Buried Dead in Manila Cemetery Details of Grave Method
The Manila cemetery uses two circular seven foot thick walls with holes for coffins. After deposit the hole is bricked up and a memorial tablet placed. Graves are leased five years. if not renewed, bones are moved and stored outside the wall. Walls are earth and rubble and rains rot coffins. Burial dates to Spanish friars era. Memorial tablets bear various designs and may be reused. Manila women remain faithful in mourning with fresh wreaths.
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Manila
Chicago to Have a Home for Destitute Dogs
City looks to establish the Home for Destitute Dogs led by Mrs. C. A. White with about 100 women funding a shelter for stray canines. The effort aims to spare animals from the city pound and provide a humane refuge.
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Chicago
C. A. White
Michigan Avenue
Philanthropic drive for Chicago dog shelter gains support
Mrs. White, a known dog breeder and vice president of the Chicago Kennel Club, convened women to back plans for a homeless dog retreat. A site has been chosen and construction will begin, with sick dogs treated and destitute hounds offered for adoption. Funds rely on subscriptions and a humane euthanasia policy for incurable cases.
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Chicago Kennel Club
London’s Squalid Image Draws Fire From Architect Leader
Mr. Trevail, new president of the Society of Architects, told a London audience at St James Hall that returning from Europe or America highlights the city’s narrow streets and small shops. He argued London looks squalid by comparison and that the impression lingers until familiar sights restore a sense of homeliness.
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London
London Mail
Trevail
Society of Architects
St. James Hall
Christendom
Strand
Chancery Lane
Fleet Street
Ludgate Circus
Violin vibrations blamed for slowly damaging building walls
A Chicago architect explains that regular, continual violin vibrations can gradually weaken brick and stone structures, noting that even iron can become brittle over long periods. He imagines a violinist at the base of a tall light well to show how upward rushing waves grow stronger.
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Indianapolis News
Chicago
Billy Hereford and the Gale Family Entanglement
Bruce Gale and Billy Hereford are college friends whose loyalty tests their families. Billy earns trust at the Gale factory, faces a theft accusation, and, through Marjory Gale, reveals a deeper truth about gambling pressures and Bruce’s role. Billy confesses his own sacrifice and presses Bruce to square the debt with Mr. Gale.
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William Lowther Cleves
Gales
Billy
Mr. Gale
Bruce
Marjory
Harmm-Scarum
Mrs. Gale
Papa Gale
Miss Marjory
Papa
Bill
Hereford
Billy Hereford
Gale Factory
Gale
Chelsea
Mar
Miss Gale
Chicago Record-Herald
Counting a Boy's Words
A Chicago Inter Ocean report discusses word use in children, noting Max Muller’s 300 word claim is disputed. Studies by M C and H of Minnesota show 2 1/2 year olds average six to eight hundred words daily with a full vocabularies around fourteen hundred to eighteen hundred.
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Max Muller
Popular Science Monthly
M. C. and Hare
University of Minnesota
Chicago
Labor Movement Activities and Labor Policy Highlights
The American Federation of Labor urges mass Labor Day meetings to protest injunction abuses. The Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners plans its Atlanta convention next September. The Painters and Decorators Union reports 83 new charters, totaling 621 locals. Chicago baggage handlers unionize, aligning with the National Brotherhood of Railway Employes. Joliet mill workers win a 10 percent wage boost as Haimons Steel cites cost of living. Japan-to-Hawaii emigrants number 10,000 with fears of further movement under immigration controls. A Southern trust surge forms a $60 million cotton yard mill combine to fix prices and issue bonds. Baltimore retail drug clerks begin unionization efforts. eight-hour day aims. Allis-Chalmers machinists in Chicago end a strike with a 4 percent wage rise. a ten-hour day returns, possibly temporary, with $55,000 in strike benefits already paid.
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American Federation of Labor
United States
The
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Atlanta
Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper Hangers of America
New York
New England
Baltimore
Federation of Labor
Philadelphia
Allis- Chalmers Company
Chicago
Liar Tales and a Bog Plank Joke From Town Lootings
The scene shifts from a dim room where a narrator recalls a famed liar who once lived nearby. A deacon helps a man stuck in a bog after borrowing a plank, prompting rural humor about misdeeds and consequences. A closing quip notes women’s weather prayers when excluded from picnics.
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Deacon Skillings
Neckon
Blue Murder
Jonas
New York Mail and Express
Amusing Snippets From Various Papers Observe Society
A collage of brief humor and social scenes from many papers includes quips about weddings ushers, a deacon, political talk at family gatherings, porch humor, a minister, and light verse. Names appear in fragments across Life Chicago Record Herald and other papers.
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St. Peter
Hoon
Mr. Hoon
Puck
Maria
Johnny
Googie
Chicago Record-Herald
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