Carranzistas Flee Chihuahua City For Juarez Camp
Report from Juarez describes Carranza troops fleeing Chihuahua City after four days of fighting with Villa forces. Refugees report many dead in the streets, abandoned horses, and looting halted by Villa. A second train with over 100 wounded arrived, and further refugees fled toward the border.
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Carranza Command
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Santa Rosa Hill
Gonzales Cuellar
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Aldama
Hacienda Dolores
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Joseph Ynez Salazar
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Trains Carry Surviving Force To Border From Chihuahua City
Troop trains that brought this surviving force to the border departed Chihuahua City at 10 30 Monday morning. The movement signals renewed activity along the frontier as authorities organize reinforcements.
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Chihuahua City
Scrub Woman Machine Promises Clean Floors Fast
A novel electrical scrubwoman machine, designed to clean 3000 square feet per hour with two operators, is described as a future weekly aid. It uses adjustable brushes, an agitator can for soap powder, precise water application, and a suction pump to remove dirty water.
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Prand
Popular Science Monthly
Wants Women Workers for City Better Paid
A 1916 letter to the editor urges Boston officials led by Mayor Curley and the financial committee to raise pay for women city workers. The writer cites widows with multiple children earning eight to ten dollars weekly, arguing the high cost of living threatens them and their families.
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Fin. Com
French Nuns Reach Ireland After Flight From Belgium
Abbess Perge, 80, of the Irish Nuns of Ypres, died at the convent in Edermine County Wexford Ireland. She fled Belgium during the German invasion with fellow nuns on a long journey that left them destitute in England. The community found a home at Edermine aided by John Redmond’s niece. They buried a captured Fontenoy flag for safety before fleeing.
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England
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Fontenoy
France
Park Seized for War Work in London’s Whitehall Gardens
The Whitehall Gardens on the Thames embankment have been commandeered by the government to become large annexes for nearby offices. Statues of Outram Bartle Frere and William Tyndale will be hidden to shield them during the war and the garden restored afterward.
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Whitehall Gardens
National Liberal Club
Thames Embankment
Outram
Bartle Frere
William Tyndale
Waiter Wage Letter Urges Living Pay and Fair Terms
George K. Ashenden of Somerville writes to the Post arguing waiters deserve a real raise after long stagnation. He cites October 1916 expenses for a family of six, urging hotel proprietors to provide a $10 weekly raise and better conditions, guided by the Golden Rule.
Minard's Liniment Offered for Instant Pain Relief at Home
A vintage ad touts Minard's Liniment as a ready remedy for severe pain from lumbago neuralgia rheumatism and backache plus sprains bruises and minor burns and cuts. It claims antiseptic healing properties and quick relief for tired muscles feet and hands urging readers to ask any druggist.
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