Half Time Mother and a Boy in Sing Sing
A widow, Mrs. Chapman, struggles to support two sons after her teenaged boy Paul is sent to Sing Sing for murder connected to a botched burglary. The piece argues for more prevention, mothers pensions, and community support to keep children from crime, urging lawmakers to help create stable homes and safer streets.
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Sing Sing
Chapman
Paul
Davis
Leonidas
Paul Chapman
New York State
New York
Dole
Land of Kultur
King's County
Brooklyn
St. Bartholomew's Church
Gas in the Stomach Promotes Bisulated Magnesia Use
An advertisement warns that gas and bloating signal excess stomach acid and risk gastritis and ulcers. It urges daily Bisulated Magnesia after meals to neutralize acid, relieve gas, and prevent sourness or pain, claiming safety, low cost, and wide usage.
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Q. A. Gorgas
Daily Dot Puzzle Clue Seeks PiMe Pattern From 1 To 2
A fragmented puzzle note lists numbers 24 30 33 3 5 and asks what PiMe has drawn. It hints a sequence from 1 up to 2 and beyond, inviting readers to deduce the hidden figure or pattern behind the digits.
American Soldiers in France To Have New FrancoAmerican Co operation
Paris reports the French government will create a new secretaryship for Franco American war cooperation due to rising American troop presence. Captain Andre Tardieu will head the department, splitting time between Paris and Washington, while remaining French High Commissioner to the United States. Premier Clemenceau sent the decree draft to President Poincare for immediate effect.
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Associated Press
Paris
France
Andre Tardieu
United States
Washington
Clemenceau
Poincare
Girls Taught to Swim at Age of Three
The article describes Mildred Pollak teaching about 200 California children to swim for free. Ages range from three to fourteen, with a clubhouse near the bay for bathrooms and a clubroom. The program promotes healthful recreation and shows early aquatic training.
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San Francisco
California
Golden Gate
Seal Rocks
Mildred Pollak
Miss Pollak
Hear Labor Differences Take Evidence at Bethlehem Plant
Bethlehem News dispatch reports National War Labor Board representatives concluded a two day inquiry into labor differences at Bethlehem Steel Company’s local plant. Testimony will be sent to Washington for board decision. General Henry A. Greene ordered to report to Washington. Brigadier General Foltz temporarily replaces him at Camp Lewis.
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Associated Press
Bethlehem
National War Labor Board
Bethlehem Steel Company
Washington
General Greene
Henry A. Greene
National Army
Camp Lewis
War Department
Frederick 8. Foltz
Lady's One Piece Apron Pattern No 8863
In this issue a simple dusting apron pattern No 8863 is shown for home use. It is cut from a single piece with four buttons and adjustable straps forming a belt effect. Available in bust sizes 36 40 and 44 inches, requiring small amounts of fabric. mailed for 12 cents to Fashion Department Harrisburg Pa.
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Doctor Fell
Red Cross
Destiny
Fashion Department
Telegraph
Harrisburg
Advice to the Lovelorn A Miss Fairfax column on keeping young women safe while away from home
A, B, C and D seek approval to stay overnight at a rented sea shore room through the summer. A, B have mothers’ consent, while C and D do not. The adviser urges parental acquaintance with the host, a guardian or chaperon, and suggests a weekend trial with maternal involvement to avoid gossip and risk.
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Miss Fairfax
C Or D
Fairfax
Anna The Forbidden Has A Dangerous Charm
Parents object to her having any boy friends at her home yet Anna is described as a girl with boy friends who is encouraged to have a simple, unselfconscious attitude toward male companionship. The piece praises home gatherings with invited boyfriends and calls the home a center of wholesome, honest social times.
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Miss Fairfax
Anna
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International News Service
By McManus
Neka
Siri
Beatrice Fairfax
Gale
Sonora
Ey Nocmil
Cal
Market Square
Eases
Lesher Whitman & CO. Inc
Broat’wey, New York
Upsher Whitman & CO
Goldsmith's
North Market Square
Daily Dot
Tardieu
Montaigne
Pensacola
Fla
Sylvester
Plainview
Annabel Worthington
Daugher
Jessly
Bowman’s
Carter’ Ittle
Ake
Carter
Grosttz
Tron
Gorgas
Violet Dulce
Rexall
Gorgas Drug Stores
N. Third St
Penna
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