England's Play Problem and Child Welfare Postwar Reforms
The piece argues the new British health minister will push reforms to aid poor children through national playgrounds supervised recreation and teacher training. It notes London’s slums lack structured play, the police’s influence on youth, and calls for better understanding and integration of child welfare services.
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England
London
Fvo
Bobby
Hampstead Heath
East End
Whitechapel
Aart A. Ae
Poisons Varied Fatal Risk Across Species
The article notes poisons affect species differently with rapid death in humans from some substances while animals tolerate higher doses. It cites dogs and horses tolerating ten times a lethal dose per body weight, pigeons five times, and frogs four times as much without harm.
Boy Scout Founder Baden-Powell Visits America
Lieut. Gen. Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement in England in 1908, is in America to promote an international organization. Knighted in 1909, he is lauded as a major British military figure with service in India Afghanistan South Africa and Malta. His notable Mafeking defense in the Boer War remains his most famous episode.
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Robert Baden-Powell
America
Boy Scout Movement
England
Sir Robert
Great Britain
Hussars
India
Afghanistan
South Africa
Malta
Mafeking
Two Commodities Rise After Armistice Price Comparison
The only two foods cheaper in 1918 than 1913 onions and coffee have risen since the armistice. A Bureau of Labor Statistics price comparison shows both now 50 percent above pre war standards, highlighting a postwar price surge.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Montreal Plan to Ease Housing Shortage
Montreal plans to combat a housing shortage with a government funded program between 4.0 and 5.0 million dollars. The city will appoint five public spirited citizens to manage housing projects with a central manager and loaned funds for workers and approved contractors. Loans run 20 years at 5.25 percent with a 7 percent lighting fund option. Eligible borrowers are low salaried workers, not limited to manual laborers.
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Montreal
Administrative Commission
City of
Commission
Golden Spike Celebration Marks Union Pacific Fifty Years
Utah May 8 commemoration of the joining of Union Pacific and Central Pacific to form the first transcontinental line. Parade pageant and speeches by Governor Bamberger and railroad officials planned with pioneers attending.
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U. P
Southern Pacific
Iden
Utah
Ogden
UC Pacific
Central
Bamberger
Union and
Southern Pacific Raijroada
Nental
Anies
Central Prowle
Utah Promontory Point Jubilee Marks Fifty Years
The event recalls the 1869 linking spike drive by Dr. Thomas Quarant and Governor Leland Stanford at Promontory Point. More than twenty Utah and California pioneers will attend as part of the semi centennial exercises planned near Ogden.
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Promontory Point
Ogden
Thomas Qurant
Leland Stanford
California
Union
Central Pacific
Utah
Thousands of Acres Under Water First Time In Big Horn
DASIN Wyo May 8 Thousands of acres of new land are brought under cultivation this year in northern Big Horn county under the government irrigation project at Denver. Denver has grown from a way station to a town with a newspaper and up to date stores. Tractors plow and harrow in one pass and sage brush is removed by machinery. Five to six thousand acres of new land are in crop near Denver, mainly wheat and oats, to be followed by alfalfa after harvest.
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Dasin
Wyo
Big Horn County
Denver
Frannie
Cowley
Cowsty
Bad Innis
Natrona County Raids Clean Up In Casper In Morning Sweep
About two hundred people were arrested from 1 30 to 6 in raids led by Sheriff Tobin in the Sandbar district. Inmates and hangers on were taken to police court as fines or sentences were handed down. Four thousand dollars in fines was collected and the offenders were ordered to leave town on the first train.
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Natrona County
Casper
Wyo
Tobin
Small tanks headed to Pacific coast artillery stations
Four baby tanks destined for Pacific coast artillery stations passed through Cheyenne yesterday over the Union Pacific. The caterpillar tractors are the smallest tanks seen in the area.
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Coast Artillery
Pacific Coast
Cheyenne
Union Pacific
Lumbermen Meet to Discuss Conditions in Cheyenne
Lumber dealers of Cheyenne including Cluffs Egbert Carpenter Hillsdale Burns Kimbell and Otter met yesterday to discuss trade conditions and interests. The gathering at Moon featured a dinner for the family items.
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Cheyenne
Cluffs
Egbert
Carpenter
Hillsdale
Burns
Kimbell
Otter
Abia Winity
Moon
Pyi
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Rial
Carey Avenue
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Asa Whitney
New York
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Great Central Plains
Lincoln Obora
Qukos Ames
Massachusetts
Big Horn
Pacific Stations
Laramie County
Bankers and Stockmens Trust Co
Wyoming
Pierse
Jst
Pierce
Utah Canning Co
Western State Oil & Land CO
Buck Creek
Rock Oly
Lance Creek
Joseph Gaetet
Marvey
Hawley & Garet
Attys
Douglas
Wye
O. Emery
la Bonte
Porter
Converse County Bank
G. Virtus
Becy
Hawley
Jonigh Gare
K. &. Whipple
Virtue
Winslow Taylor & Company
Volidated Stock Exchange
Widener
Philadelphia
Merkel
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