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Since Painter Brush is already 74 years old, it is unlikely that he will collect any money from Mrs. Brooks-Aten. No foxy sycophant tricking unwary ladies with oiled flatteries for which they can ill afford to pay, Artist Brush had better things to do last week than to gloat upon the precedent his suit had established or to bewail the obdurateness of Mrs. Brooks-Aten. It was the second week of his first comprehensive public exhibition at the Grand Central Art Galleries, Manhattan...
...cigarets to 3? which, he believes, would reduce the cost to the consumer and increase the sum received by the grower. Vice-Chairman Stone argued that such a cut would before long double tobacco consumption in the U. S. with the result that the Treasury would collect as much in tobacco taxes as it does...
...Nigerian blacks have been in an ugly, riotous mood of late, due to the Government's unpopular attempts to collect a head tax on their woolly polls. At Itu, Nigeria, the local British river steamer was chased by tax-indignant blacks in war canoes. "With regard to the women," concluded Dr. Shiels, "His Majesty's Government is informed that they were encouraged in their provocation by a man who told them that British troops would never fire on persons of their...
Jack Johnson, oldtime Negro boxer, onetime (1908-15) heavyweight champion of the world, has been conducting a dance band at New Haven, Conn. Last week he asked the city attorney to help collect his back wages from the music hall management. The city attorney declined, said he was no bill collector...
...land) being incapable of reproduction and being immovable, their value depends entirely upon location; and that location--value, in turn, depends upon accessibility and desirability, affected in large part by the expenditure of public money for highways and other public improvements. So it is seen that if we could collect taxes on the basis of land values we probably could take much of the "trouble" out of taxes