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"Sales" Taxes. Before passing the final bill, the House again rejected (236-to-160) a general Sales Tax on manufacturers. Nevertheless under the guise of excises, it did juggle into the bill a long list of sales taxes on specific products ? 4¢ per gal. on lubricating oil (to yield...
A friend of the head pharmacist of the U. S. had a sore foot. He bought some bichloride of mercury tablets for an antiseptic footwash. Several days later he took several "Aspirin" tablets, died poisoned by the deadly bichloride. Therefore last week U. S. manufacturing druggists and editors of pharmaceutical...
Treasure Hunt. Few weeks ago Pilot William H. Graham and Mrs. Edna Christofferson, widow of the early barnstormer Silas Christofferson, took off from Seattle to seek the Baychimo, icebound, abandoned, somewhere in the Arctic Ocean. Aboard it, they believed, was "a million dollars worth of furs." Last week airplanes were...
Died. Marie Augusta Davey Fiske (Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske), 66, Grand Dame of the U. S. stage; of heart disease; in Queens, Long Island, N.Y. Death came at the home of her secretary, whose mother cared for Mrs. Fiske's 10-year-old adopted son. In accordance with her...
Porter names eight lines of business in which Astor engaged; the two most usually connected with his name are Manhattan real estate and the American Fur Company. Astor was one of the first to bank on Manhattan's rapid growth. In 20 years he invested well over $700,000 in...