Cost of Living Rises Sharply in 1916 Food Prices
The 1916 cost of food jumped 39 percent from 1907 levels, outpacing wage gains and reducing purchasing power. Bureau findings from 48 cities show food costs rising to 62 percent above 1907 by February, with idle-time effects and shortages blamed. Denny ONeill’s case illustrates a 60 cent weekly drop in real income despite higher weekly pay.
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Bureau of ‘Labor and Statistics
United States Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics
United States
Department of Commerce and Labor
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Denny
Denny O'Neill
Department of Labor
Music Carries Algy Away In Quieter Exchange
A woman asks if he sees music as Algy clings to the moment. He says music carries him away, she plays the piano, then asks if he is gone yet. He notes she claimed the mule carried her, but he said music did.
The Professor’s Banner in Washington Parade
A Princeton professor active in the women suffrage movement carries a banner in a Washington parade. His wife notices his dejected appearance and questions his effectiveness. He reveals the banner reads Any man can vote Why can't 12.
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Princeton
Washington
The skirt brigade and war time marriage attitudes
A Baltimore Sun letter rebuts claims that marriages by men are attempts to dodge military service. It notes many marriages were planned prewar, urges against labeling grooms as slackers, and argues Congress should bar matrimony from exempting duty.
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Baltimore Sun
The
Sun Today
Congress
Inventions Parade of Patented Devices
A roundup of new patents includes a wire loop insect cocoons remover, a Paris theatre with a reversible floor, a portable boiler heated paper remover, a combined cane umbrella bedcamp stool, Chicago piano stools with adjustable angles, German telescopic spectacles for extreme nearsightedness, an English polished steel roller for ironing lace, a bulb syringe for cleaning pipes, and driver seat operated shutters for auto radiators. The piece ends with a quatrain on grit and will from the Detroit Area Press.
Unclear legal matter cited in social chatter
Fragmentary quote about marriage motives appears in social chatter. The exchange hints at accusations of financial motive in matrimony but lacks context or identifiable names or locations for a full news item. Further details are needed to frame a concrete record.
The Light That Failed
A fragment notes Jenkina and his wife arguing over their marriage. She called him the light of her life but he kept going out too often, creating a rift and unanswered questions in their relationship.
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Jenkina
Women in War to Reduce Cost in National Effort
Mrs Woodrow Wilson Mrs Thomas R Marshall and the Cabinet women pledge to live simply deny unnecessary expenses and omit formal entertaining to save time and money for preparedness relief work and resource conservation urging all American women to follow suit.
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Woodrow Wilson
Thomas R. Marshall
America
Billy to the Boys Warns Against Vice and City Life
A speech urges boys to avoid cigarettes and alcohol and warns that criminals come from cities. It contrasts working in overalls for higher wages with city salaries and stresses self discipline, resilience, and anti vice in a hard hitting, period tone.
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Penitentiary
Electric Chair
Gettys Burg
How to Grow and Process Peanut Crops in One Season
The article outlines peanut cultivation from soil prep and planting after frost to vine drying and harvesting. It explains spacing, two inch coverage, and drying in sun before stacking. It notes yields of over 40 bushels per acre with some plants producing 100 nuts and details on separating sound kernels from damaged pods.
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Washington Star
Whom May I Say Cabled Queried
A terse exchange echoes as a caller asks if his wife is home and the responder questions who should be told. The brief line captures a domestic communication moment with sharp wit and ambiguity.
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Matt
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Millersville, Pa
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Stele
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Hershey, PA
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