College instructors face stagnant pay since 1914
Trevor Arnett reports to the Association of American Colleges that average salaries and purchasing power for college instructors haven’t improved since 1914. He cites a General Education Board survey showing four-fifths work outside jobs, most earn under 7000 a year, with average pay from instructor level up around 2058. He attributes limited career ceilings and tenure rules as factors.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Trevor Arnett
Association of American Colleges
Arnett
General Education Board
Birth rate drops as women join industry in Worth Texas
Carl D. Wells of Texas Christian University warns that married women entering industrial work threatens the patriarchal family and lowers birthrates among educated classes. He cites overwork and maternal depression as factors and notes research by Dr. Max G. Schlapp supporting alarm at sub-normal births.
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Worth
Tex
Carl D. Wells
Texas Christian University
Mary
Wells
Max G. Schlapp
New York Post Graduate Medical School
One Dead as Gun Battle Wounds Two Officers in Toledo
In Toledo on January 11 an unidentified man died after being shot five times during a gun fight that erupted when Mike Henison complained of being forcefully ejected from his home. Officer Charley Dooly was gravely wounded near the heart, and Officer Ben Rabe sustained a hand wound.
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Toledo
Ohio
Mike Henison
Henison
Mike
Charley Dooly
Ben Rabe
Severe Winter in England Brings Illness
Severe winter weather grips Europe with rising flu and grippe cases. Berlin reports 15 percent sickness among police and transport workers while Glasgow sees a major influenza outbreak after ten days of frost. Zagreb reports influenza victims and Bessarabia endures a harsh snowstorm. Snow covers most of England.
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Associated Press
London
Scotland
Germany
Balkans
Berlin
Glasgow
Zagreb
Jugoslavia
Bessarabia
England
Fire rescues thrill Seattle blaze at Seneca Hotel
In Shap tle Washington a downtown fire at the Seneca hotel destroyed the building and damaged the Victoria hotel and nearby structures. Ten guests were rescued unconscious from the Seneca and a patrolman saved Nellie Ashton who nearly jumped from a third story window as flames swept through the district. The blaze began in a stationery store and six structures burned as fire crews attacked the fire.
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Associated Press
Shaptle
Wash
Jane Dh
Seneca Hotel
Victoria Hotel
Seneca
Nellie Ashton
W. M. Palmer
Officials Executed in Manchuria Amid Power Shift
Yang Yu-Ting and Chang Yin-Huai, former high officials under Chang Tso-Lin, were reported executed in Mukden after being detained at General Chang Hsueh-Liang’s headquarters. The Mukden arsenal was seized as troops moved in, amid possible disputes over the nationalist flag and governance shift to Nanking.
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Associated Press
Mukden
Manchuria
Yang Yu-Ting
Chang Yin-Huai
Chang Tso-Lin
Chang Hsueh-Liang
Chang Hseeh-Liang
Chang Yin- Huai
Chang
Nanking
Dallas Police Supply Hi Jacker Case Drives Fear
Police in Dallas intensified efforts after a hijacker wounded taxi driver Ralph Sisson and matched the description of a suspect linked to the earlier fatal shooting of William Mann. Officers issued alerts for suspicious individuals and warned the public to stay vigilant.
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Dallas
Tex
Ralph O. Sisson
Sisson
Main
St. Paul
William Mann
Flashes of Life across the 20th Century Columns
A mosaic of short items spans archaeology in Rome and Philadelphia discoveries from ancient tombs to gold ornaments, New Haven excavations, and Syrian burial sites. Americas notes cover a Massachusetts voter tale, a New York taxi prank by a celebrity, and a Indiana death amid a wartime poem. A line about shoot-to-kill orders concludes the cryptic fragment.
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American College
Mrs. Baker
Rainbow Food
van Buren
Washington
Hoovers
Old Point Comfort
U. S
Utah
Hubert Work
National Republican Committee
Dr. Work
Seattle
Mena
Blue Channel
Haddock
Fish—Oysters
Wapco
Weand
Morgan
Fancy
Maxwell House
Nickle
Polk Street
Med
Texas
Red Star
Bic
van Camp
C.fruit
N. Fillmore
6Th Ave
Santos and
Peaberry
Agc
PINE
Bacon, Northern
United Press
Rome
Nero
Pliny
Monterontondo
Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
British Museum
New Haven
Doura
Havana
West Stockbridge
Mass
Jacob Selem
Tilden
Jacob
New York
Madison Square Garden
Jack Dempsey
Jack
Marion
Ind
Clayton
Tom
Maniac
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