Market Regulation Needed Until We Have Market Bureaus
The passage argues for federal state and municipal market bureaus with investigative and regulatory powers to tackle the high cost of living. It notes world and national patterns, cites wartime effects, and emphasizes linking producers and consumers while avoiding haphazard speculation and gouging. It compares to railroad and bank regulation as a model.
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Washington
Doubdttess
United States
Public Health Service Saves 400000 Lives Each Year
Public health advances are hailed as monumental, with the service saving about four hundred thousand lives annually. The text extols declines in yellow fever, smallpox, tuberculosis, typhoid, diphtheria, and malaria, crediting laboratories, officers, medical professionals, health educators, and the press for perpetual life-saving gains across generations.
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Public Health Service
United States
Old-Fashioned Honesty Needed in Coart Room
A letter denounces blood-sucking public leeches and costly court fees that drain poor men and widows. It calls for end to fee grabbing and judicial grafts, demanding plain honesty, even-handed justice, and reforms to stop receivership extortion by favored officials and lawyers. The writer laments public costs paid by taxpayers and criticizes officials who profit from the legal system.
Joffre Succeeded by Nivelle as French Commander in Chief
Paris reports General Joffre, praised for the Battle of the Marne and Verdun heroism, has been superseded by General Nivelle. Joffre remains influential as a key Allied war council figure while the field command shifts to younger leaders across France, Britain, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Italy amid ongoing global conflict.
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the Marne
Nivelle
Allies
War Council
Paris
Joffre
Verdun
Allied War Council
Napoleon
Hannibal
Caesar
George Washington
Hindenburg
East Prussia
von Falkenhayn
von Moltke
Kaiser
Germany
Douglas Haig
Russia
Grand Duke
Nicholas
Alexieff
Austria
The
Somme
France
Pau
Foch
Tess
Parris
Castelnau
Riversaltes
Pyrenees
Pthero Ts
Polytechnic School
Marshal McMahon
Indo-China
Haut- Tonkin
Senegal
Diego- Suarez
Madagnascar
Fontainebleau
Lille
Amiens
Africa
Bonnier
Niger
Segu
Timbuctoo
Higher Council of War
Charleroi
Malerand
Poincare
Inter
Marne
Roberts
Calliaux
Great Britain
Kitchener
German armored cars outrun cavalry on Romanian front
Report on German armored automobile units in Romania shows 25 mph speed, impervious shell, and 10-man crews using machine guns through slits. They conduct patrols, surprise transports, and trench enfilade, claiming higher damage and mobility than British tanks.
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von Falkenhayn
Roumania
Somme
Romanian
Cray
Rousmania
Ao Village
Enroll French Women in Service Drive Organized
Paris reports a women’s committee led by Mme Bontroux has formed to enroll women volunteers for the nation. Women are urged to sign up with their aptitudes and available time, as enrollment offices open across the country for a comprehensive mobilization effort.
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Paris
Mme. Bontroux
Avon
France
Fowl Robbery Strikes New York Bird Store
Thieves entered Valentine Loeach's bird shop and stole pigeons and canaries valued at 1500 dollars. Sixteen pigeons and 180 canaries were taken in the unlawful act. The incident occurred in New York and authorities are investigating the burglary.
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New York
Valentine Loeach
New Method Will Stick in City Government
The article advocates the city manager plan, citing Ashtabula to St Augustine and praising its efficiency. It argues managers provide cheaper, clearer services, with visible results in streets, sewers, and parks, and that accountability rests with citizens rather than politicians.
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Ashtabula
St. Augustine
Tubal Cain
Collier's
Shade trees defend roads and beautify New York countryside
The State College of Forestry at Syracuse urges planting shade trees along rural highways to protect roadbeds from deterioration. New studies show nine tenths of New York roadsides are bare of shade trees. Where overhead wires exist, bushes are advised. where roadways are narrow, small trees should be used to shield adjacent fields.
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State College of Forestry
Syracuse
New York
Decrement Unearned City Zone Plan Debate
A Chicago Herald letter advocates Alderman Merriam’s proposal to create a zoned city by residential industrial and other zones. It cites cases in South Side Wicker Park and surrounding areas where land value and building worth declined due to zoning moves and nearby commercial development. The author argues such rational urban planning could reduce property loss and guide city growth.
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Charles EB. Merriam
Wicker Park
New York
Los Angeles
Chicago Herald
Slogan for Dallas Public Health Dept Promotes City Cleanliness
The Dallas Public Health Department publishes a city slogan urging residents to keep streets clean and healthy. It asks people to avoid spitting on sidewalks, discarding trash, and spreading foul odors, and to refrain from vulgar remarks and harmful acts that tarnish community health.
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Public Health Department
Dallas
Ufee
Houston
Tex
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