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Since 1889 a Single Tax Club has existed in Manhattan, once had for president Samuel Seabury. Pittsburgh and Scranton have approached the essence of the single lax by decreasing the tax on improve ments, increasing the tax on land until they share equally in costs. In large parts of the Canadian Northwest no improve ments on farm property are taxed. Sydney, Australia operates on a single tax basis...
Died. John Joseph Albright, 83, philanthropist (Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo; Scranton, Pa., Public Library), water power pioneer, president of Marine National Bank of Buffalo, director of the American Academy in Rome; after an intestinal operation; in Buffalo...
...Scranton last week met the biennial convention of District 1, United Mine Workers of America. It was more a dogfight than a convention. Shouts and fists broke up the first meeting. A gas bomb thrown by the police to restore order brought tears and temporary blindness to the chief speaker at the second meeting, U. S. Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis. The issue between conservative and insurgent United Miners: whether to strike generally or just locally. The conservatives won. Victory was hollow, however, for 15,000 Pittston miners involved then decided not to strike...
...likes tobacco. In both his $1,000,000 Long Branch, N. J. home and his $1,200,000 Paris residence are pipe-organs, tapestries. A link between Mr. Parson and the Founder is Charles Sumner Woolworth, 74, now chairman of the company his brother founded. He lives in Scranton, is seldom in Manhattan except for board meetings...
...Gurrh!" went the white-gowned gulls at Cleveland's City Hospital out Scranton Road. "Gurrh! Gurrh...