Immigration Puzzles Uncle Sam From Russia to Italy
Immigrants flock yearly from Russia Austria Hungary and Italy facing illiteracy rates up to 48 percent. The piece argues poor conditions in Europe push desperate migrants to America, crowding eastern cities and fueling crime and social strain. It notes health risks from overcrowded districts and calls for rural settlement to ease the burden.
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Russia
Europe
United States
Black Hand
Germany
Scandinavia
United Kingdom
Uncle Sam
Austria
Hungary
Italy
New York Sweatshop Strikes Rally Workers and Waiters
In New York, a multiweek strike by 150000 garment workers and a separate waiter strike disrupt restaurants and hotels. Leaders condemn pay and hours while hunger and cold drive relief appeals. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn champions action and urges exposing kitchen conditions to board of health and press.
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New York
Prohatfi
Garment Workers
Roosevelt
Progressive Party
Garment, Trades, Tn
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
Y. M. Cga
Elizabeth Gurley Lynn
Miss Flynn
Board of Health
Nevada Divorce Law Threatens Elite Heartmending
An editorial warnings that Nevada may extend the six month divorce residence to one year prompting a rush to Reno. It argues the change would hurt the aristocracy’s divorces and push wealthy clients to Mexico, with Reno as a sanitarium for “wounded hearts” seeking cures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
Reno
Mexico
South Dakota
New York
United States
After the Stage The Cloister
Louise Huff who played Tirzah in Ben Hur plans retirement to a cloister at season’s end. The decision, stemming from Catholic heritage and religious nature, suggests the stage can nurture virtue and self respect.
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Wallace
Ben Hur
Louise Huff
Tirzah
The Marriage of Helen Gould and F. J. Shepard
The marriage links Miss Helen Gould who is valued at about 40 million dollars with F. J. Shepard, a man of modest means. Gould is famed for philanthropy across Y M C A efforts, rescue homes, and tenement districts and for national work aiding women, with a life guided by helping the less fortunate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Gould
F. J. Shepard
Miss Gould
Rescue Home
Fighting with wooden bullets in the Balkan crisis
A war reporter finds steel cartridges for practice shooting with painted wooden dials, suggesting Turkey fights with wooden bullets while adversaries use modern arms. The piece condemns Ottoman misrule, dissension within the army, and the long decline from a once feared power, praising Midhat Pasha for constitutional attempts.
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Balkans
Turkey
Mussulinan
la Revolution
Europe
Arabia
Africa
Sterling
Midhat Pasha
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East
Myself
Adrianople
Othman
Oregon Coast
Joe
Nita
Paradise
Newport
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