How the Other Half Lives in Greater New York
Report from the New York State Factory Investigating Commission recounts shop girls testimonies on poverty in Manhattan and Buffalo. Wage data show many earn under 10 dollars weekly while meals are skipped to afford clothing and rent. vivid anecdotes contrast hardship with urban life in 19th century New York.
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Greater
New York
State
Keth
Packard
van Kleeck
Roswet
Skeel, Jr
Marie Orenstein
Editors praise early shipbuilding and Fulton engine
The passage recalls Adam and Noah Brown’s Manhattan shipyard and the dream of the United States ruling the seas. An editor lauds the Fulton as a formidable steam powered engine of defense, praising ingenuity and confidence in maritime security against threats in local waters.
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Adam
Noah Brown
Manhattan
United States
Iris the Lad Poets in English Italy Book Release
Iris, once a hustling newsie, now teaches Italian and writes as a literary hack. His book Lyrics of a Lad is on sale, praised by Ruskin Swinburne for verse written in his teens and claimed as the first English published Italian verse book in the country. Iris, twenty five, pushed factory work while gaining literary notice.
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Chicago
Ruskin
Gosse
Swinburn
Scharme
Iris
Newsie
Swinburne
New York
Italy
Attleboro Women Form Chamber to Boost Local Industry
Attleboro Massachusetts hosts a grand banquet uniting the new women’s chamber of commerce with the men’s chamber. Mrs S M Holman organized the women’s group, which counts nearly 109 members, to promote Attleboro industries.
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Attleboro
Mass
Commerece
United States
Attleboro Womere
S. M. Holman
Colonel Nolman
Attleboro Chamber
Women's Chamber
McMullen Brag Sells Ladies' Skirts at $1 Ad Sale
An advertisement notes McMullen Brag offering a wonderful lot of nasty items at $1.00 each with special prices on ladies' skirts.
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McMullen
Obituary notices from a city paper
Obituary items note funeral times and locations for Charles Herman Nast at 2:30 PM from 229 Bedford Street with Rev. Martin Luther Enders officiating and Rose Hill Cemetery interment. Catherine Elizabeth Wiegand's funeral is at 2 PM from her home with Greenmount Cemetery interment and family details. The notices include details on survivors, affiliations, and last names Wiegand Workmeister Kinney Frazier.
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C. Herman Hast
Charles Herman Nast
Bedford Street
Martin Luther Enders
St. Paul’s
English Lutheran Church
Rose Hill Cemetery
Anna Feick
Conrad Feick
Pittsburgh
George
Clinton, [l
John Neder
Mt. Savage, Md
Mary Workmeister
John L. Workmeister
Frank A. Workmeister
Cleveland Fights For Three Cent Electric Light
Cleveland opens its case before the state utilities commission to uphold a three cent per kilowatt hour limit on electricity. The city contends its municipal light plant has offered three cent light profitably for years while the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co argues the rate is no longer feasible. A ruling could lead to the city purchasing the private plant if the city prevails, with an appeal to the state supreme court possible.
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Columbus
Cleveland
State Utilities Commission
Cleveland Electric I Luminating Company
Utilities Commission
State Supreme Court
Navy to open bids for giant new submarines
The Navy Department will open bids for several new submarines today. One vessel is planned larger than Germany's U-9 and designed to accompany the fleet anywhere, signaling a push for the world's largest submarines with immense power and construction.
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Washington
Navy Department
Germany
Tweedy Shares His Profits With Workers
Danbury Conn December 15 profit sharing expands as Arthur B Tweedy president of his silk mills awards workers a share of profits. About 150 operatives receive the plan following a prior ten percent voluntary wage increase given last January.
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Danbury, Conn
Arthur BE. Tweedy
Huson Speaks at New York Dairymen Breeders Convention
Rochester N Y December 15 State Agricultural Commissioner Huson will be a principal speaker at the three day joint convention of New York State Dairymen s and Breeders association He is president of the Dairymen s group and will address the meeting as it opens today
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Rochester
N. Y
Huson
New York State Dairymen’s and Breeders’ Association
Classified Ad Tip From The Press For Better Results
A brief note suggests placing an advertisement in The Press want columns to attract better results. It emphasizes trying the classified section for effective reach and outcomes.
Sheriff Sale of Green Ridge Poultry Farm Equipment
Sheriff Harry Irvine to sell on premises two miles from Green Ridge Station near Allegany County Maryland on December 22 1914 at 10 a.m. all interest of Green Ridge Poultry Company Incorporated in a listed farm including a four room frame house canning goods cook stove incubators chicken houses and white Orpington stock under a fieri facias issued in a suit of H Buchannon & Company against Poultry Company. Cash terms.
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Green Ridge
Allegany County
Maryland
Allegany Coun
H. Buchannon & Pany
Poultry Company
Allnterest
Eseen Ridge Poultry
Green Ridge Station
Western Maryland Railway
Green Ridge Poultry Company, Incorporated
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Carlton Ten Byck
United Press
O'Henry
Fenlousyway
Buffalo
Tuffalo
East River
Fulton
North Liberty Street
O. P. Bricker, Prop
Taxicab Co
Frank F
Centre St
Women's C. of
C. Dines
Porter Kinney
City Hospital
Parkersburg
W. Va
Emma David Kinney
Ethel
Millard Davis
Grand Avenue
Bessie Frazier
Andy Frazier
South Lee Street
Uncle Sam
Tweedy
AGRI
Holiday Trading
Whiting & Eppler, Attorneys
Third National Bank Building
Sheriff's Sale
aLloresaia
Harry Irvine
Dell Td
Cumberland Press
Footer’s Dye Works
Cumberland, Maryland
S. E. Kline
J. E. Harrison
Cumberland
Goodel
the Rembrant Studio
Powell's Jewelry Store
Halt & McDermott
South
Mechanic Street
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