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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1916
Page
6
The text presents life expectancy by gender race and age, noting females live longer than males across groups. It discusses median age at death, urban rural differences, and how life expectancy changes with age and location based on early 1900s statistics.
The article notes a wartime shift boosting Chinese rug demand in the United States as Persian and Asia Minor weavings become scarcer. Russians and Turks fight in Asia Minor, cutting classic rug shipments, prompting a surge in Chinese rug shipments to American markets.
Schumann-Heink the world’s greatest contralto will appear at Harrisburg Pennsylvania Chestnut Street Auditorium on Tuesday May 9. The booking by the familiar management promises a major musical event with popular priced seats available and orders to C M Sigler 30 North Second Street Harrisburg.
A period piece notes that fear of inherited disease should ease as advances in medicine cut heredity from being a direct cause. It cites Cancer as the clearest example and cites quotes from the New York Herald and health bodies saying defects may be inherited but disease is not strongly inherited.
A compilation of statements on women's roles and labor across countries and fields. It notes excess numbers of women in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden, British munition workers, U.S. wages, women in golf and tennis, and various domestic and professional occupations.
The bulletin explains Mocha and Java are just coffee names, not places. It traces coffee origins from Abyssinia to Jamaica 1718 and notes Brazil now supplies most of the world’s coffee while Mocha town declines as a port.
A simple cheap homemade shower bath uses a 2 or 4 gallon tin bucket with a punched bottom pipe and rubber hose to create a vertical shower. The setup includes a rope pulley tied to a window joist for raising and lowering the bucket and a clothespin to stop water flow.
A bachelor jeers at a widower during a domestic dispute, taunting that men are slow at sewing. The widower defends skill, promising the button will endure, as the judge presides over the humorous exchange in court.
A young mother, still favoring marcel waves, is at work when a playful child on its father’s lap jokes about waves. The baby fingers touch the father’s pate and the child remarks, No waves for you, father, You’re all beach.
The Philadelphia Inquirer denounces non citizens voting in Western states arguing thousands of aliens vote in local and federal elections after six months residence. It condemns the illegal practice as dangerous and urges ending the alien ballot to protect native American voters.
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