Cost of living up 50 to 55 percent since 1914
A National Industrial Conference Board report finds the average U S family faced a 50 to 55 percent rise in living costs from July 1914 to mid June 1918. Food showed about a 62 percent increase, clothing 77 percent, rent 15 percent, fuel and light 45 percent, with total budget rise around 52 percent.
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National Industrial Conference Board
United States
United States Bureau of Labor Statistics
Philadelphia
New York
Jacksonville
Fla
New Orleans
Chicago
Boston
St. Louis
Chambers of Commerce
Bridgeport
Waterbury
Conn
Quincey
Mass
Cleveland
South Atlantic
Gulf
Bankers Trust Company of New York
Fruit a tives promise headache relief from Ogdensburg ad
A testimonial for Fruit-a-tives medicine from Mrs Alexander Shaw at 112 Coburg St St John claims long term relief from violent headaches. Box prices 50c six for 2.50 trial size 25c available at dealers or by mail from Fruit-a-tives Limited Ogdensburg NY.
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Coburg St
St. John
Alexander Shaw
Fruit-A-Tives, Limited
Ogdensburg
N. Y
Six Big Tomatoes in One From War Garden
Margaret Dineen a 14 year old gainfully tends a war garden at 51 Cleveland Street Arlington with help from her 5 year old brother Francis. The siblings harvest over two bushels from nine grafted tomato plants and anticipate a winter vegetable harvest.
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War Garden
Margaret Dineen
Cleveland Street
Arlington
Francis
Thomas J. Dineen
Miss Dineen
Dr True's Elixir touted to cure worms in children
A grateful Bar Harbor mother reports her ill child improved after using Dr True's Elixir. The advertisement claims the remedy tones the stomach, regulates bowels, expels worms, and lists worm symptoms while urging readers to buy at 40c 60c or 1.00.
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H. McLeod
Second St
Bar Harbor
Maine
Dr. True
True
Women Not to Sweep Streets in Boston
Colonel Thomas F. Sullivan opposes women as street cleaners in Boston arguing street sweeping is a man's work. He says as long as any man can be found for the job Boston will not employ women in hard street labor. He differently notes women window washers or street car conductors may be acceptable.
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Thomas F. Sullivan
Boston
Sullivan
Salem civic figure Howard P Harris dies at 57
Howard Putnam Harris longtime Boston Chamber of Commerce member and Salem city purchasing agent died yesterday at his home 128 Bridge Street Salem after months of illness. He was 57.
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Howard Putnam Harris
Boston Chamber of Commerce
City of
Salem
Bridge Street
Funeral Mass For Rev James N Supple Heard By Large Crowd
Cardinal OConnell presided at a solemn requiem high mass for the late Rev James N Supple pastor of St Marys parish Charlestown. The service drew many mourners including about 60 priests and two sisters as the body was buried in St Marys Cemetery Milford where he was born 68 years ago.
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Cardinal O'Connell
James N. Supple
S&j. Francis de Sales
Charlestown
James T. McCormick
S. J
James
Michael Supple
Philip J. O'Donnell
St. James’ Church
Thomas F. McCarthy
St. Clement's Church
Somerville
James A. O'Rourke
M. J. Scanlan
D. D
W. P. Illingworth
Cardinal O’connell
Mer
Arthur J. Teeling
Lynn
Mgr
Denis J. O'Farrell
St. Francis de Sales
Roxbury
Mer. P.J. Supple
St. John’s Church
William H. Walsh
William J. Clark
George H. Quigley
John J. O’hearn
St. Francis de Sales Church
Knights of Columbus
Father Supple
St. Mary's Cemetery
Milford
David F. McGrath
War Bread Wins Prize in Plymouth County
Miss Olive Dunphe of Brockton named junior champion warbread maker in Plymouth County contest.
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Brockton
Plymouth County
War Bread Recipe Wins School Contest At Brockton
Miss Olive Dunphe a Brockton High School pupil created war bread from oats cornmeal salt lard molasses and flour. Her recipe earned a week long Massachusetts Agricultural College campus vacation at Amherst as first prize in a Plymouth County Farm Bureau sponsored contest.
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Olive Dunphe
Brockton High School
Plymouth County
Massachusetts Agricultural College At
Amherst
Plymouth County Farm Bureau
Dunphe
Stefansson on Way Up Yukon
Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson was at Circle City last night en route up the Yukon toward Juneau and southeastern Alaska via Circle City according to advices received.
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Juneau
Alaska
Associated Press
Vilhjalmur Stefanssen
Circle City
Yukon
Madden Denies FTC Charges Against Meat Packers
Representative Madden of Illinois tells the House there is not a scintilla of truth in FTC charges against the meat packers and opposes further government control, saying authorities already regulate profits too much.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Madden
Illinois
House
Federal Trade Commission
Commission
Roosevelt Receives Military Cross in Mesopotamia
The Office Gazette announces the award of the Military Cross to temporary and honorary Captain Kermit Roosevelt, son of Colonel Roosevelt, for services in Mesopotamia. He joined American forces in France after serving with the British army in Mesopotamia on special duty.
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Roosevelt
London
Kermit Roosevelt
Mesopotamia
France
Robs Medford Store Keeper in Daylight
About one o clock yesterday afternoon a colored man rushed into the dry goods store of W. E. Gerry at Medford square and asked change for a twenty dollar bill. Mrs. Gerry counted out the money and the stranger snatched it and fled to a high powered touring car.
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W. E. Gerry
Medford Square
BE. W. Gerry
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