Gas Utility Case Sparks Public Debate Over Service Charge
The Consumers' League challenges a 50 cent monthly service charge on gas bills as unfair and discriminatory, arguing revenue should come from higher gas prices. The Gas Light Company cites rising coal and oil costs and cites a six percent return as justification.
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Gas Light Company
Hartford
Petiioners
Price of a Childs Life in Central Europe This Winter
An appeal highlights that three and a half million children in Central Europe face starvation this winter. It argues ten dollars saves one child and a hundred saves ten, urging American donations through approved channels. President Wilson contributed two hundred dollars to aid twenty lives.
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Europe
America
Wilson
Auction Item Sparks WWI Tale From Anderson Galleries
A sale at Anderson Galleries in New York featured a notable WWI exploits item. The auction highlighted a remarkable relic tied to a great war and its compelling narrative.
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Anderson Galleries
New York
Representative Small Ends Clothing Pact With Retirement
Washington Dec 16 for years Rep Small of North Carolina paid R C Bland a new suit for each additional child. After sending fourteen suits, Small says the contract ends with his March 3 retirement. Bland, now with thirty four children, notes eighteen still live at home. The family photo moment drew a buzzard shadow and a joke about a stork. Bland says raising fifty is no harder than ten with older children helping. Grocery bill runs about 150 dollars weekly despite personal food production.
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Small
North Carolina
R. C. Bland
Carolina
Bland
Congress
Robersonville
Here
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German Frauleins Demand American Pointed Shoes
Berlin observers report a fashion shift as German frau and fraulein favor pointed shoes with long vamps. cobblers warn that sanitation and pure water, not serum, prevented typhoid in past wars, while inoculation alone failed in others. history may repeat if serum is overvalued.
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Frau
Fraulein
Sir Almoth Wright
Great
San Antonio
Nogsuchi
Editorial notes on a Canadian grazing concession and coastal erosion
The column discusses a $750000 Canadian venture called the American Reindeer company granted a 73.50 square mile grazing concession north of the Churchill River. It notes broad animal protection trends, a missed earlier start, and expected spring progress. It also covers unrelated incidents from Rhoda Island, a lighted car question, and a Massachusetts sea cliff erosion threat near Highland Light with the fog horn house at risk.
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American Reindeer Company
Churchill River
Massachusetts
North Truor
Highland Light
Fog Horn
Aundreg
Dr Noguchi Vaccine Called Modern Jenner Step
The article recalls past yellow fever scourges from the Revolutionary era to Cuba and the South after the Civil War. It praises Dr Hideyo Noguchi of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research for a yellow fever vaccine and compares the breakthrough to Jenner’s vaccination. It notes sanitation and diet as factors in reducing smallpox deaths and contrasts inoculation with vaccination.
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New London
South
Cuba
Island
Hideyo Noguchi
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Harvey
Jenner
Pajamas and Christmas Accessories Sold at Annex
Listing of striped outing flannel pajamas in gray green black and heather at 65 cents. Christmas boxes include a heavy black leather belt and garters in several colors priced at five dollars. A miscellaneous assortment features checks and stripes with soft cuffs, annex prices 1 dollar 33 and 5 cents.
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