Wives of Turks Wove Basra by Force
Relief for Basra’s Turkish households under British occupation enables wives to live in their customary manner. Pensioned Turkish officials and families of POWs receive allowances with the chief political officer processing applications via bazaar translators.
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Louis Edgar Browne
Chicago News
Basra
Arabia
Turkey
Ashar
Ashar Creek
Turk
America
Mohamed Akhmed
Turkish War Pension Allowances Reported in Colonial Era Aid
A report details monthly allowances granted to Turkish workers and their families, including a range from 4 cents a day to 15 dollars a month. It notes 60 pensioners of the former regime and over 200 families aided, with few false claims among hundreds of applications.
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Fessy Bey
Basra
Tigris
Princess Radziwill Forced From Polish Home by War
The Princess Radziwill, once Dorothea Deacon of Boston society, has fled from her historic Russian home Miewszely to Rome due to the war. She recently received the cross of St. George from the emir and says Poland endures greater hardship than Belgium.
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Radziwill
Dorothy Deacon
Boston Society
Miexwlesy
Rome
Poland
Belgium
British War Office clothing boom fuels global supply
The war office built an immense textile program to outfit the new British army, turning vast quantities of woolen cloth, blankets, buttons, boots, and uniforms into a fighting machine. By April 1, needs surged to tens of millions of yards of cloth and millions of garments, with logistics spanning London and northern centers.
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London
War Office
Can Artuy
Tell Httle
France
Hug
Army
Leeds
Russia
Daughter of the Sea Joins the James Johnson Aboard
Evelyn Hansen a seven year old girl from Seattle accompanies her father HL Hansen captain of the barkentine James Johnson on a voyage to Australia. Born at sea she has spent over four years on ships and can name the mizzen spars and mud hook while obeying the captain though a crew member’s orders spark visible disgust.
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Seattle, Wash
Evelyn Hansen
Hansen
Barkentine
James Johnson
Australia
Evelyn
High Seas
Sweden
Dledala
Indiana committee urges voluntary admission to insane hospital
A state committee on mental defectives proposes a law for voluntary admission to the Indiana State Insane Hospital to reduce stigma and provide treatment. The panel, led by Stev. FLO Gavish, cites about 5 000 epileptics and 20 000 feeble minded in the state needing care, and recommends expanded facilities, stricter marriage laws, and school mental testing.
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Indianapolis
Stev. Flo. Gavish
Board of State Charities
George 8. Bliss
Fort Wayne
Frank Culbertson
Vincennes
George F. Edentarter
Central Hospital For the Insane
Charles P. Emerson
Indiana University
School of Medicine
Charles A. McGonable
Munele
Samuel E. Smith
Eastern Hospital
the Tosine
Richmond
WC. van Nuys
Newccastle
Amos W. Butler
Indiana
Hie
Sach As &. Vincent's
Ft. Wayne
Newcastle
New Incorporations and Capital Changes Reported
White River Sanatorium at Marthnaville registers with 900000 capital under directors A J Coppock J H Storm and Oscar Lee. Weldely Motors of Indianapol is boosting capital from 350000 to 000000. American Dairy of Indianapolis increases from 10000 to 80000. Emery Petroleum of Delaware ceases operations in IsMavs.
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White River Sanatorium Company
Marthnaville
A. J. Coppock
J. H. Storm
Oscar Lee
Weldely Motors Company
Tindianapolis
American Dairy Company
Ind@ianapolis
Hans
Emery Vetroleum Company of
Delaware
Manslaughter verdict in Vincennes case from Easter card game
Vincennes report says Joe Dale was found guilty of manslaughter for shooting Ray Glenn during a card game last Easter and sentenced to state prison for two to twenty-two years. Columbus item notes Thomas Brand and James Settles escaped injury when their automobile overturned. Brand was teaching Settles to drive and both escaped with minor injuries.
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Vincennes
Joe Dale
Ray Glenn
Columbus
Thomas Brand
James Settles
Brand
Bettles
Efficient Employers and the Efficiency of Labor Leaders
The piece notes the importance of efficiency among engineers and employers, citing H. W. Thornton, a famed railroad engineer who led the Great Eastern railway in England. It praises his skill at managing people and listening to workers, beyond technical mastery.
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H. W. Thornton
Great Eastern Railroad
England
Thornton
Fragments of Beauty Ads and a Burglar Tale
A collage of old ads and a crime anecdote. An early product pitch for Cuticura skin cream promises free samples by mail from Boston. A burglar story references Scribbins and a manuscript theft, followed by a dubious health ad for Dr. Peery's Dead Shot asserting a single dose worm treatment.
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Mal
Cuticura
Dept
Boston
Sniff and Nose Guide to Flubdub Market Quip
A humorous exchange from the Louisville Courier-Journal features a character asking for directions to Flubdub's Bab market and another suggesting to follow the nose. The dialogue lampoons guidance method with a pun on scent and hunting.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Spiteful talk frames a consequential marriage plan
In a terse exchange from the Bone ton Evening Transcript a woman complains about not affording a new dress while others assume she marries for wealth. A man questions the social assumption and defends the match.
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Boneton Evening Transcript
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Shila
Daughter OF the Sea
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Inco
Charles A. Bookwalter
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Fairmount
A. G. Lupton
Hartford City
Indiana State Organization
Highway Committee
Claypont Hotel
Indiana State Organizations Highway Committee
General Assembly
I. U. Theg
College of Liberal Arts
Munle
Praises Utilities Commission
Leonard Metcalf
Mans
In: Mana Public Service Commission
United States
Metcalf
Indiana Commission
New York
Wisq
Massachusetts
California
New Jersey
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Bright
Doan
Derry
Ohio
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Scribbins
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Lee
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