New Workmen's Compensation Act Provisions Outlined
The article details six labor compensation acts administered by a commission. It covers disability payments for total and partial disability, with weekly amounts from 5 to 10 dollars and caps at 4000 dollars, and rules for reductions when partial disability follows or precedes total disability. It also lists permanent injury scales by body part, waiting periods, medical costs, and death benefits allocations to dependents, widows, or parents, including schedules for multiple children and dependents.
Cost of Shells in War shows rising daily shell costs
Lloyd George cites Austrian and German factories producing about 250000 shells daily and warns the Entente must match or exceed that. At $16 per shell, daily shell costs total about 43.76 million for each side, dwarfing soldier maintenance estimates and illustrating how shell costs drive overall wartime expenses despite armies in the field. The Dardanelles expedition and the spring offensive in Flanders are noted as contributing factors.
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Lloyd-George
Dardanelles
Flanders
No Pain Bobby Says He Will Not Compete
In a humorous exchange a commentator questions Bobby about risking pain on the road. Bobby replies he would not endure it in a car but would if he were at home.
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Bobby
Indy
World wheat acreage rises as Europe dodges full-scale battles
Department of Agriculture reports increased wheat plantings across the Northern Hemisphere. Russia maintains the largest area while the United States grows 11 percent to 59.4 million acres. Britain and several European nations show gains, with Canada and Italy also expanding. Japan declines slightly.
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Department of Agriculture
Germany
Russia
United States
British India
France
Canada
Italy
Spain
Hungary
Romania
Denmark
Great Britain
Switzerland
Japan
Remarkable Tribute From Black Preacher to White Pastor
A New York Sun correspondent quotes a negro preacher praising a white preacher who agreed to occupy the black preacher’s pulpit for a Sunday. He hails the divine as one of the greatest men of the age, saying he knows the unknowable, he can do the undoable, and he can unscrew the unscriptable.
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The
New York Sun
Christian Intelligencer
The Light Heart Lives Long Moral on Cheerfulness
Philosopher Lycurgus notes statues of the God of Mirth in Sparta. A cheerful disposition aids health by stabilizing the nervous system and reducing illness. Persistent cheerful habits benefit oneself and others, while brooding over troubles can worsen melancholia and physical distress. The saying remains the household reminder: the light heart lives long.
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Lycurgus
Sparta
Highlander Head Missing After Battle Bon Mots
A fragment from Tit Bits recalls a Scottish soldier killed in combat losing his head while a comrade reports the death to another Scot who asks where the head is as he smoked his pipe.
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Doings
Erma Hocker
Round Top
Shope’s
Clarence Erb
Ada
Ella
Elsi Peffley
Mt. Gretna
Joseph Carmany
George
Cyrus Witman
Roy
Harrisburg
Frank Hocker
Slyde Erb
Fishburn
Paxtang Park
Harry Oberdorf
Rutherford
Daniel Nornhold
Samuel G. ‘Dixon
Commissioner ‘of Health
Hershey Laundry
Hershey, Penna
Ershey
Hershey Chocolate Company
Hershey
Hershey’s
Hershey Chocolate Company, Hershey, Penna
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