Union Printers Home at Colorado Springs Aided by Members
The International Typographical Union funds and operates the Union Printers Home in Colorado Springs. Each of 46,000 members contributes 15 cents monthly, totaling about $96,000 yearly for maintenance and improvements. The home, founded with a $10,000 gift from George W. Childs and A. J. Drexel, now spans 80 acres with multiple buildings, including a tuberculosis sanitarium, and serves as a sanctuary for aging and ill printers.
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United States
Canada
Colorado Springs
North America
Cal
International Typographical Union
George W. Childs
A. J. Drexel
Philadelphia Ledger
International Hypographical Union
Childs-Drexel
Julia A. Ladd
Union
North Cheyenne Canon
Washington
National Association For the Prevention of Tuberculosis
Sunsine
Boston
Arizona
Colorado
To Count a Billion and the Toll of Time
The article computes counting one billion aloud would take 200 counts per minute for 9,512 years when done continuously. Allowing 12 hours daily reduces to about 19,025 years and 31 days plus extra hours to finish. It then mentions concrete from Calcutta soap mill refuse.
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Calcutta
Dynamite in Evansville Strike and Pittsburg Settlement
Evansville dynamiting rocks the street car strike as a stick of dynamite explodes off a car with no passengers aboard. In Pittsburgh, mayor mediated a settlement ending Greater Pittsburgh street car strikes with concessions to workers and company, while riots and bomb threats flare in Barcelona theaters.
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Evansville
Ind
Pittsburg
Union and Company
Ashford
Halboth
McGibbony
Too Fat for Robbery in Sing Sing Case
Benjamin Fagan of Ossining files appeal to the appellate division from the conviction of William Green the fatted convict at Sing Sing for robbery at Ossining Green weighing 35814 pounds was sentenced February 27 for dragging Frank Baker through a narrow nine and a half inch alley and taking ten dollars Fagan argues a fat man could not squeeze through the alley during the appeal.
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White Plains
N. Y
Benjamin Fagan
Ossining
William Green
Sing Sing
Green
Frank Baker
Fagan
Boy 12 in Elwood takes own life over bicycle pump
Chester Robbins aged 12 killed himself by carbolic acid after being reprimanded for taking a neighbor’s bicycle pump. His father sent him to return the pump and fetch a buggy whip from the barn. the youth died at his father’s feet. Two men killed near Dearfield on Railroad. Charles Brown of Wichita and Allen Wilson of Chicago were found along the tracks, believed struck by a train while asleep.
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Elwood
Ind
Chester Robbins
Dearfield
Charles Brown
Wichita
Kan
Allen Wilson
Evang Avenue
Chicago
A Scene in Mme Zephme's Sewing Room
In the sewing room of Mme Zephme's dressmaking shop six girls chatter about Miss Stephenson, Belle's flirtations, and a wedding while one by one the madam calls for fittings. The lively dialogue reveals gossip about a rich Miss Stephenson and a rumored fiancé, with references to fashion, weddings, and social ambitions in a bustling shop setting.
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Mme. Zephme
Mame
Jennie
Stephen_ son
Belle
Nellie
Lulu
Bella
Mamme
Mrs. Turner
Beau
Araminta
Pelle
Mme
Zeph
Chicago
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Des Moines Directory
Thresherman's
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Newcastle
Wyoming
TES
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Colda Co
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Lifornia City Land
Los Angeles
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Wrigleys
Flathead Reservation
Montana
Coeur d’ Alene Reservation
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Kalispell
Coeur d' Alene
Spokane
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