Immigrant Children Swim Free at City Bath Pool in Brooklyn
In New York on December 18 the Fourth Avenue and Union Street public bath in Brooklyn hosts a free swimming pool for neighborhood children. The pool, kept warm and sanitary, features demonstrations by professional divers and local youths, including six year old Gladys Curry, with her father nearby. Public baths officials praise the program as improving health and cleanliness, hoping it will be included in future city baths budgets.
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New York
Fourth Avenue
Union Et
Brooklyn
Yard LL. Woody
Tr. Hare
Ned
Joseph Lawrence
Woody
Odiva
Due Sisters
Charles Bigney
Gladys Curry
Bernard J. Curry
Gladys
Sadie
Helen
Dewey
Curry
Evening Telegram
Currys
Annette Kellerman
Margaret Londen
Cecil Glynn
Trene Lowe
Agnes Geoghan
Anna Miering
Charlotte Jackson
Alice O'Donnell
Florence Scheuplin
Marion Vialor
Marion Fisenne
Margaret Vonsden
Minnie Clausen
Ruth Vialor
Margaret Magner
Nora Leahy
Beatrice Due
Dr. Hate
Adeline Trapp
Josephine Perkins
Hale
Montana coal output reaches record in 1909
Washington reports Montana mined 2,541,679 short tons in 1909, a 30 percent rise from 1908, with value around 5.0 million dollars. Bull Mountain in Yellowstone County spurred gains while older districts like Carbon, Cottonwood Belt, and Fergus counties posted notable increases. Fatalities fell to 11 for the year despite higher output. machine mining rose to 29 percent of production with 81 machines in use.
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Washington, D. C
Montana
Geological Survey
Bull Mountain
Billings
Yellowstone County
Chicago, Milwaukee
Puget Sound
Carbon County
Siek
Red Lodge
Cottonwood
Casle County
Fergus County
Judith Basin
J. B. McDermott
McDermott
Census Bureau
United States
M. R. Campbell
United States Geological Survey
Edward W. Parker
Storm over Catskill water project sparks board controversy
In New York on December 18 the board of water supply withdrew bids for a 25 million high pressure tunnel to bring Catskill water underground. Officials warn a city wide storm may follow, risking resignations of board members John A. Bensel Charles N. Chadwick and Charles A. Shaw as scrutiny of millions in expenditures rises.
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New York
Board of Water Supply
Catskill
John A. Bensel
Charles N. Chadwick
Charles A. Shaw
Bensel
Benser
West Point Student Grant Excelled in Mathematics
A fragment notes U S Grant as a West Point student who excelled in mathematics during his cadet years. The snippet hints at early academic strength before his later military career.
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West Point
U. S
Grant
Classified Ads Formatting Note From A Newspaper
Daily and Sunday ads priced per word per inch and per line with monthly and daily options. No emphasis or heavy display type in classified columns.
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Keebinds Ie
Wasted Help and Job Advertisements at Butte and Spokane
In a collage of old classified ads and a fiction excerpt, notices seek pupils nurses and general workers, cooks and salesmen, with promises of high pay and quick employment. A narrative recalls Cadet Grant failing a bar jump at a military academy, disciplined by Hershberger after tumbling from a horse.
Butte Classifieds Offer Homes Goods And Services
Numerous items listed for sale rent and service including rooms for rent furnished and unfurnished milch cows a piano a bulldog and furniture fixtures. Also notices for sale of a theater manager address in Butte and business equipment and a list of services such as dyeing and cleaning.
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A. A
Northwest
Empire Theater
Butte
Skyscraping Fences Crown Harlem and Millionaire Row
A Harlem resident Harry Goodstein builds a 66 foot high corrugated iron fence to block an unsightly rear building, setting a local record. The American Lithographic Co later erects an 85 foot brick wall on Fourth Avenue and Nineteenth Street, serving as a fire stop and masking a neighboring business district.
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New York Sun
Upper West Side
Upper East Side
Fourth Avenue
New
Fifth Avenue
Millionaire Row
Harlem
Harry Goodstein
Manhattan Avenue
One Hundred and Nineteenth Street
Goodstein
American Lithographic Company
Nineteenth Street
Belvidere
Devils and crops drive to expel devil in forest fire tale
In Voskoh and SBares quake shocks rattled, church bells rang as a “witch” claimed the devil hungry. Peasants gathered calves and goats and forced them into a cave said to house the devil, then lit fires in two forest spots to drive it out.
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Voskoh
Sbares
Thackeray on marrying young and modest means
In a letter to a young friend Thackeray recalls marrying at the friend’s age with £400 from a failed newspaper, expressing willingness to help if possible. He says his own marriage was a wreck yet would do it again, praising love as the crown of earthly good and urging boldness with fortune. He notes the best house he knew needed only £300.
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Thackeray
Spruce Gum Crusade Begins in Maine Woods
In Kennebec Maine a spruce gum digging crusade starts this winter with about 20 men from Skowhegan heading to camps near Jackknife Gum. Gum has dried up recently and demand makes it a profitable venture for Maine men. Last year workers Carey Cronin and Cass dug 1300 pounds and sold it locally. this season an estimated 50 000 to 100 000 pounds may be harvested.
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Kennebec
Maine
Skowhegan
Jacknon
James Carey
Frank Cronin
Joe Cass
Superstition Persists in Hungarian Countryside
In the rural towns of Hungary, superstition remains strong. Reports from Grosswardein describe ongoing beliefs and practices that influence daily life and community behavior amid lingering cultural traditions.
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Hungary
Grosswardein
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