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Library of Congress1927

Image 4 of Plentywood herald (Plentywood, Mont.), April 8, 1927

jplrntufannb lisralb PUBLISHED EVEKY FRIDAY C S NELSON Editor and Publisher Entered hb secondclas matter Novemner 13 1908 at the post office at Plentywood Montana a ider the Act of March 3 187S TermsIn Advance per year 200 133 Advertising Rates very reasonable will be furnished upon application What Newspaper Ads Did It was only a few years ago that the retail stores in towns and the smaller cities did the bulk of their weeks busi ness on Saturday While the other five business days might have paid expenses the merchant depended upon the Satur day sales for the major portion of his weeks profit Needless to say the aver age merchant would have been exempt from excess profits taxes in those days The newspaper is given credit for dis covering the possibility of scattering the Saturday peak load over the six business days of the week and it was newspaper advertising which has achieved the pre sent more equitable distribution of the weeks business Saturday is still the merchants busy day but now he is onl a little less busy on the preceding five days This is only one of the many services performed for business by newspaper ad

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Library of Congress1907

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 21, 1907

THE VETERANS POLL TAX In the Maine House Feb 7th on motion of Mr Skidmore of Liberty an act to amend Chapter 163 Public Laws ot 1905 relating to the exemption of soldiers and sailors from poll tax was taken from the table Mr Skidmore then addressed the House rs follows Mr Speaker in tabling this bill my purpose was to call the attention of the members of the House to the fact that this bill was treading ou dangerous ground that it created a class legisla tion that is it relieved from taxation a certain portion of onr people who were well able to pay The law relat ing to a poll tax by some is considered to be absurd and wholly wrong but as for me I do not think so It gives to those w ho are young and just coming on the held of action and who have not had the privilege that others have had to acquire property ou which to be taxed a better and more thorough knowledge of the plan and conditions of government Now there is a law on the statute books which this law calls attention to which exempted all soldiers

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Library of Congress1901

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 19, 1901

NEWS OF THE WEEK Maine Matters The State as sessors havecommiLied the semiannual i tax on the savings hanks and loan and building associations of the State This commitment was 17 higher than the dune commitment and the total tax for the year will be 500723 as i against 448827 for 1900 an increase of j 51905 This increase is partly due to the increase in the number of deposits and to the sale of government bonds exempt from taxation and the invest ment of the proceeds in securities which are taxableAt the head of a party of about 50 of his followers Rev 1 V Sanford of the Holy Ghost and i s band with headquarters at Shiloh sailed from Boston on the steamer New England Dec 4th bound for England The travelers will do evangelistic work for some time before proceeding to the Holy LandA verdict of murder in the first degree was returned at Dexter Dec 4th against Henry Lambert the voung French Canadian guide and woodsman charged with the murder of the Allen family at Shirley last May after one of the longest criminal trials in the history of the State The jury was out less

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