Handsome Homes Rise After Halifax Disaster One Year On
A year after the Mont Blanc explosion devastated Halifax, vast relief and rebuilding efforts have transformed the city. Generous aid totaling about 20.5 million dollars from Britain Canada and private sources funded shelters hospitals and temporary housing. Local leaders like Robert Mackreith and George Graham organized rapid relief, with 6,000 sheltered in a week and 4,000 patients treated in days, as reconstruction moved forward.
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Halifax
Mont Blanc
Halifaxs
Pompeii
Martinique
Galveston
San Francisco
Ohiuor
George MacDonald
Faifax
Miu
Robert T. Maclkeith
Imo
Mackreith
George BE. Grahan
Dominion Atlantic
Graham
W. 8
Davidson
G. Fred Pearson
Pearson
Robert 8. Low
Valcartier
Halifax reconstruction under wartime relief plan gains scale
Halifax rebuild program after the Mont Blanc explosion expands with 15 000 claims paid and 500 pensions. The Halifax relief commission plans 1000 new homes, new streets and parks, and a steel shipyard site employing around 5000 workers. Government funds total 12 million dollars.
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Halifax
Gottingen Street
Commission
Fort Needham
Dominion and
Imperial
Mont Blanc
W. B. Henley
Keeping Nitro workers amused amid wartime boom
J H Connor oversees welfare at US Explosives Plant C Nitro West Virginia. With 15 000 workers and plans to grow to 40 000 he cites high wages but high turnover as workers depart for towns with more excitement. The welfare program includes hospitals free care dental work housing and planned leisure activities including bands plays baths and boat access.
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J. H. Connor
United States
Nitro
W. Va
Por
Charlestown
Lfe
New York
Strong and Vigorous Calf Rearing Guide from Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture advises that calf vigor depends on pre calving care and postnatal feeding. Emphasizes cleanliness, care and regularity, with specific milk quantities and weaning timing to produce strong, thrifty calves and profitable stock.
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United States Department, of Agriculture
How to Increase Milk Production for Dairies
The article outlines an economics based approach to boosting milk yield. It emphasizes selecting productive cows, eliminating unprofitable stock, breeding to first class bulls, and feeding each cow a proper ration according to production data. It stresses management and care as key factors in profitability.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Woman credits Lydia E. Pinkham remedy for motherhood
Mrs 0 8 Johnson of Ellensburg Washington shares how Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helped her recover health after marriage enabling her to care for home and have a child. The notice urges other women with functional disorders to try the medicine and contact Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts for advice built on 40 years experience.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Ellensburg
Wesh
Johnson
R. No
Wash
Lydia IE. Pinkham
Derby benefactor starts $100000 charity fund
Frank A. Russ, a Derby Connecticut industrialist born in New York, creates a $100,000 trust to aid the needy with no income to recipients. He rose from workman to president of the R N Bassett Company, employing over a thousand in Shelton and Derby area plants.
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Frank A. Russ
New York
Derby
Conn
Robert N. Bassett
Aden
Russ
R. N. Bassett Company
Shelton
Naugatuck
Elis
Derby and
Elks
Derby Lodge of Elks
Ua Ife
Up to the Barber
Frances takes her little brother to the barber with a quarter given by their father. The barber asks how to cut the hair and Frances replies that ten or fifteen cents worth should be removed, smiling at the choice.
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Frances
Jack
Far Fetched Groom Grieves Missing Bride
In a playful exchange the bride laments how miserable she would be if she had never met her groom, highlighting a tender paradox of love and humor. The lighthearted dialogue underscores affection and commitment in a romantic tone.
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Big Area
Zed
Stan Socers
Chalritan
Sio
Tom Irmains
Canada
Cannadian
Atlantic
Halifax Relief Commission
T. Sherman Rogers
K. C
William Bernard Wallace
Frederick Luther Fowke
Ralph P. Bell
Haifax
Wey
Rahe Apa Dofpany
Strickely
Orcaley
Kaiser
Max
Witton
Connecticut
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