Low pay, high turnover plague Wisconsin insane asylum staff
Madison Dec 5 The state civil service commission reports attendants at Wisconsin hospitals for the insane are paid less than farmhands and maids, giving an average tenure of under six months. Of 293 employed July 1 1910 only 83 served over a year. Efforts include promotions, nurse training proposals, and targeted advertising to attract applicants.
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Madison
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Wisconsin
State Civil Service Commission
State Board of Control
Board of Control
Merit Board
Civil Service Commission
Forrer Announces Early Start on City Skating Rinks
J H Forrer new park superintendent says rink work begins at once and should be ready by Wednesday. He arrived from Milwaukee Thursday to take charge of city parks for the coming year and will first focus on the park rinks before planning spring projects.
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J. H. Forrer
Forrer
Milwaukee
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Panama City
Christian Spirit in Business urged by Cardinal Gibbons
Cardinal Gibbons in Baltimore urges truthful publicity of public service corporate affairs to earn public confidence. He argues that true Christian spirit in management, and a square deal, are rare in business and fuel unrest, calling for moral leadership to restore trust.
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Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons
Man Burns Self in Freight Car Theft Attempt
Frank Sloss jailed six days for stealing a ride from Cleveland to New York chose death by fire over starvation. He started a straw blaze in a freight car corner, attracting a brakeman. the would be fatal act occurred in the almshouse.
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Ningston
N. Y
Frank Sloss
Cleveland
Ohio
New York
Brateman
Murder at Devils Slide Union Pacific Station
Reported in Salt Lake City that armed bandits robbed the Union Pacific station house at Devils Slide Utah killed the ration agent and escaped with all the money. They cut telegraph and telephone wires before fleeing.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Union Pacific
Devils Slide
What Taft Saw on the Isthmus
Washington reports Taft’s tour of the Panama Canal zone shows a monumental engineering feat advancing toward a 1913 completion for the locks and dam system. He aims to assess conditions, discuss future legislation, refute annexation rumors, and inform his congressional message.
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Panama Canal
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Republic of
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Congress
Isthmus
Republic of Panama
United States
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Greece
Italy
Panama City
Republic
Pablo Aroseman
Uncle Sam
America
Colon
Isthmus Canal
Gorgas
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