Armistice Reduces Employer Requests For Women Help
Washington Feb 10 Reports by the federal employment service show employer requests for female help down 48 per cent since the armistice while women registrations fall 12 per cent. For the week ending Jan 18 applications totalled 3 742 versus 68 059 on Nov 2. January filings were 21 662 against 24 569 on Nov 2. The decrease spanned nearly every state with labor surpluses. The service estimates about 11 million women depend on their earnings and may be kept permanently employed.
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It's Not Your Heart It's Your Kidneys
An early 20th century health ad urges readers that kidney disease drives most illnesses. It promotes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as a remedy, claiming rapid relief and lasting health with ongoing use, and guarantees money back if not helped.
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Haarlem
Mystery surrounds 19 year old held on larceny charges in Roxbury
A 19 year old girl held at Charles Street jail on multiple larceny charges is suspected to be Bernadine Stallings of Boston or an Arkansas origin. Detectives Lyon and Hartnett grilled her. she offered no information, smiling through the interview. College girls from Wellesley Simmons and Marycliffe reported stolen items, including a $155 necklace and a $69 ring, totaling about $1500 identified in recovered loot.
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Wellesley, Simmons and Marycliffe Academy
Helen Brugner
Wellesley
Edna Love
Welena Dodge
Miss Love Iden
Ask America to Aid Russia Appeal From Mme Breshkovska
In New York on February 10 Mme Catherine Breshkovska, the grandmother of the Russian revolution, urged America to aid Russia in forming a freely chosen constituent assembly and establishing a democratic constitution. She warned Russia faces a long struggle against Bolshevik treachery and pleaded for U.S. support in the crisis.
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Russia
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Bessie Abott Opera Singer Dies in New York
Mrs. T. Waldo Story known as Bessie Abott an opera singer of note died Sunday night at her New York home after months of illness. Her career spanned from popular vaudeville style songs to grand opera, earning wide fame in the United States and Europe.
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Europe
Bessie Abott
New York
Coat Thief Sentenced After McCall Coat Theft
Thomas J. McLaughlin, who took former Governor Samuel W. McCall’s $400 fur coat from a car outside the State House on Derrie Street, was sentenced yesterday to 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 years in State prison. He has prior time at the institution.
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Samuel W. McCall
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Ice Mint promises painless corn removal for stylish feet
Advertisement touts Ice Mint from a Japanese product that allegedly shrivels and lifts corns and calluses with no pain. It claims hard and soft corns, even between toes, can be removed root and all after a touch. Warns against cutting to avoid blood poisoning and urges购买 from a druggist for immediate cooling relief.
Swamp Root touted for kidney and bladder relief
The ad targets women with kidney and bladder issues claiming Swamp Root restores kidney health and eases related symptoms. It invites readers to request a sample by sending ten cents to Dr Kilmer and Co in Binghamton NY and notes availability in drug stores for larger sizes.
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Kilmer
Missing girl Bernadine Stallings linked to diamond theft
Miss Bernadine Stallings known as Dine was identified through a gift card found at her rooming house after she was arrested. Police Captain Jeremiah Gallivan traced rings pawned in South Boston and matched a solitaire diamond to a stolen property case at 162 Huntington Avenue Roxbury Crossing.
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Miss Norris
Huntington Avenue
Jeremiah Gallivan
Roxbury Crossing
World War Narratives From New England Division
The Post begins a series of personal WWI experiences by members of New England’s division. The stories will continue daily in The Daily and Sunday Post.
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the Post
New England
Daily
Sunday Post
Despatch rider recalls Château Thierry mission and brave comrade
In a wartime reminiscence a despatch rider recounts July 20 at Château Thierry. He and his pal volunteer to deliver artillery orders, face heavy shelling and German snipers, and both are wounded. Only four of twelve reach the artillery, with the pal killed while refusing to abandon the mission.
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Chateau Thierry
Harvard Yale ticket loses in New Ashford showdown
The Harvard-Yale reform ticket, elected at a New Ashford town meeting, is ruled illegal by Judge Hibbard. Yale graduate Guy Wade and Thomas Leahy led the reform slate with a show of hands and a yea nay vote, while Elmer Beach challenged the process after 20 years on the school committee.
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arevard-Yale Fusion Reform
New Ashford
Hsa
Guy Wade
Yale
Thomas Leahy
Harvard
Elmer P. Beach
Hibbard
Military Governor Named for San Domingo
Washington Feb 10 Rear Admiral Thomas Snowden has been detailed as military governor of San Domingo and as military representative of the United States in Haiti. He has been on temporary duty in the office of naval operations in Washington.
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Thomas Snowden
San Domingo
United States
Haiti
Admiral Snowden
Office of Naval Operations
Washington
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