New York Girls Get Lodging and Food for Four Dollars a Week
New York Feb 6 a benefactor opens Varick House a six story fireproof boarding home at 11 Dominick Street for eighty shop and factory girls room and board with luncheon priced from 4 to 4 75 weekly a sewing room a foundry and a Colonial easy chair in every room Margaret Shearer Bryn Mawr will run the house which aims to ease the burden of low earnings for young workers amid new facilities and reduced red tape. Also Oakland bands rehearse weekly under Harry Rasche with members listed and plans for concerts.
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New York
Varick House
New England
Margaret Shearer
Bryn Mawr
Long Trip For Basketball Team Across the West
The Illinois Athletic Club basketball team departs Chicago on February 7 for a record amateur title defense. The journey spans weeks and covers the Pacific coast and back, with games scheduled in Missouri Colorado Wyoming Utah California Oregon Idaho Montana and North regions.
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Chicago
Ill
Illinois Athletic Club
Missouri
Colorado
Wynn
Utah
California
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
North
Honey finding bird proved a fact from Africa voyage
The article recounts Col Roosevelt's Africa journey and The Press promotion of the honey bird tale as fact. It cites Kermit led to honey, birds guiding porters, and honey left for birds, suggesting instinct to serve humans. It also previews a gift-book and mentions Tipperary's town history and railway link.
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John Burroughs
Col. Roosevelt
Africa
Kermit
Most Powerful Electric Engine Tested at Bluefield
Bluefield West Virginia February 6 reported the Norfolk and Western Railroad tested the most powerful electric locomotives in use. Fourteen thousand horsepower started a single full tonnage coal train on the Elkhorn Division, with engines at both ends to avoid coupling strain. The system regenerates braking energy, feeding it back to the line through a single phase 13 000 volt supply.
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Bluefield
W. Va
Elkhorn
Norfolk & Western R. R
America
New York
Bluestone
Norfolk & Western
Hoof and mouth disease hits Jersey City stock yards
Jersey City on February 6 reports a outbreak of hoof and mouth disease. Thirteen steers were found affected and segregated, and authorities ordered the immediate slaughter of eleven thousand head of cattle sheep and hogs to prevent further infection.
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Jersey City
Swan ton Constable Sends Rabid Dog to Institute
Constable Theo George of Swanton Garrett County sent the head of his dog to the Pasteur Institute in Baltimore for examination. It proved to have rabies or hydrophobia. The dog had not bitten a person but had attacked a cow, pig and another dog, all under observation.
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Theo, George
Swanton
Garrett County
Pasteur Institute
Baltimore
George
Washington Lunch Room Offers 50 Cent Turkey Dinner
Advertisement invites families to the Washington Lunch Room for a Sunday turkey dinner priced at 50 cents, promising relief from cooking drudgery.
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Washington
Cabinet member’s daughter off to wage nurse duty
Miss Nona McAdoo, daughter of the secretary of the treasury, and Miss Catherine Britten sail on the Lusitania to the Riviera to train as war nurses in San Remo. Secretary McAdoo says their service abroad will depend on circumstances and notes a two and a half month private nursing course in Washington. Mrs Edward M House accompanies them as far as London.
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New York
Lusitania
Europe
Nona McAdoo
the Treasury
Catherine Britten
Riviera
Edward M. House
London
Britten
McAdoo
San Remo
Washington
Englishman Hurt by Zeppelin Bomb
Edward Ellis of Yarmouth, injured in the Zeppelin raid on the English coast two weeks ago, was in a house destroyed by bombs and is expected to recover.
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Edward Ellis
Yarmouth
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Hal
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Roy Hinebaugh
Lloyd Casteel
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William Lawton
Paul Little
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Henry III
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Edison Electric Ill. CO
Union Street
L. W. Bullard
Cumberland
South Centre Street
J. H. Holzshu & Co. Real Estate
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Seaver & Geare
Walsh Building Telephone
Cumberland, Md
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North Centre Street
Habig Brothers
Habig & Stegmaier
Plendid
Moose Home
Maryland Ave
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Fred. Merten’s
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