Unwise to Burn Oil Stoves in Sleeping Rooms
A Kansas agitator notes health risks from burning oil or gas stoves in bedrooms and urges caution. The column also mentions Richard Henry Stoddard, France's President Loubert, and a New Brunswick school board ending vertical handwriting. It reports on women’s earnings rights, Kansas physician counts, and Jewish suicide statistics in the United States, England, Russia, and Avatria with no given cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
England
Russia
Avatria
Indians Hold Power in Thurston County Nebraska
The Omaha Bee notes Thurston County Nebraska is effectively decided by its small population of about 6000 split between Winnebago and Omaha Indiana and equally divided white voters with Indians exercising the right to vote. The piece also critiques stock market failures and warns about will contests and estate protection amid rising legal disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha Bee
Thurston County
Neb
Winnebago
Omaha Indiana
Hungry hen saves farmer wheat crop in Iowa tale
A Clay county farmer in Iowa found a hen nesting on eight hundred hunkels of wheat, delaying sale to avoid disturbing the brood. While awaiting the chick’s emergence, wheat prices rose and the farmer ultimately earned more by leaving the grain in the bin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clay County
Towa
Open Air Education and Labor in Modern Training
A long excerpted discussion advocates manual training and outdoor education as essential to forming capable, healthy citizens. It laments the shift from open air schooling to confined indoor routines and lauds the farm’s physical discipline as shaping mind and body. It notes clerks unionizing to close late hours and highlights wage contrasts for women in domestic work.
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H. W. Foster
Ithaca
New York
The
Independent
Ifo
Bacon Ao
Labor nominees may boost Indiana lawmakers tally
Indianapolis News notes labor would gain representation in the Indiana General Assembly if nominated labor candidates win. Known slates include two in Marion county with likely two more, two in Madison, two in Delaware, one in Floyd, and one in Allen counties, aiming for at least eight members.
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Tabor
Organized
Indiana
Reading
Marion County
Madison County
Delaware County
Floyd County
Allen County
General Assembly
Indianapolis News
Clerks' Forty-Closing Movement Gains Chicago Coverage
Retail clerks patrol neat side streets every Wednesday and Friday nights to urge storekeepers to close after six. The agitation has persisted for months, with nearly every clerk and Bat mentioned in city reports.
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Retail Clerks Union No. 565
Building ‘Trades Council
Chicago Federation of Labor
Chicago American
Locked-out cigarmakers receive $70000 aid in New York strike
Cigar Makers Journal reports 70000 contributed by cigarmakers to support 6000 non-union workers locked out in New York. The union funds exclude strike benefits and other trades’ contributions. Employers warned they risk losing a market. some workers refused to return unless union conditions end. International Clearmakers' Union promises benefits while they stay out.
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Cigar Makers’ Journal
New York
Organized Labor Movement
International
Onion
Independent factors in Kokomo plan new creaned ware plant
D. G. Jenkins of Greentown, longtime head of Western factories for the National Ginsa Company, has sold his holdings and will establish a new independent creaned ware plant in Kokomo. The Greentown plant remains under the trust, to be operated from that site. The Kokomo factory will employ 200 workers and is linked to a fuel contract with J. M. Leach & Co, which controls gas in Howard and Grant counties and owns a private Kokomo pipeline. Compressors are under construction on the line, with a site to be provided along the Lake Erie & Holt railway and the planned Indianspolis and Kokomo interurban line.
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Kokomo
Ind
Indianapolis News
D. G. Jenkins
Greentown
National Ginsa Company
National Company
Jeanking
J. M. Leach & Co
Howard
Grant Counties
Lake Erie & Holt Railway
Indianspolls
Building permits rise in Chicago despite lockout
July permits total 346 for buildings with 9 807 feet frontage, up from June 836. July estimated building cost 2 108 800 versus 1 111 900 in June. Report claims investor confidence grows as the lockout nears end.
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Wallding Bnatean
Chiewen
Chicago
Thin
Indianapolis Carriers Union Highlighted as Strong Local Model
Report notes the Indianapolis Carriers' union, composed solely of colored men and unaffiliated with a national body, is financially steadier and more effective at enforcing trade rules than other city groups. Organizers cite it as an example of why unskilled labor should organize.
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Indianapolis
Ita
Boston Journal Overtime Joke in City Transit Note
A clipped item from the Boston Journal mentions concerns about overlong work hours for inventors and warns against unsafe steps near streetcar operations. The note casts a wary eye on methods that could endanger riders and pedestrians amid ongoing improvements in city transit.
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Boston Journal
Henry Moore's hardship of raising sixteen children on $1.40 a day
Monroe Falls reporter details Henry Moore and his wife Mrs Moore sustaining a large family with scant funds. Acknowledging two children away, Norah’s marriage and Bertha in Akron, the couple describe buying wholesale, shoe costs, and wear from ill fitting footwear. The account links poverty to health and fatigue, urging better support and proper foot care.
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Henry Moore
Monroe
Louleville
John
Harry
Delia
Haxel
Mand
Deffany
Frank
Amos
Charley
Austin
Teaac
Roger
Eyeline
Ruswell
Chester
Bernice
Norah
Bertha Fa
Akron
Moore Baya
Low shoes harm ankles and feet warns St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A damaged clipping reports that low shoes cause ankle weakness and twisting, shifting body weight onto the foot’s bones, leading to soreness and burning. The Post-Dispatch notes heightened foot sensitivity as the foot twists from its proper position.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Lady Empire Gown Described In Elegant Fashion Feature
The Empire style negligee is highlighted as a fashionable and comfortable form. The green silk and wool chalice gown features a lace yoke, a buttoned bolero option, pendant ribbons, and a fit lining at the waist. A lace undersleeve, gathered front fullness, and a watteau back plait complete the stylish design.
Desert jelly dessert with pineapple and whipped cream
A playful dessert idea describes a pineapple jelly whipped into a shaved ice like mass in a bowl then layered in a glass dish with sweetened flavored cream served on top or at table. The note adds a Guilford Connecticut sighting of a snake with three china eggs in a complimentary tract.
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Guilford
Conn
Late Summer Vacations in Colorado Mountains
The piece highlights late summer to early fall tourism in Colorado mountain resorts. Missouri Pacific and Denver & Rio Grande routes offer scenic travel with low tourist rates, Royal Gorge rail ride, canyon views, and grand canyons. Emphasizes rest, fresh air, and economical itineraries for eastern visitors seeking health and recreation. Also notes Tasmania revenue and mineral exports rise, with projected annual revenue approaching a record high.
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Colorado
Colorado Mountains
Missouri Pacific
Kansas City
Pueblo
Rocky Mountain
Atitc
Denver & Rio Grande
Denver
Royal Gorge
American flag use noted in contemporary celebrations
The article highlights excessive use of the U S flag in recent years across the exposition and on the European tour. It notes women wearing it as attire and men using it as a cravat, with the flag even wrapped around a colored cook at a corn kitchen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Europe
America claims longest mountain range and grandest caverns
Geographical notes compare continents with pride, stating Asia holds the highest mountain and deepest sea basin, Africa has vast deserts, and America boasts the longest mountain range the grandest caverns the greatest waterfall the longest river three broadest rivers and the longest sweetwater lakes in the world.
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Asia
Dead Sea
Mediterranean
Africa
America
Bible gift to Boer prisoners by British society
The British and Foreign Bible Society plans to provide Dutch printed Bibles to all Boer prisoners within weeks. The move may save money. The piece notes most Boers value a Dutch Bible and mentions Sie Gotn Paul as knowing much.
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British and Foreign Bible Society
Paul
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Morton County
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John Jones Company
King Lear
Homer
David de Utstetadt
Elzette Woodworth Reese
Lorthner
Beatrice Mills
Walthug
Ivan
Min
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Tasmania
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