Indiana Inspector Urges New Child Labor Statutes
D H McAbee head of Indiana’s Inspection Department will seek legislative changes to protect young workers. Proposals include shortening weekly hours for 14 to 16 year olds to four or more in line with federal law, banning night labor, and extending inspectors, funding, and reporting requirements to boilers and safety standards in factories, hotels, theaters, and bakeries.
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D. H. McAbee
Indiana State Department of Inspection
Sondd
Shotduck hunter decoy hides as real victim in hunt
In Port Jarvis on November 30 Sirus Sampson a colored man known as a mighty duck hunter used a duck decoy rig. While returning with two ducks he was shot by Amos Gilfard and Charles Christianstein who mistook the cry of the decoy for a real victim. Sampson survived after a local doctor treated him and accepted payment in two ducks.
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Sampoon
Amos Gilfard
Charles Christianstein
Sampson
Arsenic Poisoning Scoops Auburn Household Mystery
Special to The Sum Auburn New York reports a mass arsenic poisoning linked to contaminated sugar used in frosting at the Wall mansion and a Lake Owasco summer cottage. M Willem F Walt head of Nye & Walt and Cayuga County Savings Bank was hospitalized with uncertain recovery alongside son W Byron Walt. Also affected were Rev Harvey Clements, Catherine Walsh, Margaret Hartnett, Anna Flynn, Mrs Josephine Watkins, Miss McFadden, Miss Harris, a nurse team, and a visiting guest. The event is described as perplexing with widespread illness and no clear culprit.
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Auburn
N.Y
M—Willem F. Walt
Nye
Harvey Clements
Walt
Auburn Theological Seminary
M Utter
Schenectady
Europe
Frederick Hencock
Wait
Margaret Hartnett
Anna Flynn
Josephine Watkins
Miss McFadden
Miss Harris
Skamateles
Catherine Walsh
Wall
Lake
Owasco
Profit in Picking Ferns in Hampshire Hills
Special to The Sum Springfield Massachusetts November harvests fern picking as rural families earn pin money. Fern leaves used for decoration come from rugged hills in Hampshire County. Workers gather sword ferns by October with long knives, roots left intact, then bundle them for delivery to city florists. Some households contract to supply thousands weekly, while others collect wintergreen leaves and sell to drug firms in Boston and New York.
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Springfield
Mass
Hampshire Hills
Hampshire County
Massachusetts
Huntington
Springfeld
Holyoke
Boston
New York
Teething Remedy Ad Promises Fast Relief for Children
An old advertisement touts Twenty five cents per bottle Latett Buffet as the best soothing remedy for teething babies. It claims to calm pain, soften guts, and relieve wind colic, presenting it as the top choice for distressed children during teething.
Roosevelt lead charge denied by army officer says speech fact
An army officer questions Roosevelt's role in the San Juan charge while a social club joke spans water cooler talk. A remark on the airship stock prompts humor about not investing. Mrs Swellden’s clothing choice sparks gossip at a club meeting. The president’s Colon visit is noted as a notable historical moment. Labor news closes the column.
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Roosevelt
San Juan
Teddy
Dying after tooth extraction accident at New Castle
Special to The S New Castle Pa Nov 2 John Pollock dies as result of tooth extraction last Saturday when forceps slipped and cut an artery in his tongue. Despite efforts to stop bleeding his life ebbs away.
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S$ New Castle
John Pollock
Smashed Window Shock Trial in Schenectady
Joseph Retmy a Brooklyn blacksmith, unemployed and desperate, threw a dress suitcase through a $600 plate glass window of a local department store to compel arrest. He awaited police action and was later bound over to the grand jury. potential four year prison term. Witnesses in Fond du Lac breach of promise suit testified to repeated meetings between Miss Mary Sulbert and William C. Reinig, including plate and other details.
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Schenectady
Joseph Retmy
Brooklyn
Fond DU Lac
Wia
Mary Sulbert
William C. Reinig
John Frethery
Armist Fotter
Frederick Linden
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