Patriotism and post office pay during the 1916 border service
An editorial criticizes the Democratic administration for cutting salaries of National Guard and post office workers called to the border. It argues employers largely kept pay during service, but the government later withdrew wages leaving families in hardship. The piece contrasts eight hour laws for letter carriers with the Adamson act and questions the president’s eight hour claim.
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National Guard
United States
Sten
New Jersey
Congress
Democratic Party
Newark
Youth's Companion and McCall's offer in 1917 tariff discussion
A 1917 subscription pitch for The Youth's Companion and McCall's Magazine at two for the price of two dollars and ten cents. The text contests tariff protections and warns New Jersey readers about Underwood tariff effects and wartime shifts in trade and employment.
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Companion
Youth's Companion
McCall’s Magazine
Youth’s Companion
McCall
St. Paul St
Boston
Maas
Wilson on peace and war choices in his argument
Wilson states the alternative of peace is war. The counterpart claims the alternative of Wilson is war and is false.
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Wilson
Woman of Seventy Sees Modern Inventions in Columbus
Mrs. Emily Booker a seventy year old former slave visiting Columbus Ohio witnessed for the first time an electric car an elevator a moving picture show and a building over two stories high Her relatives told her about the war in Europe Her home was near North Middleton Kentucky about thirty miles from a railroad and near as far from a highway She recalled a wandering automobile party she had seen years earlier in the wilderness she has lived in.
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Columbus
Emily Booker
Europe
Rattlesnakes Use Rafts to Escape Floods and Bay
In Austin Texas J C Herring a Rockport ranchman says heavy floods push driftwood rafts from Guadalupe and other rivers into the bay where rattlesnakes are seen. The snakes cling to the drift as it moves toward islands and shorelines and are sometimes killed on these occasions. Nearby islands now host thousands of jackrab bits coastal wildlife shifts. Three Cats Mummified in Shoals Indiana.
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Austin
Tex
J. C. Herring
Rockport
Guadalupe
Texas
Mother's note touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
Mia C Irwin of New Kensington Pennsylvania says her son Edwin suffered croup until she used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. She warns mothers to keep a bottle at home and follow directions for relief. Obtainable everywhere.
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Edwin
Mia
BE. C. Irwin
New Kensington
Chamberlain
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