Board of Health Backing City Swimming Pool Plan
Board of Health members voiced strong support for a city swimming pool and public health benefits. Local physicians and residents praised the idea, citing cleanliness, healthful exercise, and safer recreation for children and adults.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Health
Standardunani
Serenous
Bridgeport
Funes
William J
Lam Verry
Frank W. Stevens
D. H. Monahen
J. H. Callahan
QAL Workers 10 Present Demands in Ohio and Pa
Cleveland O Sept 19 The age scale demands to be presented by the soft coal operators in the intralL competitive field of Ohio Hindig and western Pennsylvania will serve as the basis of retire wage scales in bituminous fields nationwide. The convention of the United Mine Workers of America is to adopt the principal demands including a wage increase of about sixty percent and a six hour workday. The six hour day amendment to the constitution is favored, and the convention may call a general strike November 1 if demands are not met.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland, O
Ohio
Hindig
Pennsylvania
Mine Workers of America
Buffalo
Evidence Against Mexico At Senate Hearing
C H Rathbone of New York testified before the Senate foreign relations committee on oil forfeitures in Mexico. He cited the Scottish-Mexican Oil Co as property seized under presidential decrees and described how Mexican National Oil Co operations and penalties affected wells producing thousands of barrels daily. Judge Amos L Beaty followed, detailing seven cases where Exas Co refused to concede to confiscations and faced penalties that barred further drilling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mexico
Senate Foreign Relations
C. H. Rathone
New York
al Vez Oil Co
theottish-Mexican Oil Co
Scottishexican Company
Rathbone
Mexican National Oil Co
Amos L. Beaty
York
Afiormhey
Exas Co
Iaich
Divers find wreck of Valbanera amid hurricane wreckage
Off Rebecca Shoals twelve miles from Key West divers recover a 6000 ton hulk believed to be the Spanish passenger liner Valbanera missing since the hurricane swept the Gulf of Mexico ten days earlier. No trace of its 200 passengers and 149 crew is found, though calls from survivors may have been sent via improvised signals.
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Hulk
Rebecca Shoals
N- Key West
Gulf of Mexico
Havana
Ihhecea Shoal
Vulbanera
Wis
Morra Castle
Flint
Cuba
Bahamas
Marine Vireles
Banera
Spartacans Use Gambling Loophole as Recruitment Risk
Berlin dispatches report Spartacist agents are planted in gambling venues to lure heavy losers with promises of wealth, turning broke gamblers into recruits for the Spartacist movement. Berne notes authorities have intensified prosecutions of gambling houses to curb the agitation.
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Berne
Germany
Berlin
Women physicians and Chinese women knit for wages
Women physicians are not numerous in Japan, but some have been eminently successful. Chinese women can knit by machine eighteen dozen pairs of socks at a day at a wage of 34 cents a day.
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Japan
City to Begin Ash and Rubbish Collection November First
Bridgeport officials plan municipal ash and rubbish collection starting near November 1 after purchasing about 30000 dollars worth of equipment including two three ton Packard trucks and 16 trailers. Health Officer Dr. Walter H. Brown leads a study of curb and yard collection options, weighing costs and labor needs as the city zones collection and abandons ash bins.
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Board of Health
Walter H. Brown
Bridgeport
Health Department
Brown
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Jim Street
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Milwaukee
Cleveland
Chicago
Detroit
St. Louis
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Jones
Louvain
Cathédral
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Serges
Paris
Morocco
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Far East
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