Moines April 3 Senate adopts temperance bill closing saloons at 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. after debate. Names of supporters and opponents listed. amendment to close at 8 p.m. discussed. vote breakdown shown. Also reported: Fredonia editor John Gilmore dies of apoplexy. succession planned for Wilson County Citizen.
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Des Moines
Dreard
Linn
Boe
Winneba
Doran
Boone
Robinson
Fralin
Balkema
Sioux
Maites
Sac
Heald
Bov
Senate
Alien
Arney
Balkem
Chase
Clarkson
Christ
Darra Doran
Dunnegan
Fellows
Jewel Larrabee
McColl
Neal
Nye
Per Ins
Spaulding
Taylo Thomas
Emtor Gilmore
Fredonia
Kan
John Gilmore
Wilso County Citizen
Tle
John
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Ninety Nine Year Old Woman Votes in New London
In New London Iowa on April ? a 99 year old woman cast her first vote on bonds for a new waterworks. The Ladies Improvement Association and the Commercial Club aided the effort, and all indications point to a victory for the measure.
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New London
Grandma” Allsup
Ladies' Improvement Association
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